GarageGames Update

We get a lot of questions about what we are doing and when things are happening. As you may know, we weigh giving early information out that may not be final (or may change) with guidance on what we are planning. Here is an update that will give helpful information for some of the community questions.

GarageGames is always looking for ways to stay connected to our community. Therefore, the idea of bringing back a GarageGames newsletter makes a lot of sense. Our summer newsletter is here and registered GarageGames customers will see it delivered to their email address by the end of the month. It is called the GarageGames Gazette. We highlight our sale specials, community happenings, our staff and what we have been doing this year. We also catch up with a successful Torque developer for an interview to learn about their development process. If you registered with us and we missed you, our apologies. To be added to our newsletter email list, just send an email to newsletter@garagegames.com with your email address and a note that you would like to be added to the list. Also, you can tell us what you think about our newsletter and even suggest new stories for our upcoming newsletters.



With our new art team, we want to provide professional quality art Torque 3D users can use to enhance their game or show off their code (it always helps to have great art to go with programming). Our first art pack, GarageGames Soldier Pack features 8 skins to put your soldier in jungle, tropical or even arctic environments. It is available now for $19.99. Our second art pack, GarageGames Vehicle Pack, gives the Cheetah from Torque 3D 1.1 radically different looks. It will be available this week for $19.99.

On the hiring front, I’m glad to announce we have three more programmers joining us in sunny Las Vegas. Kyle Miller has been with us a week. He comes from the simulation industry with extensive knowledge of several areas of programming. We did note that he has used Torque 3D extensively in his past job. Dennis Booth is a veteran developer with 10 years at Rainbow Studios/THQ and several software startups. Finally, Masaki Oyata joins us from teaching programming in the classroom to programming in our QA analyst position. Welcome.

On sales promotions, our $99 promotion on Torque products will be ending soon. We haven't locked down a date yet, but it is a limited time promotion. I'd also like to note Torsion and pureLIGHT are also limited time sales. Grab them while they are on sale. Keep your eyes open for Torque 2D. There's going to be a sale on two products later on in the week.

What about Torque products? Here are some in progress updates:

Torque 3D 1.2 - Bug fixes and more upgraded docs with extensive tutorials are in the works.

iTorque 1.5 - We're still trying to hire an iOS programmer; so we are looking at our options as far as features and release date. Progress is definitely being made on development. Improved multi-touch, Gyro and Accelerometer support are featured next in iTorque 2D Preview #2. We expect this to be available next week.

I hope you're staying cool this summer. Questions?