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What "engine" are they talking about???

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mangoluvr

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Whenever I read a review about a game, most of them refer to a specific engine.............."This game is based on the quake3 engine or this game is based on the unreal engine" My question is, what is an engine? is it the complex programming or what? if so, what part of the programming is considered the engine?

 
The engine is basically a pre-developed graphics programming and everything else you'd need for a game. For instance ID made the quake 3 engine, which i used in quake 3 (duh 🙂 ) and other developers bought the engine and added their own coding and whatnot to make their own game. They just add everything besides the core graphics code and core gameplay code.

I'm a bit tired so if this explanation sounds weird thats why 🙂
 
basically, the core of a game is the engine. Stuff like the levels/players/AI, all that stuff, is the game itself. The underlying code that makes everything go is the engine.
 
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