What is a “game engine”? For example EAs Frostbite engine or Unreal Engine.

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I work as an infrastructure engineer. And I was thinking the other day when I thought what actually makes up a “game engine”? A car engine is cylinders with pistons moving up and down. What is it that makes up a game engine? And if possible, what does that look like?

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The game engine for a game is like the server software (e.g. httpd or nginx or nodejs) for a webapp. The bit that deals with the basic concepts of being a game, into which you add the code and assets of the specific game you’re making.

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