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Game Engine Torque 3D Goes Open Source

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http://news.softpedia.com – Torque 3D, a full source game engine that was initially developed by The GarageGames studio, has been released under an MIT licence. Releasing a complete game engine under an open source license is a bold move and it will prove to be quite profitable. The developers of the Torque 3D engine will rent their “service work” and make a hefty sum out of it. “I’m happy to say that we’ve already booked our first million dollars in service work a... (read more) (General)

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Cross platform Torque 3D game engine will be open sourced soon under MIT license. In a blog post, GarageGames announced that complete Torque 3D 1.2 source code, along with the four starting templates, will be made available in a GitHub repository.

One of the goals of GarageGames is to improve Mac and Linux support once the code is released.

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