Free game engine/builder

[Zinsane]

Can anybody recommend a free game engine/world builder? I'm looking to recreate a terrain from IRL populate it with trees and include some effects like fire/ atmospherics/clouds etc, not really wanting to make a game just a 3d world that I can navigate in.

I've heard of something called Unity - anybody used this?

[Denvgasm]

Listen here, son.

Most apps that are free suck shit.

Go to EB Games/Gamestop and spend the 20 bucks for Unreal Tournament 2004 to get UnrealEd. Then just read tutorials and shit until you have the basics.

[fermer101]

Warcraft 3 World Editor is fun.

[renic]

Can anybody recommend a free game engine/world builder? I'm looking to recreate a terrain from IRL populate it with trees and include some effects like fire/ atmospherics/clouds etc, not really wanting to make a game just a 3d world that I can navigate in.

I've heard of something called Unity - anybody used this?

blender

http://www.blender.org/

[freeman4550]

I wanted to make my own game just could never figure out how to.

[88Chaz88]

RPG Maker 2000

It seems dated and forget about 3d but you can really do some serious shit in there with a little knowledge of scripting.

[Speljohan]

Construct is a pretty good open source DirectX-driven game builder. I mostly use it because i am a lazy fuck who lacks the patience and time to write a real engine in a real language. I always end up with half-finished ones.

[Zinsane]

blender

http://www.blender.org/

Didn't realize that Blender had engine capabilities. There are some great free aps out there.

[DaveMS]

Unity is supposed to be great, but i've never used it as it only runs on Mac currently. You are going to need some programming experience to use it though.

I use Ogre 3d for game development, although again, your going to need programming experience to use that too.

[iza]

Anything half-decent will require significant programming knowledge. Otherwise, there's a bunch of free crap out there to make crappy crap.

[Speljohan]

Anything half-decent will require significant programming knowledge. Otherwise, there's a bunch of free crap out there to make crappy crap.

That all depends. I used to hate all those "Game Maker" tools before, however when i found all these great indie games that were made using them i promptly changed my mind.

[Ziegler]

NeverWinter Nights.

Probably find it in a bargain bin for 10.00, but it has pretty intuitive world builder. And there used to be ALOT of custom made stuff you could import into it.

[Lethn]

Try using a mod engine or something instead, if can make any sense at all of the damn file types that half-life 2 uses as well you can also use that engine for free if you already have the game, Age of Chivalry and CSS was made on that.

[Red Forman]

I just found this little thing. Looks like its very user friendly, might even be a good time burner for those of us bored out of our minds waiting for darkfall.

http://www.moddb.com/games/platinum-arts-sandbox

[Deten]

Infinity engine :)

[fermer101]

Infinity engine :)

This.