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<table width="99%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2" align="center" bgcolor="#000080"> <tr> <td colspan="2" bgcolor="#000080"><font size="+2" color="#D9E5F4" face="Verdana">Game Building Resources</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" bgcolor="#000080"><font size="-1" color="#D9E5F4" face="Verdana">Note: Some engines are restriction-free, others will place limits on where and how you will be able to distribute a game built using this engine. Always check licensing agreements.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#ff3300" width="150"> <div align="center"> <font face="Verdana"><b><font color="white">Individual Tool Lists</font></b></font></div> </td> <td bgcolor="#D9E5F4"> <p><font size="-1">SeriousGames Wiki Resources: <a href="http://www.seriousgames.org/wiki/">http://www.seriousgames.org/wiki/<br> </a>Jim Brazel's Tool List (in Forecast appendix) <a href="http://forecasting.tstc.edu/forecasts/digital_games/">http://forecasting.tstc.edu/forecasts/digital_games/<br clear="all"> </a>Marc Prensky's Tool List: <a href="http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/default.asp%20">www.marcprensky.com/writing/default.asp <br clear="all"> </a></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr height="5"> <td width="150" height="5"></td> <td height="5"> <p>
</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="white" width="150"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/atmosphere/main.html"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:adobe.gif" alt="" width="150" border="0"></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"> <p><font size="-1">Adobe® Atmosphere is an interactive 3D multimedia creation and delivery platform for the Web and PDF. Atmosphere allows you to assemble graphics, video, audio, and 3D objects into rich, immersive, engaging experiences that go far beyond flat, static pages. Designers and developers use Atmosphere to inform, instruct, entertain, and sometimes just have fun. $399.00; Educational: $99.00 [<a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/atmosphere/main.html">http://www.adobe.com/products/atmosphere/main.html</a>]</font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#0066ff" width="150"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.agsforums.com/"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:logo_AGS.jpg" alt="" width="150" border="0"></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"> <p><font size="-1">Adventure Game Studio (AGS for short) allows you to create your own point-and-click adventure games, similar to the early 90's Sierra and Lucasarts adventures. It consists of an easy-to-use development environment, and run-time engine.<br> </font><font size="-1">Free <a href="http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/">http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/</a></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="black" width="150"> <div align="center"> <img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:am_logo1.gif" alt="" width="83" height="82" border="0"><a href="http://www.adventuremaker.com/"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:am1.gif" alt="" width="150" border="0"></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"> <p><font size="-1">Adventure Maker is a revolutionary, easy to use, powerful, and inexpensive toolkit to create point-and-click games and multimedia software in minutes. It does not require any scripting or programming, and it is particularly useful to create first-person and third-person adventure games, educational software, presentations, and interactive tours. It can create single, compressed, stand-alone files, for easy Internet or CD distribution.</font><br> <font size="-1">Free 60-day trial; single user license $99.00; site license: $990.00<br> </font><a href="http://www.adventuremaker.com/"><font size="-1">http://www.adventuremaker.com/</font></a></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="white" width="150"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.alice.org/"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:aliceWithGlobe.gif" alt="" width="90" border="0"></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Alice v2.0<br> Learn to Program Interactive 3D Graphics<br> Alice v2.0 is the next major version of the Alice 3D Authoring system, from the Stage3 Research Group at Carnegie Mellon University. It has been completely rewritten from scratch over the past few years.<br> The focus of the Alice project is now to provide the best possible first exposure to programming for students ranging from middle schoolers to college students. [<a href="http://www.alice.org/"> http://www.alice.org/</a> ]</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="white" width="150"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.anark.com/gameface/"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:anark_gameface.gif" alt="" width="150" border="0"></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"> <p><font size="-1">Anark Gameface is a professional tool created for designers as a complete game interface authoring solution. (will be pert of Anark Studtios 3.0<br> Designers, programmers and game publishers benefit from Anark Gameface’s powerful features that enable the rapid and cost-effective development of a 3D game UI including all art and logic. [<a href="http://www.anark.com/gameface/">http://www.anark.com/gameface/</a>] ~$1000.00, students: $100.00; Mac/Windows<br> </font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#ff9900" width="150"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://games.byond.com/start/"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:byond.jpg" alt="" width="150" border="0"></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Build Your Own Net Dream. Such a statement can be thought of as ambiguous, ambitious, even arrogant. And it is our intention for it to be all of these, and more.<br> BYOND is a system designed to take the Internet to the next level, byond the static interaction of the web, byond the uninspiring practicality of email. In a nutshell, it is a state-of-the-art platform for forging, publishing, and playing multi-user, multi-media, networked games. Some of the biggest freelance hits of tomorrow are being developed and tested right now in the growing reaches of BYOND space. [ <a href="http://games.byond.com/start/">http://games.byond.com/start/</a> ]</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="black" width="150"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://darkbasic.thegamecreators.com/"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:darkbasic.gif" alt="" width="150" border="0"></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"> <p><font size="-1">DarkBASIC allows you to create your own games, demos, slideshows, even business applications using the easy to understand BASIC programming language. Even if you've never coded before, just follow the in-depth tutorials and you'll be generating results in minutes! Harness the power of Direct X and make 3D objects come to life in just a few simple commands. <br> <br> </font><font size="-1">Free for Educators, otherwise $50.00 <a href="http://darkbasic.thegamecreators.com/">http://darkbasic.thegamecreators.com/</a></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#666666" width="150"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.gamemaker.nl/index.html"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:gamemaker.jpg" alt="" width="170" border="0"></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"> <p><font size="-1">Game Maker is a program that allows you to make exciting computer games, without the need to write a single line of code. Using easy to learn drag-and-drop actions, you can create professional looking games within very little time. </font><font size="-1">You can make games with backgrounds, animated graphics, music and sound effects, and even 3d games! And when you've become more experienced, there is a built-in programming language, which gives you the full flexibility of creating games with Game Maker. </font><font size="-1">Game Maker comes preloaded, with a collection of freeware images and sounds to get you started; there are also a number of games to help you out. Here you see a picture of the interface. <br> Free <a href="http://www.gamemaker.nl/index.html">http://www.gamemaker.nl/index.html</a></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="white" width="150"> <div align="center"> <img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:liberated-games-logo-sm.png" alt="" width="105" height="64" border="0"></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"> <p><font size="-1">Liberated Games<br> </font><font size="-1">Free, legal games for download. Included in this list because many of these games include the source code - which can then be used to build new games.<br> <a href="http://liberatedgames.org/about.php">http://liberatedgames.org/about.php</a></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="black" width="150"><a href="http://nwn.bioware.com/developers/"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:nwn-2.jpg" alt="" width="50" border="0"></a><a href="http://nwn.bioware.com/developers/"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:nwn-1.jpg" alt="" width="100" border="0"></a></td> <td bgcolor="white"> <p><font size="-1">Neverwinter Nights provides an accessible game engine (the Aurora Engine and Toolset) that allows developers to build games. Note: this one is not a beginner's engine. (requires purchase of NWN game) <a href="http://nwn.bioware.com/developers/">http://nwn.bioware.com/developers/</a></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="white" width="150"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.etc.cmu.edu/panda3d/"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:panda.jpg" alt="" width="150" border="0"></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"> <p><font size="-1">PANDA 3D - The open source game and simulation engine. [<a href="http://www.etc.cmu.edu/panda3d/">http://www.etc.cmu.edu/panda3d/</a>] Built by Disney for the MMOG Toontown. Uses Python and C++</font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="white" width="150"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.quest3d.com/"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:quest3dtoplogo2.jpg" alt="" width="150" border="0"></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"> <p><font size="-1">Act-3D developed <a href="http://www.quest3d.com/">Quest3D</a> in search of a method that would change the way real-time 3D projects where created. Quest3D is not like a programming language and it is not like any other 3D software package, it is a developing method that stands on its own. Act-3D has a quest to make real-time 3D graphics available for more people and to make it more powerful than ever before. ~$2000 / $750 / $90 / free (enterprise/professional/lite/demo versions) [<a href="http://www.quest3d.com/">http://www.quest3d.com/</a>]</font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#0000cc" width="150"> <div align="center"> <font color="yellow" face="Verdana"><b>RPG Maker 2000</b></font></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"> <p><font size="-1">RPG Maker 2000, and RPG Maker 2003 (free) Rpg maker 2000 (or rm2k) is a program where you can make rpg's! It's very easy,and fun to use too!<br> <br> </font><font size="-1">[<a href="http://www.svatopluk.com/rm2k/download/">http://www.svatopluk.com/rm2k/download/</a>] [<a href="http://www.kamain.com/index2.php">http://www.kamain.com/index2.php</a>] [<a href="http://antseezee.sphosting.com/rpgmaker2000.html">http://antseezee.sphosting.com/rpgmaker2000.html</a>]
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</p> </dl> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#ffffcc" width="150"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/index.html"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:spiderweb.jpeg" alt="" width="150" border="0"></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"> <p><font size="-1">Spiderweb Software, Inc. We are a small company, founded in 1994, that is dedicated to creating terrific games for Windows and Macintosh. Blades of Exile is a top down 2D adventure game, and includes a scripting engine. Blades of Avernum has a pseudo-3D look and a greatly advanced scripting engine. Shareware. [<a href="http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/index.html">http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/index.html</a>] </font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="white" width="150"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.garagegames.com/"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:GarageGames_banner.gif" alt="" width="100" border="0"></a><a href="http://www.garagegames.com/pg/browse.php"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:414.torque_logo.jpg" alt="" width="150" border="0"></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"> <p><font size="-1">The Torque Game Engine (TGE) is a fully featured AAA game engine with award winning multi-player network code, seamless indoor/outdoor rendering engines, state of the art skeletal animation, drag and drop GUI creation, a built in world editor, and a C-like scripting language. Unlike most commercial game engines, as part of the low cost license, you receive all C++ source code to the engine, so you can make any additions you need for your game.~100.00, Garage Games [<a href="http://www.garagegames.com/">http://www.garagegames.com/</a>] [<a href="http://www.garagegames.com/pg/browse.php">http://www.garagegames.com/pg/browse.php</a>]</font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#000066" width="150"> <div align="center"> <font face="Verdana"><font size="+1" color="#66ccff"><b>TRUEVISION</b></font><font size="+1" color="white"><b>3D</b></font></font></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"> <p><font size="-1">Version 6.5 of the TV3D SDK is a complete development solution, including 3D, Media, and Network Engines. With all of the power of higher priced solutions, and the flexibility and ease of use you have come to expect from Truevision3D. With a complete set of samples in multiple development languages your project can get started quickly. Included with the SDK are multiple tools to help you speed up your development. [<a href="http://www.truevision3d.com/home.php">http://www.truevision3d.com/home.php</a>] (1) FREE (with persistent watermark) (2) $150 single commercial license (3) $500 multi-product commercial license </font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="black" width="150"><a href="http://www.unreal.com/"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:unreal_logo.gif" alt="" width="150" border="0"></a></td> <td bgcolor="white"> <p><font size="-1">Unreal, another game that provides access to the codebase. (requires purchase of game) <a href="http://www.unreal.com/">http://www.unreal.com/</a></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#ff6600" width="150"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.virtools.com/"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:virtools-behavior.jpg" alt="" width="145" height="48" border="0"></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"> <p><font size="-1">Virtools Powered by the new Virtools Dev 3.0, Virtools' comprehensive development platform is the key to creating a wide range of addictive games, virtual reality/simulations and marketing/multimedia applications. <a href="http://www.virtools.com/">http://www.virtools.com/</a></font></p> <p></p> </td> </tr> </table>
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