Eli5: What does it mean for a video game to run on a certain “engine”?
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A game engine is basically a game, minus the actual game. So if you start with Minecraft, and you delete the dirt blocks, and the stone blocks, and the grass blocks, and the pickaxes, and the shovels, and the diamonds, and the cows, and the pigs, and so on… you are left with a “template” for a game where everything is made of blocks. Not an actual game, because you’d need to put all that stuff back in. But now you can make a blocky game that’s completely different from Minecraft – e.g. you could make a first-person shooter with blocky graphics, or Subnautica with blocky graphics. The template part is called an engine.
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