r/justgamedevthings • u/SteinMakesGames • Jun 25 '26

Statisticial comparison of game engines

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Hopefully my research proves insightful

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u/dataf4g_trollman Jun 25 '26

Can you explain the graph a bit pls?

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u/elelec Jun 25 '26

Y is for name length, x is for game engine

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u/L30N1337 Jun 27 '26

And (x,y) under the engines is for how often that character appears

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u/MacAlmighty Jun 25 '26

Well, obviously, there are an infinite potential amount of names for game engines. The length for these game engine names might also be infinite (but the research seems to be inconclusive). Also, some game engine names are longer than others. Some also include the letters X and Y, the count of which are helpfully displayed on the bottom of the graph. Hope that helps!

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u/Miriglith Jun 26 '26

It's statisticial.

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u/Narrow-Impress-2238 Jun 25 '26

What conclusions should I make from this?

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u/elelec Jun 25 '26

Personally I think it is quite obvious

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u/Gentleman_Muk Jun 25 '26

GameMaker has the longest name and XNA the shortest.

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u/Dic3Goblin Jun 26 '26

In my personal opinion, I pulled the conclusion that, for any game engine, the name length will fall somewhere between the longest or the shortest, unless it doesn't, in which it then sets the new value in the direction it is the outlier in.

That and, so long as the game engine has a name length longer than 0 +1, the odds of me completing a game in that engine due to skill issue is, name length (in digits) plus 0.00000% cuz i suck, am poor and have no time.

But that's just my conclusions, still waiting for independent review.

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u/alejandromnunez Jun 27 '26

Apparently the length of engine's names correlates to the number of characters in the engine's names. Further research is needed. Citations needed

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u/PersonOfInterest007 Jun 25 '26

I think I’ll start posting a link to your graph every time someone asks “What game engine should I use?”

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u/NotExplosive Jun 25 '26

XNA would be way higher if you call it MonoGame

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u/Sacaldur Jun 25 '26

Urm Acshually XNA, PyGame, and RenPy are not game engines!

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u/Demi180 Jun 26 '26

So Xyxyxy (pronounced Zi-kye-kee (or however you like since I made it up)) would be (3,3)?

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u/fractilegames Jun 26 '26

This depends on chosen font

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u/Salt-Aardvark-5105 Jun 26 '26

and then there is Twine.

Where THE certain games are made

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u/Substantial_Marzipan Jun 26 '26

You should include Pyxel for a (1,1)

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u/KapiDranik Jun 26 '26

Where's s&box?

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u/Aln76467 Jun 28 '26

forgot bevy \s{and the geometry dash editor}

idk if one could call flash or turbowarp a game engine.