HNikolas

Bought a Lumia 800 few days ago and would like to create few simple games for it. I know XNA but would like something that lets me complete projects more rapidly, thats why I would like to find a full-blown engine, perhaps even something like Unity.

After quick google I found the following:
Sunburn 150$
QuickstartEngine FREE but not sure if works with WP7, presumed it ebcause XNA 4 support.
FlatRedBall
Helium
Torque3D
FarseerPhysics Not entirely what I'm after but still worth mentioning.
Nine Looks like one of the best free ones on the list. Any thoughts?
Jemgine

If someone has any experience with the list I posted, would be awesome to hear what you think and if you could suggest me something else, would also be very appreciated!


Offtopic question: Anyone has any information about Unity being able to run on WP7?

I am not sure if this is the right subforum for this topic. If this is wrong subforum, then pardon and plese someone with the powers, move it to the right one. I would also like to mention that this topic is not here to buy Unity Pro licence from someone, it is currently purely theoretical.

I am really falling in love with Unity3D and would like to expand to the full licence just to unlock all of the power it can deliver. Looking at the shop, regular Unity Pro licence is $1500, so it costs more then I would ideally want to pay out(I understand its small money for game developing companies, but I am just indie guy who recently got back into game programming and Blender). I am wondering, from the licence and law perspective, is it allowed and possible to buy the Unity Pro licence second-hand from someone wanting to sell it and if yes, what precautions should be made?

I am looking for an easy program that enables me to do models for my 3D game. I am willing to pay up to 500€ for the software but would of course prefer not to.

Priorities:
- Has to be easy to learn and use. Thats the most important!
- Under 500€ preferably
- Able to add animations is a big pluss.
- Any additional whistles that do not overly complicate it.


I have tested Blender and it looks very sweet, but it has so many buttons and would take a while to learn, so I would like something simpler(if that does not sound reasonable, then please tell).

Not sure if this has gone through here, if so then pardon.

"A documentary that follows the journeys of indie game developers as they create games and release those works, and themselves, to the world."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1942884/

Digital download + extras for 10$, more info can be found here: http://www.indiegamethemovie.com/


Overally, I enjoyed the piece a lot. It had kind of sad touch attatched to the whole movie in my opinion, someone could say its just realism. Definitely worth the 10$!

I am in need of a good book that can get me started with 3D game programming. I would like the book to teach a lot of theory and math. Language of choice is C# but if the code in the book is written for some other language, that works too.