What's the difference?
by Gary Roberson · in Torque Game Engine · 01/29/2010 (7:30 pm) · 2 replies
I already made up my mind some time ago to upgrade my TGE 1.4 engine to Torque3D some time ago. But i wanted to get a few things off my chest anyway.
it seems like you have several engines that all do pretty much the same thing.
I could understand that the major difference between T2d and T3d is that 2D does 2D graphics while T3d does 3d graphics. But what are the differnece between Torque3D, TorqueX, for WII, and X360
I mean, yeah Torque3D uses C++ while torqueX uses XNA, or C#, but if Torque3D cna deploy to the Wii and X360, why buy a seperate engine for Wii, or 360.
In other words, what are the benefits of buying both Torque3D for Pc and Torque360 for 360, (besides the obvious fact that T360 will develop games for the 360 console)
On a side note, why is there no engine for the PlayStation 3, the PSP, or Nintendo DS. As popular as those systems are, you'd think that Garage Games would support them.
it seems like you have several engines that all do pretty much the same thing.
I could understand that the major difference between T2d and T3d is that 2D does 2D graphics while T3d does 3d graphics. But what are the differnece between Torque3D, TorqueX, for WII, and X360
I mean, yeah Torque3D uses C++ while torqueX uses XNA, or C#, but if Torque3D cna deploy to the Wii and X360, why buy a seperate engine for Wii, or 360.
In other words, what are the benefits of buying both Torque3D for Pc and Torque360 for 360, (besides the obvious fact that T360 will develop games for the 360 console)
On a side note, why is there no engine for the PlayStation 3, the PSP, or Nintendo DS. As popular as those systems are, you'd think that Garage Games would support them.
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BTW, it seems like the Windows platform has caught up to the IPAD buzz.
Check out the HP Slate, the Dell Streak, and others from ASus.
BTW, now add to my list : Android.
People still claim that the IPhone is still the best phone for the market, even those people that own the droid phone from Verizon, but how about Android support anyway.
10/08/2010 (7:01 pm)
Any updates for IPAD support.BTW, it seems like the Windows platform has caught up to the IPAD buzz.
Check out the HP Slate, the Dell Streak, and others from ASus.
BTW, now add to my list : Android.
People still claim that the IPhone is still the best phone for the market, even those people that own the droid phone from Verizon, but how about Android support anyway.
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Technically, T3D can make games for Xbox, but you need to purchase an XBox 360 dev kit (expensive) and get permission from Microsoft, who will only agree is you can find a publisher.
On the other hand, TorqueX is written in C# and can deploy for the Xbox Live Arcade and only needs a free developers license from Microsoft. No one can tell you "No, you can't make this game" and you don't have to purchase any additional licenses.
For the other ones
PlayStation 3: Doesn't have the same architecture as Xbox. Xbox is similar enough to a PC that adapting Torque for it was a doable thing.
PSP: Do you know ANYONE who has a UMD printer or PSP Developer Unit? those items alone are so rare that the work put into TorquePSP would never pay off in sales.
Nintendo DS: Same thing - Cartridge printing and developer units aren't common.
I would LOVE to develope for the DS, but it's just not realistic until PSP and DS get downladable games (homebrew stuff)