Torque Game Builder (TGB) is the world's most powerful 2D game engine. Built upon the amazing power of GarageGames Torque Game Engine (TGE), TGB takes advantage of powerful new hardware and software development techniques to leave all 2D competitors in the dust. TGB provides a complete cross platform 2D game development solution with built in rigid-body physics, an incredible particle effects editor, sprite based animations, TorqueScript (our C++ like scripting language), static and animated tiles, a fast swept-polygon collision detection system and more.

Torque is a true cross-platform AAA game engine in the same category as the Source and Unreal engines -- just with an infinitely smaller price tag. In fact, as the original technology behind Dynamix/Sierra's Tribes, Starsiege and Tribes 2, Torque is industry-proven and is now an integral part of some of todays hottest indie hits, such as Marble Blast, Orbz and ThinkTanks. It is a future-proofed development platform that will support you well into the technology of tomorrow.

Torque Game Engine Engine Advanced (TGEA) gives developers the tools and ability to create highly immersive next-generation worlds drenched with special effects and realism. Graphics rendering rewritten from the ground up and based on the time-tested Torque platform to take full advantage of the latest graphics and shader cards, DirectX 9 and beyond. Allows for procedural generation of shaders that support normal maps, detail maps, specular, cubemapping, glow, refraction, reflection, texture UV animation, and more.

Artist tools and documentation for a wide variety of modelling software are available for download. This area is not just here to educate you about Torque art, but to help you make the connections you will need to be successful. There are hundreds of programmers in the GarageGames community desperate for a good artists to help them fulfill their dreams.

The Torque Game Engine provides a proven standard with over 25 successful commercial games to its credit and a solid and growing base of documentation. Most importantly the hundreds of man years it takes to build a quality engine are available at educational prices and students can afford to purchase this engine even when classes are over.

TDN is the OFFICIAL Torque reference site for coders, artists, project leaders, level editors, modelers... anyone working with a game or project using Torque. TDN has tons of documentation that is constantly being generated and updated by knowledgeable game developers. The Torque Developer Network is currently only available for licensed holders of T2D, TGE and TSE.

The Torque Network Library is a powerful, secure, easy to use, cross-platform C++ networking API designed for high performance simulations and games. The network architecture in TNL has powered some of the best internet multiplayer action games to date. Whether you're writing a multiplayer game, developing a complex simulation, or just need a solid foundation for network apps, TNL will meet your needs.