Perhaps thats just my wierd view of it, but to me it makes sense. and not mods of the Source engine itself, or even a new game per-say. But you never actually get to touch the source engine, and thus are really just making Half Life 2 mods that are bound to the Source engine. As where using the Source SDK to make mods for Half Life only requiers you to know the SDK, and can be done with virtually no programming skills. However it requiers you to actually have programming skills and ground up game development knowledge to a degree. Well others might disagree, but personally I like to draw a distinct difference between modding a game, and using an existing game engine to make a new game.įor example: Ogre 3D is a game engine which you can use for free to make games. I only want to know about all the game engines you've used and liked, or anything you think would be good for what I want. I would also appreciate it if everyone here can stay on topic. I want to know what I should try from people's personal experience, and their own recommendations.

For some reason, it takes a very long time for my computer to load those pages. I already know that there is a 3D Game Engine Database on GameDev, and I'm sort of being lazy because I don't want to just look at everything on the list. What game engine (it can be anything not just the three things I listed) would be good to use? I mostly care about the quality of the game engine, but if it's easy to use, that's a plus too.

I don't really mind how bad the learning curve is, if there's a decent amount of tutorials for that game engine so I could learn. I've heard of Unity 3D, Source (which I would make a mod of HL2), and the Unreal engine. Lets say that I wanted to create/mod a game, and I was new to game development.

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