What is an Engine?A game engine is a system designed for the creation and development of video games. For example, Blockland uses the Torque Game Engine by GarageGames. Whereas another game might use another engine that is similar, however, makes the game look and perform 20x better.
Why switch?Torque Game Engine is cool and all, however, Blockland started out as a small project. Blockland was never meant to grow to 40,000+ players, and look where we're at now? Our functionality is limited, and we have to sacrifice features in order to get both performance and looks to somewhat work together. Blockland needs a new era that will attract many users. Our current system is just not good enough.
What about the mods?Mods would of course stay. In fact, they would get better. You see, Torque strangely uses something called "Torque Script". Unfortunately, Torque Script is very limited and buggy. If we switched to a better engine, developers could very swiftly create mods by using a real coding language, instead of a pre-set one. Imagine the possibilities of that? On the down side, our current mods would need to be ported over.
EnginesVideosTorque Game Engine CryEngine 3Isn't this expensive?Not at all. CryEngine3 is an indie engine, so it is meant for people like Badspot who aren't running multi-million corporations. If enough people are willing to contribute $20 via a donation, we can make this happen. So, with all of these benefits, what are we waiting for?
Do you think we should switch to another engine? (even if not CryEngine3 - a modern engine)
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