Making a game engine...

You, Stop your Useless Flame ; It is totally Pointless with worthless people.

Well where to begin. I'm into almost my 2nd year of game software development (Bachelor's Degree). (C/C++) courses...

I can pretty much say i can build games ( well program games at small levels)
I have no artist ability to go above programming but i try.

Only issue i see with you is instead of asking questions you should of searched out this answer thru the internet.

I've been using this for a while and can build my own engine (not pro of course)..

I modded this one for a FPS game that i was messing around with..

Irrlicht Engine - A free open source 3d engine

ofc google.com can give you more insite in your answers.

[EDIT]
If your looking for topics to read on i suggest this.

fundamentals of game engine development
Game Debugging
Game Development

He wants to write his own engine, which ain't gonna happen anytime soon ;P

THANK YOU SO FUCKING MUCH!!!! ILY (no homo)

koreans stfu

artemis was koreans?

wth? i thought u had more posts than that

He got Banned, Now cut off the OffTopic.

Just find your self an opensource game engine and mess around with it ( UDK (free version of unreal 3))

if you want to start from scrap why asking this question?
If you don't have the brains to even deside what should be in a game engine: GoDie();
Because you would know that:

• You would need pshyic functions (how objects interact with each other)
• You would need d3d render fucntions (print textures to screen)
• You would need a base set of quads to print your textures on
• You would need some kind of function which would allow you to play animations on your textures (a monster walking without moving his legs would be stupid...)
• If your games are going to use stairs you will need to create a fucntion that recognize them as such and lifts your character with the right angle based on how steep the stair is(would be stupid if your character ends up hoovering a few feet above the floor wouldn't it?)

I probably missed tons and tons of other stuff your game engine should have, but these are the things that appeared in my mind the instant I read your question (which explains my confusion about you not being able to start coding your engine...)

-SCHiM