what game engine?

im chinchillin

hello every one, I have a question , me and one of my friends want to start to learn how game engines work and we figured whats the best way then to get one , my friend wants to get the torque engine thats cost 180 dollars and i was suggesting the udk one thats free ! anyone know of any or what one of those 2 is better thanks.

we are not planning on selling games just learning how they work

Justin Meisse

I don't know if Torque has improved lately but it's gained a pretty bad reputation as being a buggy hard to use engine, hated by artist and programmers alike. From my personal experience, I'd recommend UDK or Unity.

If you have good programmers on your team they'll be able to look at more engines and weigh the pros and cons.

im chinchillin

thanks for the feed back. well i don't know of any programmers as of now thats is the only thing we are lacking, but i suppose we will find some soon but they will be entry level ones as in college level but thanks justin

SpeCter

If you are looking at complete solutions i would say UDK,Unity or CryEngine.
If you want to make something yourself i suggest looking at Ogre3D.It takes away all the rendering stuff for you and you just have to do the rest to your liking.

im chinchillin

I'm sorry but what do you mean by saying ''complete solutions''

im kinda new to all this stuff so if u don't mind i might ask some really ''noob ish questions ''

SpeCter

With complete solution i mean that it takes all the stuff like rendering,sound,input,networking etc. away for you and you just have to write game related code.

gsokol

Unity is a little more user friendly than other engines.

Unity and UDK both have a decent amount of tutorials/documentation out there to help you out.

walreu

I would go either with Unity or UDK.
You can get both without paying a buck so why not try both of them and see what you like best.
Well the Unity Pro is only trial for free yeah, but..