ok, ive read game reviews and i keep hearing about game Engines. now what do these engines control during the game. total newbie question, but hey this is the newbie forum. how are these engines made and in what language. thanks.

its is a piece of software that converts and manages input, then creates a suitable output.

an engine ''controls'' the game, rather than ''being'' the game. for example you could have a game engine that creates a 3d world from a few pieces of inputted data. it would control all the management and organisation of the data, as well as converting it all into the 3d world that is displayed on the screen.

engines are just software programs basically, and thus could theoretically be programmed in any language.

ok, are there different types of engines. i seem to remember things like "logic engines" and "physics engines". and how can we get to the engines of the games we play. just to see how there programed?

people sometimes get carried away calling every little part of the game as an engine. the main ''engines'' in a game are the graphics pipeline, the AI processor, and physics simulation. they all work together to process the game data. and really they are all part of the ''game engine''.

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quote: Original post by necronlord7
...how can we get to the engines of the games we play. just to see how there programed?

The companies which made the game must decide to release the source code for the game. id Software has released a lot of their 3D game engines code, but they are notoriously difficult to understand. If you want the source to a game, just try googling {|game name| source code} It doesn't mean the code exists, but you should get some good results, especially for older games that many people try cloning. Tetris, Pong, Breakout are commonly cloned games.

EDIT: Silly html, making my writing dissapear.

[edited by - nobodynews on January 25, 2003 11:34:46 AM]