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<p>Created page with &quot;==Notes== &lt;pre&gt; Course Outline What is a game engine? Why? - platform/environment for creating and running games - collection of tools - normally has a physics engine -...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>==Notes==<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> Course Outline<br /> <br /> What is a game engine? Why?<br /> - platform/environment for creating and running games<br /> - collection of tools<br /> - normally has a physics engine<br /> - has some way to &quot;render&quot; graphics, manage sound, music<br /> <br /> game engines are designed to help the creation of games<br /> - what they are depends on the kind of games they are intended to support<br /> - 2D vs 3D<br /> - graphics vs text<br /> - Inform<br /> <br /> before game engines, you just had raw dev environments<br /> - just write the program!<br /> - make your own rendering engine, physics, text parsing, sound, etc<br /> <br /> game engines came about because programmers/game developers got lazy<br /> - why reinvent the wheel?<br /> - started proprietary, but then became open<br /> - can also help with portability<br /> <br /> Two big milestones in game engine development<br /> <br /> - Z machine &lt;--- ancestor of Inform, Z is from Zork!<br /> - Doom game engine release<br /> - code GPL, assets proprietary<br /> - led to lots of &quot;game mods&quot; (entirely new games often), engine enhancements<br /> <br /> Two popular game engines nowadays<br /> - Unity<br /> - Unreal<br /> <br /> Maintaining a modern game engine is a lot of work<br /> - portability is a pain<br /> - expectations keep going up<br /> - better rendering, physics, sound<br /> - hard for proprietary engines to keep up<br /> <br /> Game engines look like operating systems to me<br /> - ok, they are &quot;middleware&quot;<br /> - but they do the abstraction and resource management of an OS<br /> - kinda have device drivers, esp with modern graphics APIs<br /> - Metal, Vulkan, D3D 12?<br /> <br /> What is the cost of using someone else&#039;s engine?<br /> - constrained by what they give you<br /> - abstractions may not match your game or your approach!<br /> - you have to learn them<br /> - again, may not match your mental model<br /> - money!<br /> <br /> This course is about understanding the design and implmentation of game engines<br /> - need to pick an example<br /> - understand what they facilitate, and what they restrict<br /> <br /> Why godot?<br /> - not as advanced as Unity or Unreal<br /> - but it is growing<br /> - it is open source<br /> - so you have control, can make contributions<br /> - and it is small yet feature filled<br /> - game engines are becoming more and more important<br /> - used for much more than games<br /> - will be demand for open source engines, and Godot might be it<br /> - kind of like Linux<br /> <br /> Godot&#039;s editor is implemented in Godot<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;</div>

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