7. Later Game Engines

• 1995 - BUILD Engine by Ken Silverman - used in games like Duke Nukem 3D, Blood and Shadow Warrior. Considerably more advanced than Doom, because it added the capability of the player jumping up and down, etc., environment interaction was enhanced, and objects could cast shadows.
• 1996 - Quake Engine by John Carmack - never before had anyone seen such beautifully rendered 3D environments. The first real 3D game.
• 1997 - Quake II Engine - this engine was sold to other companies for the development of their own games, and games such as Kingpin, Half-Life have evolved from it. An advanced 3D engine that produced some of the best graphics ever. The Engine generated characters in the game using 3D polygonal models rather than sprites, which allowed them to have an extremely realistic look.
• 1999 - Quake III's engine has already been used to develop Team Arena and American McGee's Alice. It uses OpenGL extensively.
• The future - Doom 3? id Software is currently working on a new Doom game that will come out sometime in 2002. As seen from an early demonstration of the graphics capabilities of this engine, it is sure to revolutionise the face of 3D gaming forever.

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