Game Engines
Game Engines What are the purposes of game engines? Game engines are a development tool with software components that can be reused. Game engines were made to make game creation much simpler and so there can be more games being developed at a rapid pace. Game engines developers were trying to invent the wheel by making a software which encompasses multiple different elements that needed to make a game. All game engines give several different elements that make game development easier (e.g. graphics, sound effects, physics and AI functions). Game engines can be called middleware because of how they are used in a business sense and how flexible and reusable they are which can provide core functions to develop a game and it costs less, makes it less complex and more time to market your game, all things that can help a games developers compete in the video game industry (examples of middleware programs are Gamebryo, Jmonkey Engine and RenderWare). Similar to other middleware