ARTG 80H Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Unreal Engine, Game Engine, Doom Engine
17 Feb 2017
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When i got my first game console in 1979 a way-cool intellivision system by mattel the term game engine did not exist. Back then, video and arcade games were considered by adults to be nothing more than toys, and the software that made them tick was highly specialized to both the game in question and the hardware on which it ran . Today, games are a multi-billion dollar mainstream industry rivaling hollywood in size and popularity. And the software that drives these now-ubiquitous thre-dimensional worlds game engines like id software"s quake and doom engines, epic games unreal engine 3 and valve"s. The term game engine" arose in the mid-1990s in reference to fps games like the insanely popular doom by id software. Doom was architected with a relatively well-defined separation between its core software components (such as the three-dimensional graphics rendering system) and the art assets, game worlds, and rules of play that comprised the player"s gaming experience.
