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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Engines do everything I don’t want to do making a game.

They give you the framework to build on so you aren’t reinventing how to render a circle on screen, or how to interact with the graphics card, or how to simulate two objects hitting each other.

I want to design my game play experience, not reinvent the same problem that exists in every game.

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