engines.md

Game engines

What is a game engine?

A game engine is:

• technology
• methodology
• platform
• business
• tool
• foundation
• bundle of software engineering idioms

What are the parts of a game engine?

Other than Organizational / Social / Product.

Technical

• graphics
• physics
• networking
• artificial intelligence
• monetization
• asset libraries and importing
• user interface libraries
• platform support
• tools

Examples of game Engines

Tiny

• Tinychoice
• Bitsy
• Flick

Small

• Dungeon Decorator
• Scratch
• Pico-8

Moderate

• Game Maker
• RPG Maker
• Construct 2
• Panda3D

Large

• Godot
• Ogre3d

Industry

• Unity
• Unreal Engine
• id Tech 7
• Iron Engine
• Creation Engine
• Jedi
• Luminous Studio
• CryEngine
• Riot Engine
• Source 2
• StepMania
• Aurora Toolset
• Clausewitz
• Forgelight Engine