It's interesting that, in it's simplicity, I find NeoAxis' engine demo the best yet for any engine. It has lots of rooms and in each he shows you a particular feature. It's renderer may not be as good as C4 and it's tools not as good as A7, but the developer (I think his name is Ivan) really puts a lot of effort in it.

It just comes through as a very honest piece of work.

Disclaimer: I don't own a license of any of the three engines above, so I am beyond suspicion.

Yes. I agree. There is much love in this neo-axis demo though it is not good looking as well.
But you see that there went much work in it. Even little games are built in into some rooms (turret demo, RTS demo, crane demo, AI-demo, physics). And the control via interactive panels built into 3d models directly in the world is impressive as well.

Bought C4 yesterday after reading that I get free upgrades for a lifetime. So yes can't go wrong there. About NeoAxis, it is free for hobbyists like me which is also very nice. In the meantime I stick with GameStudio though, the only software that allow me to reach my goal easier..

Note to Echelon: Before turning around my life, with C4 I meant a game engine

any idea why it offers a mac osX port, but not a linux port? if it had one, i'd buy it immediately.

i thought this demo looked pretty good, could someone tell me what language is needed for codeing a game? is it a kind of c-script?

I believe it's all C++. So it's like the big brother of lite-C.

Yes, you need C++ for new features. Otherwise you can script with a node-based visual editor. This is very helpful for the level-designers.

Hiya.

In regards to the Linux question: Not officially. That said, there is a 'community project' for a few folks who have taken to tweaking the code base for Linux use. With the latest versions (I think Build 145 or later), Eric has done something with the QuickTime code part so that you can 'ignore' it for compilation or something (I'm not a programmer).

Anyway, just go to the C4 forums and do a search for "Linux" and you should get all the info you need.

well, if it's not officially supported, i don't have the time nor the knowledge to tweak a whole engine for a certain operating system. and if i'm purchasing something, i expect it to work. if i just wanted to play around, i could use irrlicht form the start. so if there is no official port yet, ok, that's all the info i needed. so i'll be patient...

Guess people started to try port it to linux because at least they have the C4 engine source-code. Will take time before something stable comes out though, but its a start. If GameStudio Pro could publish to Mac and Linux I would upgrade today!