Real reasons (not) to build custom game engines in 2024
Game Developer
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
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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Game Developer
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
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.
AWS Games
MARCH 11, 2025
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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Harold Serrano
DECEMBER 4, 2024
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.
PreMortem.Games
OCTOBER 9, 2023
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.
Game Developer
MARCH 20, 2024
Longtime developer Rez Graham shares the advantages (and disadvantages) of building your own tech for indie game development.
Game Developer
MARCH 22, 2023
Epic spotlighted new tools at GDC 2023 that it claims will help developers of all sizes build richer game worlds.
Game Developer
APRIL 11, 2023
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Game From Scratch
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
GameFromScratch.com The Mirror Stops Using the Godot Game Engine The Mirror, an open-source effort to create an open Roblox or Fortnite alternative that we first covered in 2022 has just announced a massive change. They are no longer going to be building on top of the free and open-source Godot game engine.
Grumpy Gamer
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
How to make your own game engine (and why) by Tyler Glaiel Well worth a read. In my 35+ year career in games I’ve never used an off the shelf game engine. Starting with SCUMM I’ve always build my own. It’s hard work and probably cost me more but I love making game engines and writing compilers.
Big Games
MARCH 27, 2025
Unreal Engine Created by Epic Games, it is well known for its advanced rendering capabilities and excellent visuals. Features Comparison: Unity vs. Unreal Engine When deciding between these two, check and compare via an Android game development company in India. Unreal Engine Its advanced rendering engine sets it apart.
PreMortem.Games
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
The company’s engine of choice is Unity 2021 LTS and they use Photon Fusion, a multiplayer technology developed by Photon Engine , the game’s investors. We can definitely say that it works wonders for the type of game we’re building. says Lamhut laughing. We’ve used PUN, Chat, Quantum, and more.
Cocos
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Download Links Windows Mac Release Note Engine New Features Added functionality for manually loading Wasm/AsmJS modules to improve initial scene load speed. Enabled “inline enums” and “private property compression” for engine code. Internal properties marked with a $ suffix are compressed in the build process.
AWS Games
MARCH 13, 2025
Experience first-hand how Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Games helps build breakthrough gaming experiences at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), March 17-21, 2025 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Join the team behind Netflixs Squid Game Unleashed as they lead you through building the backend for a fast-based action mobile game.
PreMortem.Games
APRIL 3, 2024
In a moment of dissatisfaction, while working at a prestigious engineering company in Turkey, Dorothy Orina made a decision that changed the course of her career. Although she enjoyed her time in Turkey and her engineering studies, she decided to leave both behind to pursue her passion for game development.
Game From Scratch
MAY 16, 2023
GameFromScratch.com JetBrains Rider for Godot Engine Development The Rider IDE from JetBrains is increasingly becoming their go to IDE for game developers, with Unreal Engine, Unity and now Godot Engine support.
PreMortem.Games
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
What started as a passion project has grown into a full-fledged god game blending city-building, resource management and player-driven storytelling. It would be great to bounce ideas and concepts off of fellow colleagues when building my games. However, I will say that it is very nice to build and design things with full freedom!
Nvidia
MARCH 17, 2025
With game development becoming more complex, AI is also playing a role in helping artists and engineers realize their creative visions. At GDC 2025, NVIDIA is building upon NVIDIA RTX Kit Source It is unlocking new levels of visuals, performance, and gameplay possibilities with neural rendering and generative AI-powered characters.
Ask a Game Dev
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Usually, you want a subject matter expert to handle issues with the subject - an engine programmer to work on the engine, a rendering programmer to work on the renderer, and so on. It happens on occasion, but not super often. You may have surmised, based on that last example, why such a thing might happen.
AWS Games
JUNE 15, 2023
Epic Games (Epic) is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of Unreal Engine (UE), one of the most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tools that powers some of the world’s leading games including Fortnite, and is also utilized by creators across industries to deliver cutting-edge experiences. NET Framework 4.6.x
AWS Games
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Knowing other developers were using it gave us more confidence to build. It also saved us time deploying and managing game servers,” shared Benjamin Jouan, Norsfell Co-Founder and Director of Engineering. Norsfell Team “GameLift is specifically designed for game servers, and has been proven by notable development studios.
Cocos
JANUARY 8, 2025
Im using Cocos creator to build a small game as side project. In the debug build the dll causing issues is msvcp140d.dll) I manage for now to make a build replacing the 2 files inside the engine with a couple that I found they were working, but honestly it was a lucky found and I dont think its the proper fix.
AWS Games
JUNE 28, 2023
In this article we’ll show you how to build an Unreal Engine game with full support for the AWS Graviton processor. We show 42% cost savings with the Graviton instance for the same performance, 22% more throughput and a 20% lower price than on x86 cores with an Unreal Engine-based game, Lyra Starter Game.
Nvidia
OCTOBER 1, 2024
At Unreal Fest 2024, NVIDIA released new Unreal Engine 5 on-device plugins for NVIDIA ACE, making it easier to build and deploy AI-powered MetaHuman characters. At Unreal Fest 2024, NVIDIA released new Unreal Engine 5 on-device plugins for NVIDIA ACE, making it easier to build and deploy AI-powered MetaHuman characters on Windows PCs.
Ask a Game Dev
APRIL 2, 2025
Gameplay Programmers are the engineers who work directly with designers to make the designs actually work in game. Gameplay programmer goals tend to be building systems that allow designers to create new content. Thus, a gameplay programmer might build an item editor that would allow an item designer to create many different items.
GamesIndustry.biz
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
"It’s crazy to make your own engine" "The cost is too much" "We haven’t released a game yet, is custom tech a smart way to spend our time and money right now?" When we founded Oxide, one of our founding principles was that we would create our own proprietary engine, Nitrous.
Game Daily
APRIL 11, 2023
CEO and founder Sean Pinnock acknowledges that the company’s core offering is a game engine, albeit one made from the ground-up to help resolve Web3 game development’s most pressing challenges. “We want to make it easier to build triple-A content that people can expand upon.” You can just build.”
AWS Games
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Unreal Engine , created by by Epic Games, is one of the most advanced tools for creating and rendering photo-realistic visuals and immersive experiences. Using AWS and Unreal Engine’s Pixel Streaming, developers can create content with Unreal Engine and deploy it on Amazon Elastic Compute (EC2) on either Windows or Linux.
CG Spectrum
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Hanny shares her visually stunning final project with us, a short cinematic called Naima , detailing how she created her scenes in Unreal Engine, where she drew her inspiration from, and how the technical and creative support of her industry expert mentors allowed her to bring her vision to fruition. Meet Hanny. So, I signed up!
DameDev.tv
MARCH 7, 2023
We'll be able to build an entire virtual gallery using just this single custom actor. If you're already well familiar with the term, feel free to skip the following few paragraphs and dive straight into the implementation from Preparing a new Unreal Engine project. Fortunately, Unreal Engine is also equipped to handle this.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 16, 2025
If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. by George Marques ( GH-46830 ), Typed Dictionaries rapidly became one of the engines most requested features. Navigation Navigation contains some of the oldest code in the engine. For more information, see GH-67531.
CG Spectrum
JANUARY 3, 2023
As the excuses he devised not to follow his passion faded, Anthony quit his full-time job to dedicate his efforts to exploring filmmaking within a game engine. I experimented with both Unity and Unreal Engine since real-time workflows seemed most practical for me as a solo artist. Building out the space station in Unreal Engine.
PreMortem.Games
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
However, once the engine of her boat is restored, she plans on traveling around. For me personally, its not only development Im interested in, but also the process of building a community and business. I make something new, and I use that for building community and marketing. Why did you become a solo developer?
Mircosoft Game Dev
MARCH 20, 2025
As such, we encourage testing this build in order to ensure a smooth release for both versions. If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. or newer is required for this build, changing the minimal supported version from.NET 6 to 8. stable release next week!
Game From Scratch
APRIL 3, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Flax Engine 1.8 Released The Flax 3D game engine just released Flax Engine 1.8. This release adds several new features including.NET 8/ C#12 support, a new integrated UI building tool and much more. Details of the Flax Engine 1.8 It brings lots of great […] The post Flax Engine 1.8
AWS Games
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
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GamesIndustry.biz
APRIL 12, 2023
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PreMortem.Games
MAY 1, 2023
The company’s engine of choice is Unity 2021 LTS and they use Photon Fusion, a multiplayer technology developed by Photon Engine , the game’s investors. We can definitely say that it works wonders for the type of game we’re building. says Lamhut laughing. We’ve used PUN, Chat, Quantum, and more.
Game From Scratch
NOVEMBER 16, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Xogot – Godot on iPad Xogot is a new project from Miguel de Icaza (the creator of Mono among other projects) building upon his work on bringing Swift to the Godot game engine.
Mircosoft Game Dev
MARCH 21, 2025
If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. Help us continue our work: Make a Donation Standard build includes support for GDScript and GDExtension.NET build (marked as mono ) includes support for C#, as well as GDScript and GDExtension.
Grumpy Gamer
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
I use Microsoft’s Azure to do cloud compiles of the c++ engine for my new game. For Thimbleweed Park builds were hand compiled which took a lot of time and was very error prone. More than once I made DEBUG builds rather than RELEASE builds or forgot to change some debug setting back. Same with the Mac build.
Ask a Game Dev
APRIL 16, 2025
New studios do start up, but entry level positions are rare since most of the new studios are looking for funding and they need the core senior dev team to build enough of a prototype to sell the idea to the money people. Engineering could mean working in simulation software, B2B stuff, graphics, user interface, server engineering, and so on.
Ask a Game Dev
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
This is because a given project is at its maximum headcount right before it ships - you need all hands on deck during full production, building and validating all of the content in the game. The next factor is that most big layoffs come after a project has shipped.
Game Dev Unchained
MAY 24, 2023
The path to success in such an environment is often unclear, with industry veterans having to navigate uncharted waters as they seek to build and evolve their companies. However, he gradually realized the wisdom of utilizing pre-existing engines like Unity and Unreal. Everything, the whole stack, we built ourselves.
Grumpy Gamer
MAY 25, 2020
I also uploaded the dev build of the Delores engine (including the complete debugger) so you can run all your edits and changes. I've always skewed away from visual programming and dialogue engines. If we broke a store build, it would be hours of tech support emails. don't hit the back button yet. let's dive into that.
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