What's a Game Engine

• I started researching this from the Game Engine Wiki
• A game engine is a bunch of code designed to be used to make games.
• The point is that you pull out the core bit of a game that can be reused for other games.
• In the modern sense of the term, this is a bunch of code with an API to help build dynamic video games.
• That means that the core of the engine is graphics. This often includes lighting and is really fast.
• More and more facilities are provided included virtual objects (with associated collision detection), sound, and physics.
• A game engine is a form of middleware. It's not an end product in itself.
• It enables games to be developed more quickly.