Film & Moving Image · Games & Interactive Media
A topic within Games & Interactive Media, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Film & Moving Image.
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Fabien Sanglard
Reconstructs id Software's DOOM engine release by release, arguing its speed came from exploiting the specific limits of 1993 PC hardware — binary space partitioning, fixed-point math — rather than from any general theory of engine design.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Eike Falk Anderson, Sylvester Engel, Leigh McLoughlin & Peter Comninos
Argues that a game engine's architecture is a design decision with its own open research questions, not merely optimised plumbing beneath the game, and that game studies should treat engine design as a subject in its own right.
link checked 17 Sept 2026