Up until this year, game engines were not something most gamers had to give much thought to beyond the one or two seconds their logos might appear while a game was loading. That’s why this news about ...

It’s been almost 25 years since Dutch professor Mark Overmars created GameMaker, a game engine primarily devoted to 2D graphics and sprites. While major engines like Unity and Unreal Engine also offer ...

While Genie’s output looks similar at a glance to what might come from a basic 2D game engine, the model doesn’t actually draw sprites and code a playable platformer in the same way a human game ...