Top 3 Game Development Engines You Should Know

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Today I will share with you the best and the most popular game development engines.

Game engines play a crucial role in the development of modern video games, providing developers with the necessary tools and frameworks to create immersive and interactive experiences. Over the years, several game engines have gained widespread popularity among game developers, each offering unique features and capabilities. In this overview, we will explore some of the most popular game engines .

1️⃣ Unity Engine 🧡

Unity engine is one of the most famous game engines in the world, especially in the Arab world. This engine is characterized by a lot of features and tools that you can work with almost for free, and it is a free option for developing video games without the need for much experience in programming.

🔹 Unity Features

It is one of the most famous engines and has a large community to provide you with assistance at any time, and it is powerful in graphics and gives you full control over the movement of every element, and supports 2D and 3D games as well as virtual reality games, and supports almost all operating systems as well as Xbox and PlayStation, and there is in it Audio library to add excitement to the game.

🔸 Unity Cons

One of the downsides to Unity is that it is a little difficult for beginners and distracts them, and the size of the games developed with Unity is a little big.

2️⃣ Unreal Engine 🧡

The second game engine in our list is the Unreal Engine, which is developed by the well-known Epic Games company, and through it, you can develop video games in a professional way and almost free, and it is also one of the famous engines in the world and in the Arab world.

🔹 Unreal Engine Features

The beauty of this engine is that you can modify it as you like and modify its source code until it meets your needs, and supports all the systems, you can work with the engine without the need for much experience in programming, and it supports virtual reality games and supports Xbox and PlayStation.

🔸 Unreal Engine Cons

One of the downsides of this engine is that it takes a lot of science to understand its system, and its program is a little slow, and if you are running Windows, you can find some small problems with it.

3️⃣ CryEngine 🧡

This engine is a special one and is used by the most famous companies in the field of games, and it is the engine with which the game FarCry was developed if you know it. and there are some companies that use this engine Ubisoft and Amazon, and Ubisoft company bought part of the shares of this engine and used it in its games, and Amazon also developed a copy of it and named it Amazon Lumberyard and works with it in its products.

🔹 Features of CryEngine

One of the features of the engine is that it is completely free and supports virtual reality technology and outperforms other engines in lighting and movements are realistic and resemble the real movements of bodies and supports artificial intelligence and you can use it in your projects to give more realism to games and the size of the program is small.

🔸 CryEngine Cons

It does not support Mac and Linux with a stable version, and even though the engine is free, it has many paid add-ons and features and it cannot be used for free.

🔰 Conclusion

There are many other games engines, they make beginners distracted and confused. In this article, we talked about the 3 most popular engines, but there are other good engines such as Godot, Amazon Lumberyard, and RE Engine.

I hope you found this article useful, and thanks for reading

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