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Enchanted Forest Content Pack Released

At long last the Enchanted Forest Environment Pack for Torque 3D and TGEA is live and available in the GG store.

Author Todd Pickens Date 09/24/2009 (4:23 am) Comment 36 comments

FPS Environment Pack free Update, or...

...The Odyssey...sans Penelope It's a long time in coming, but I recently submitted an updated build of my [url=www.garagegames.com/products/104/]FPS Environment Pack[/url] to Derek at Garag...

Author Todd Pickens Date 09/01/2008 (6:15 pm) Comment 31 comments

Someone once said...

..."Often, the right thing to do and the hardest thing to do are the same thing". I have exited the garage, Garage Games that is. It was not an easy decision, but a necessary one for me. ...

Author Todd Pickens Date 07/03/2008 (8:02 pm) Comment 11 comments

I think I saw Bigfoot...

But it turned out to just be a really hairy Hippy It has been a while since [url=www.garagegames.com/blogs/44513/12642]my last update.[/url] And it has been a crazy, and event filled 4 months. ...

Author Todd Pickens Date 06/24/2007 (6:52 pm) Comment 19 comments

There's a Surprise Inside!

Or... How is this post like a box of CrackerJacks? So in my [url=www.garagegames.com/blogs/44513/12594]last post[/url] I said that the free update for my [url=www.garagegames.com/pg/product/...

Author Todd Pickens Date 03/31/2007 (7:13 pm) Comment 43 comments

Flower Power

Just thought I would post a quick update since the free expansion is taking longer to finish up than planned. As you can see in my previous post [url=www.garagegames.com/blogs/44513/12211]here[/ur...

Author Todd Pickens Date 03/24/2007 (4:23 pm) Comment 38 comments

Road Work

Ando recently posted some great shots [url=www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=12268]Here[/url] of some stuff he was working on. The work was all stock TGE, (done very ...

Author Todd Pickens Date 02/08/2007 (10:13 pm) Comment 26 comments

Marathon Man...

...Minus 13.1 It has been way too long since my last post, and I have been a busy man. I started the new year by training for and running in my first half marathon. The best I can describ...

Author Todd Pickens Date 01/31/2007 (9:38 pm) Comment 19 comments

How is a Mini Pack like Bag of Holding?

...I just qualified myself as an old school D&D nerd there didn't I? That's ok, my cloak of indifference will protect me. This is sort of an unofficial announcement for the release of the...

Author Todd Pickens Date 11/01/2006 (4:50 pm) Comment 19 comments

Is it dead? ...Get an axe!

FPS Environment Pack - Post Mortem [url=www.garagegames.com/products/104]Here is the link[/url] I chose to...

Author Todd Pickens Date 09/12/2006 (2:01 am) Comment 15 comments

A bird in the hand is worth...

..Killing two birds with one stone? ...And other metaphors I could butcher to make my point. It is late and I am in a self imposed crunch mode on my new Environment Content Pack, but I thoug...

Author Todd Pickens Date 08/03/2006 (8:34 am) Comment 30 comments

Post Mortem - R.T.S Environment Pack

The Goal To develop a content pack designed specifically for use with the Torque Game Engine and ...

Author Todd Pickens Date 03/01/2006 (11:20 pm) Comment 16 comments

Environment Pack

Looking back to the future I finally completed my first big contribution to the community, the RTS Environment pack. And it launched last Friday. You can find it here [url]www.garagegames....

Author Todd Pickens Date 02/13/2006 (5:38 pm) Comment 16 comments

Plan for Todd Pickens

The American South West - RTS Environment Pack Environment Number ...3.5 I have been working on this environment for the better part of the past two weeks. I was going to cut it short for...

Author Todd Pickens Date 12/04/2005 (11:43 pm) Comment 15 comments

Plan for Todd Pickens

Time for a Long over due update. "The Swamp" This one was a bear...well not really, but when you slate ten eight hour days to completely develop an environment, you don't have time for a ...

Author Todd Pickens Date 11/16/2005 (6:43 am) Comment 9 comments

Plan for Todd Pickens

RTS Environment Pack

Author Todd Pickens Date 10/11/2005 (1:40 am) Comment 19 comments

Plan for Todd Pickens

I Figured it was about time to post something here. I am leading a team that is developing a game with the Torque engine and the RTS kit. We have been working on it a while, but its starting to pic...

Author Todd Pickens Date 09/27/2005 (6:33 pm) Comment 17 comments