Tombstone Engine vs HeroEngine

Tombstone gives full access to the clean and professional C++ source code allowing editing and upgrading anything in the system.

Including extensive documentation both in code as well as online along with a wiki, tutorials and a demo game.

Due to the well-organized, highly modular design of the engine adding custom functionality is easy.

Comes integrated with support for physics, audio, networking, input devices, resource management as well as modern features such as real-time shadows, horizontal mapping, voxel-based terrain, dynamic lighting, post-processing effects and much, much more.

Tombstone has a small, tight-knit community that's well educated and professional. Eric Lengyel, the main developer, can often be found giving thorough advice to users on the forums.

Backend completely handled by the team at Hero.

No need for Perforce, Github or any other versioning software. It is built in. Check, Compare, Merge, revert, etc.

Developers of the engine and game developers are active on the Forums and Skype for private messaging.

Able to create many types of games and scales all the way from a single area up to a full-blown MMO.

Designed for the needs of a MMO. HSL is also relatively easy to learn as scripting languages go. It was geared towards beginners, not time hardened programmers, and as such, its easier for a novice to pick it up sometimes, than a c++ programmer. That, and it was intended to be "readable" more like English.

Skype channel and forums questions answered by developers of HE and users very quickly.

Though the export pipeline may be different and currently requires 3ds Max or Maya, the format is highly optimized to reduce high quality models down to KB's.