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by maccard 3265 days ago
> a high proportion of AAA game development is done using off-the-shelf game engines.

I don't think this is particularly true. A high proportion of game development is, but many AAA studios are using either home-rolled engines, or started with an existing engine (Unreal or iDTech) and what they're currently running looks absolutely nothing like the original engine.
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sk0g 3265 days ago
I agree with both of you, sorta?

The problem is, most of the major game dev companies have their own engines. Unreal Engine is massive in AAA games, but most EA titles use Frostbite, Valve: Source, Ubisoft: Anvil, Crytek: CryEngine, Bethesda: Gamebryo, and the CoD devs use IW, which is a fork of id tech engine.

However, this doesn't mean that they aren't using off-the-shelf engines. As long as you count in-house "shelves".

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