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Cryoma Member of the Year Reputation: 198
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 5:54 pm Post subject: Game Engines/Creators. |
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I will derive a list of game creation tools for those who wish to get into the field.
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Game Maker.
www.yoyogames.com
Genre: All
Price: Free/$25
Coding: Optional (GML)
Recommendation: Beginner
A decent program for beginners, you can easily create any kind of game, although it's a real hassle to use for more advanced games.
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FPS Creator.
www.fpscreator.com
Genre: FPS
Price: $29.99
Coding: No
Recommendation: Beginner-Intermediate
A really great editor for a really great engine, this allows you to use the presets, or import your own models and textures.
You can create your own maps, guns, and stories.
Note: At the present, I can't seem to get this program to work at all.
It's simply full of bugs and glitches preventing me from doing diddly squat.
If you manage to get it working, let me know.
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Adobe Flash.
www.adobe.com
Genre: Any
Price: $699
Coding: Required (Actionscript)
Recommendation: Advanced-Pro
A truly great program that can be used to create so much more than games.
Everything this program exports is compatible with both your desktop and your website.
Best with 2D games.
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UDK.
www.udk.com
Genre: Any
Price: Free
Coding: Yes
Recommendation: Intermediate-Pro
Development kit for the world renowned Unreal engine.
Make your game using the same engine as legendary games like Unreal Tournament and Gears of War.
Did I mention it's free?
I give it 3 stars because it's actually pretty difficult, but that's just my personal rating, if you spend time getting to know the program it goes up to 4 stars.
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RPG Maker Franchise.
www.enterbrain.com
Genre: RPG
Price: $60
Coding: Optional (Ruby Game Scripting System)
Recommendation: Intermediate-Pro
Lovely.
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Blitz Franchise.
www.blitzbasic.com
Genre: All
Price: $60-$100
Coding: Required (Basic/C)
Recommendation: Advanced
A collection of 3 different programs, to fit your game creation needs.
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Realm Crafter.
www.realmcrafter.com
Genre: MMORPG (3D)
Price: $100-$165(Pro)
Coding: No
Recommendation: Intermediate-Advanced
A actual working MMORPG engine, you can easily make a WoW style game, and host it too!
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hcavolsdsadgadsg I'm a spammer Reputation: 26
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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My 2c
Any Unreal title: Free
Pretty much any Source engine title: Free
Crysis: Free
MOD AN EXISTING ENGINE FROM A POPULAR GAME. Why would one not want to take advantage of a well developed, fast and fully featured engine that has a gigantic userbase?
All of these titles expose all the gameplay code and pretty much everything in the toolset. Nothing is stopping you from creating an entirely new game, even of another genre.
Coding not your thing? Maybe level design, sound design, modeling, or million other aspects to creating something is up your alley. Better yet, who says you have to create a new game? Create new content for the original. Unreal has absolute shitloads of custom maps for all their games, plenty of which match the quality set by the actual developers or exceed it.
Examples of some good mods:
http://www.redorchestragame.com/
http://www.moddb.com/mods/eternal-silence
http://www.moddb.com/mods/petrograd
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Labyrnth Moderator Reputation: 9
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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My 2 cents...
Blitz Basic
Blitz Plus
Blitz 3D*
Blitz Max*
*Best 2 if your planning on getting this game programming language.
Dark Basic & FPS Creator
Hello Cryoma & slovach .
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Slappy101 I post too much Reputation: 1
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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Slovach, where'd you get the Crytek engine?
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hcavolsdsadgadsg I'm a spammer Reputation: 26
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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Slappy101 wrote: | Slovach, where'd you get the Crytek engine? |
Buy Crysis, the toolset comes with it...
http://crymod.com/portal.php
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Cryoma Member of the Year Reputation: 198
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Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:16 am Post subject: |
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Labyrnth wrote: | My 2 cents...
Hello Cryoma & slovach . |
Hello Labyrnth.
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Sprinto Newbie cheater Reputation: 0
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Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 5:24 am Post subject: |
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nice list dude +rep
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Cryoma Member of the Year Reputation: 198
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Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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Sure thing, I'll add more later.
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Cheat Engine User Something epic Reputation: 60
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:08 am Post subject: |
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Gamebryo is another option.
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hcavolsdsadgadsg I'm a spammer Reputation: 26
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:18 am Post subject: |
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Holly wrote: | Gamebryo is another option. |
this is going to be undoubtedly expensive as fuck.
don't count on getting your hands on it outside of working for some kind of studio.
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gogodr I post too much Reputation: 125
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:38 am Post subject: |
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I heard theogre engine is pretty good and its free
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hcavolsdsadgadsg I'm a spammer Reputation: 26
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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gogodr wrote: | I heard theogre engine is pretty good and its free |
ogre is just a renderer.
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gogodr I post too much Reputation: 125
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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slovach wrote: | gogodr wrote: | I heard theogre engine is pretty good and its free |
ogre is just a renderer. |
oh, ok then. I never tried it, just heard about it and saw nice results though.
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Cryoma Member of the Year Reputation: 198
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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Holly wrote: | Gamebryo is another option. |
Yeah right.
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gogodr I post too much Reputation: 125
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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Cryoma wrote: | Holly wrote: | Gamebryo is another option. |
Yeah right. |
I just requested for a evaluation copy. ;3
I hope they are more friendly than the Unreal Technology people whom I had to beg just to get the price of the Unreal Engine 3 >.>
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