Epic Games, Inc. and Valve Software LLC, two of the PC industry’s leading technology and content development studios, have inked an agreement to deliver Valve’s Steamworks suite of services to all licensees of Epic’s industry-leading Unreal Engine 3 for use in their products, free of any additional fees.
Pretty nice if you think UDK is free to start developing with..
The Exit Games Photon development framework provides a fast and high-performance socket server to build your own real-time multiplayer games and applications for various platforms.
While the server is C/C++ based to get maximum speed and performance, developers can create their own server logic in comfortable C#.
Photon can be easily combined with Exit Games Neutron to make use of Neutron’s wide set of turn-key features.
The Photon “Free License” includes 50 concurrent users (CCUs). Any license can be easily upgraded at the cost of the difference. No reinstall of the server needed.
DAZ 3D is known for exquisitely detailed models in high resolution meshes and textures. Now a set of tools is available that will convert polygons to triangles and reduce high density meshes and high resolution textures to sizes and formats easily managed by today’s most popular game engines.
Developers and artists now have the tools required to take DAZ 3D models directly from DAZ Studio to game engines or other real-time applications.
The Aves Engine is a software development kit to generate spectacular isometric browsergames without the need for third-party plugins like Microsoft Silverlight or Adobe Flash on the end-user side. Highly inspired by Game-Engines from the PC and Videogame-Industry, Aves-Engine is aimed toward serious browsergame publishers who want to benefit from a component based engine architecture and cross-plattform compatible code to deliver on any desktop operating system or mobile devices.
Killing Engine is a free multiplayer shooter where you team up with your friends to beat the opposing team. It takes place in an imaginary universe where Finland and Russia are at war with each other. The game features:
* Support for up to 64 players
* Large battlegrounds that take place in forests, wastelands, villages and cities
* 26 different weapons
* Easy to use Level editor
* Destructible environment
* Three different game modes
Free for non-commercial use.
The Citrus Engine is an industry-quality engine built to create platform games that make people say “Flash can do that?!”. Here are some of the juicy features of the Citrus Engine:
Priston Tale 2: The Second Enigma returns on Europe on GamerKraft!
Priston Tale 2: The Second Enigma is a free fantasy MMORPG for Windows PCs supporting Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. Players venture across the vast and wondrous continent of Priston, currently under siege from the forces of the evil god Midranda, in a race to locate the only worldly power capable of ending his evil reign: the mythical Second Enigma. Priston Tale 2 features three unique races of playable characters, a combo-based active battle system, competitive player versus player combat, new skill and item systems, and extensive guild and party support. All this, in addition to slick, high-quality graphics made possible through the power of the Unreal Engine. Priston Tale 2: The Second Enigma is a part of the GamerKraft library of free games.
The Spirit Engine 2 – Selections features selected tracks from the soundtrack to Mark Pay’s The Spirit Engine 2.
The Spirit Engine 2 is the follow up to the freeware game ‘The Spirit Engine’, originally released in November 2003. Set in a new world, with new characters, new graphics and a rewritten game engine, TSE-2 sets out to improve upon the game experience of the original in every possible way.
A new version of this powerful game engine..
Now games made with this can run in Web browsers too and more features added..
Now in use on over 100 projects, the Vision Engine gives you the freedom to create the type of game you want (MMOs, FPS, RPG, casual, serious, etc) on the platform of your choice. It has been carefully optimized to efficiently utilize all available hardware resources on all major platforms (PC, Xbox360®, PLAYSTATION®3 and Nintendo Wii®).
