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Different Game Engines Overview There are many different types of game engines many which of these include; 2D, 3D, mobile or game modifications. These are the main criteria when it comes to using a game engine simply because you have the obviously main... More

Different Game Engines Overview There are many different types of game engines many which of these include; 2D, 3D, mobile or game modifications. These are the main criteria when it comes to using a game engine simply because you have the obviously main two 2D and 3D but you also have games in which you can modify in game, for example there are; Garry’s Mod, UDK and Quake. These are just a few of what there is to offer in the game engine sector but I will be going into more detail of this later on in the article. What is a game engine? A game engine is where you use reusable components to create the game to bring the game to life. A game engine is used to abstract (which can be sometimes platform dependant) details of creating common gaming tasks such as; Rendering, the physics and the input that all go in the game. The typical use for a game engine is to render 2D or 3D games, a physics engine or a collision engine (including collision responses), sound, scripting, animation, AI Less