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GarageGames Torque Engine Linux Beta Client Out
Darren Alcorn writes "It appears that the beta client for the GarageGames Torque engine has been released for Linux. The engine retails at $100 for a team and was seen for Tribes 2, just now with added performance. Games such as Legends will be released on the engine, so it is nice to have the Linux compatibility."
The story is incorrect.
The engine has been out for Linux for quite a long time. I'm a mapper for one game project that uses the torque engine, and I know I haven't been hallucinating the past weeks when I was working on my maps on my Linux machine.
What has been released recently (last week or so) was the beta client of Realm Wars, a community-developed game using the torque engine. That's a huge difference, especially since that doesn't mean squat about Legends or any other of the torque-based games currently in development.
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... or is that headline a bitch to parse?
how about:
"GarageGames releases Torque Engine Beta client for Linux" ?
-c
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It is $100 per person that will be seeing the source code. The Torque engine also has a very powerful scripting language, so not everyone on a team would need the source code access.
Torque also runs on Windows, Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. Garage games has a great community, and the improvements are coming fast and furious.
GG also just released a demo of their community produced game, Realm Wars. You can check it out here
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Well... all the programming anyway, we're doing modeling and mapping in vmware/windows.
I haven't tried Realm Wars yet, because it requires glibc2.2(still running 2.1), is it any good?
I'm not holding out too much hope that people using the Torque engine will build Linux versions of their games, but most seem pretty friendly and I'm sure some can be pursuaded.
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Sorry, I can't seem to cut through this jargon. I could write, "TL gave Windows C5C. Sponge is using GreenBZ. PXP a CRA product." but that doesn't make it useful.
I stand by my original claim, that none of this is necessary except for Linux.
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Not quite.
Tribes 2 was developed by Sierra. After the game was released, and several patches were released, most of the T2 team was released.
A new patch has been announced - no idea when it will be released.
In addition, Sierra is releasing T2: Fast Attack.
With Loki out of business, I don't see these patches or T2:FA being released to Linux. I'm not thrilled about that - T2 runs a touch faster on Linux, but the sound is better on W2K - take your pick. Framerate, or the audio cues.
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Why hasn't this guy been moderated up as "Funny"?
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It is smoother than any other "native" X toolkit I'v see so far. I'm guessing it is coded on top of OpenGL. I think there a much bigger market for that kind of application :)
-adnans
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Somebody else was having this problem. Read the thread found here. Also please post any other bugs you have in the forum, as described here.
The more Linux engines, the better. Another one to check out is the Nebula Device which is free in both senses of the word (distributed under the Tcl license).
It's probably to late for you to see this, but I can explain why I don't like your license. I am currently developing a few commercial games that do NOT use the torque engine, which I am going to self-publish. In order to use the torque engine, I would not be allowed to do that with any torque engine game.
Forcing developers to sell on your site might be good for complete indie guys, but for guys with slightly more money who just want a commercial engine that works for Linux, it's useless. I would be glad to pay a couple thousand for that engine if I could release my product any way I wanted. In fact I would be ecstatic about the oppurtunity, but for now I'll have to roll my own.
You're telling me to learn how to read? Take your own advice jack, I said that the license would be good for indie companies that don't have the money, but not so good for the ones that do. I never said he should trash the license, that it was bad, that it was evil, that garage games was providing a bad service, that garage games wasn't great for up and comers, that garage games was the spawn of satan. Merely that there should be an alternative license for people a little higher up in the business. If your logic is indicative of the intelligence of the garage games community than the torque engine isn't worth the magnetic media it's stored on. Idiot.