Software example - Unreal Engine

 Unreal Engine

    UE is on the top of high-end engines, available on the market. It is the best solution to create a game using the newest technologies such as real-time ray tracing using RTX cores. It is ideal to create a first or third-person game. The first time it was used in the game named Unreal was in 1998.

    Unreal Engine allows you to render photorealistic graphics in real time.

    It is implemented in the most popular programming language C++. You can create a game using the blueprints mode that makes complicated projects easier to manage. 

    Unreal Engine created hundreds of games on many platforms. Great for big projects with big budgets, however for a small team or single game developers is way too complicated. A huge amount of functionalities may be overwhelming for beginners. The engine is expandable, so programmers can add their own libraries to extend functionalities.

My Review

Unreal Engine receives 9/10.

Pros:

• great for AAA games
• the most powerful IDE for game developers
• expandable engine
• C++

Cons:

• too complicated for beginners

References:

• Adams, E. (2014). Fundamentals of game design (Third Edition). Berkeley, CA: New Riders.