Which one is...?

Hello

Let's consider the following game engines :
Blitz3d - DarkBasicPro - 3DGS - Torque

Which one is the most popular ?
I dont' mean the best, Blitz in my opinion, just the number of copies around

Balsam.

Most popular? Torque.

Santa's watching you Enay...

that's two lumps of coal now...

--Mike

Has anyone here got any experience with Torque 2D? I'm quite tempted to purchase it but, without being able to see it in action, I'm hesitating. I'd like to know if it is actually as impressive as it sounds...

Darkbasic products have sold in the millions more than torque products in total and are way more popular / massmarket.

For starters they are in the retail channels and have been for many years now. Get facts right people...

Darkbasic products have sold in the millions more ...

It is also my impression, DarkBasic comunity is huge.
Once again it is due to the tremendous power of marketing
See how they promote their products.
From an engineering point of view , in my opinion, DarkBasic is the worst of above mentioned products

DarkBASIC has sold in the millions? I doubt that. I'm sure it's probably the biggest seller ... but I highly doubt millions.

DarkBasic is also the reason people buy other languages. Once they've realised that they've bought a piece of cack they go in search of other development tools. :)

DB for christmas I say. :)

DarkBasic is also the reason people buy other languages.

Exactly what I did
I purchased DarkBasicPro first, based on its "supposed" advanced features . two monthes later I ran away

i really don't know, i'd need to go and get a users count off of each of the forums, but at a more convenient guess i'd say, in order of popularity.

1. 3DGS - seems everyone knows this.
2. DarkBasicPro - maybe 1st if counting DBclassic.
3. Torque - i think this a bit 133t, so not as many.
4. Blitz3d - not the fault of the product though. :)

there's a reason that Blitz isn't as popular, go to google and type in easy game programming.

*goes to google*

oooh, first page lists 3drad and darkbasic.

so is google the measure of popularity? judging by the popularity of 3drad (not popular) then no. so it must be marketing in general then.

Try www.googlefight.com. That will give you the answer to this question.

'torque game engine' - 809,000 (132,000 in quotes) (over 9 million just 'torque')

'darkbasic' - 355,000

'blitzbasic' - 263,000

'3d game studio' - 129,000 (over 5 million out of quotes)

It depends on how you do the search.

Oooh this is fun!

Daze,

What do you mean? I have BMax and Protean running together, fine.

...and btw I think BMax 3d will do nicely thanks, I love Blitz3D and Im looking at Torque, but haven't purchased just yet.

IPete2.

Such comparsions were talking about over and over.... too many threads about XXX vs XXX.

How about stick to one and keep learning it?

Sticking to one doesn't make sense. You will be limited in the projects you can tackle.

Personally, I'm going down the C/C++ route once I've got my act together :)

Such comparsions were talking about over and over....
Sticking to one doesn't make sense

I was talking about sales only, not about comparison

I know what you were talking about, I just decided to hijack a little bit of the thread ;)