Week 3

Question 1

Game engines

Answer 1

Softwares framework where you can basically develop your whole game in.

Question 2

Important game engines

Answer 2

Unity: One of the most used game engines + documentation + large asset store + big community for developers
Unreal Engine: Higher definition of assets + blue prints
Godot
Defold: 2D cross platform, great for mobile / web, uses LUA for scripting
LÖVE, Solar2D: Similar as Defold, without GUI for engine
Phaser: HTML5 game framework, seamlessintegration with web development elements
GDevelop: Similar as Phaser, but with a visual editor
Twine / Ren’Py: Text adventure / visual novel, choice based games / can be ‘modded’ / extended in functionality

Question 3

Modifying games

Answer 3

• Open source games: getting a head-start for development, possibility of adding, features & functionality