Game Engines

It seems that the current BGE wont be robust enough to support some of the requirements without a great deal of fiddling.

Requirements for a game engine:

1. multiplayer
2. stateful (damage to objects must persist)
3. open source
4. tcp/ip

nice to have:

1. multiplatform (export to osx, linux, windows, ps2/3, ngage, java)
2. opensource language - e.g. python for scripting

Game engines

Torque 3D - $749
http://www.garagegames.com/products/torque/tge/who/

• used on 100s of games (apparently)
  
• looks ok, works with blender files
• doesnt work with bge
• needs to be scripted in 'torque' script

Orge - opensource/free
http://www.ogre3d.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=105

• Ogre is a 3d rendering engine that 'can' use libraries for multiplayer, entites etc.
  
• TODO: Worth investigating on the forums for what libs are available
• http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/PyOgre - use python to program ogre
  

gamestudio
http://3dgamestudio.com/

• 3d gay studio

crystalspace - opensource/free
http://www.crystalspace3d.org/main/Main_Page

• This looks to be the best
• looks like im learning c++
• sponsored by google and all sorts...
  

irrlicht - opensource/free
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/features.html

• looks well supported, but is like ogre - e.g. have to add stuff to it
• TODO: see how easy adding networking is