Game engines

A game engine is the foundation of a game. It is the framework that allows game developers to create and edit the content of a game. The have a wide range of tools to help in the creation of games such as rendering animation and scripting. Game engines help make the creation of games much more efficient due to the fact that you can recycle things that have already been made and use them in the game you are creating, saving a great deal of time. Game engines use a wide range of programming languages such as Java and C++

The purpose of a game engine is to provide visual development tools to a developer aiding them in the production process. They greatly reduce development time by allowing you to re-cycle meshes, code and textures.

Before game engines games had to made from scratch meaning that there was a much slower flow of new games. Game engines first started becoming popular in the 1980s, in the form of 2D game engines such as pinball, construction set and ACSII's War game construction kit were the first with many more game engines to follow.

A few popular game engines are Frostbite 3, known for making games such as Battlefield, Mass Effect and Dragon Age. CryEngine 3 known for game such as Far Cry, Crysis and Evolve. as well as Unreal famous for games such as Unreal tournament, Bioshock and Tekken.

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