According to PwC’s Global Entertainment and Media Outlook 2024-28, the global gaming industry revenues are expected to top $300 billion by 2028, more than double its level in 2019. As a fast-growing industry, video game development is also one of the most attractive areas for individuals seeking satisfying programming careers.

At the foundational level of any video game is the game engine, which incorporates the physics, the tools, the hooks, the lattice, and the environment for everything else that will take place in a video game. Every image, every story element, every character, every action is built from and dependent on the game engine. This fact makes the role of a game engine programmer vital to the overall success of a project.

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Modern digital video games are extremely sophisticated applications requiring efficient memory management, loading techniques, collision detection, data transformation, database management, streaming protocols, physics, audio support, and platform specific system interaction. These low-level technical aspects of game development are the responsibility of the game engine programmer.

Therefore, the candidate must be proficient in the basic foundational interactions of the CPU and GPU with the game engine and the hardware platform chosen for the game project. While similar in nature, the basic technical requirements are slightly different for personal computers versus consoles versus mobile devices. Your choice of candidate should reflect the chosen platform(s) of the project.

In general, game engine programming requires an engineering approach to application development. For all intents and purposes, the game engine programmer’s audience is other application developers, artists, producers, audio technicians, and writers. Game engine programmers develop the tools, features, and foundational structures these creators and producers use to build their digital gaming world — the gaming world players will interact with and hopefully immerse themselves in.

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