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HPL Engine

The wiki provides documentation for the HPL Engine, Frictional Games' in-house game engine. The engine currently has three major iterations available, and a fourth iteration under development. Technical information about using the engine and all of the related tools can be found in their respective sections:

• HPL1 contains the documentation for Penumbra: Overture, Penumbra: Black Plague and Penumbra: Requiem
• HPL2 contains the documentation for Amnesia – The Dark Descent and Amnesia – A Machine For Pigs
• HPL3 contains the documentation for SOMA and Amnesia: Rebirth

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