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Start organization, but I'm going to pick up a few books and see how their authors approach this before settling.

Lede should provide a good (and correct) definition or range; impact, use, notability; disciplines; points of difference between engines. Summarize.

What makes a game engine

I'm imagining opening up with the definition, classification, etc. to provide context for what follows. But not sure about this yet.

Engine use

Who is using game engines? Why do they use game engines?

History

Obviously.

Architecture

Common components

Rendering systems

Is this becoming too nested?

Tools

Build systems

IDEs, editors

etc.

Middleware

Types of engines

?????

Alternatives

Comparisons with non-engines (libraries, frameworks, rendering engines) that are used sometimes as backbones.

Engine licensing

Recent trends in licensing of major game engines?