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No, because otherwise you wouldn't say "the foundation has been built". You'd say the "the house has been built". Does a house need a foundation? Yes. Is the foundation the same as the house? No.
But you do say, “I am building a house.”
They're building a game engine, but it is not an actual engine yet. Just one core component.
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But you do say, “I am building a house.”
Sure, but you don't build a foundation and say "I have built a house." They're building a game engine, but it is not an actual engine yet. Just one core component.
If what you were working on--for the entire time you were working on it--was a completely different thing from a house or from a game engine, how could you clame to have built a house or a game engine? Putatively, what you were working on what an entirely different thing from the result.