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Software suggestions

Here are some suggestions compiled from Global Game Jam and other sites with some of our additions. It is highly recommended that you install and try out the tools before the actual game jam. You are of course free to use any kind of software you want to; just remember that all the games made in the game jam are uploaded to GGJ site have to be under Creative Commons license*.

Programming environments

Bloodshed Dev- + + http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html The complete programming environment for C++ using gcc .

Eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/ The complete programming environment primarily intended to develop applications. It can however be used for development in another .

Flash Develop http://www.flashdevelop.org/wikidocs/index.php?title=Main_Page The programming environment for developing Flash applications ..

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express Products http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/ Visual Studio 2010 Express products are a free set of tools for building applications for the cloud, desktop, phone and the web.

NetBeans IDE 6.9 http://netbeans.org/ The complete programming environment for developing Java applications.

Editors, engines, frameworks

2D Boy Rapid Prototyping Framework http://2dboy.com/2009/05/27/rapid-prototyping-framework/

Adobe Flash http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/ Flash is a multimedia platform. There is a free trial available on the .

Box2D http://www.box2d.org/ Box2D is an open C++ engine for simulating rigid bodies in 2D.

Construct http://www.scirra.com Open-source tool / design environment for developing games (easy as GameMaker, but technologically more).

Flixel / FlashPunk http://flixel.org/ / http://flashpunk.net/ A pair of engines for 2D flash game. gameQuery http://gamequery.onaluf.org Engine for easy development of games for browsers. Gamemaker http://www.yoyogames.com/make Gamemaker is a very simple, but flexible editor developed by Mark Overmars. It's 2d, but you can fake 3d games in it.

GameSalad http://gamesalad.com/ GameSalad allow game creators to visually create games by composing actors and behaviors in to scenes. It's available for Intel based Macs. You can make 2d games and there is a in . iOS SDK http://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action Package libraries and development tools for Apple platforms.

Irrlicht http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/ Open source 3D engine.

LOVE http://love2d.org/ Cross-platform framework for 2D game programming in LUA.

Ogre http://www.ogre3d.org/ Open source 3D engine.

QuArK http://quark.sourceforge.net/ QuArK stands for Quake Army Knife and is a for Quake and many other games. It can edit maps and models, import sounds and textures, create pak-files and run .

SexyApp Framework http://sourceforge.net/projects/popcapframework/ Libraries for game development engine at PopCap.

Silverlight http://silverlight.net/ is a framework that provides functionalities similar to those in . It is compatible with multiple web browser products used on and Mac OS X operating systems.

Stencyl http://www.stencyl.com/ Create iOS and Flash games with or without code.

UdK http://www.udk.com/ Tools and libraries for creating multi-platform games on the third

Unity 3d http://unity3d.com/unity/download Unity is commercial 3d editor & engine for Mac and PC. It's a medium sized editor that can function with most file-formats and can export to PC, Mac OS X, /XP/Vista, Apple Iphone, Nintendo Wii & webbrowsers. They offer their software for free.

Windows Phone and 360 http://create.msdn.com/en-us/resources/downloads Check out this site for tools to create Phone and . Includes XNA Game Studio 4.0 and Windows Phone SDK. http://dead-code.org Toolkit for creating graphical adventure games (point & click).

Discussion on Gamedev about free 2D game engines http://www.gamedev.net/topic/131458-what-free-2d-game-engine-should-i-use/

Gamedev.net search about free game engines http://tinyurl.com/ylcgvc4

Graphics programs (2D)

Adobe Photoshop CS5 http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Editors/Adobe- PhotoShop-Trial.shtml Photoshop is the program for image-manipulation. There's a trial available on the website.

Aviary http://aviary.com Photo editor for web & mobile apps.

GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program) http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP is an open source, program for image manipulation.

GIMPshop http://www.gimpshop.com/ Modification of the free/open source program GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), intended to replicate the feel of .

Inkscape http://inkscape.org/ An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) .

Photos from Flickr with creative commons search flag http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=as&l=cc&ct=0&mt=all&adv=1

Graphics programs (3D)

Autodesk 3ds Max 2012 14.0 http://usa.autodesk.com/3ds-max/ One of the most common ones is 3D Studio Max. There's a trial version available on the site.

Autodesk Maya http://usa.autodesk.com/maya/ Maya is another of the widely used 3d . Trial version available.

Autodesk Softimage http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/item?id=13571257&siteID=123112 Free for *noncommercial* game creation and modding

Blender http://www.blender.org A free open source 3D content creation suite.

MilkShape http://chumbalum.swissquake.ch/ is a low-polygon modeler, which was initially designed for Half-Life. Ptex http://ptex.us/index.html Ptex is a texture mapping system developed by Walt Disney Animation Studios for production-quality rendering

Silo http://nevercenter.com/silo/ Silo 2 is a focused application. For Windows and Mac OS. Trial version available.

2D/3D art assets http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=544073

Audio programs

Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Audacity is opensource, freeware audio-record & -editor.

Freesound http://www.freesound.org/ Freesound is a collaborative of Creative Commons Licensed sounds.

PXTone http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA022293/pxtone/index.html (page is in Japanese) Tool for creating music to games. A comprehensive manual for using it: http://www.gr87.com/?page_id=64

SFXR http://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html Simple retro sound effects generator.

Musagi http://www.drpetter.se/project_musagi.html Editor in chiptune style music.

Search for open source audio: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Aopensource_audio

* The team/makers of the game hold all IP rights. However, the Global Game Jam may use the games for demonstration as it sees fit. All games must be posted in the state they are in as of 15:00 Sunday, January 29, 2012. If the team/makers of the game wish to upload subsequent versions, they are welcome and GGJ will host and archive them. All participants and all games entered for GGJ must agree to a Creative Commons, share, alter, no sell license.