Game Development Tools & Game Engines

Game Development Tools & Game Engines "Game Design Tools for Independant Game Developers"

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IndieGameTools.com is a list of all the tools that you need to create video games. Independant developers share experiences on the best tools and game engines available. To get started you should select a Tool Function, and optionally, a Tool Qualifier or specific keywords from the pull down boxes at the top of the webpage and hit the submit button.

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If you are an experienced indie game developer then please join the thousands of Indies that have already helped make this database such an important resource and take a few minutes to vote or to tell us your most important, most useful, or your favorite tools and game engines. If enough developers help us out just a little then this site will itself become a useful tool.

Thanks,

-Robc

What is your game development workflow? What software development tools do you use to make games? I often see this question asked on various forums. IndieGameTools needs to elevate this discussion to a permanent and easily found thread... and here it is. Please format your comment similar to this example:

I am... (an artist, designer, programmer, indie hobbyist, etc., etc,) and I use the following tools on a regular basis:

• Tool 1
• Tool 2
• Tool 3
• ...

...(plus any further discussion you would like to add here)

Discussions about individual tools should be put on the individual tool page. Thanks again.

5 comments found.

1) Robc on 2009-10-19

I am a hobbyist programmer and developer and I regularly use the following tools

• GIMP (...or Photoshop, but mostly GIMP for 2d work)
• Milkshape for 3d graphics
• L3DT and GROME for Terrain
• Visual Studio C++ Express edition (SDK)
• Torsion (SDK, When I'm working with the Torque engine)
• Torque Game Engine Advanced 1.7.1 (W/AFX and sometimes with the MMO-Kit)
• turbosquid.com (as a source of graphic assets)
• Shrink O'matic for rough image handling for the website

I'm sure there are more but these are common tools that come to mind and that I have been using in the last year.

2) Jason T on 2009-10-28

I am a Flash game developer

• Flex Builder
• Flash CS4
• Audacity (for audio)
• CVS (for version control)

Simple is best.

3) Torque Artist on 2009-10-30

I am an artist working on a game with a small team using Torque

• Poser 6
• Greenbriar Studio ToolboxIII
• Ultimate Unwrap 3D (version 2.29)
• Milkshape3D (version 1.7.10)
• Fragmotion (version .89)
• TorqueDTSPlus

Use whatever feels intuitive to you, experiment until you like the tools you work with, try new stuff once in awhile

4) Randy Blitz on 2009-11-05

I am a Blitz developer, I use the B3d Pipeline which is a set of tools that creates an art pipeline from 3ds Max to Blitz3d.

• B3d Exporter
• B3d Viewer
• Blitz3d Brush
• Blitz3d Map
• B3d Extensions

try it.

5) Rex on 2009-11-05

• Maya
• MotionBuilder
• Photoshop
• Zbrush
• FileHamster (revision control)

5 comments found.