With Crytek's upcoming FPS blockbuster Crysis we want to achieve the next step towards a new and much improved modding community. Next to a new modding portal that launches with lots of helpful and improving features soon Crytek is already supporting the modders with a so called pre-SDK.

With this early version of a Software Development Kit, selected mod teams from all over the world have the chance to work with the tools the Crytek developers are using for creating Crysis. The few hand-picked teams are able to already start working on their mod before the game is released.

According to their feedback and in collaboration with dedicated Crytek employees it allows us to create a final version of the Software Development Kit that includes everything the mod community would need to create outstanding modifications.

So far Crytek is supporting some mod teams with the pre-SDK: