GarageGames to Release Torque3D as Open Source

[brickybob]

Eleven years ago, The GarageGames founders did an incredibly innovative thing when they sold a full source game engine for $100. We are excited to continue in their footsteps by announcing that we will be releasing Torque 3D as the best open source game technology in the world. Once again, GarageGames will be changing game development.

http://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/21876

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Discuss.

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[Eeposs]

:o

[VincentTheGuy]

Sweet geegus.

[Unwritten Calender]

woo

[Aide33]

Aww yisss

[mp7964]

I need this. I'm learning C++ c:

[Kingdaro]

good job, garagegames.

[Darkness ZXW]

better go sell my copy

[The Corporation]

Yeeeaaah.
Totally gonna use this engine for my first game.

[Tingalz]

When can we get it?

[Eeposs]

When can we get it?

to be released

[Elecro]

So will Badspot update the engine to to this when released?

[Harm94]

Depends, if its open source and they making it fall under gnu then he won't be able to sell the game.

[Darkness ZXW]

So will Badspot update the engine to to this when released?

no forget no what are you on

it's been out for 5 years and badspot and komp who were both torque employees both think it's a bad idea.

[MegaScientifical]

So will Badspot update the engine to to this when released?

Reality check:  I worked for garage games for a year.  Kompressor was the Torque technologies director for like 5 years.  We both think "upgrading" to Torque3D is a bad idea.

Not to mention how heavily modified off the main engine the game is at this point - I doubt it would be worth the effort to move over everything, even if being open source allows some people to improve what is there.