The release version of Garage Games' Torque Game Builder has been, well... released! Up 'til now, it's been in an "early adopter" state, but now you can be a full-fledged adopter if you get your butt over there and buy this bad-boy up!

If you're not clear on what TGB is, I'll give a quick overview here, but you really just need to go read through the feature list and then snag the 30-day demo to see what's up for yourself. TGB is a full 2D (and pseudo-3D, I suppose) game development engine, complete with great tutorials and even tools for creating deliverables at the end. Embedded tools include an interface editor, content/art manager, level editor, tile editor, particle editor, editing editor... editors everywhere. Bah... just go read the list!

It really is very impressive from what I've seen up until now. I just downloaded the final release so I'm not sure what's new for me, but I've read about quite a lot of changes and additions... all getting rave reviews. Of course, most of the reviews are from die-hard GG followers and admitted Torque freaks, but that's fine. Leave it to rabid followers to tear apart a new product and uncover the good/bad within days... they already did that before and GG took the feedback and rolled a bunch of fixes/changes into TGB just in the last few weeks! Nice work, Garage Games.

I'll leave you with this... Garage Games freakin' rocks. I know I'm supposed to try being unbiased, but those people are from the Damn Fine Folks clan. Those guys have worked tirelessly for many years with the sole purpose of building up independent games and the Indie community. Their support for all things Indie has been inspirational, at the least. I'll pimp their goods any day.

Rock on, GG!! :)