: How are game engines made and why are they necessary for games and why are there so many of those?
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I mean it’s essentially like action figures. The engine provides a blank prototype of characters, objects, the environment and the interaction between those things and ways to modify those. And the game designers than dress them up nicely write a story and populate the world to stimulate your fantasy and guide you on your quest. But under the hood a lot of games that involve you moving around with a character talking to other characters or shooting at stuff are really similar and it’s just the makeup and the interaction between the objects that makes them be different.
Why are there so many. Well from time to time advancements are made require an update. Sometimes you don’t want to reskin a carbon copy of something else and really like to reinvent the wheel because you want to build a game on a specific mechanic. Maybe you’re trying to make a 2-D game and don’t need all the 3-D stuff.
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