Building a game engine

Hi,

Suppose I fancy to build a game engine from the scratch, how do I begin? What languages and tools are best to learn/implement in order to do that. Also if you want to recommend any good site or book with tutorial and info for beginners on this, please post the links.

c++ maybe?? not sure what a game engine is so.

http://www.forums.cpp-home.com

umm...the game engine is the core part of a computer game that handles Rendering, scripting, artificial intelligence, physics, and networking functions of the game. These days all the standard games are designed in a way so that the engine and the content of the game are totally seperated. So instead of having to build a game engine from the scratch, you can usually license a Quake or Unreal game engine and make your own graphics, characters, weapons and levels—the "game content" or "game assets." A single license for a high-end commercial game engine can range from $50,000 USD to $250,000 and the number of licensees can be several tens of companies (for Unreal engine).

You are right, C++ is the best language right now for the purpose. I was hoping some info from personal experience though. I am doing google research....so thank you anyway.

If your going where I think you are with this then I just want to wish you luck

wow, thats pretty cool that you are going to try and build i game engine. You can visit here and if you want me to ill send you the config file for Unreal Tournament 2003 so you can look over that.

Thanks joebert and Sk8erGuy. But it's not really me directly involved with the project. I am more into web development instead of programming stuffs.

The link looks very useful. It'll give me hours of study mterial. Extra thanks to Sk8erGuy.

it will require you a lot of programming! The programming language applicable for a game engine is C++ and then use the directX libs to render graphics! ^_^ If you start one though, I'll gladly help! I'm currently teaching myself Visual C++!

sry for late reply. But ya, thats the least i can do for how much you guys help me with web site stuff.

Thanks Kei for such a good offer. Wish I was really going to build one. But you can say I was only mildly interested in how this is done. Currently I am too busy with web development and Flash to get into C++. But I will let my friend know who has probably started working on one already. Please pm me your email and I will ask him to contact you, if he is interested in doing something together with you.



Sk8erGuy I appreciate that.

Maybe your friend should try using n open source game engine rather than designing his own.

Tell him to just go to google and search on "open source game engine". I am sure he will find several.

I'm actually a pro at Web Design but I wanna start with game engines and C++, any1 know where I can get expert help and teaching and stuff?

I don't know if you will be checking back here, but for the past few years, I have been working on a game engine from scratch, and yes C++ is the best language. If you are very new to programming, C# isn't bad, but not as powerfull. I was hoping to find enough tutorials on DirectX 10, but I mostly find articles about it, and all of the tutorials for 10 are mostly in C#, or if they are in C++ it is for DirectX 9. I did happen to find a very nice web-site with downloadable vidoes for making a GameEngine, and a basic FPS game from scatch using C++, but it doesn't use DirectX it uses OpenGL. All the same the programming concepts are the same, just that you are using a different API/Library. It is very usefull and the guy who does all the videos is very good at what he does. His name is Marek A. Krzeminski and his website is www dot marek-knows dot com