Computer game engine

Qfusion is a 3D game engine based on the GPL'ed Quake II source code. It is available for download and modification under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The project was started and is primarily developed by Victor Luchitz. It is programmed in C and supports all Windows and Unix-based computers. Qfusion has helped to set the bar for many other Quake II engine projects. The engine supports the entire range of content for Quake III and skeletal models. More recent versions of Qfusion engine...

id Tech 3 is a game engine developed by id Software for Quake III Arena and has been used in many games under the Quake III Arena engine and Quake III: Team Arena engine branding. In its heyday, it competed with the Unreal engine; both engines were widely licensed. id Tech 3 is a substantial improvement from the Quake engine and id Tech 2. Although id Tech 3 was derived from the id Tech 2, a large portion of code was new or re-written. It was succeeded by id Tech 4, which was derived from id...

id Tech 4, frequently known as the Doom 3 engine, is a computer game engine developed by id Software and first used in the PC game Doom 3. The engine was designed by John Carmack, who also created previous engines such as those for Doom and Quake, which are also generally recognized as marking significant advances in the field. The Doom 3 engine began as an enhancement to id Tech 3. Originally it was planned to be a complete rewrite of the engine's renderer, while still retaining other...

GoldSrc, or Goldsource, is the retronym used internally by Valve Software to refer to the heavily modified Quake engine that powers their science fiction first-person shooter Half-Life (1998). GoldSrc is a modified version of the QuakeWorld engine codebase, which in turn is a development of the Quake engine codebase. Some minor fixes from the Quake II engine were incorporated as it was developed.GoldSrc is able to render in two API − OpenGL and Direct3D. The successor of the GoldSrc engine...

The Build engine is a first-person shooter engine created by Ken Silverman for 3D Realms. Like Doom, the Build engine represents its world on a two-dimensional grid using closed 2D shapes called sectors, and uses simple flat objects called sprites to populate the world geometry with objects. It is generally considered to be a 2.5D engine as the basic world geometry is two-dimensional with an added height component as each sector may have a different ceiling and floor height, and the ceiling and...

SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) is a scripting language developed at LucasArts (known at the time as Lucasfilm Games) to ease development of the graphical adventure game Maniac Mansion. It is somewhere between a game engine and a programming language, allowing designers to create locations, items and dialogue sequences without writing code in the actual language the game source code would end up in. This also meant that the game's script and data files could be re-used...

Pygame is a cross-platform set of Python modules designed for writing video game.It includes computer graphics and sound libraries designed to be used with the Python programming language. It is built over the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library, with the intention of allowing real-time computer game development without the restraints and low-level mechanics of the C programming language and its derivatives. This is based on the assumption that the most consuming functions inside games ...

The Intellivision is a video game console released by Mattel in 1979. Development of the console began in 1978, less than a year after the introduction of its main competitor, the Atari 2600. The word intellivision is a portmanteau of "intelligent television". The Intellivision was developed by Mattel Electronics, a subsidiary of Mattel formed expressly for the development of electronic games. The console was test marketed in Fresno, California, in 1979 with a total of four games available,...