Your Best Game Engines

Panji 18 · **Your Best Game Engines -** 18-11-08, 23:17

Game engine adalah software system yang di design untuk membuat dan mengembangkan game-game computer dan video games. Ada banyak sekali game engines saat ini, perkembangannya pun demikian pesat. Persaingan antar game engine ini juga semakin tinggi para pembuatnya saling berlomba untuk menyajikan tampilan yang menarik khususnya bagi kalangan gamer graphic enthusiast, menjadikannya sedap dipandang mata saat dimainkan baik di desktop PC maupun console. Bagaimana tidak, saat memainkan game dengan dukungan graphic yang mumpuni bahkan mendekati realitas karena ditunjang fitur physic, dan tentunya gameplay yang menakjubkan akan membuat seorang gamer enggan beranjak dari depan layar monitornya.

Beberapa game engine terus mengalami perkembangan dan meningkatkan performa serta stabilitasnya, berikut beberapa nama game engine populer yang ada saat saat ini :

Commercial engines

* AbyssalEngine - A professional commercial grade rendering engine and toolset
* Alamo - the engine used in Star Wars: Empire at War by Petroglyph Games
* Aurora Engine – For Role-playing games
* Blade3D - easy to use toolset mostly targeting Indies, for XNA based games that run on Windows and XBox360.
* BRender – A real-time 3D graphics engine for computer games, simulators and graphic tools
* C4 Engine – An emerging next-generation computer game engine created by Eric Lengyel
* Coldstone game engine – An old game creation suite for Macintosh/Windows to create role-playing or adventure-style games
* CryEngine, CryEngine 2 – The game engine used for the first-person shooter computer game Far Cry. CryEngine 2 is a new generation engine developed by Crytek to create the FPS game Crysis.
* Crystal Tools – Square Enix's proprietary seventh generation game engine.
* Dagor Engine 3 – A high-tech cross-platform game engine (3D, physics, game logic) with rich toolset for content development
* id Tech 4 – (Also known as Doom 3 engine) Used by the games Doom 3, Quake 4, Prey and Quake Wars (Will become Open Source at a later date)[1]
* id Tech 5 - Currently in development by id Software as engine for their games, Doom 4 and Rage, and as a general purpose engine to be licensed
* DX Studio – Engine and editing suite that allows rapid creation of real-time games and simulations
* Dunia Engine – Engine made especially for FarCry2 (made by ubisoft and not to be mistaken as a crytek game)
* Earth-4 Engine – The graphics engine used in Earth 2160
* Electron engine – Developed by Obsidian Entertainment for their game Neverwinter Nights 2, based on the Aurora engine
* Elflight Engine – High-performance cross-platform 3D streaming game engine designed from the ground up for use over the Web. Games can play in a web browser window, in a separate window or full-screen. Java and OpenGL based.
* Enigma Engine – A real-time tactics game engine, used in Blitzkrieg.
* Euphoria – This is not a game engine, It is powered through your game engine's physics, this is a Biomechanical Ragdoll engine by NaturalMotion
* Explorations – 2D MMO creator
* FPS Creator - A game engine by The Game Creators. It lets the user create their own First Person Shooter without any knowledge of scripts.
* Freescape (1986) – Incentive Software; One of the first proprietary 3D game engines, used in Driller and 3D Construction Kit
* Frostbite Engine – Game engine used for the next-gen title Battlefield: Bad Company
* Gamebryo – A cross-platform game runtime engine and associated tools coded in C++
* Gamestudio (A7) – The engine behind the Gamestudio Authoring system
* Glacier, Glacier2 – Developed by IO Interactive and used for the Hitman series of games. Glacier2 being a new generation engine currently in development for upcoming games.[2]
* GrimE - Used in LucasArts graphical adventure games starting with Grim Fandango
* Havok – High-tech cross-platform (PC, PS3, Xbox 360 etc) middleware engine
* HeroEngine - 3D game engine by Simutronics for building MMOs in a live collaborative environment
* IMUSE – Specifically designed to synchronize music with visual action
* INSANE – Used in LucasArts games
* Infinity Engine – Allows the creation of isometric computer role-playing games
* Jade engine – Developed by Ubisoft, originally for Beyond Good & Evil
* Jedi – A game engine developed by LucasArts for Star Wars: Dark Forces and Outlaws
* Kaneva Game Platform – A full featured MMOG engine for independent and professional game development
* Kinetica - A game engine developed by Sony for PlayStation 2.
* Leadwerks Engine - Leadwerks Engine is a high-performance 3D engine for rendering, sound, and physics in real-time games and simulations.
* Lithtech – A competing alternative to the id Tech and Unreal engines.
* Lithtech Jupiter Ex – A new generation Lithtech engine developed by Monolith Productions to create the game F.E.A.R.
* Medusa – A C++ 3D game engine developed by Palestar and used in the DarkSpace MMO. It features distributed world simulation, single tool version control and asset realisation, cross-platform compatibility and an integrated client/server network system.
* Monumental Technology Suite – A MMOG platform, including server and client technology and development / live management tools.
* Multimedia Fusion 2 – Full featured very easy to use 2D game development system.
* Multiverse Network – An MMOG platform, including server, client, and tools. (Free for development and use — revenue sharing upon commercial deployment).
* Offset Engine – In development, being used to create fantasy FPS Project Offset (working title)
* Odyssey Engine – Used to create three dimensional computer role-playing games, used in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
* Onyx Engine – Developed by Ubisoft
* Quest3D A game engine and full real-time 3D development platform. Used in for instance AudioSurf.
* RAGE – A game engine created by Rockstar Games to power their upcoming video games on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Implemented in Grand Theft Auto 4.
* Realm Crafter Standard Edition – A 3D MMORPG specific game engine with an easy click-and-drop design. Easy to learn scripting language.
* Realm Crafter Pro Edition – A 3D MMORPG specific game engine with an easy click-and-drop design. Easy to learn scripting language with DirectX 9 graphics engine, a completely rewritten C++ client and server, and a new game editor for high performance modern graphics with customizable shaders.
* RelentENGINE – A next-generation FPS engine supporting massive destroyable city environments and realistic vehicle control, makes extensive use of shader model 3.
* RenderWare – A very popular 3D API and graphics rendering engine
* Revolution3D – A 3D graphics engine developed by X-Dream Project
* RPG Maker XP – A 2D engine to make top-down and isometric-style role-playing games for Windows.
* SAGE engine – Used to create real-time strategy games
* SCUMM engine – Used in LucasArts graphical adventure games
* Serious Engine – The engine by Croteam used in the epic Serious Sam: The First Encounter and The Second Encounter
* Shark 3D – A middleware from Spinor for computer, video games and realtime 3D applications
* ShiVa - A game engine with an authoring tool to produce 3d real time applications for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and iPhone.
* Silent Storm engine – A turn-based tactics/tactical RPG game engine, used in Silent Storm.
* Sith – A game engine developed by LucasArts for Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
* Source engine – A game engine developed by Valve Software for Half-Life 2
* Torque Game Engine – A modified version of a 3D computer game engine originally developed by Dynamix for the 2001 FPS Tribes 2
* Torque Game Engine Advanced – A next-generation 3D game engine support modern GPU hardware and shaders.
* TOSHI – A fourth generation cross platform game engine designed by Blue Tongue Entertainment
* Truevision3d – A 3D game engine using the DirectX API
* Unigine – Cross-platform middleware engine
* Unity – An easy-to-use open-ended 3D game/interactive software engine for web, Windows, Mac OS X, the iPhone, and Nintendo Wii
* Unreal Engine – One of the most popular game engines for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3
* Vengeance engine – A video game engine based on the Unreal Engine 2/2.5
* Vicious Engine – Available for Microsoft Windows, Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox, and Sony PlayStation Portable
* Virtools – A 3D engine combined with unique high-level development framework, used for game prototyping and rapid developments. Available for Windows, Macintosh, Xbox, PSP
* Visual3D.NET Game Engine - All-in-One 3D game engine and toolset, fully written in C#/.NET for Windows and Xbox360.
* WGAF – The game engine developed by Guild Software which powers their MMORPG Vendetta Online
* XnGine – Developed by Bethesda Softworks, one of the first true 3D engines
* X-Ray Engine - A 3D engine with advanced AI abilities developed by GSC Game World for their Oblivion Lost project (later renamed to S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl).[citation needed]

Namun belakangan ini ada empat game engine yang sangat populer digunakan, dan mengalami perkembangan pesat, diantaranya :

1. CryEngine
Engine ini dikembangkan oleh Crytek. Game yang dibuat dengan menggunakan engine ini diantaranya : Farcry, Crysis, dan Crysis: Warhead. Graphic yang ditampilkannya sangat menawan, namun membutuhkan system spesifikasi computer yang cukup tinggi. Saat ini CryEngine telah sampai pada versi yang ke 2.

2. Unreal Engine
Engine yang dikembangkan oleh Epic Games ini sangat populer. Sudah sangat banyak game populer yang menggunakan engine ini baik di PC maupun di console, seperti antara lain : BioShock, BlackSite: Area 51, Gears of War, Unreal Tournament 3, Rainbow Six Vegas, Lost Odyssey, Mass Effect, The Last Remnant dan masih banyak lagi. Hingga saat ini Unreal Engine telah sampai pada versi ke 3, namun segera akan dirilis versi ke 4 nya oleh Epic Games.

3. Dunia Engine
Dunia Engine dikembangkan oleh Ubisoft's Montreal. Memang baru Farcry 2 menggunakan engine ini, namun melihat tampilan graphic-nya yang cukup luar biasa memungkinkan engine ini bakal menjadi engine populer nantinya.

4. Call of Duty 4 Engine yang dikembangkan dan dimiliki oleh Activision. Kedua developer nya Infinity Ward dan Treyarch menggunakan engine ini untuk membuat game Call of Duty series. Tampilan yang cukup menarik juga dapat dimaksimalkan oleh engine ini bahkan dengan spesifikasi PC sedang untuk saat ini sudah sanggup memainkan game tersebut.

Beberapa engine lain yang cukup menjanjikan seperti Gamebryo yang dikembangkan oleh Bethesda Game Studios untuk game Fallout 3, dan X-Ray Engine yang dikembangkan oleh GSC Game World untuk game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. jelas juga tidak dapat dipandang sebelah mata kedua game engine ini juga akan menjadi populer dikemudian hari.

Melihat perkembangan ini sepertinya cukup menarik untuk dijadikan bahan diskusi. Dari beberapa 4 engine diatas manakah yang terbaik menurut kamu ? atau kamu punya engine favorite lainnya dari list panjang diatas ? mari ... Speak Out Loud !