I've put a fair amount of research into this in the past. Unfortunately, there is little to no method of creating games for someone who doesn't want to do any programming. Programming is going to be required at some point. With that in mind... Z-Game Editor - This is a very small, basic game development software package…
Here's a great list of game engines, just google any of these for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engines If you want an easy 3D editor, Unity is about as easy as it gets. You could also look into UDK or even start taking a look at some of the basic XNA tutorials - while both of those options are going…
I'd like to start working on a home project and potentially start putting together a very simple game of some kind. Just wondering if anybody can point me to some simple to use very cheap to license game engines. I'm talking about iphone/nintendo ds quality gaming here, and ideally I can implement some of the game setup…
if u want an easy 2d and 3d engine check dxstudio.com they have a good community that helps whit almost anything. and licenses start at +\- 60 but you can use the free version if like ^^
Surely Unity is your best bet, although I'm pretty sure you'll need to be a fairly competent programmer. I don't know of any engines where you can put something together with no programming knowledge.
I think UDK would be your best bet if you stay non-commercial. If you are able to script stuff in LUA you could also try Leadwerks Engine. I use it in a commercial environment and it's like Firefox without to much abuild around it. Plus the graphics are state of the art. :) It costs 200USD.
ya UDK is 0$. you make your game, 99$ to license it and are entitled to the first 5,000$ profits. beyond 5,000$, you are required to give 25% of profits to epic. it is an incredible deal
unity is yet broken and incomplete there are to many flaws to call it even a editor. For example there is not yet a selection box (is comming though in the next version). Mac and winows version are to different (you can't write editor script panels under the mac version) and the most irritating thing is that you can't…