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Digital Games Industries:
Developments, Impact and Direction

Are Reusable Engines the Future of Games Development?

Stuart Slater
Games Simulation and AI Research Group
Wolverhampton University, UK

Keywords: Reusability, Middle Ware, Game Engines, Business Strategy.

The changes in both commercial success and extended platforms for computer games can clearly be seen from most media sources and Game Developers Conferences over the last 3 years. These changes have meant that pressure has been placed on developing studios to not only produce a working game, but that it is picked up by a major distributor in order to fund the extended development time that modern computer games require. To this end the purpose of this paper is to look at how, and why many studios seem to be purchasing licences to use game engines such as the Unreal engine and what impact this has on both the development time for the studios and the variation in games being offered to the consumers.

Further more it is intended to look at what features are being offered that take advantage of cutting edge hardware and why there is a growing emergence of middleware being offered as part of the solution by the game engine development companies.

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Digital Games Industries: Developments, Impact and Direction

Are Reusable Engines the Future of Games Development?

Digital Games Industries:
Developments, Impact and Direction