best game engine below 7000$

You could take a look at unity3d. http://www.unity3d.com It has great tools for game development.

does it have to be a single complete engine or can you connect a separate graphics and physics engine, the latter will take a little work but give you far more options

it can be both, and what is weakness of unity3d anyway, i want to know it before hand.

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Original post by mmmobasher it can be both, and what is weakness of unity3d anyway, i want to know it before hand.

Here people have listed some pros and cons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_%28game_engine%29

I also remember unity's first weakness is that, it is on mac (development enviroment). wait for other options

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Original post by mmmobasher it can be both, and what is weakness of unity3d anyway, i want to know it before hand.

Probably, the development is on MacOS currently :). But it can deploy to windows environment which required DirectX9. You can ask directly to them by email or at their forum at forum.unity3d.com

$7k omg! That would buy me a new camera lens! Thats a lot of money to lay out. Of course I have absolutely no knowledge on what game engines cost so ill be quiet now...

For a serious game engine this buck is minimum ! for example unreal engine 3 according to devmaster site: "is estimated to be more than $700,000".

Omg! Thats nuts! But I guess if you really know what your doing and can create a great game from it its worth it. (As long as you release the game and sell it to more people than just your friends of course :P)

Wonder what the lisencing fee is for the source engine is...I imagen quite high as you also get to use the steam servers (for updates, online, selling your game, etc) and I suppose you can also port your game to the 360 quite easy now since Valve have already done it with some of there stuff.

I did just try to find out but it seems Valve will only discuss lisencing under an NDA...

Yes...well. People don't ordinarily license Unreal 3 engine unless they've got a decent bit of capital behind them. Hence, garden variety indies cannot touch it. Not being a producer or anyway involved in figuring out how much these things cost, I can't comment first hand on prices -- but I guess you should map out pretty clearly what you want to -achieve- before you go throwing money about. The amount of effort required to make certain engines do things they were not designed to do can be formidable :)

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I can tell you a long list of features we want, but by saying we want something like cry engine2 you must know what we want. but when we talk about budget we must go below that, say we don't want console support, internet support(we can implement it our selves) linux support. but we want some stabilized, modern one.

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Original post by mmmobasher I can tell you a long list of features we want, but by saying we want something like cry engine2 you must know what we want.

Yeah. You want too much. I highly doubt a little team on a budget of 7K can create that kind of content that would actually require all the abilities of that engine.

Regardless of what an engine costs, you can't always just pony up the cash and get your hands on it. You may need an interview or to prove that your project is funded, and of sufficient quality, so the engine doesn't have it's name attached to a horrible looking project, which would devalue it in the eyes of others.

Is 7k your entire budget, or just for the engine? Because a single copy of Lightwave will run you 1K alone, for your art needs. You can get capable engines for free, and spend your cash on the required tools and other assets.

this is only for engine and we can spend more if it worth it. for big game you must do Sacrifice.

The new version of Unigine seems to have a nice set of features. It costs about 10k but you can begin the development after an initial payment of $2495. (After 29th February it will cost $50k.)

it is very promising, but i can't see any games done with it. do you know one?

you won't find any AAA games that use an engine that costs <=7000 dollars (unless you consider a game like peggle AAA). Most AAA games will either license already proven technology (ala unreal 3, source, id tech etc.) or develop in-house tech.

your best bet is something like unigine or torque(which does have a AAA title released for it, tribes 2)

As I know there are no games released using unigine. I just came cross their website some time ago and was impressed by the demo and the screenshots. It seems to be a complete game engine with a lot of useful tools. Furthermore I think the $2495 + $7490 license an interesting option for indie developers.