WarZone Explodes Out of the Garage
New WarZone TGE Demo Showcases the Power of Torque. The demos’ journey through a war-torn future showcases features to the robust Torque cross-platform development environment.
Eugene, OR (PRWEB) May 12, 2005 -- GarageGames® released today Tim Aste’s
WarZone demo for the Torque Game Engine™ (TGE). The demo’s apocalyptic journey
through a war-torn future showcases the robust Torque cross-platform development
environment. The Torque Game Engine confirms its premiere position as the most
powerful and liberally licensed AAA game engine technology with this richly
imagined production.
WarZone utilizes TGE version 1.4 features and third
party Torque Tools and content such as: Torque ShowTool Pro, Torque LightingKit,
Ragdoll Animation Pack, FF Digital: Urban Pack, Bravetree: Tank Pack and Tim
Aste: Content Packs - all of which are available to purchase at www.garagegames.com.
The Tim Aste WarZone demo features many built-in features of the Torque
Game Engine, including:
- Rigid-body and vehicle physics
- Large outdoor
terrain with multi-layered skies
- Object and particle effect system
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Dynamic mounting systems with volumetric lighting and particle emitters
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Full skeletal and blended animation system
- LOD manager, enabling large
numbers of objects in complex environments
- Seamless indoor/outdoor
transitions
- Multiple camera capabilities
- Scripted weather and
environmental effects.
“GarageGames is opening new windows of opportunity
for developers. Where else can you buy the rights to an engine as good as and as
supported as the Torque Game Engine?” says Chris Evans, Torque developer. “TGE
could easily sell for $100,000 or more…without GarageGames, I doubt my team and
I would be where we are now.”
The Tim Aste WarZone Demo is available for
download at the www.garagegames.com. The Torque Game Engine is available for
licensing from GarageGames at $495 per commercial programmer seat. Visit the
GarageGames website to see if you qualify for special ‘indie’ licensingTM.
About Torque Game Engine:
The Torque Game Engine is a cross platform
commercial quality AAA game engine with seamless indoor/outdoor rendering
engine, state of the art skeletal animation, drag and drop GUI creation and a
built-in world editor. TGE also features the latest in scripting, geometry,
particle effects, and award winning multi-player networking code. TGE started
life as the technology behind Tribes, Starsiege, and Tribes 2 and is currently
being used by thousands of developers around the world to make innovative games
such as Marble Blast Gold, Orbz and ThinkTanks.
About
GarageGames:
GarageGames mission is to change the way games are made and
played. GarageGames provides the technology, community and market to empower
game makers to build commercial quality multiplatform games. Known for bringing
the Torque Game Engine to independent developers for $100, GarageGames is
located in Eugene, Oregon, and on the web at www.garagegames.com.
GarageGames is the presenter of the annual IndieGamesCon.
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