Game engines: Difference between revisions

* This page is not limited to the ScummVM project, while they have allowed some non-adventure games to be added like RPGs & strategy games, other projects are needed for engines they most likely won't accept.

* Engines with historical significance are highlighted in yellow.

==Multi-Genre ==

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|An in-house engine developed by ImaginEngine. It was first used to make "Monster Maker Ultra Edition" and games for Hasbro like Operation & Tonka Construction 2, it would later get used to make educational titles like Arthur's Camping Adventure, Blue's Room & three Clifford The Big Red games.

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|1994

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|1993c

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|1995

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|2000

|An engine developed by IO Interactive

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|1988

|16+

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|Access

| {{Blue}} [https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=AGS Decent]

|1997

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|13+

|A point-and-click Game Engine and Toolkit developed by Giovanni Albani and the "Adventure Maker Team" It hasn't been updated since 2013 and seems to be a mostly dead project by now.

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|Adventure Programming Engine

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|BAGEL

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|- id="C"

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|FMV

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|- id="D"

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|DGDS

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|2D

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|[https://www.mobygames.com/group/20619/game-engine-gadget-player/ Gadget Player]

|1997

|3

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| {{Green}} [https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Glk Good]

|Various

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|Illusions

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|Text

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|The engine used by Beam Software for their "Tolkien Software Adventure" series

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|Legend

|ScummVM git fork

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|M4

|Engine developed by Ivanoff Interactive A/S.  

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|Opalium  

|Developed by Nebulaquest, Opalium is an Adventure Game engine that was used to make Paradise, Sinking Island and Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals

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|Panda3D

|72

|An engine developed by PlayFirst that was used to make many casual games and adventure games like Emerald City Confidential and the Dream Chronicles series.

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|Quest Engine

|2003c

|14

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|Ring

|ScummVM git fork

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|SAGA

|16+

|An engine developed by Artifex Mundi that was used to make adventure games.

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|Tetraedge

|2001

|13

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|Video Reality

|The engine SouthPeak Interactive used for Temüjin and Dark Side of the Moon.

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|3D / 2.5D

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|Wintermute

! style="width:1%" data-sort-type="number"| <abbr title="Number Of Games">NOG</abbr>  

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|DAS

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|1998

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|1995

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|1995

|An engine developed by Cat Daddy Games that was used to make most of there games. It was used to make games such as Medieval Conquest, School Tycoon and Mall Tycoon 3

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|1997

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|1991c

|A Visual Novel engine designed for the PC-98 series of computers.

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|1992c

|A Visual Novel engine developed for the PC-98.

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|1993

|This is not that [https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=AGS AGS], it a much older engine developed by C's Ware for the PC-98 that was use to make 90s classics like Eve ~Burst Error~, Desire and Love Potion. these games are some of the most impotent games in video game history, with of them being some of, if not, the first visual novels to get an English translation.

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|1989

|The Windows 9x port of the AI5 engine

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|1993c

|Although it's unknown how many games were made with AVG32, the engine was vary popular with 90s visual novel developers. This engine was used to make classics like Air, Kanon and Gakuen Heaven.

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|BlueGale

|A custom engine developed by and named after BlueGale, a developer of adult visual novels.

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|CatSystem

|This hard to research engine was mainly used by dōjin developers.

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|Ethornell / <abbr title="Buriko General Interpreter">BGI</abbr>  

|90+

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|Hot Soup Processor

|HSP is a scripting language popular within Japanese indie game circles, it was used to make many visual novels, dōjin games and school projects.

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|Interheart FPK

|A custom engine developed by Interheart that was used to make a few of their games.

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|KaGuYa

|Named after the company that develop it, this engine is used by almost every game by Atelier Kaguya.

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|1998

|One of the most widely use used engines, It has been used make classic visual novels like Fate/stay night, Witch on the Holy Night, 1999ChristmasEve and many other gems.

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|Main System

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|2003

|A custom engine developed by Nitroplus, it was used for many visual novel classics such as CHAOS;HEAD, Steins;Gate, and DRAMAtical Murder.

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|1999

|Widely used by both commercial and dōjin developers. NScripter gave us classics like Ever17, Kurai Nichiyoubi, Memories Off 2nd and the When They Cry series (Ciconia, Higurashi, Umineko)

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|QLIE

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|RealLive

|The successor to AVG32, it was used to make of the genres most well-known classics such as Little Busters, Clannad, & Planetarian

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|SaiSys

|An engine developed by Foster, it was exclusivity used by WillPlus and their subsidiaries

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|1988

|Dating all the way back to 1988. Every game AliceSoft has made runs on a version of this engine. They currently use System 4.x to develop their games.

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|1993

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|TMR-Hiro ADV System

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|WADVIZ

! style="width: 5%"|ScummVM support

!class="unsortable"|Description

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|[https://www.mobygames.com/group/8911/game-engine-clausewitz Clausewitz]

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|Construct  

|2007

|{{OFS}}

|An engine developed by Terminal Reality.

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|2003

|10

==Also See==

* [[Game engine recreations and source ports]]

* [[Preservation projects]]

[[Category:Game engine recreations| ]]

[[Category:Preservation| ]]