[mikaylamaki]

Roughly yes, though I'd caveat it with the specific application of the GPU: simple, 2D, UI elements. We've already built an abstraction that allows us to fluently build up a design, and then burn it down into a collection of rectangles, paths, images, and such. We're not dealing with particle effects, lighting, 3D models, or anything else that game engines need to consider. As such, it's a lot lower cost for us to use something like Vulkan or DX12 directly. And, in fact, that was the backup plan if we didn't find something like Blade that we where happy with.