January Product Update

If you haven’t read our other blog, you might want to read it first. This blog, is a more detailed look into our near term product road map.

Bad news first…

TorqueX – February 28th will be the last day that you will be able to purchase TorqueX. The community is tight knit and working on a their own version of the engine, so for the next thirty days you will still be able to buy TorqueX and assign those licensees to other developers through a studio access panel. Discontinuing TorqueX is a hard decision for us, especially when considering how dedicated this community is. I would personally like to take the time to thank Pino. He’s a rock star and anyone using TorqueX knows that. We are still fans of XNA and we have a lot of time invested in the API. Don’t be surprised if/when an XNA based product finds it's way back to GarageGames. We have put a lot of effort into a future Windows Phone 7 product; however, we are taking a step back to reevaluate direction on all emerging platforms. Your opinions are greatly appreciated.



iTorque 3D – We will be discontinuing iTorque 3D. In the future, we will not be pre-selling our new engines without absolute confidence of a QA date. We will be offering refunds to everyone who we can validate as a purchaser of iT3D. We are very happy to have our new owners (more on them in the first blog ) support on this – it’s the right thing to do.

Torque 2D – We have no significant updates to Torque 2D ( aka TGB ) at this time. The good news is that Torque 2D is a very stable product that is able to meet the specs of a wide array of machines including netbooks. Torque 2D’s next version, which we discussed last year at this time is still in development and part of long term plans. It’s unfortunately still to early for us to provide more detail about the next version of Torque 2D and at this time, we recommend that you focus your development plans on Torque 2D ( aka TGB ) until we are able to hone in on a release window.

Good news…

Torque 3D 1.1 Final –Torque 3D 1.1 Final will be heading to QA in the coming weeks. We have a pending driver issue and a relatively short list of bugs in Jira that we are currently slaying. We have a 1.1 version of T3D for the Mac; however, we aren’t able to say with 100% certainty that it will meet our gold standard by the release of 1.1 Final. That decision will need to be delayed until we are able to properly review the code. Our contractors continued to work on Torque 3D 1.1 during the transition and their hard work has kept the ball rolling towards a final release.

Docs & Tutorials – We are going to be working towards our goal of better documentation, docs, and tutorials over the next few months. This work will move slowly at first, but over time, we will be able to hire and scale our efforts as we progress on our product roadmap.

iTorque 2D 1.4.1 – We are in the final rounds of QA and updates for 1.4.1. Barring any new iOS updates that would create a ripple effect to our timing, iT2D 1.4.1 will be going to QA in a couple of weeks.