{"id":403,"date":"2010-08-14T20:29:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T10:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedragon.kicks-ass.org\/blog\/?p=403"},"modified":"2010-08-14T21:12:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T11:12:26","slug":"game-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedragon.kicks-ass.org\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"Game Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking to create a game for the boys for ages, i&#8217;ve looked a GameMaker and a few other, i still like the idea of Pygame, and other extensions. For real\u00c2\u00a0gaming, i&#8217;m leaning towards a full 3d environment, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blender.org\">Blender<\/a> Game Engine, <a href=\"http:\/\/unity3d.com\/\">Unity3D<\/a> or<a href=\"http:\/\/www.udk.com\/\"> UDK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Each have their strengths, i think Blender would suit me, as i know the UI now, so its just a matter of working out the rigging \/ animation and game engine physics more. While Unity has all you need for a simple game out of the box, and UDK is the bee&#8217;s knees when it comes to a full game engine, with high performance, and great graphics, but its UI is clutered, and is targeted at FPS&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Unity doesnt have easy to find <em>tutorials<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/unity3d.com\/support\/resources\/tutorials\/\">a few on the main Unity sit<\/a>e and\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/unity3d.com\/support\/documentation\/video\/\">some Vid&#8217;s<\/a> plus\u00c2\u00a0there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dbuzz.com\/vbforum\/sv_videonav.php?fid=db25cc88fdc47f4afd9562b6abb1332a\">some on Buzz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking to create a game for the boys for ages, i&#8217;ve looked a GameMaker and a few other, i still like the idea of Pygame, and other extensions. For real\u00c2\u00a0gaming, i&#8217;m leaning towards a full 3d environment, like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thedragon.kicks-ass.org\/?p=403\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[9,11,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20dKL-6v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedragon.kicks-ass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedragon.kicks-ass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedragon.kicks-ass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedragon.kicks-ass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedragon.kicks-ass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedragon.kicks-ass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/thedragon.kicks-ass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedragon.kicks-ass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedragon.kicks-ass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedragon.kicks-ass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}