Torque Game Builder
Pronto Games
Pronto Games is a leading developer of games for consoles, PCs, handhelds, toys, casual, downloadable and mobile phones. Pronto believes in streamlined teams, reliable production techniques, strong technology, quality artwork, and innovative game design. Independent of platform or project size, Pronto's games have an easy to understand core mechanic that all players can immediately embrace, embodied in the term 'SmaFF' - Small, Fast, and Fun.
"GarageGames' Torque Game Engine has streamlined our development processes and enabled our teams in the pursuit of our core goal: creating the innovative gameplay that gamers want. Torque gives our programmers a +6 dagger of coding. They tell me it's pretty sweet."
Hothead Games
A Torque commercial license is a business owned license with no limit on studio size. Torque's cross platform, organized work flow drastically cuts the development effort required to bring your game to multiple areas of opportunity and profit.
Unicode support allows your game to be built from the ground up to support the expanding world wide market.
Our royalty-free commercial licensing of Torque technology is a powerful, cost effective solution for a wide variety of development needs:
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Commercial customers...
- work on projects or in studios earning more than $250,000 per year.
- may transfer license ownership.
- may purchase company licenses (licenses are tied to programmer seats rather than users).
- may work on non-game projects.
- access to official developer training via the Torque Boot Camps.
- may publish with any publisher or distributor.
- pay no royalties, EVER.
If commercial licensing is the right choice for you then please visit our commercial pricing options.
The Torque Development Platform provides the perfect opportunity for any developer to get their games in front of a massive console gaming audience. GarageGames opened this opportunity by bringing the core Torque technologies to a variety of console platforms like Xbox, Xbox 360 and others.
Case Study: Marble Blast Ultra on the Xbox 360
Early in the development of the hardware for the next generation Xbox360 console, Microsoft approached GarageGames to enlist our help developing game content for the Xbox Live Arcade downloadable game "channel." Since the companies already had a successful partnership bringing three Torque based products to the current generation XBox XBLA downloadable channel, Microsoft had full confidence in the ability of the engine to scale to show off the power of the new console. After getting pre-release Alpha hardware, GarageGames quickly ported their flagship Torque Game Engine: Advanced (TGEA) to the new platform.
The Torque Network Library is based on the networking architecture in the Torque Game Engine, but is a stand alone, secure, easy to use cross-platform C++ networking API designed for high performance simulations and games. The network architecture in TNL has powered some of the best internet multiplayer action games, including Vivendi's Starsiege, Tribes, and Tribes 2 products; NCSoft's Auto Assault; as well as independently produced titles including Bravetree's ThinkTanks; 21-6 Production's Orbz; MaxGaming technologies' Dark Horizons: Lore; and many more.
TNL is designed to be easy to integrate into existing products. In less than an hour, you can have a minimal TNL implementation up and running in your game or network product. Within weeks you can take advantage of all the advanced features of TNL, allowing your game to support more players while using less bandwidth per client than any other solution on the market.
Multiplayer games no longer need to lag. GarageGames has given a gift to the world wide development community by providing a GPL, Open Sourced version of the library. Feel free to use the GPL version as a test case for your needs, then upgrade to the Indie or Commercial license if you require a "closed source" version.
GarageGames does not standardly include any direct e-mail or phone support with our products. Independent and commercial users are expected to use the community forums, wiki and IRC channel to resolve primary support requests. GarageGames does however provide professional level training in our Torque Boot Camps.
