[casual_games] Torque? Popcap? Or DIY?

[Paul Brobst]

Not really sure why that is OT.  The development platform can be an 
important choice, and it matters if the framework you choose is limited 
to one or another.

As far as Torque:  I recently played around with Torque X, but I have 
never used TGB.  Torque X was all C#, so I didn't have to contend with 
TorqueScript at all.  The composable object model they use was quite 
nice.  My only complaint would be that the source code for the Torque X 
editor is not available so adding new base object types to it was 
impossible.

-Paul

Joe Schultz wrote:

> 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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