Other game engines

[Femme Stab Mode >:D]

yeah, I know that I will probably have a few guns pointed at my head after I say this but here goes...
I want to try out other game engines. I tried RPG maker 2003 but I didn't like it because it didn't let me import my own graphics ( at least I didn't find a way to do that).   I know a couple of other adventure game engines like SGI and AGAST. I tried games factory but I hate it for the same reason I hate RPG maker.  In particular I'm looking for a decent first-person RPG engine.
Please don't kill me!

[Quickstrike]

Too late.  You've got seven hits in place.  It was nice knowing you.  :'(

[Scavenger]

*click*

Hmm...

*clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick*

I ran out of ammo!

Anyway. I don't mind you using other engines, so long as you don't leave forever. But I don't understand '1st person RPG'. If you're talking about a 3d kinda game, I suggest:

Fly3D

But you can only get V1 (makes .exes) free . Also, you can adapt a 3D engine thats for QBasic, but even I can't understand it.

Sorry for not being any help.

But I like other RPG makers like:
OHRRPGCE (nice pallette options (you can make the same picture different colours), 320x200, fast, good multitasking, 256/16 colours, dos based)
RPGToolkit (Excellent quality drawings and import options, 640x480/800x600/1064x574, slow, bad multitasking, windows based)
Sphere (Like RPGToolkit, but with better multitasking and alpha transparency.)

Hope that helps!

[scotch]

Sphere is my favorite 2d RPG engine, it requires a lot of scripting though..
for a 3D game it's harder, 3d Gamestudio from conitec seems ok I guess.. haven't tried it myself, but from someone who is trying to make a 3d rpg I can say it's a lot of work ._.

But, you should make 3rd person adventure games instead

[12431]

I used crystal-space before. you'll find it in the sourceforge.com (or net or somethin')

[Evil]

* Evil waits for C. to hear

Well, it isnt a vidio game maker but it is fun. Visual Pinball lets you make pinball machines with a bit of vb code. Really fun. Other then that I dont know much...

[Toefur]

What's a 3D engine one could make an adventure game in?

[scotch]

There isn't an engine specifically designed for 3d adventure games as far as I know  I'm sure you could adapt one of the general purpose 3d engines to make an adventure games but you'd need to have a fair amount of programming skill I think

[Toefur]

Damn programming... I've been meaning to become good at that for years.  

[Matt Goble]

I'm waiting for the option to make your own GTA games!!

Matt

[Evil]

Acctually, I have a island editor for gta3 for pc... Havnt used it thought... If I find it would you want it?

[RickJ]

monster,

Blender may be something you may be interested in.  I haven' tried it yet but it seems reasonable.  It's basically a 3D drawing program.  But supossedly it has realtime  renderin and scripting ability so that you can make your own 3D games.     I was looking at it to possibly make backgrounds for AGS.   It's interesting since you can also use it to make a 3D game.  It's open source and it seems like it's actively being developed.  There is a support forum so it seems like there are quite a few users.

Why not ive it a try and let the rest of us know what ytou think of it.

http://www.blender3d.com/

[Timosity]

I checked out Blender's site, make sure you go for version 2.25 as the game engine is not developed for the latest version yet.

[LL Notorious B.I.G. Will C-H]

are there any decent platform game engines out there? thats something id like to have a fiddle with one day (after mastering ags of course)

[Femme Stab Mode >:D]

yay, thank you all, you people are great   . Where could I  get sphere? It sounds good. I already downloaded blender,  it looks confusing to me now but that's because I didn't read the help file yet.

[scotch]

http://aegisknight.org/sphere for sphere..
it's a 2d rpg engine, hardware accelerated and quite nice to use.. but it's really designed for people who like scripting or are willing to learn it, it doesn't even come with a built in inventory system or NPC movement, you have to custom script it yourself in javascript.  Although there are examples for things like that ._.

[Jimi]

willhowlett: Try Game Maker It uses tiles, and you can make very good platform and arcade games with it.

[Matt Goble]

Acctually, I have a island editor for gta3 for pc... Havnt used it thought... If I find it would you want it?

I'm guessing I'm going to have to get a GTA3-specced PC first!  Got to love PS2s, none of this "My graphics Card doesn't like DirectX texture Compression, I need another 600Mb of hard drive space!!"

Thank's evil, I might take you up on that offer at some point.

Matt

[LL Notorious B.I.G. Will C-H]

cheers Jimi, ill have a look at that - will

[veryweirdguy]

I agree with Jimi. Game Maker is quite good for non-adventure games.