Saturday, December 14, 2019

Do Playfish and Zynga use COTS game engines?



I'm very interested to learn how to make 2D and 3D games, but I'm very new to this field so I am wondering if companies like Playfish, Zynga and other producer of games on Facebook are using publicly available game engines to make their games or if they're building their own game engine or what?


What game engines or technologies that are used in such games?



Are there any resources available that I can use to get started?



Answer



Briefly, yes. Zynga's Café World and PlayFish's Restaurant City uses Away3D.


I think developers might use more of 3d engines because 3d is not everyone's cup of tea - they can just focus on implementing game logic and mechanics instead of meddling with math. However they would shy away from game engines like Flixel, for reasons that Nick Wiggill has mentioned. (eg. risk of middleware)


Source: http://away3d.com/comments/away3d-latest-from-the-internet


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