With the right software, you can also create special effects that normally would not be part of the video game engine.

Machinima, the use of computer animation from video game engines to create films, began in 1996.

The game was developed using the Resident Evil video game engine.

Source is a 3D video game engine developed by Valve Corporation.

In 2006, a fan-made role-playing video game engine called Nazghul was released.

Between 1998 and 2011, BioWare developed a number of in-house video game engines to serve as technical basis for their games.

Smoothstep is a scalar interpolation function commonly used in computer graphics and video game engines.

Synapse Gaming is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania based video game engine developer.

Machinima is filmmaking within real-time, 3D virtual environments, often appropriated from existing video game engines.

Square Enix is also creating a new video game engine called the Luminous Engine.

Messiah (2000), a game featuring the hook of "possession" and a new real-time tessellation video game engine.

She worked on the game Zombie, and created the video game engine used in Spec Ops.

The company created a new video game engine / game creation system to create a new generation of download games called Infinite Worlds.

Most modern video game engines implement lighting using per-pixel techniques instead of vertex lighting to achieve increased detail and realism.

Fork Particle's real time technology component or particle engine is meant to be integrated and used with a video game engine or computer graphics engine.

Visual Pinball is a freeware video game engine for pinball tables and similar games e.g. pachinko machines.

The HydroEngine is a video game engine created by Dark Energy Digital for Hydrophobia.

As a way to utilize the Nobunaga's Ambition video game engine while simulating modern warfare, each general's statistics are completely randomized by a roulette system.

Kinetica engine is a video game engine developed by SCE Santa Monica Studio.

Frostbite (video game engine), a game engine developed by EA DICE.

Also in this year Krome Studios merged with Emergent Game Technologies, making them a leader in 3D video game engines.

Patrick Aalto, prior to founding Safari, released a freeware game titled Line Wars in 1989 inspired by the original Elite video game engine.

The Earthrise Engine is a video game engine created by Masthead Studios for use in MMO video games.

A first-person shooter engine is a video game engine specialized for simulating 3D environments for use in a first-person shooter video game.

Wolfenstein uses an improved version of id Software's id Tech 4 video game engine, the technology behind Doom 3 and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.