It does actually and I do appreciate it..

I am still new to the game development side of the house so bear with my questions.

I have an idea that I posted in the Projects forum about making a game.. the one thing that eludes me is the game engine itself..

As I understand it.. Powerdraw and the various other engines you mentioned aren't game engines but rather simply graphic engines ..(er.. okay not "simply".. that's not fair, but you get my point)..

How does one go about programming a game engine to make something as simple as say, chess or checkers?

Once you have a game engine, you should be able to swap out to any graphics engine, be it 2D top down, Isometric, or true 3D.. Correct?

Thanks for your answers.. I hope you don't mind my picking your brain..