Torque 3D to be Released on Github under the MIT license!





Hold on tight, GarageGames is on path to change the way games are made and played.

Eleven years ago, The GarageGames founders did an incredibly innovative thing when they sold a full source game engine for $100. We are excited to continue in their footsteps by announcing that we will be releasing Torque 3D as the best open source game technology in the world. Once again, GarageGames will be changing game development.Nine months ago, we realigned the goals of GarageGames; making Torque 3D available via a permissive open source license is a strategic move towards fulfilling the company vision. Our first goal was to use iTorque to build a new product we call 3 Step Studio. We envisioned a game development tool that requires no programming at all and began to build it. This product is available today for free, but it’s very, very, early in development and we expect to iterate many times before it is a commercially viable product. Our second goal was to build a service division. I’m happy to say that we’ve already booked our first million dollars in service work and we expect the growth trend to continue as we make Torque 3D more accessible. You can visit our services site at services.garagegames.com . We are very well prepared and staffed to provide support, training, and custom development.Our long term plans are to focus on innovative uses of game technology. Currently, all GarageGames employees have the option to work on any project on Fridays. We are working on some really great projects under the initiative and it’s our hope that we will be able to invest in several of these projects as they evolve. We’ve encouraged our developers to open source these projects. If you think you have what it takes to be an innovative developer using game technology, consider applying for one of our open positions Dave Wyand will be leading the T3D open source effort and he has posted a blog describing the details around how we will run the development process. But before you dive into the details with Dave, I’d like to leave you with answers to some expected questions:We've split off some modules as separate downloads and we've removed some art to bring down the payload size. Other than those changes, the versions are the same.No. We've been using T3D internally for service projects and we expect that to continue. In some cases, our service work will directly benefit the core code base.We will be offering refunds for T3D purchases that happened on or after Sept 1st but before this announcement.We are starting open source efforts with T3D and learning from this experience. For now, the other engines/products are not available via the MIT license.