game engine suggestions

[AHarvey]

Hi all,

A friend and his work mates want to start some indie game development and are after an indie game engine.

Either free or paid for engines or even professional engines that are now free/cheap to use.

Any suggestions?

 

[AHarvey]

Thanks for the list Rroff.

As for experience, they've been designing and making levels/mods for halflife 1 for years and all work in various areas of web design (both graphics and programming).

Chances are it'll now develop in to anything but they'd like to start somewhere.