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Several tools called game engines are available for game designers to easily code a game quickly without building from the ground up. It's important to recognise the difference between a graphics engine, a game engine and game engine support libraries. A game engine is that module of a game which implements the game logic. Few of the engines listed below are game engines. In fact, almost all of them are graphics engines. For example, a Pacman game contains some code which draws a partial filled yellow circle (the graphics engine) and some code that increases the score when the player character eats a ghost (the game engine).

Free Engines

  • Agar (engine) - A high-level graphical application framework used by 2D and 3D computer games
  • Allegro library - A free crossplatform C/C++ game programming library, provides functions for graphics, sounds, input, timers, fixed and floating point, 3d, compressed datafile and a GUI.
  • Axiom Engine - A fork containing the core of the OGRE graphics engine
  • Haaf's Game Engine - A 2D Hardware Accelerated Game Engine
  • Baja Engine - Professional quality engine used for the game The Lost Mansion.
  • Boom - A port of the Doom source code by TeamTNT
  • Build engine - A First person shooter engine used to power Duke Nukem 3D
  • Cadabra 3D Engine - 3D engine for easy game development
  • Catmother - A BSD-licensed engine from a company that open-sourced its code when it closed the business.
  • CheapHack - An outdated TomazQuake derived engine
  • Crystal Entity Layer - An extension of the Crystal Space 3D Engine
  • Crystal Space - A general framework for developing 3D applications
  • Cube - Powers the computer game of the same name
  • DarkPlaces - One of the most advanced free software Quake engines
  • Delta3d - Integrates other well-known free software projects into an easy-to-use API, originally developed by the U.S. Navy
  • DGD - An object-oriented programmable MUD engine
  • Doom engine - The now free software engine originally used for Doom and Doom II
  • DXFramework - A simple, pedagogical 2D/3D DirectX-based game engine for Visual Studio
  • DX Studio - Real-time professional 3D engine and editing suite produced by Worldweaver Ltd
  • Eclipse - A 2D MMORPG maker (Open source)
  • Elysium Source - A 2D online game engine made with VB6
  • Eternity Engine - A source port of the Doom engine
  • Exult - A free software reimplementation of the Ultima VII game engine
  • FIFE - A free software 2D ISO engine supporting the assets of Fallout 1 & 2
  • Game Blender - A sub-application of Blender for creating games
  • Game Maker - Object-oriented game development software with drag-and-drop interface and its own scripting language
  • GQ - A Quake engine that adds features from TomazQuake and DarkPlaces
  • GZDoom - A source port of the Doom engine based on ZDoom
  • Genesis3D - A real-time 3D engine for Windows
  • GemRB - A free software implementation of the Infinity Engine
  • Irrlicht Engine - A cross-platform and lightweight three dimensional graphics engine.
  • Jogre - a Java based client/server game engine and API for online real time games such as chess, checkers, etc.
  • MRPGe - Visual Basic 2D RPG game engine, with built-in scripting capabilities. Very customizable, in early development stages.
  • M.U.G.E.N - A 2D fighting game engine
  • Multiverse Network - an MMOG platform, including server, client, and tools. (Free for development and use--revenue sharing upon commercial deployment).
  • Nebula Device - A realtime 3D game engine developed by German game studio Radon Labs.
  • OctLight - A Java game engine that uses scene-graph and renders on top of Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) using OpenGL
  • The Open Game Engine is an open source library combining the components used to make games.
  • OGRE Engine - A very popular object-oriented graphics rendering engine. Also called OGRE3D
  • Online RPG Maker - An Online RPG/2D engine with scripting.
  • Panda3D Engine - Rapid development engine based on Python
  • Pentagram - A project to create a game engine that is capable of running Ultima VIII: Pagan
  • PlayerWorlds - a simple, and widely used 2D Online RPG Engine.
  • PLIB - A game engine - includes 3D, Audio, Music, GUI, Window manager and is portable Linux/Windows/MacOSX.
  • ProQuake - A modified Quake engine
  • Quake II engine - The original free software Quake II engine from Id Software
  • Quake III engine - The original free software Quake III engine from Id Software
  • Reality Factory - A free open-source game engine that is intended for non-programmers and is built on the Genesis3d Graphic Engine.
  • RealmForge - An open-source game engine for the Microsoft .NET Framework, predecessor to Visual3D.NET
  • Sauerbraten - A upgraded engine forked from the Cube engine
  • Sonic Robo Blast 2 - A heavily modified Doom Legacy engine for a 3D platform fan-fiction game of the same name.
  • Stratagus - A cross-platform real time strategy game engine
  • Telejano - a modified Quake engine
  • Tenebrae - One of many Quake engine clones
  • Toi - A 3d game engine currently in development with promises of both MMO and single player capabilities. Free but with licensing fees that are to be announced. Has much potential.
  • vbGORE - Open-source online RPG engine in Visual Basic 6 (2d via 3d hybrid engine).
  • Well of Souls - A 2D engine with scripting in QUEST and a visual world editor.
  • Yake - a component-based, object-oriented, partially generic engine written in C++
  • Zak Engine - An easy to use 2D games engine using DirectX 8.1 and 9 developed for novice and professional programmers. Features: sprites, tiles maps, sound and music in several formats, scripting (AngelScript), particle systems and more!

Commercial Engines

Windows Mobile based devices

  • GledPlay - A complete SDK to develop games for mobile devices.

PSP

  • WGAF - The game engine developed by Guild Software which powers their MMORPG Vendetta Online
  • XnGine - One of the first true 3D engines

Games and the game engines they use

Game Engine Games Company
Dark Engine Thief 1;Thief 2;System Shock 2 Looking Glass Studios/Irrational Games
Serious Engine 2 Serious Sam 2 Croteam
Glacier engine Hitman IO Interactive
Lionhead engine Fable 2 Lionhead Studios
Vengeance 2 engine (upgraded unreal 3 engine) Bioshock Irrational Games
Nebula Device 3 Drakensang: The Dark Eye Radon Labs
GoldSrc (heavily modified Quake 2 engine) Half-life Valve
Zero engine Star Wars: Battlefront;Star Wars: Battlefront II Lucasarts
SAGE engine Command & Conquer: Generals EA
Source Engine Half Life 2 Valve
Offset engine Project Offset Offset Software
Geomod engine Red Faction Volition Inc.
Insane engine The Dig ;Rebel assault 2 ;Full Throttle Lucasarts
CryENGINE Far cry Crytek
CryENGINE2 Crysis Crytek
Essence Engine Company of Heroes Relic Entertainment
Scimitar Assassin's Creed Ubisoft
Alamo Star Wars: Empire at War Petroglyph
Unreal Engine 3 Unreal Tournament 3 Epic Games
Doom 3 Engine Doom 3; Quake 4; Prey; Enemy Territory: Quake Wars id software

See also

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