The Big Game Engine and Tool List

[Tocs1001]

I noticed in another post HopeDagger mentioned a list of Engines so I'll post all of my favorite engines and tools

3D Engines

(Free) Irrlicht - http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/ -an Open source 3D engine, very fast, very easy to use.

(Free) Ogre - http://www.ogre3d.org/ - My favorite of free 3D engines, another free open source engine, it has a great community, and a really cool resource managment system! It also has a great Particle editor!

(Free) Crystal Space - http://www.crystalspace3d.org/ - A powerful 3D game engine with a rather large community following.

(Free) Delta 3D - http://www.delta3d.org - This is an open-source 3D gaming and simulation engine. It's free to use it any way you wish, and is designed to easily work with any other open-source programming project.

(Free) Panda 3D - http://www.panda3d.org - This is the same engine that was used to create Disney's ToonTown. Disney then threw into the open-source ring. You can now download it for free to use in whatever you like. It has both Python and C++ bindings, supposedly the Python ones are almost as fast as the C++ ones.

(Free for Windows/Linux) Q Developer Network - http://qdn.qubesoft.com/index.php?main=home - This engine is cross-platform, but for the free version it can only be made for Windows and Linux. If you pay money, you can get it on OSX, FreeBSD, PS2, and Xbox. Other than the engine, it also comes with a pretty easy to use WYSIWYG scene editing tool.

(Free) The Nebula Device - http://www.nebuladevice.org/ - This is is open-source, multiplatform, and has API's and libraries to couple it with just abouty any scripting or programming language. Their idea is to make things simple, sweet, and powerful. Each release has shorter more efficient code than the last.

Torque - http://www.garagegames.com - Torque costs $100 for a license, but is a very powerful and extremely popular game development engine/system. Many commercial games (remember Tribes?) were made using this.

(Free) JMonkey Engine - http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/ - Open Source Java-Based Game Engine.

(Free) ClanLib - http://clanlib.org - Relatively new and very promising open-source game engine.

Sound Libraries

(Free) OpenAL - http://www.openal.org/ - Open-source audio library made in the same syntactical style as OpenGL.

(Free for Non-Commercial Use) FMod - http://www.fmod.org/ - Powerful and popular audio library. Very stable and plenty of functionality.


Other Engines/Libraries

(Free) CEGUI - http://www.cegui.org.uk - A slightly complex but very flexible User Interface library (used by the OGRE3D graphics engine, too!)

(Free) ODE - http://www.ode.org/ - A free, open-source physics library.

(Free) Newton Dynamics - http://www.newtondynamics.com - A free (and powerful!) physics library with a fairly easy-to-use API.

(Free) OPAL - http://opal.sourceforge.net - A free, open-source physics library wrapper library, that makes physics integration easy on a high-level. Currently only wraps ODE.

(Free) Tokamak Physics - http://www.tokamakphysics.com/ - A physics SDK that now offers version 1 as free for all commercial/non-commercial uses.

RakNet - www.rakkarsoft.com - A powerful, high-level networking library that has recently left the realm of free software.

(Free?) Elysium Source - http://www.splamm.com/elysium/ - Open source 2D MMORPG engine made in Visual Basic 6. A great place to start out game devving.

(Free) Eclipse - http://www.freemmorpgmaker.com/index.php Free 2D ORPG engine.

(Free) XiloEngine - http://xilonengine.net/ Free 2D engine, written in VB.

Tools

Maya - http://www.autodesk.com/maya - Expensive, but professional 3D modeling tool.

Milkshape 3D - http://www.swissquake.ch/chumbalum-soft/ - Cheaper alternative to Maya, no where near as good at Texturing and Animation. (~$25)

fragMotion - http://www.fragmosoft.com/ - Havent used it to model but its great at Animation!

Ultimate Unwrap - http://www.unwrap3d.com/ - In my opinion the easiest to use UV mapper allowing you to texture many different model formats easily.

Adobe Photoshop - Possibly the most infamous and powerful 2D image editor on the market. Not free, however.

Jasc Paint Shop Pro - Rivaling Photoshop; yet another great 2D editor

(Free) The GIMP - http://www.gimp.org/ - a free image editor, said to rival both Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop, although known for it's, ah, 'unique' interface. :P

(Free) Blender - http://www.blender3d.org - This is an open-source 3d modelling program it has an intuitive interface and can make super high quality stuff. Free!

(Free?) Texporter - http://www.cuneytozdas.com/software/3dsmax/ - This is a plugin for 3DS Max that basically does what Ultimate Unwrap does.

(Free) Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net - An open-source audio editing progam. It's easy to use and available on many, many platforms. Highly recommended.

(Free) Wings3D - http://www.wings3d.com/ - A free subdivision modeler.

(Free) LithUnwrap - http://www.geocities.com/lithunwrap/?20095 - A free texture mapper.

(Semi-Free) UVMapper - http://www.uvmapper.com/ - Another piece of texture mapping software.


Wikipedia also has a list of fear game engines, if you want more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_game_engines


(List maintained by Tocs1001* and HopeDagger* and Eriond)

* No longer updating.

[pb_destiny]

Hey Tocs

Thats a really good addition to the forums, I think this list will be appreciated by many other members of the forums and newcomers alike. I just hope it gets the proper amount of attention as in the case of the last forum, the useful stickies were often ignored.



-PB

[MisterPoppet]

Maya was bought by Audodesk (same people that own 3DS Max). So the website for the US is here.

[HopeDagger]

Awesome; someone took up the initiative and got a list started before me, hehe. We'll use this as the "Uber Main Listing of Gamestuffs" that I'll sticky.

As people post more engines/tools/creators/etc either yourself or I (if you don't mind) can update the post and form a comprehensive listing; hopefully combatting the slew of "do u know any mmorpg makers?" posts we get.

[MisterPoppet]

Okay. Here's some stuff...

Engines

Delta 3D http://www.delta3d.org - This is an open-source 3D gaming and simulation engine. It's free to use it any way you wish, and is designed to easily work with any other open-aource programming project.

Panda 3D http://www.panda3d.org - This is the same engine that was used to create Disney's ToonTown. Disney then threw into the open-source ring. You can now download it for free to use in whatever you like. It has both Python and C++ bindings, supposedly the Python ones are almost as fast as the C++ ones.

Q Developer Network http://qdn.qubesoft.com/index.php?main=home - This engine is cross-platform, but for the free version it can only be made for Windows and Linux. If you pay money, you can get it on OSX, FreeBSD, PS2, and Xbox. Other than the engine, it also comes with a pretty easy to use WYSIWYG scene editing tool.

The Nebula Device http://www.nebuladevice.org/ - This is is open-source, multiplatform, and has API's and libraries to couple it with just abouty any scripting or programming language. Their idea is to make things simple, sweet, and powerful. Each release has shorter more efficient code than the last.

Tools

Blender http://www.blender3d.org - This is an open-source 3d modelling program it has an intuitive interface and can make super high quality stuff.

Texporter http://www.cuneytozdas.com/software/3dsmax/ - This is a plugin for 3DS Max that basically does what ultimate unwrap does.

Audacity http://www.audacity.sourceforge.net - An open-source audio editing progam. It's easy to use and available on many, many platforms.

-Bryan-

[Slayer]

RakNet - a mmorpg networking engine

www.rakkarsoft.com

[pingu]

I love self promotion.

Elysium Source - Open source 2D MMORPG engine made in Visual Basic 6. A great place to start out game deving.

[Tocs1001]

Woot i got sticky =D, thx HopeDagger for the sticky! *clicks heals together in joy*

thx Pingu, Mister Moppet, Slayer I'll add em to the list

I'm liken Audacity!

[Tocs1001]

0.o I got post thread ID 1337 for this! check out the URL

[OtakuRebel]

well, I've been looking at Kaneva Game Platform. Its specificly designed for MMO's, and can be tweeked for mmorpg's and such, which is what I'm attempting for my project. I wouldnt call it very user friendly though. but seems to have some good points.


www.kaneva.com

Might still be down for revisions to the site

I'm looking for a real easy engine to make an MMORPG though that still has real good performance visually, anyone know which one's best?

[MisterPoppet]

Sorry, an easy MMORPG engine isn't really possible. But the easiest out there are Kaneva and Mutliverse. I have a current copy of Kaneva if you'd like it. But Multiverse isn't out yet (I would personally wait for Multiverse if I were you).

-Bryan-

[Simon F.]

Psi3D is a rendering engine, still in development, but it's looking very nice. It makes coding a lot simpler.

[Force]

is http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/ free ? it looks very cool

[Simon F.]

is http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/ free ? it looks very cool

Free to use with this license.

[mainpatr]

How about adding this engine to your list.

http://www.nevrax.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php

This is the website for the NeL engine, which is the same engine that "The Saga of Ryzom" was created on.

Believe it or not, this is a free MMORPG engine.

[chaoscauser]

http://www.ambrosine.com/resource.html have a look through here

[suncrafter]

Wow! Great list. Thank you.

[DeathCrater]

could you post any free software for creating morpgs, and if so could you name which ones.

if you dont want to its fine just it would be pretty awesome if you did.

[MisterPoppet]

Only the ones that are blatantly know to be expensive (Photoshop, 3DS Max, etc.), are really the only ones that cost money. Most things on the list are free. And if you're unsure, click on the provided links and you can find out.

-Bryan-

[HopeDagger]

Updated the thread/listing. Now free software is marked as such, and some formatting issues were resolved. Also added a handful of new engines/libraries.

Keep the suggestions coming!

[Vafaz]

Hello everyone, i didnt seem to see any link to RealmCrafter, its an great and easy 3D mmorpg engine, the price is around $55.
http://www.realmcrafter.com/
I guess it's still in a relatively eary stage of development, but it's fully possible to make a mmorpg with it.
EDIT: And yeah it has its own scripting language, and the engine is developed in Blitz3D. you find more information on the homepage.

[Beazel]

I'd recommend adding http://www.libsdl.org, SDL is one of the best multimedia libraries available today.

[weeman392]

omg i been looking for good web site in 3 weeks now i found it tyvm everyone!

[Spodi]

Any chance you could add my engine to this list?

Name: vbGORE
Cost: Free
License: Open-Source (GPL) w/ slight modifications (more info on site)
Site: http://spodi.zidev.com
Engine: 2D via 3D (3D engine for rendering a 2D game, so technically a 3D engine)
Language: Visual Basic 6

[landavia]

>>Name: vbGORE
can this engine using on vb 5!!

i know this sound silly.. but I managed to dev to all by using setup creator Vb5.. VB 6.. Mana gw tahu!!