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Real reasons (not) to build custom game engines in 2024

Game Developer

Drawing from Highfleet's experience, this article explains why building your own engine may be a bad idea and when it might be worth considering.

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Build High-Performance Unreal Engine Studios with Remāngu 2.0 and AWS

AWS Games

Our mission has been to build a modern, cloud-based platform that truly empowers global collaboration. Studios demanded full support for Unreal Engine projects, including efficient data synchronization, optimized build pipelines, and robust game streaming capabilities for remote playtesting. How Remngu 2.0 works Remngu 2.0

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Building a City Driving Game with the Untold Engine - Part I

Harold Serrano

As stated in my previous post , my goal is to improve the robustness of the Untold Engine by focusing on developing various games. I then wrote a simple script to export the control points into an array that the Untold Engine can use as waypoints. For example, the engine does not have any culling mechanism.

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Two engineers build the physics-driven engineering parody The Enjenir

PreMortem.Games

They are both well aware of the irony of two engineers developing a parody engineering game, but that hasn’t stopped Cillín Farrell and Neil Mackenzie from devoting the majority of their spare time doing just that. With the game’s 100% physics-based building system, players can solve each mission in infinite ways.

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Why (and how) you should leave Unity and Unreal to make your own engine

Game Developer

Longtime developer Rez Graham shares the advantages (and disadvantages) of building your own tech for indie game development.

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Epic debuts Metahuman Animator and new Unreal Engine 5.2 tools

Game Developer

Epic spotlighted new tools at GDC 2023 that it claims will help developers of all sizes build richer game worlds.

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Building Big Games on Little Headsets

Game Developer

Principle Graphics Engineer Ben Hopkins looks into the tools, tricks, and techniques used to bring Owlchemy Labs’ latest VR game Cosmonious High to the Quest 2.

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