What is an “engine” in video games

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I hear it everywherere “this game is gonna use that engine” … Google doesn’t seem to give me a good explanation, so here I am…

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You’ve gotten some good answers, but if you want to take it a step farther you should see it in action. It doesn’t have to be video games. If you want to see modern computer animations at work and see some pretty neat large project workflow go check out the Disney Plus mini series about the making of frozen 2. There are multiple scenes where an animator is using software that is basically the animation process. That’s all occurring in an engine, the animator isn’t programming at a math level they are using an engine and just manipulating pieces of the character, the engine handles how that all translates to the screen and rendering it in 3d.

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