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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A game engine is kind of like a kitchen, it has a lot of tools and ingredients ready for you to use to make a game.

A lot of companies make their own engines so that the tools work exactly the way they want. For a lot of people though a public engine (Unity, Unreal, Godot, etc.) takes care of a lot of basic things they don’t want to spend time on like physics, rendering, or lighting.

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