Torque 3D V.S. Unity Engine

For serveral monthes, I had been writing a game prototype with a game engine called Torque 3D. Torque is a famous brand with series of game engine solutions including Torque Game Engine Advance (previous generation of Torque 3D), Torque 2D and Torque X (for .NET platform).

Just serveral weeks ago, the owner company of Torque announced they were going to close business and find buyer for Toruqe Engine and its community (link). It's totally not surprising for us, because we've suffer the awful quality of Torque 3D for past 3 mouths. It has a lot of bugs, graphics defects, and poor documentation. We spent 1 mouths to figure out how to work with Torque 3D and another 2 mouths to fix bugs of Torque 3D, and only 1 week actually for game programming. Even we tried so hard to build our game on Torque 3D, the result still made us disapointed and frustrated. The defects of the animation system made our game looks like garbage!!

Therefore, my team started to seek and evaluate other game engines immediately after hearing the news of close of business. We found Unity Engine is easy, efficent, robust, stable in comparison with Torque 3D. Then, we switched our project to it. It's very surprising and exciting that we spent only 3 days to re-build almost everything except level content. Unity Engine is indeed much more excellent than Torque 3D!!!

In this week, with Unity Engine,I've finished implementing many features that I never expect they can be done with Torque 3D. The difference of usability between these two engines are so huge that I want to write some articles to find out what makes an game engine succeed and what makes it fail. Hopefully, I can finish articles soon and post them to my blog.