Creative Media – Games Engines
There are many types of games engines.
They come in all sorts of forms, they
can be 2D, 3D or they can be specialised towards Mobile games.
The most used games engines are 2D engines.
They have been being used for
decades,...
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Creative Media – Games Engines
There are many types of games engines.
They come in all sorts of forms, they
can be 2D, 3D or they can be specialised towards Mobile games.
The most used games engines are 2D engines.
They have been being used for
decades, and are still being used to this very day.
Fact is, without 2D engines,
none of the games that we have today would be possible.
Yes, there are 3D
games engines, but they did not set the ground for that which we play today.
Before games engines, games have to be made from the ground up, and this took
an incredible amount of time to create.
There were many constraints without
games engines such as trouble with display and memory settings.
The first generation of third party graphics engines and renderers were
dominated by three companies, Argonaut software, Criterion Software and
RenderMorphics Reality Lab.
RenderMorphics was the fastest of the 3, and was
aggressively obtained by Microsoft.
The Term ‘games engine’ started arisin
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