Unit 67 Computer Game Engines

16/01/2014 15:37 - Get the game score to stop looping, so it just stops once you collide with the capsule/coin.

Computer Game Engine Research

Here is a good description I found of what exactly a computer game engine is: 

"A game engine is a system designed for the creation and development of video games. The leading game engines provide a software framework that developers use to create games for video game consoles, mobile devices and personal computers. The core functionality typically provided by a game engine includes a rendering engine (“renderer”) for 2D or 3D graphics, a physics engine or collision detection (and collision response), sound, scripting, animation, artificial intelligence, networking, streaming, memory management, threading, localisation support, and a scene graph. The process of game development is often economized, in large part, by reusing/adapting the same game engine to create different games, or to make it easier to "port" games to multiple platforms."- This information was found on wikipedia under the search "Game Engine" on 28/11/2013

Some game engines are designed for specific things, such as lighting or physics. I believe games back in the day used a number of game engines, where as now we have game engines that can handle all these things. It still remains that some game engines are better for certain things than others, that being particular game features such as lighting, but also whether they're more tailored to 2D games or 3D games. Although while researching different game engines, I cannot seem to find any information on what these game engines particularly excel in and where they're lacking as their sites generally seem to have listed that they're very good at every aspect of a game engine.

Here are a couple tables looking into many different factors of computer game engines - found on wikipedia under "Game Engine" on 28/11/2013:

Name	Primary programming language	Scripting	Cross-platform	SDL	2D/3D oriented	Platform	Notable games	License	Notes and references
3D Rad	C#	AngelScript	No	No	3D	Windows	wRace	Custom	3D physics-based engine, no scripting required.
Adventure Game Studio	C++	AGSScript	Yes	No	2D	Windows Linux	Chzo Mythos, The Blackwell Series	Artistic License 2.0	Mostly used to develop third-person pre-rendered graphical adventure games, one of the most popular for developing amateur adventure games.
Aleph One	C++	Lua, Marathon markup language	Yes	Yes	2.5D	Windows LinuxOS X	Aleph One (Marathon remake)	GPL	FPS engine
Allegro library	C	Ada, C++, C#, D, Lisp,Lua, Mercury, Pascal,Perl, Python, Scheme	Yes	Yes	2D	Windows LinuxOS X DOS		zlib	Graphics and audio
Angel2D	C++	Lua	Yes	No	2D	Windows LinuxOS X IOS		BSD	Angel is a cross-platform 2D game prototyping framework based on OpenGL and C++. It provides a broad set of basic game functionality in a lightweight fashion, and is designed to make it easy to get your game ideas up and running as quickly as possible.
Anura	C++		Yes	Yes	2D	Windows LinuxOS X iOS AndroidBlackBerry 10	Frogatto & Friends	GPL	It is a fully-featured, cross-platform game engine.
Ardor3D	Java		Yes	No	3D	cross-platform		zlib	Fork of jMonkeyEngine 2.0
Axiom Engine	C#		Yes	No	3D	Windows LinuxOS X Solaris		LGPL	[1][2]
Blender	C++	Python	Yes	Yes	3D	Windows LinuxOS X Solaris	Yo Frankie!, ColorCube	GPL	2D/3D game engine packaged in a 3D modeler for quick and intuitive use; fully integrated Bullet physics library.
Build engine	C		No	No	2.5D	Windows LinuxOS X DOS	Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood	Custom	FPS engine, 2.5D (2D grid base geometry.)
Cafu Engine	C++	Lua	Yes	No	3D	Windows LinuxOS X		GPL orproprietary	Full game engine; graphics, audio, physics, scripting, networking, and map editor.[3]
ClanLib	C++		Yes	Yes	2.5D	Windows LinuxOS X		zlib	Self-described "toolkit", provides most game engine functionality and extensive GUI programming.
Cocos2d	C++, Python,Objective-C	JavaScript, Java	Yes	No	2D	Windows LinuxOS X IOS	Hardest Game Ever 2	MIT	Ported to Linux, Mac OS X, iOS, Windows. iOS port uses Objective-C and integrates with Box2D and Chipmunk physics engines. Android port binds to Java. Cocos2d-x is multi-platform and uses C++.
Construct Classic	Event Based		No	No	2D	Windows	Minitroid	GPL/ BSD
Core3D	Objective-C		Yes	Yes	3D	Windows LinuxOS X IOS	CoreBreach	3D EngineMIT, Source Code GPL v2	The 3D engine powering CoreBreach, an anti-gravity racing game.[4]
Crystal Space	C++	Java, Perl, Python	Yes	Yes	3D	Windows LinuxOS X	Keepsake, The Crystal Scrolls, Yo Frankie!	LGPL	Graphics, audio, physics
Cube	C++		Yes	Yes	3D	Windows LinuxOS X	AssaultCube, Cube	zlib	Previous generation (means it has a successor), 2D grid-based system, optimized for outdoor rather than indoor maps.
Cube 2	C++	Cubescript	Yes	Yes	3D	Windows LinuxOS X	Cube 2, Red Eclipse	zlib	Efficient 6-directional height map based geometry (versus traditionalPolygon soup model), hence the name Cube, FPS engine.
Delta3d	C++	Python	Yes	No	2.5D	cross-platform		LGPL	Uses modular libraries.
Dim3	C++	JavaScript	Yes	No	3D	cross-platform		MIT	3D game engine for the Mac (although finished games are cross-platform).
DimensioneX Multiplayer Engine	Java	Java, VBscript	Yes	No	2.5D	cross-platform	Underworld Online	GPL	Produces browser games with pseudo-3D views, sounds and music. Games can be turned into Facebook Apps. Intended for beginners. Free support and hosting.
Dreemchest	C++	Lua	Yes	No	2D	Windows, OS X,Android, iOS,Flash	Match them All	Custom	Cross-platform 2D engine. Box2D physics, WYSIWYG editor, Adobe(R) Flash(R) UIs, Localization System, Streaming, and DLC.
Duality	C#	Plugin-based	No	No	2D	Windows	Honourbound	MIT	General-purpose game development framework. Comes with WYSIWYG editor.
Eclipse Origins	Visual Basic 6		Windows only	No	2D	Windows	Crystalshire, yoomxWorld	GPL	A 2D MMORPG engine with a very large community. Includes NPCs, maps, resources, dynamic sprites, animations, skills, a bank, player chat, items, and more.
ENIGMA	C++	EDL	Yes	No	2D	Windows LinuxOS X		GPL	A compiler for Game Maker projects that runs cross-platform.
Env3D	Java		Yes	No	3D	cross-platform		GPL	3D game engine that creates a simple interface for dynamically adding EnvObjects. Built on jMonkeyEngine 2.0. Intended for educational use in teaching computer science.
Exult	C++		Yes	Yes	2D	Windows LinuxOS X BSD		GPL	Free software re-implementation of the Ultima VII game engine.
FLARE	C++		Yes	Yes	2D	Windows LinuxOS X BSD		GPL	RPG engine that supports isometric and orthogonal perspective.
Flexible Isometric Free Engine	C++	Python	Yes	Yes	2D	Windows LinuxOS X BSD	Unknown Horizons	LGPL	2D game engine optimized for RTS or RPG games.
Flixel	ActionScript		Yes	No	2D		Various games by Gregory Weir	MIT	Boiler-plate code for flash games.
GameKit (OgreKit)	C++	Lua	Yes	No	3D	Windows LinuxOS X android		MIT/zlib/BSD	Has Blender integration similar to BGE. Integrated Bullet physics library.
GamePlay3D	C++	Lua	Yes	No	3D	Windows LinuxOS X iOSBlackBerry 10Android		Apache 2.0	Aimed at the indie game developer ecosystem with similar features to cocos2d-x.
Gamvas	JavaScript	JavaScript	Yes	No	2D	HTML5		MIT	Html5 canvas game engine with Box2D integration.
Grit	C++	Lua	Yes	No	3D			MIT	Optimized for Open world games like GTA.
Haaf's Game Engine (HGE)	C++	C, Go	Yes	Yes	2D	Windows LinuxOS X	Hammerfight	zlib	Hardware-accelerated 2D library with particle effects, sprite and animation handling, GUI controls, distortion, font, and resource handling. Go binding[5] Windows version ported to Haaf's Game Engine(HGE) for UNIX (hge-unix).
HGamer3D	Haskell		No	No	3D			Apache 2.0	A Windows game engine for the Haskell programmer, including bindings to Ogre, CEGUI, Bullet, enet, SFML for Audio, Network, 3D Graphics, GUI and Input Device functionality.
Horde3D	C++		Yes	No	3D	Windows		EPL	Horde3D is a small 3D rendering engine designed for large crowds of animated characters.
HPL 1 engine	C++	AngelScript	Yes	Yes	3D	Windows LinuxOS X	Penumbra: Overture,Penumbra: Black Plague,Penumbra: Requiem	GPLv3	HPL is a cross-platform game engine which is compatible with the OpenGL, OpenAL, and Newton Game Dynamics libraries. One of the engine's defining features is its ability for advanced object interaction through the use of Newton's physics code.
id Tech 1 (Doom)	C	ACS	Yes	No	2.5D	Windows LinuxOS X	Doom, Doom II, HeXen,Heretic, Strife	GPL	2D-based geometry, sprite and particles, uses clever methods to emulate 3D graphics.
id Tech 1 (Quake)	C	QuakeC	Yes	No	3D	Windows LinuxOS X	Quake	GPL	First true 3D id Tech engine.
id Tech 2	C	C	Yes	No	3D	Windows LinuxOS X	Quake II	GPL	Better known as the Quake II engine.
id Tech 3	C	Game Data {PK3 }	Yes	No	3D	Windows LinuxOS X	Quake III Arena	GPL	Better known as the Quake III engine.
id Tech 4	C++	via DLLs	Yes	No	3D	Windows LinuxOS X	Doom 3, Doom 3: BFG Edition,Quake 4	GPL	Better known as the Doom 3 engine with a set of good tools andMegaTexture.
Indielib	C++		Yes	Yes	2.5D	Windows LinuxOS X		LGPL	Includes entity system, sprite animations, collision detection, bitmap/TTF fonts, parallax scrolling, 3D objects, 2D Cameras, 3D Cameras, timers, alpha blending, shaders, and image filters.
ioquake3	C		Yes	Yes	3D	Windows LinuxOS X	Urban Terror	GPL
IwGame Engine	C++		Yes	No	2D	Windows LinuxOS X iOS Android		GPL(requires license to commercial Marmalade SDK)	IwGame is built on top of the Marmalade SDK.
Jake2	Java		Yes	No	3D	Cross-platform		GPL	Java port of the Quake II game engine.
JGame	Java, Actionscript 3		Yes	No	2D	J2ME Android		BSD
jMonkeyEngine	Java		Yes	Yes	3D	Cross-platform		BSD	A community-centric project that is used by several commercial game studios.
Jogre	Java		Yes	No	2D	Cross-platform		GPL	Designed to be equivalent to websites such as Yahoo! Games. Used by many schools as part of the course work.
jPCT and jPCT-AE	Java		Yes	No	3D	Java Android	SpaceCat, SkyFrontier, Max the flyer	Free for personal and commercial use	jPCT-AE is an a port of jPCT to Android. OpenGL, transparency, key-frame animation, shader support, built-in primitives, lens flares support.[6]
Kobold2D	Objective-C	Lua	Yes	No	2D	OS X iOS		MIT	Based on Cocos2d with integrated Lua, Wax, cocos2d-iPhone-extensions, cocos3d, Box2D, Chipmunk, Chipmunk SpaceManager, Google AdMob, and ObjectAL libraries.
Libgdx	Java		Yes	No	3D	Windows LinuxOS X iOS AndroidHTML5	Bumbledore, Apparatus, Clash of the Olympians, Ingress	Apache 2.0	A cross-platform game development library used in several commercial games.[7]
LWJGL	Java		Yes	Yes	3D		Minecraft	BSD	The Lightweight Java Game Library
LÖVE	Lua	Lua	Yes	Yes	2D	Windows LinuxOS X	Mari0, Journey to the Center of Hawkthorne	zlib
Maratis	C++	Lua	Yes	No	3D	Windows LinuxOS X iOS Android	Save Our Souls	zlib/GPL
melonJS	Javascript	Javascript	Yes	No	2.5D	HTML5	Alex4 WE,Bitzz,Neverwell Moor,Escape from Minimars	MIT	A lightweight (cross-browser) HTML5 game engine integrating the Tiled map editor format.
Moai SDK	C++	Lua	Yes	Yes	2D	Windows OS XiOS Android	Crimson Steam Pirates	CPAL
Multiverse Foundation	Jython and Java	Python	No	No	3D			MIT	Open source MMO and Virtual World Development Platform. Download includes starter assets and fully functional online world to play around with. Currently optimized for third-person RPG games.
Nebula Device	C++	Java, Python, Lua, Tcl/Tk	Yes	No	2.5D	Windows Linux	Urban Assault, Drakensang: The River of Time	MIT	A real-time 3D game engine developed by German game studio Radon Labs.
NetGore	C#		Yes	No	2D	Windows Linux		MIT	Open source multiplayer online RPG engine (MMORPG).
NME	Haxe		Yes	No	2D	Windows LinuxOS X iOSAndroidBlackBerry		MIT	A game and application framework used to create many commercial mobile and web games.[8]
nxPascal	Object Pascal	Delphi, Lazarus	Yes	No	3D			MIT
OpenSimulator	C#	LSL	Yes	No	3D			BSD	A server platform for hosting virtual worlds that is compatible with Second Life clients.
ORX	C/C++	Custom	Yes	Yes	2.5D	Windows LinuxMac OS X iOSAndroid	Le Magasin des Suicides	zlib	3D accelerated
Oxygine	C++		Yes	Yes	2D	Windows LinuxMac OS X iOSAndroid	Elements Battle,BattlePaint(mobile),Match3Quest	MIT	Modern hardware accelerated 2D C++ framework for mobile and PC platforms. Features: OpenGLES 1/2, compressed textures, atlases, complex animations/tweens/sprites, scene graph, fonts, event handling, build tools, and others. Can be built on top of SDL2.0 or Marmalade SDK.
Panda3D	C++	Python	Yes	No	3D	Windows LinuxOS X iOS	Toontown Online, Pirates of the Caribbean Online	BSD
PixelLight	C++	AngelScript, Lua,Python, Javascript/V8	Yes	No	3D	Windows LinuxAndroid		MIT	[1] OpenGL & ES 2 and D3D 9 & 11 renderers, OpenAL & FMOD sound, physics, Database, & GUI.
PLIB	C++		Yes	Yes	3D	Windows LinuxOS X		LGPL
Polycode	C++	Lua	Yes	Yes	3D	Windows LinuxOS X		MIT	A self-described "Framework for creative code"
Pyrogenesis	C++	JavaScript	Yes	Yes	3D	Windows	0 A.D.	GPL	A modular engine designed for RTS games.[9]
Retribution Engine	C++		No	No	3D	Windows		GPL	A 3D game engine that is used to make first person shooter games.
SFML	C++		Yes	No	2D			Zlib	Game engine tool kit providing access to graphics, audio, scripting, and networking.
Sge2d	C		Yes	Yes	2D	cross-platform		MIT	A framework for programming 2d games
Spring	C++	C, C++, Java/JVM,Lua, Python	Yes	Yes	3D	Windows LinuxOS X	Balanced Annihilation, Zero-K	GPL	RTS, simulated events, OpenGL
StepMania	C++	Lua	Yes	No	3D	cross-platform	In the Groove, Pump It Up Pro	MIT	A rhythm video game and engine that was originally developed as a simulator of Konami's DDR.
Stratagus	C	Lua	Yes	Yes	2D	Linux	Bos Wars	GPL	A 2D real-time strategy game engine
Torque3D	C++	TorqueScript	No	No	3D	Windows LinuxOS X	Tribes 2	MIT
Turbulenz	TypeScript	JavaScript	Yes	No	3D	HTML5	Polycraft, Save the Day, Score Rush	MIT	Designed to create 2D and 3D HTML5 games.
Wire3D	C++		Yes	No	3D	Windows Wii		LGPL
WorldForge	C++	Lua(client), Python(server)	Yes	Yes	3D			GPL	MMORPG framework consisting of Libraries, Server, Client, and Media.
ZenGL	Pascal	C, C++	Yes	No	2D	GNU/LinuxWindows, MacOS X iOS Android		zlib	Cross-platform game development library written in Pascal, designed to provide necessary functionality for rendering 2D graphics, handling input, sound output, etc.
ZGameEditor	Delphi	Custom	Yes	No	3D	Windows LinuxOS X Android		MIT	A lightweight game engine and IDE.
Name	Primaryprogramming language	Scripting	Cross-platform	SDL	2D/3D oriented	Platform	Notable games	License	Notes and references

Unity game engine

Due to what is available to us here at the college, we will be using Unity for both our 2D game and 3D game. 

"The fully integrated and extendable Unity Editor is the interface in which you create your game. You import all your assets to and arrange them in the Editor. This is where you build your scenes with terrains, lights, audio, characters, physics and more; it’s where you add interaction via scripting, simultaneous play test and edit your game, and deploy to your chosen platforms. There are different views, or windows, in the Editor that contain the tools and workflows for creating your game." - www.unity3d.com 28/11/2013.

"Every scene in your game begins with adding empty containers, called GameObjects, that can be turned into anything. By attaching Components to a GameObject you create behavior and movement, and define appearance. Lights, meshes, special effects, audio, cameras, and particle emitters are examples of Components. In turn, each Component has its own set of adjustable properties—range and intensity for a light, for example—that you can tweak in the Inspector." - www.unity3d.com 28/11/2013.

'"Play' mode in Unity is an incredibly powerful development tool for rapid iterative editing while you play your game. Press Play and instantly you are inside of your game, playing and previewing how it will look in its platform-specific final build. Pause it, and alter values, assets, scripts and other properties, and instantly see the results. And, you can step through your game frame by frame for easy debugging." - www.unity3d.com 28/11/2013.

I hear that you can put import work from Cinema 4D (software I have previously used) into Unity. As you edit your creations in Cinema 4D, it'll alter it in Unity also. Because of this, I plan to put in my creations and animate them to be interactive characters in my game which I create using Unity.

You can arrange the different Views to suit your individual preferences and drag and drop elements from one View to another.

Here is a video showcasing some of the creations using Unity:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYBaZyqiYZo

Scratch

Scratch is nice and simple for beginners to coding, as the actions are already there which you put into a flowchart, rather than typing up the script yourself. The simplicity of it is purposeful as Scratch is designed for children between the ages of 8-16, however, it is used by all ages. "With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community. Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st century." - http://scratch.mit.edu/about/ - 05/12/2013. From what I've seen and experience of using Scratch myself, it is tailored towards 2D games as opposed to doing 3D like Unity does.

As well as games, people can make: Animations, Art, Music, Stories, etc.

Unreal game engine

"Every aspect of the Unreal Engine toolset is designed to ease of content creation and programming in mind, empowering artists and designers to develop assets in a visual environment and giving programmers a highly modular, scalable and extensible framework for shipping games in a wide range of genres." - http://www.unrealengine.com/en/features/ - 05/12/2013

Animation: Unreal 3 engine's 3D modelling is driven by an AnimTreem. It is a tree of animation nodes including:

• Blend controllers, performing an n-way blend between nested animation objects
• Data-driven controllers, encapsulating motion capture or hand animation data.
• Physics controllers, tying into the rigid body dynamics engine for rag-doll player and NPC animation and physical response to impulses.
• Procedural skeletal controllers, for game features such as having an NPC's head and eyes track a player walking through the level.
• Inverse Kinematics, solver for calculating limb pose based on a goal location (e.g. for foot placement).
• Group animations, handling notifications for the whole group. Synchronise all or a subset of them.
• Morph target animation, allowing the control of morph target blend weights from animation data, with support for material control as well. Morph animation can be authored in Maya and morph data can be exported via ActorX. Skeletal animation can now control vertex and material animation, with preview in AnimSet Viewer.
• Plus, there are no restrictions on the number of animations playing at the same time, number of blends, or post-processing operations.

AI: "Unreal Engine 3 ’s artificial intelligence system provides robust systems for game AI and navigation. Unreal Engine 3 supports the automatic creation and use of navigation meshes, giving AI-controlled characters increased spatial awareness of their environment and the ability to make smarter movement decisions." - http://www.unrealengine.com/en/features/animation/ - 05/12/2013

The Unreal 3 engine has a navigation mesh system. It provides an accurate representation of an AI's traversable space via a connected graph of convex polygons:

• Less nodes means less time fixing up cross-level pathing information.
• Pathfinding times go down as the density of the graph being searched shrinks.
• Better representation of the world results in better pathing behaviour.
• Paths are automatically generated.

"Furthermore, you can add crowds of animated characters to a map with Unreal Engine 3’s flocking technology, which directs character movements and game animation through a network of crowd destinations and Kismet interaction. Unreal Engine 3’s crowd system gives you complete control over the movement and interaction of crowd agents with players and other NPCs using a 'plug-in' behavior system." - http://www.unrealengine.com/en/features/artificial_intelligence/ - 05/12/2013

Audio: Unreal engine allows users to immerse themselves with 3D location-based sound. It supports all the latest compression schemes and gives you complete control over pitch, levels, looping, filtering, modulation and randomisation. From the information I can find on the Unreal engine, the audio seems somewhat limited to the rest of the engine's features. However, this doesn't necessarily make it worse than other audio systems in other engine's. Maybe audio isn't Unreal's forte.

Cinematics: "Unreal Engine 3 provides mature tools for creating visually stunning in-game cinematics and cut scenes. Unreal Matinee provides movie director-class control over all of the objects in a scene, as well as cameras and cuts, plus it includes an in-engine, real-time preview feature that plays back all the visual effects of a cinematic. Unreal Matinee injects film-style scenes into your game, enabling you to place every camera, object and explosion within the world and even play it back in real time." - http://www.unrealengine.com/en/features/cinematics/ - 05/12/2013

• Movie director-class control over all of the objects in a scene, as well as cameras and cuts.
• Track-based, non-linear style editing system with support for controlling object movement and animation, playing audio, cutting between cameras, toggling particles, field of view, and more.
• Easily created key frames for actors and objects, which can be manipulated directly in the editor.
• Post-processing effects such as fades, depth of field, bloom and colour filtering effects can be easily animated and fine-tuned for each camera shot.
• Ability to animation interactive, physical objects in the game such as doors and platforms.
• High resolution frame-dumping allows for saving out pre-rendered source images to create game cinematics that can be played offline or converted to a standard video format.
• Robust user interface with support for loop ranges, key/time snapping, playback speed controls, colour-coded tracks, automatics key reduction, as well as the standard copy/paste and undo/redo.

Unreal 'Kismet': 

• Unreal's visual scripting system gives artists and level designers virtually limitless control over how a level will play without touching a single line of code. (Sounds good for people like me who aren't good with coding).
• Allows connecting simple events and actions, created by programmers, to quickly assemble everything into actual gameplay prototypes.
• Lets programmers easily extend and create their own game-specific actions and events.

I could go on in detail about every aspect of the game engine but that seems a bit "over-kill" so I will list what remaining features the Unreal game engine has:

• Lightmass - an advanced global illumination solver.
• Terrain - Unreal 3 engine makes creating terrains and levels easy.
• Networking - Offers full LAN and direct IP connectivity for online play.
• Physics - Physics in Unreal 3 engine are powered by NVIDIA's PhysX.
• Real time shaders - A powerful visual interface comparable to the non-real time functionality of XSI and Maya.
• Rendering - Unreal brings Gemini, the mutli-threaded rendering system.
• Unreal Script - A simple high level programming language that gives complete scripting control.
• Unreal Swarm - Multi-core support with a distributed computing system.
• User Interface - Create menus, UI elements, and 2D graphics for modern 3D games.

Here are even more features!:

Destructible Environments - "Build a gorgeous world and then let your players crush it to pieces. Unreal Engine 3's fracturing tool and runtime enable you to take virtually any existing mesh, slice it up into as many fragments as desired, and destroy structures." - http://www.unrealengine.com/en/features/more_features/ 09/12/2013. The engine supports the destruction of everything from metal to cloth, brining more realism and interaction to your environments.

SpeedTree Foliage Editor - Model and render beautiful, realistic, animated trees and plants in real-time. "The game and simulation industry's premier tool for creating foliage. Unreal Engine 3 features a full integration with SpeedTree, which includes powerful rendering features and numerous terrain and grass engines." - http://www.unrealengine.com/en/features/more_features/ 09/12/2013.

FaceFX Facial Animation - "Create realistic facial animation from audio files with the FaceFX tolls included with Unreal Engine 3. Batch process thousands of sound files, add expressions to a single animation without ruining lip-synchronisation, and tweak animations to perfection." - http://www.unrealengine.com/en/features/more_features/ 09/12/2013.

This all sounds very well and good for professionals but for me personally I think it might be a bit complex with there being so many features (too complex to make the most of the Unreal Engine). Especially as on their site, they use the words "simple" and "easy" a lot, as if they're trying to stress this fact to cover the complexity of it? Maybe what they say is true, either way, luckily I'll be using Unity.

This video shows of some of these features mentioned in the Unreal Engine across multiple different platforms: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVJ31jkr5zc

Look! I'm learning! I got the ball rolling, in Unity! [exclamation mark]:

I'm learning! and here's the proof!:

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