Top 10 Game Engines for Game Development

Posted on June 24th, 2009 by Carlos Camacho

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Develop Mag, a UK-based website for game developers has a series of articles that rank the best game engines for game development. The article kicks off with a look at the console market amid the current economic situation with Start your engines.

Each of the 10 engines featured in this month’s round-up (starting over the page) has, in its latest release, improved its toolset to enable rapid iteration (if it wasn’t using that as its USP anyway). Gone are the days of twiddling your thumbs waiting for the latest build to tick along and then almost inevitably fail; now designers, artists and programmers can instantly change object placement, parameters and even whole scripts without requiring a recompilation.

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The top 10 thus far are:

  1. TBA
  2. TBA
  3. TBA
  4. Unity 3D – PC, Mac, iPhone, Wii
  5. Blitz Games Studios – PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PSP, PC
  6. Infernal Engine – Xbox 360, PS3, PC, Wii, PS2, PSP
  7. Vision Engine 7.5 – PC (DX9 & 10), Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii
  8. Bigworld Technology Suite – PC, Xbox 360, PS3, iPhone, PSP, DS, mobile devices
  9. Vicious Engine – PC, Xbox 360, PS3 (VE2); PSP, PS2, Wii (VE)
  10. Torque 3D – PC, Mac, Xbox 360, Wii, iPhone, PS3, PSP

With Unity 3D only making number four in their list, it will be interesting to see the top three engines.

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Torque Game Engine Advanced Now for Mac!

Posted on November 14th, 2008 by Alex Sikora

Macnn reported today that GarageGames has released their Torque Game Engine Advanced 1.8 (TGEA) Beta for Mac OS X. Torque is a popular 3D game tool, which allows for complex Mission building, GUI creation, terrain editing and other tools to make. The TGE: Advanced 1.8 Beta is free for existing customers, $300 for an individual, $1500 for a company, and education prices can be obtained from the company.

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GarageGames introduces Torque for iPhone

Posted on July 24th, 2008 by Alex Diener

Independent game developer GarageGames has announced Torque-engine support for the iPhone. Torque’s development tools allow game designers to provide 2D and 3D environments in iPhone applications. Included in the new tool are a WYSIWYG realtime editor, a scripting language and integration with 3D modeling packages. Torque for Iphone includes multi-touch input support, touchscreen gesture recognition, iPhone optimized compressed textures and advanced character and shape animations. Prices for the development tools are on a per-title basis, and require contacting the company for pricing information.

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