Torque X: is there any future?

I guess that this blog post is overdue because the emails I'm receiving and the posts I read around are all showing fear about Torque X being a dead product as GarageGames decided to end the support and maybe also the sales.

First off, let me tell you that the End of Sales is not written in stone: GG people are working to find a solution to keep the licensing availability to newcomers, but the problem is that there aren't enough resources to maintain Torque X and not enough market (actual sales) to allow them to hire a person to guarantee the product maintenance. That's understandable, but GG people are aware that there is no other viable XNA engine out there so they are looking for a solution to keep it running while not engaging them in maintaining it.

My personal contribution to this is quite evident I guess: I do publish games on XBLIG so I do need to maintain the engine anyway. This position of mine is shared with many other community members and the overall of our commitments is known as Torque X CEV (Community Enhanced Version), which now supports XNA 4.0 on both Windows and Xbox. We are still working to a lot of tasks to make Torque X better so I'm confident that GG will find a proper solution to avoid the feared end of sales.

Bottom line: the CEV is available to the licensees and to GG as well. When we go in the GA (General Availability) phase GG can take the CEV and make it the current product (maintained by the community) or just leave the current disclaimer and continue selling the 3.1.5 just as a way to get the right to have the CEV for anybody buying the 3.1.5 will be granted access to the 4.0 CEV so... no problems going forward and no maintenance commitment for GG. This is why I'm confident that Torque X will stay on the market till a new product will replace it.

Moderated: For clarity, this is not an official GarageGames statement. While we encourage community driven projects like CEV, it is not a GarageGames sanctioned product.