Game Engines

A game engine is the framework which is used to lay the groundwork for game developers by providing them with the systems and tools needed like rendering, audio management, level editing, input detection, etc. In some cases you may find that one game shares the same engine as another. This usually happens due to a company licensing out their engine to be used by a development team or in the case of an in-house engine may not need to make a whole new engine for a game if the one they have works fine. This can lead to file formats being similar or even identical between games which can be useful when it comes to ripping and modding.

Common Engines

Engine	Public
GameMaker Studio	Yes
Unity	Yes
Unreal Engine	Yes

In-House Engines

Engine	Developer
Anvil	Ubisoft Montreal
Bezel Engine	Nintendo
Build	Ken Silverman
Creation Engine	Bethesda Game Studios
Crystal Tools	Square Enix
Decima	Guerrilla Games
Disrupt	Ubisoft Montreal
Dunia	Ubisoft Montreal
EGO	Codemasters
EvilEngine	Heavy Iron Studios
Fox Engine	Kojima Productions
Frostbite	DICE
GoldSrc	Valve
GoodEngine	Heavy Iron Studios
Hedgehog Engine	Sonic Team
Hedgehog Engine 2	Sonic Team
id Tech	id Software
Jade	Ubisoft
Kinetica	Santa Monica Studio
Luminous Engine	Luminous Productions
LyN	Ubisoft
Merkury	Krome Studios
MT Framework	Capcom
Octane	Firebrand Games
PopCap Games Framework	PopCap
Quantum3	High Voltage Software
RAGE	Rockstar San Diego
RE Engine	Capcom
Retro Engine	Christian Whitehead
Scimitar	Ubisoft Montreal
SCUMM	LucasArts
Serious Engine	Croteam
Snowdrop	Massive Entertainment
Source	Valve
Source 2	Valve
Star Engine	Evening Star
Tommunism Engine	Team Meat
TOSHI	Blue Tongue Entertainment
UbiArt Framework	Ubisoft Montpellier
Ubisoft OpenSpace	Ubisoft Montpellier
Untitled Spike Chunsoft Engine	Spike Chunsoft