Any body familiar with 3d Game Maker?  I would appreciate some input...(Is it worth buying?)

Depends.

If you know how to program, Dark Basic's a better choice. However, if you don't want to program and you don't mind really simple games that look a bit dated, then 3D Game Maker's okay.

There are other game development packages besides Dark Basic...you can find them with an Internet search pretty easily.

-Mel

I think 3D Rad is the best.

Does anybody know a free 3d game development program ???

This is from memory - not checked

http://www.3drad.com/ do a free version

www.blender3d.org

there is something called ogre at http://ogre.sourcgforge.net

can't think of any more free ones...

have you tried search engines ?

Yes but they were only softwere to pay for

try

http://www.theothersideworks.com ; Alex's (from this forum) web site (lots of info)

just found this list

http://www.ambrosine.com/resource.html