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Dark Engine

The Dark Engine is a game engine for Microsoft Windows developed by Looking Glass Studios. It was used in Thief: The Dark Project (1998), System Shock 2 (1999), and Thief II (2000).

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Developers
Looking Glass Studios · Irrational Games
License
Proprietary
Platform
Windows
Written in
C++

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Source code

DromEd

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Dark Engine

Nodes30
Edges29
Triples48
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.066667
Components1

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Dark Engine

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related to Features · 19
Dark Engine → AI, As, DLLs, DromEd, Due, In, Object Script Module, OSM, PCX, Quake, Rube Goldberg, Sean Barrett, Textures, TGA, The, The Dark Engine's, There, Thief II, Unreal-like
related to Source code · 13
Dark Engine → April, By December, Dreamcast, Dreamcast Talk, Eidos Interactive, Fans, In, Internet, Looking Glass Studios, System Shock, The, Thief, Thief II
related to DromEd · 10
Dark Engine → DromEd, However, It, ShockEd, System Shock, The Dark Project, There, Thief, Thief Gold, Thief II
Developers · 2
Dark Engine → Irrational Games, Looking Glass Studios
License · 1
Dark Engine → Proprietary
Platform · 1
Dark Engine → Windows
Written in · 1
Dark Engine → C++
is a · 1
Dark Engine → game engine for Microsoft Windows developed by Looking Glass Studios

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dark engine system thief shock dromed ii code game glass studios level project windows source looking games levels used textures

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Dark EngineDevelopersLooking Glass Studios1.00infobox
Dark EngineDevelopersIrrational Games1.00infobox
Dark EngineLicenseProprietary1.00infobox
Dark EnginePlatformWindows1.00infobox
Dark EngineWritten inC++1.00infobox
Dark Engineis agame engine for Microsoft Windows developed by Looking Glass Studios0.90text
Dark Enginerelated to DromEdDromEd0.60section
Dark Enginerelated to DromEdIt0.60section
Dark Enginerelated to DromEdThief0.60section
Dark Enginerelated to DromEdThe Dark Project0.60section
Dark Enginerelated to DromEdThere0.60section
Dark Enginerelated to DromEdThief Gold0.60section

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