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[Alextendo]

I find a good video that talk about ''realism'' in video game:

 

[furrykef]

A game engine is the Basic programming of a game.  However if you stripped your favorite games down to their engine they barely cover any of what you enjoy about them.  Most of that work is in the tweaks and gimmicks of said game.
 
For example both Borderlands and Batman Arkham Asylum use the same engine but play hardly similar at all and don't even use the same style of graphics.

That's 'cause game engines today are so highly generalized. Engines like Unity, Source, and Unreal are designed to work with any type of game. They can do this because there are certain features common to all games. For instance, almost all commercial games these days use polygon graphics. (Even 2D games use polygons. Sprites are just textured rectangles.) Most games benefit from some kind of collision detection, etc., etc. So what they did was they found they kept reusing the same code over and over, and after a few years they had a system that was sufficiently generalized that they could use it for damn near anything.

BTW, trying to code a "game engine" (as opposed to just a game) from the ground up is a common newbie mistake, and one I tried to avoid making when I worked for a game company. Unfortunately, I was unsuccessful because my fellow programmers had other ideas. It turned out to be exactly as disastrous as I'd feared. :/

[RedAuthar]

BTW, trying to code a "game engine" (as opposed to just a game) from the ground up is a common newbie mistake, and one I tried to avoid making when I worked for a game company. Unfortunately, I was unsuccessful because my fellow programmers had other ideas. It turned out to be exactly as disastrous as I'd feared. :/

 

You never said why it is a mistake.

[furrykef]

Because it's too big a task and because a team like ours had no idea how to make a good game engine.

[RedAuthar]

K.  Just sayin'. 

[Alextendo]

I've found an another interesting looking game: Betrayer (for PC. It's an indie game)

 

Here's a trailer:

 

 

The game was in early access first, and only have a black, white and red tone of color. In the final release, they (the creator of the game) decide to add color to the environment. Honestly, adding color, while being more appealing to the eyes, the game really shine (artistically speaking) when the game lack a full set of color. The black/white/red make the atmosphere of the game and really make it moody and somewhat creepy.