[casual_games] Torque? Popcap? Or DIY?

[Joe Schultz]

That's a bit OT really... though there _are_ reasons for it.

It has been discussed over at the UT:

forums http://forum.unity3d.com/index.php


On Oct 27, 2007, at 9:44 AM, Paul Brobst wrote:


> Unity has always struck me as odd.  The website looks very slick, it  

> has the emphasis that it's games can be played on Mac or Windows,  

> and supports C# scripting, yet the editor is Mac only.  It seems  

> like the only thing that would do is limit the developer audience.

>

> -Paul

>

> Joe Schultz wrote:

>> More accolades for Unity... best of class in my experience.

>>

>> http://unity3d.com

>>

>> joe

>>

>> Joe Schultz

>> /Game Director/

>> *ByDesign Games* <http://www.bydesigngames.com/>

>> joe.schultz at bydesigngames.com <mailto:joe.schultz at bydesigngames.com>

>> http://www.bydesigngames.com

>>

>>

>> On Oct 27, 2007, at 6:13 AM, Chris Dillman wrote:

>>

>>>

>>> I personally gave up on using TGB after a year of working with the  

>>> betas.

>>>

>>> I had the code and sent in my share of patches.

>>>

>>> Instead of working with buggy betas or a clunky, slow non standard  

>>> scripting language

>>> I was able to slap together a 2D tile engine for Mac/Win in a  

>>> weekend using

>>> SDL + GL + LUA. Example... http://www.bang2d.com

>>>

>>> In the long run that will save a tone of time vs even trying to  

>>> learn enough TGB to make it

>>> into a professional level game engine that can actually scale.

>>>

>>> Want a nice professional engine / tool for games for Win/Mac

>>>

>>> Take a look at http://unity3d.com/

>>>

>>> It deploys to web also.

>>>

>>> Wonderful stuff.

>>>

>>>

>>> -- 

>>> Plaid World Studios http://www.plaidworld.com

>>> BANG 2D game engine's blog http://www.bang2d.com

>>> BANG 3D game engine's blog http://www.bang3d.com

>>>

>>> Email: chrisd at plaidworld.com <mailto:chrisd at plaidworld.com>

>>> iChat / AIM: crackbunny at mac.com <mailto:crackbunny at mac.com>

>>>

>>>

>>>

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