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.
Help Port Torque 3D To GNU/Linux Via IndieGoGo !
As I’ve wrote before, Torque 3D was released as open source under the MIT license – however fully porting it to GNU/Linux takes time and money.
For this purpose the creators of the engine - GarageGames started an IndieGoGo campaign.
The goal is to FULLY port Torque3D to GNU/Linux (including the editor !)
For this GarageGames intends
Torque3D will be released as free software under the MIT license !
Why do we care ?
The first engine Torque supported GNU/Linux (and a few GNU/Linux games were released using this engine) but their second TGEA (Torque Game Engine Advanced) sadly didn’t.
With Torque3D porting games to GNU/Linux was possible, but haven’t been actually done yet – and no official GNU/Linux support was give
Few days back we reported that RIM (popularly known for its product BlackBerry smartphone) is working on adding Linux platform support to its open-source and cross-platform C++ game engine Gameplay3D.
Sticking to their promise, RIM has released a new version of the engine today with full Linux support. The engine is still in development so there isn't a game based on Gameplay3D yet.
Research In Motion Limited or (RIM), popularly known for its product BlackBerry smartphone, has just released a new version of its open-source and cross-platform C++ game engine Gameplay.
This new version introduces many new features but the most interesting part is that they are adding Linux support in their next release.
Check out the changes in Gameplay version 1.
Hi,
I've tried to setup a pbs for my desktop computer 6 core.
The queing system seems to work, but I cannot get the jobs to run, even with qrun.
Code:
me@haldane:DIR.torque $ echo "sleep 30" | qsub
15.haldane
me@haldane:DIR.torque $ qstat
Job id Name User&nb
Maker’s Tale is a new fantasy RTS and strategy game for Linux. It features a tabletop board game like approach where the combat takes place in a sandbox environment enabling the player to rebuild the level during play.
The game is being developed using open source game engine jMonkeyEngine. A tech demo for Linux was released recently.
Sir, You Are Being Hunted is an open-world action title currently being developed by Big Robot.
The game is being made using Unity3D engine and Linux support has been announced with its alpha teaser trailer.
Check out the video:
The game will feature procedurally-generated landscape means nothing has been pre-decided or hand placed.
Jason Rubin, President of THQ, has tweeted that they are looking at possibility of porting games to Linux.