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TOOLS FOR [LEARNING] GAMES Prepared by Marc Prensky. Updated November 18, 2004 Thanks to Steven Drucker, Bob Bramucci, and others. Note: not a complete list; will change over time. Please send corrections and additions to [email protected] FREE (OR CLOSE) COST $ Adventure Game Studio: Adventure Maker: www.adventuremaker.com Templates http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/ BlitzPlus (2D) www.blitzbasic.com Adventure game engines (Spiderweb) Certification Templates (Games2train): www.spiderweb.com www.games2train.com Frame Discovery School: Flying Buffalo www.flyingbuffalo.com/teacher.htm Games http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/ Game Show Pro (Learningware): Flash Games: http://flashgames.umn.edu/ www.learningware.com GameMaker: Games Factory (Clickteam): www.clickteam.com Game www.cs.uu.nl/people/markov/gmaker/index.html MindRover (Cogni-Toy): www.mindrover.com Makers Hot Potatoes (Half-Baked): Quandary (Half-Baked): http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/ www.halfbakedsoftware.com/quandary.php Simple 2D PPT Jeopardy: In “Awesome Game Creation” Book QuestPro: www.axeuk.com/quest/ Peril: www.teachopolis.org/arcade/index.html Simple Games: www.babrown.com Engines Personal Educational Press:: Stagecast Creator: www.stagecast.com www.educationalpress.org/educationalpress/ Play-by-mail: www.pbm.com/~lindahl/pbm_list/email.html Rapunsel: www.maryflanagan.com/rapunsel Savie Frame-Games (Canada) www.savie.qc.ca/CarrefourJeux/fr/accueil.htm Storyharp: www.kurtz-fernhout.com/StoryHarp/ Thiagi: www.thiagi.com/freebies-and- goodies.html Word Junction (X-Word): http://web.njit.edu/~scher/Special/TLT/GemOfPu blicDomain.htm Alice: www.alice.org Flash (Macromedia) Prototyping Croquet www.croquetproject.org (in beta) www.macromedia.com/software/flash/?promoid=ho Tools Squeak: www.squeakland.org/ me_prod_flash_082403 Proce77ing: http://processing.org/ Python: www.pygame.org Project Fun’s Game Dev System and Editor Building Scratch: (Digipen): http://projectfun.digipen.edu/ Tools http://llk.media.mit.edu/projects/summaries/scrat ch.shtml Also used: Glyph, Lisp, Scheme, Smalltalk These games come with internal tools for level Additional tools can be bought for: Modding building: - Level design Tools Neverwinter Nights: - Texturing and Skinning, e.g. : 3D Studio Max, http://nwn.bioware.com/developers/ Maya, Milkshape www.planetneverwinter.com/ - Customizing sound and voice, e.g.: SoundForge Half-Life: www.planethalflife.com/ - Modifying Models and Animation, e.g.: http://collective.valve-erc.com/ CharacterFX Unreal: www.planetunreal.com/ , - Coding and Scripting www.planetunreal.com/hosted/mods.shtml Dungeon Siege: www.siegeworks.org/index.php Operation Flashpoint: www.bistudio.com/ Blitz 3D www.blitzbasic.com 3D Game Panda 3D (Open Source): DarkBASIC Professional: www.etc.cmu.edu/panda3d/ http://darkbasicpro.thegamecreators.com/ Engines Gamebryo (NDL): www.ndl.com/forpublishers.cfm Torque: Jupiter (Touchdown Entertainment - formerly www.garagegames.com/pg/product/view.php?id Lithtech): www.touchdownentertainment.com =1 Quake III (id): www.idsoftware.com Quest 3D: www.quest3d.com Renderware: www.renderware.com/ Unreal (Epic): http://udn.epicgames.com/pub/Engine/WebHome/ Virtools: . www.virtools.com Wild Tangent: http://www.wildtangent.com/ TOOLS FOR [LEARNING] GAMES .