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Re: Anyone know of a good game engine?

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nickmaster24 is not online. nickmaster24
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27 Dec 2011 06:16 PM
I no longer have use for Roblox. I want to move on to Java and Mobile/Internet App development.
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Spectrumw is not online. Spectrumw
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27 Dec 2011 06:17 PM
Take a look at ShiVa. :3
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nickmaster24 is not online. nickmaster24
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27 Dec 2011 06:19 PM
What language(s)?
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shayan414 is not online. shayan414
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27 Dec 2011 06:20 PM
You do realize Java is not a command-lined language.
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nickmaster24 is not online. nickmaster24
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27 Dec 2011 06:21 PM
Yes....

I've worked with it before...
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Spectrumw is not online. Spectrumw
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27 Dec 2011 06:22 PM
You can use Lua (It comes with a parser) or C++.
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nickmaster24 is not online. nickmaster24
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27 Dec 2011 06:24 PM
You know of anything else to use? How similar is ShiVa to Roblox?
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shayan414 is not online. shayan414
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27 Dec 2011 06:24 PM
Ah, I'm sorry, I thought you were wanting to start Java. I didn't know you were partially experienced.
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nickmaster24 is not online. nickmaster24
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27 Dec 2011 06:27 PM
Very small experience...

Robocode, a book, Alice, and yeah...
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Spectrumw is not online. Spectrumw
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27 Dec 2011 06:28 PM
Well, in my experience it is not very alike Roblox, but you can easely get used to it, it also comes with some example files, ie; Meshes, games, sounds, a physics engine, etc.
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nickmaster24 is not online. nickmaster24
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27 Dec 2011 06:30 PM
Expensive and useless test software...
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RA2lover is not online. RA2lover
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27 Dec 2011 06:31 PM
you can also try Unity.
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nickmaster24 is not online. nickmaster24
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27 Dec 2011 06:33 PM
I'm liking Unity more. What language(s)?
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nickmaster24 is not online. nickmaster24
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27 Dec 2011 06:39 PM
Android is $400.... O.o DARNIT....
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27 Dec 2011 06:49 PM
If you want to go all the way, and use a real professional engine you can use the Unreal Development Kit. It's completely free for non-commercial use, and even if you do end up doing something commercial with it you get the first $50,000 royalty free, and any more after that at a 25% royalty, with only a $99 commercial licence.
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nickmaster24 is not online. nickmaster24
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28 Dec 2011 12:19 PM
So I have to pay $50,0000?!?
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ilol994 is not online. ilol994
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28 Dec 2011 12:23 PM
No.
Duck.Gun.Dinner
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pighead10 is not online. pighead10
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28 Dec 2011 12:24 PM
The UDK is a great place for big projects. Googling would find a variety of small scale ones.
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Merlin11188 is not online. Merlin11188
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28 Dec 2011 12:26 PM
No. You have to pay 99$ and then 25% of whatever you make on your commercial product, after the first 50,000$.
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nickmaster24 is not online. nickmaster24
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28 Dec 2011 12:28 PM
Thank you Merlin! I understand now.

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Techboy6601 is not online. Techboy6601
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28 Dec 2011 12:44 PM
Stencyl, you can make iDevice and Flash apps using a Scratch-like programming environment, program AIs, and generally do a lot of awesome things.


Before you dismiss this as stupid (because of Scratch), they also have a programming API. For serious developers, they can even see the C++ code and edit it to their style.
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Varp is not online. Varp
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28 Dec 2011 01:17 PM
"Before you dismiss this as stupid (because of Scratch), they also have a programming API. For serious developers, they can even see the C++ code and edit it to their style."

I've used Stencyl, but I would recommend against it if someone knows programming. It uses ActionScript which isn't a great language to begin with, but it's clearly not designed for any serious development. The biggest problem I see with it is that it, almost entirely, removes OOP from the picture. You cannot easily create new files, and Flash requires that the name of the file & the name of the class declared within match. It also is organized with named behaviors, so you can't directly make calls to other actors, and code-complete can't be created for it. It heavily utilizes Flixel, so you might as well just write your game from scratch using Flixel and a development environment (you can find some for free if you want to avoid the prohibitively expensive official tools).

I can't really recommend any tools that are similar to ROBLOX though (Block Community isn't yet done ;P), since I usually build games from just a graphics & audio library.
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NVI is not online. NVI
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28 Dec 2011 01:21 PM
Any toolkit designed to run on both the PC and Android is going to suck. Personally, I *hate* Unity, ShiVa, and Unreal. I simply wrote my own wrapper of OGLES.
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nickmaster24 is not online. nickmaster24
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28 Dec 2011 01:44 PM
"Any toolkit designed to run on both the PC and Android is going to suck"

Screw PC; I just want Android then!

~Free Models > Scripting Helpers~
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28 Dec 2011 01:50 PM
&roid sucks.

PC ftw.
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