Video Game Engines

Game Engines. What is a game engine? What are they used for?

The definition of a game engine is software, designed for the creation and development of video games.

A game engine is made up of components, the biggest and most important being:

  > Physics Engine. The physics engine is lines of code that gives the game its physics, following the laws of physics, or a warped sense of physics, if the game is designed to go against usual laws of physics.

  > Rendering Engine. When the engine compiles all the data and generates the 2D/3D world

• Battlefield 3 - Frostbite is a game engine developed by EA Digital Illusions CE, the creators of the Battlefield series.
  
  DICE used the first generation of the engine for their in-house games Battlefield: Bad Company, Battlefield 1943, and Battlefield: Bad Company 2.
  
  The engine was updated to Frostbite 2 for its Battlefield 3 game.

• Euro Truck Simulator 2 - Prism3D engine is exclusively used by a Czech game developer company, SCS software.
  
  The engine is used to create driving simulators, such as Euro Truck Sim 2, Bus Simulator and American Truck Simulator.

• Grand Theft Auto V - RAGE | R*

• Forza 4 - ForzaTech | MICROSOFT

• Battlefield Bad Company 2 - FrostBite 1.5 | DICE

• Cities Skyline - Unity | Colossal Order

• Driver: San Francisco - Reflections | Ubisoft

• Mafia II - Illiusion | 2K GAMES

• The Getaway - Kinetica | Team SOHO

• Insurgency - Source | Insurgency Team