I was thinking about making a RPG game. However I can't think of a good engine that is free to use so does anyone have any suggestions?

Current people involved in future game making:
WanderingRogue
CappyBlack
SporktheslightlyInsane
RevolutionFilms
EternalDarkness

Ya mean like these?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPG_creation_software

I heard Unreal Engine is free.

What's it about would u like to team up?

Unity, Unreal, Source...

Let's do this thing. I am in.

I'll cover QA.

Alright let's start a Dev team

Sound good to me. I actually have a lot of spare time.

Shotgun texture creation.

I'll bring refreshments in exchange for a majority share in the company.

I could do some writing, if needed.

This will never take off.

Some people are still fresh faced and starry eyed. Don't ruin it.

Yep, I know this from experience on another forum. :tongue:

What skill level do you have? Any programming ability? If so, which language/languages? Any artistic ability? Two dimensional, three dimensional, still, animation? What do you want to have control over -- combat mechanics, skill system, armour system?

You may be best off just modifying one of Bethesda's games for now, since that's pretty straight forwards and well documented, with a very friendly community.

I know how to 3d model and if I remember Revo has a degree in Game design

What's the plot

Naw, not quite. I can do pretty much anything in Source though (environment-wise at least).

Can you make textures and animations, or just meshes?

How are you with algebra? (this may seem random, but is relevant)

So you have a few people ready to go. Find out what each person is capable of skills-wise, select a library/engine, and for God's sake get some ideas out there for what to make the game about. So far there are four of you who want to make an RPG but have yet to present anything as to how this game will be. I say four only because Spork wants to do QA. It's really a bad idea to form a team in this way, but I'm not going to rain on your parade. Good luck you guys.

You could use Unreal's Engine or the http://mycryengine.com/ one ?
You'll need a license though to distripute your game on CryEngine though.

I'd love to participate in something like this, but please try to be realistic. You're not going to create an RPG in Unreal/CryEngine/Whatever with a bunch of people you found on an internet forum.

If you wanted to create a cute platformer in Unity however... then you might actually succeed.

QFT.

Unity is good platform to develop game. TBS game I'm working right now uses Unity.

I'd recommend Unity. I've been working with it for close to a year now and I've grown to like it. The free version comes with some basic assets and I'm pretty sure the pro version comes with more and better ones (though it's around $1000). Of course, you're not going to want to rely on premade assets, but there's enough there I think to play around with and get you started learning how everything works. http://www.3dbuzz.com/vbforum/sv_home.php has some pretty decent tutorials on Unity, plus an assortment of tutorials for other programs.

If you're serious about it, then that's awesome and I wish you all the best. But I tend to find that, from what I've seen (and experienced in one instance), these groups tend to work out along the lines of high school garage bands. Everyone talks about wanting to "make it big" but in the end most people just don't take it seriously enough and/or get bored and move onto different things when/if they find out how much effort is actually involved (algebra, geometry, drawing, writing, reading, etc etc etc).