IDEA: Torque and a book!

#21 There is a book out that tells you how to import models into Torque and it comes with a Realmwars demo. It's called "2D Artwork and 3D Modeling for Game Artists". Unfortunately, there are no books about actually using Torque, modifying, scripting, etc...
I would definitely fork over $50 for even a general book, as I've spent that much on several game making books that only had one or two tidbits of relevant info in them.

#22 Hey who's been reading my email. That's my idea ;)
Actually my idea is this, there are already soOOOOOO many engine coding books, game coding book, game design books. But all I really wanna know is HOW THE F#$% DID YOU guys (by you guys i mean anyone who's finished making a game) make that fab game of yours. How did you schedule your time, how did you find the people who worked on the project, how did you get funding for THAT project, yep THAT particular project not theory but real situations, can you show me some of your documentation for the game. I dunno what the big secret is but everyone is willing to throw code away left right and center but code is complete jibberish without any documentation to guide you through it and no one wants to relinquish their documentation. Which leads me to believe its either taboo or people are just too plain lazy to have any in the first place.
Anyway to get to the point, I wanted to makes a game BUT I also wanted to produce a journal showing how I made it. The journal would include cleaned up notes, documentations, sketches to final proofs to final examples of artwork. Problems I encountered and how I got around them. Basically what should happen is if I had passed on my journal to someone they could recreate my game from scratch.
Ahhh a new games that's nice. Some of the community here might be interested, but since we're developers wouldn't it be nicer to package a game with a journal for an extra few bucks.
I dunno that's just my take on it. and why haven't I done this already is I've been working on something else which you should see soon enough and 2 I haven't actually WRITTEN a game in torque yet.
anyway that's just my take on it

#23 Hmmm...

I had been thinking more along the lines for game making noobs, with perhaps a chapter or two of more advanced ideas.

Of course, I've seen thicker books on programming QuickBASIC. ;-)

-Eric

#24 There is a book being written, due out at the start of the New Year.
I'll post more info once I've received the OK from the publisher (due to NDA).

#25 I think if you're under NDA mentioning there is a book has already broken it, so you may as well tell us anyway :)

#26 Hehe, nice try :-)

#27 New Year?!? Thats way too long. :(

/me waiting patiently.

#28 I realize this is way late, but those older posts I noticed said that no game has actually been made with the torque engine yet, is this true, or was it only true at the time those posts were written?

Keith Weatherby II

#29 Keith,

Take a look at the GG products page, currently the top 3 TGE games are Marble Blast, Orbz and ThinkTanks (in no specific order).

-Ron

#30 Cool thanks :-)

Keith

#31 Auran Jet give sell there engine for like $136 and with that you get the engine and a tutorial book and i know lots of people have forked out for that o im sure garagegames could something of the same maybe Not with Torque1 due to the ammount of changes and the like the community have put into it but maybe more likley bundle a boook with Torque 2 when i comes out .

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#32 3D Game Programming All In One by Ken Finney, Premier Press, 900 pages, ISBN: 159200136X

Uses the Torque Engine throughout, also covers MilkShape 3D and QuArK, among other tools. Probably best for the denizens of this site to hang on until the details are sorted out for GG to sell it here, so you that can buy it from GG. That's in the works, and it shouldn't take too long for that...although I couldn't tell you exactly when.

#33 Link above fixed

#34 Congrats, Ken. :)

#35 Clicky Clicky Linky Linky

#36 Good Job! I might go get it here sometime!

#37 This will be great for the Torque community. I'm curious what areas you cover in the book. The description says it covers how to make a FPS, and since the TGE comes with a working but unfinished FPS, I'm very curious how you expand on that in the book.

#38 Mucho kudos to you ken!

Can you tell us exactly what is covered?

#39 Have you added it as a Resource yet?

#40 That looks great but how do you know it coevrs torque throught out the book? All i see is that it comes with a full featured game engine, but torque is 100 dollars here and the book is only 50 dollars.

oh, nevermind, I saw the name of the author.