[AGDev-newbies] Engines was Hello all...

[Thomas Ward]

Hi Bryan.
There are high quality game engines out there for the blind such as the 
GMA game engine, but you will quickly find it can be quite costly after 
a while. For example, if you licensed the GMA engine it is assumed you 
are writing games for commercial use so you are going to have to pay a 
couple hundred dollars a year or something like 25% of your sales for 
licensing fees. I don't remember the exact details at the moment, but I 
did know it is cheaper to write your games yourself.
I did mention a little while back on this list about sitting down as a 
group and writing our own open source engine, but didn't get much of a 
response at that. That is understandable since that is an advanced piece 
of programming for a list full of new programmers, but it is something 
to think about down the road.


Bryan McGucken wrote:
> Good evening everyone.  I'm sure some of you already know me, but let 
> me quickly introduce myself and then get to my question.  I hope that 
> won't confuse too many, but I don't want to spam the list.
> My name is Bryan.  I am thirty years old and live in Lakewood, Ohio in 
> the U.S.  I am currently a Customer Service Representative.  I have 
> been playing games since around 1984, and have always wanted to make 
> my own.  I remember some contest where if your juice bottle had the 
> right number code on it you were awarded the right to create and 
> design your own Nintendo game.  I didn't win, but I still want to make 
> games.  Now, be advised, I don't have any programming experience or 
> formal training except for some limited work with Applesoft basic back 
> in the early nineties.  Maybe it seems like I'm taking the easy way 
> out, but I know there are game engines out there, and I want to use 
> one to make different genres of games, e.g., racing, RPG, third-person 
> shooter, vertical scrolling shooter, dance sims, etc.  That said, I am 
> interested in seeing this new game engine everyone's been talking 
> about coming to fruition, but I'm ashamed to admit I can't help in any 
> way with scripting or compiling.  I'd use the GMA game engine, but I'd 
> asked around about it with no result, perhaps because it's not for 
> distribution.  I heard there was work being done on an engine down in 
> Uruguay or something, but haven't heard about it since.  I know an RPG 
> engine was developed, but don't know how useful it would be if the map 
> editor is as inaccessible as its own authors claim.  I wish I had time 
> to learn C++, or even C#, but I just don't.  If any of you have 
> information on any of these things, I'd love to hear from you.  I'll 
> have to check out audiosparx.com.  Hopefully it will yield more than 
> findsounds.com did.  Hopefully I'll be getting my Cakewalk MIDI 
> program back up and running.  You see, my computer crashed last April 
> and my new father-in-law built us one and shipped it out here in 
> October.  Of course, if there are any freeware MIDI programs out 
> there, I'll gladly use one.  Well, that's all just now.  Bryan
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