game engines

List of games engines

1. Source Engine

The source engine is the engine used by the game creating company and steam platform creator Valve. the company behind a variety of games such as: Half life, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress, Portal Ect. The source engine is provides the user with the source SDK (Software Development Kit) meaning they could create levels or even models but they could only be used within source games and not actually used to create games of there own. So Source is semi open source providing the user with some tools for game editing and model viewing/shaping but nothing more.

2. Frostbite Engine

Frostbite is a game engine developed by EA Digital Illusions CE (DICE), the creators of the Battlefield series. This games engine is made to create games for: Windows, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox 1. Frostbite is also not an open source software and the rights being owned by EA/Dice meaning that if you wanted to create a game with the frostbite engine you would need to work for EA/Dice themselves. Although they have not ruled out the speculation of releasing mod tools for there game like the source engine. The main aspect of the frostbite engine is the beautiful scenery and enviroment you can create within the engine itself.

3. Unity

Just like the last two game engines this one is again cross platform, meaning games can be made for various consoles, PC's, Web browser games and even phone games. The most popular of the three being mobile games as unity stands out as the monopoly of the phone game engine giant. being the runner up in the Phone game awards hosted by Apple Mac OS X Graphics category just a year after Unitys official commercial launch. Unity has gone through many iterations just like the last two game engines, Unity is now at Unity 5 started from just the standard Unity. Unlike both of the game engines before Unity is completely open source meaning that you can create and publish a game using unity completely for free. And even more unlike most open source engines unity does not take royalties for the game or charge you for publishing one meaning you can make 100% of the profit from your game you made.

4. Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE)

The RAGE engine is an engine developed by Rockstar Games which incorporates different technologies within its own engine like The open source physics system BULLET and Euphoria Character animation engine. Rockstar is the company that owns this game engine and unlike unity and source is not open source meaning you can only use it if you work for Rockstar. The company itself are the creators of such titles as Grand Theft Auto, Man Hunt, Red Dead Redemption Ect. Like most of the others also Rage is made to make games for such platforms as: WIndows, Ps3, Ps4, Xbox 360, Xbox 1, Nintendo Wii. The game engine itself DirectX11 and stereoscopic 3D rendering on the PC platform.