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Deathbringer
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16th July, 2009 at 22:58:43 -
I've heard good things about an engine called Unity3D, and will be ordering it myself shortly. The basic version is about £120, and it has a very easy to use terrain creator, an active community, a big wiki and tons of pices of code you can download and apply to your game. The coding it uses is Javascript-based, and looks relatively simple according to a video tutorial i watched. A simple First Person runaround game on an outdoor terrain can actually be made with no coding at all! But of course if you want guns and buildings with things like opening doors you'll need to do a bit more than that  .
Game Maker i used many years ago when it was 2D only. I don't know how easy it's 3D is, but i beleive you need to get into the scripting side of it to really use 3D. All the 3D games i've seen made with it have been horrendously slow, even though they are very simple and low-poly. Best to go with an engine that was designed for 3D game making from the outset and hasn't had 3D tacked on in a later version, eh?
Also a long time ago there was a point and click creator called Peter that could do 3D, i played a tank driving game that had been made in it which was pretty good. However i can't find the website about it any more, if it even still exists ("Peter" unsurprisingly brings up lots of irrelevant results in google). I belive it was Norwegian because the prices for the different registered versions where in KR
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