3D Games - Game Engine

T-Enterprise is the UK's leading game development team, with over eight years experience in developing and building games and game software.

T-Enterprise's expert team of games developers and designers have a wealth of experience in building every aspect a game from the ground up.

One of the areas that T-Enterprise excels in is building game engines. Many companies buy pre-made game engines but T-Enterprise have the skills and technology to build their own. This means that the game engine is tailor made to the game, perfect for performing the exact functions that the game requires.

A game engine is the foundation of any game, and the quality of the game engine vastly effects the look and feel of the final game. T-Enterprise realises this and its expert team of developers are constantly pushing the limits of technology to build the best possible game engines.

So what is a game engine and what does it do? A game engine is a software system designed to create and develop video games, it is the code that makes the game run and abstract the details of doing common game-related tasks, like rendering, physics, and input, so that developers can focus on the details that make their games unique.

A quality game engine improves how the well the common game-related tasks are preformed throughout the playing of the game and therefore how the game appears to the player.

A high quality game engine will make the graphics appear more realistic. The pictures will be smoother due to increased polygons making the picture smoother to the eye.

The rendering of images is vastly improved when a good game engine is in use. Rendering is a very important function in the design of games and for the game to look the best the rendering must be excellent.

Rendering covers important game components such as:

• shading, shadows and fog
• texture-mapping
• reflection
• transparency, translucency or opacity
• indirect illumination
• depth of field
• motion blur

These components are essential to the quality, atmosphere and final look of your game and T-Enterprises custom built game engines will ensure that each and every detail is as clear and as realistic as possible.

The physics of a game are vastly improved when using a quality game engine.

A games physics are similar to that of real life physics, a person can not walk through walls for example (unless the character in the game has that specific ability). A poor quality game engine though can allow this to happen, or for a player to become trapped in an object that in the real world would not by physically possible.

Using a high quality game engine, like those built by T-Enterprise, this would not happen. The physics of a game are very important to its realism and gameplay therefore T-Enterprise see it as the utmost importance to ensure that this function works perfectly.

Collisions and the reactions to them are another aspect of a game that benefit greatly from a high quality game engine. Collisions are the reactions to the physics in the game. For example if a character is walking along a street then his feet are colliding with the ground, not going through it. That though is a very simplified example, other more complex collisions include physical fights with other characters or car crashes within the game. Bullets ricocheting from one surface to another and the reactions to that all come under the collisions function.

Without a high quality game engine collisions face the same problem as game physics – things do not happen as the player expects them to, so taking away from the appearance and experience of the game.

T-Enterprise's expert team of designers and programmers build game engines of the highest caliber and also design the game that the engine runs – producing an end product that is not only beautiful to look at but also an exciting and realistic gameplaying experience.