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 marc@games2train.com
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| Templates Frame Games Game Makers Simple 2D Engines |
Adventure Game Studio: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/ Adventure game engines (Spiderweb) www.spiderweb.com Flash Games: http://flashgames.umn.edu/ GameMaker: www.cs.uu.nl/people/markov/gmaker/index.html Hot Potatoes (Half-Baked): http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/ PPT Jeopardy: In “Awesome Game Creation” Book Peril: www.teachopolis.org/arcade/index.html
Personal Educational Press:: www.educationalpress.org/educationalpress/
Play-by-mail: www.pbm.com/~lindahl/pbm_list/email.html
Rapunsel: www.maryflanagan.com/rapunsel Savie Frame-Games ( 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/GemOfPublicDomain.htm |
Adventure Maker: www.adventuremaker.com
BlitzPlus (2D) www.blitzbasic.com Flying Game Show Pro (Learningware): www.learningware.com
Games Factory (Clickteam): www.clickteam.com
MindRover (Cogni-Toy): www.mindrover.com Quandary (Half-Baked): www.halfbakedsoftware.com/quandary.php
QuestPro: www.axeuk.com/quest/ Simple Games: www.babrown.com Stagecast Creator: www.stagecast.com Web-Based Certification Templates, Classroom Game Templates
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| Prototyping Tools Building Tools |
Croquet www.croquetproject.org
(in beta) Squeak: www.squeakland.org/ Proce77ing: http://processing.org/ Python: www.pygame.org Scratch: http://llk.media.mit.edu/projects/summaries/scratch.shtml Also used: Glyph, Lisp, Scheme, Smalltalk |
Flash (Macromedia) www.macromedia.com/software/flash/?promoid=home_prod_flash_082403
Project Fun’s Game Dev System and Editor (Digipen): http://projectfun.digipen.edu/ |
| Modding Tools |
These games come with internal tools for level building: Neverwinter Nights: http://nwn.bioware.com/developers/ Half-Life: www.planethalflife.com/ http://collective.valve-erc.com/
Unreal: www.planetunreal.com/ , www.planetunreal.com/hosted/mods.shtml
Dungeon Siege: www.siegeworks.org/index.php Operation Flashpoint: www.bistudio.com/
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Additional tools can be bought for: - Level design - Texturing and Skinning, e.g. : 3D Studio Max,
Maya, Milkshape - Customizing sound
and voice, e.g.: SoundForge - Modifying Models
and Animation, e.g.: CharacterFX - Coding and Scripting |
| 3D Game Engines |
Panda 3D (Open Source): www.etc.cmu.edu/panda3d/
Torque: www.garagegames.com/pg/product/view.php?id=1 | Blitz 3D www.blitzbasic.com DarkBASIC Professional: http://darkbasicpro.thegamecreators.com/ Gamebryo (NDL): www.ndl.com/forpublishers.cfm Jupiter (Touchdown Entertainment - formerly Lithtech): www.touchdownentertainment.com
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/
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