Ubisoft’s Anvil engine has powered Assassin’s Creed since 2007. Here’s its full version history from Scimitar to Ubisoft Anvil, every game built with it, and its modern ray-tracing features.
The Dunia Engine powered the Far Cry series for over a decade. Here’s its history as a CryEngine fork, the games built with it, its standout features, and whether you can download it.
The Frostbite engine powers EA’s biggest games, from Battlefield to EA Sports FC. Here’s how DICE’s technology works, the games it drives, and why you can’t download it.
The IW Engine has powered nearly every Call of Duty for two decades. Here’s how it evolved from id Tech 3 into the technology behind the franchise.
Aleph One is a cross-platform open source game engine. Aleph One is the continuation of Bungie Studios’ Marathon 2: Durandal. The project started in early 2000 when Bungie launched the source code before being acquired by Microsoft, encouraging fans to develop it further.
Antiryad Gx is a unified cross-platform and multi-core 2D and 3D game engine developed by Arkham Development, a French company near Paris specializing in game services and real-time 2D and 3D solutions. The engine’s development began in 1992 and has since evolved to rival and even surpass many commercial game engines in terms of features, optimization, and stability.
Adventure Game Studio (AGS) is a specialized game engine designed for creating point-and-click adventure games. Written primarily in C/C++, AGS provides a user-friendly environment for developers to create classic-style adventure games with minimal programming knowledge. It combines an Integrated Design Environment (IDE) with scripting language capabilities, making it a 2D oriented gaming engine with target platforms Windows and Linux.
4A Engine is a proprietary game engine written in C++, developed by 4A Games, a Ukrainian game development studio. It is best known for powering the Metro game series. It is a 3D oriented engine with target platforms including Windows, PS3/PS4, Xbox 360/Xbox One, and Linux, featuring advanced DirectX11 support and optimized for detailed environments, real-time physics, and atmospheric lighting.
Delta3D is an open-source multi-platform game development engine. Written in C++, the engine is available to users under the license of LGPL (Lesser General Public License). Community-supported, Delta3D is widely prevalent among developers around the globe. The engine is used for multipurpose including training, education, visualization, and of course entertainment.
Dimensional3 is an open-source 3D game engine often written as Dim3. Apple has chosen Dim3 as an exclusive development engine for Mac OS and described it as “hot game building tools”. Dim3 has access to DevMaster’s 3D engines database. Written in C++ the engine uses OpenGL libraries for graphics rendering, JavaScript for scripting, XML for data and Simple Direct Media Layer for resolution switching, input, and sound.
The word Esenthel is made by combining two words i.e. Essential and Essence. It is an open source game engine for developing commercial and noncommercial games (it is not Free, there are some limitations, i.e. its code cannot be used to create/improve other game engines.). It is written in C++ and is very easy to use. It uses very clean APIs. It is in development since 2000.
Exult is a FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) game Engine. It is written in C++ and runs on Mac, Windows and Linux. Exult was developed in 2004 to recreate a massive hit game of 1990’s called Ultima VII. It is created for the revival of Ultima VII (The Black Gate) and Ultima VII part2 (Serpent Isle) on modern PCs.
