The Purposes and Functions of components of Game Engines

Task 1

You must produce a report to show case your process of thought on how you came up with the engine for your product; this includes looking at the purpose of game engines, functionality of game engines supported with industry terminology, analysis and research.When evidence is produced it must be uploaded to your blog in the task 1 section. The title of this blog post is: The Purposes and Functions of components of Game Engines. 

  

Demo

This video shows the demo of 'FIFA 15'.

Beta

This video is showing the game 'Witcher' In Beta version.

Alpha

This video shows the game 'Tug' in it's Alpha Build.

Pre-alpha

This video shows the game 'Next car game' in its Pre-alpha stages.

Gold (Gold master)

This video is showing the game 'Breakoid' In its final stage as golden master.

Debug

This video is showing an example of debugging but on a mobile game platform.

Automation

This video is a tutorial on how to instill  automation into your programs or games.

White-Box testing

This video shows a full detailed explanation of what white box testing is.

Bug

This video is showing ten examples of different glitches/bugs in games.

Vertex Shader

This video is showing you how to work a shader such as vertex and is very useful.

Pixel-Shader

This video is showing a tutorial on how to work a pixel shader C++.

Post-Processing

This video is showing a tutorial on post processing.

Rendering

This video is showing rendering at work.

Normal Mapping

This video is showing you a tutorial on how to use normal mapping in unity.

Entity

This video is showing an example of an entity model.

UV mapping

This video is showing a simple tutorial on UV mapping.

Procedural textures

This video is showing an tutorial of procedural textures

Phisics

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This video is showing an example of a physics engine used in popular game GTA IV.

Collision

This vidoe is showing an example of collision used in the Unreal Gaming engine

Lighting

This video is showing you how to use lighting in game using the blender game engine.

Anti-aliasing

This video is explaining what AA (Anti-Aliasing) is.

LOD (Level of detail)

This video is showing how to use LOD (Level of detail).

Animation

This video is showing an example of very basic 2D animation.

Sprites

This video is showing 2D animation with sprites

Scene

This video is showing the simple use of scene data.

Library

This video is showing you the set up of a Library.

UI

.This video is showing you the Creation of UI  in darksiders two the ipad version.

Frames

This video is showing the creation of frames.

Concept

This video is showing the creation of characters with concept art.

Event

This video is showing an example of an event sheet.

Path-finding

This video is showing AI path finding using the Unity game engine.