Technologies for gaming

Tech for Gaming



Game Engines

         Source - https://www.vanas.ca/en/blog/top-5-video-game-engines


Game engines are software used to develop videogames. These software are developmental environments that come with a set of tools and pre-made frameworks and engines for game creation, rather then building these tools from scratch. Game engines can render in 2D or 3D.


What game engines are there?

A few of the most commercially popular or well known game engines are Unreal Engine, Unity, Godot, and GameMaker.

Programing for game development

A variety of game engines use a variety of programming languages, some even have their own programming language derived from a standard one, or even visual scripting. Two popular programming language used for game development are C++ and C#. 


Fun fact - The original PC version of  Minecraft (now known as Minecraft Java Edition) is entirely built from Java. Minecraft didn't use a game engine 






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