Game engine

A game engine is a software framework designed for the creation and development of video games.

Description

Developers use game engines to create games for consoles, mobile devices and personal computers.

The core functionality typically provided by a game engine includes:

• Rendering engine (“renderer”) for 2D or 3D graphics
• Physics engine or collision detection (and collision response)
• Sound
• Scripting
• Animation
• Artificial intelligence
• Networking
• Streaming
• Memory management
• Threading
• Localization
• Scene graph

The process of game development is often economized, in large part, by reusing/adapting the same game engine to create different games, or to make it easier to "port" games to multiple platforms.

JavaScript / HTML5 game engines

• Canvas Engine
• Fabric.js
• MelonJS - requires Node.js
• Phaser (software)

• Frameworks and libraries supporting TMX - TMX is the Tiled file format.

See also

• Boilerplate
• Computer game
• Game
• Game design
• melonJS
• Video game

External links

• Game engine @ Wikipedia
• Game engine evolution diagram @ Wikipedia