From the Unity Forums..

Dear awesome Unity community,

With great pleasure I will share that we have completed development on version 2.6 of Unity. This release includes some awesome new features for everyone like a brand new Animation Editor and Project search, along with additional Pro-only features such as a Profiler, Ambient Occlusion, and tons more.
You can read more about what’s been packed into this release on the new 2.6 feature page.
But we’re not quite done here… That’s right, we’ve discontinued Unity Indie and replaced it with a feature-identical version of the Editor called simply “Unity”. The difference? Unity is free for everyone. One more barrier to entry torn down.

For current Indie license holders, we’ve thought about you too! We’re offering a discount on a Unity Pro upgrade for all Indie license holders. Until the end of the year, you can upgrade to Unity Pro for $1099. And if you’ve purchased Unity Indie in the past 60 days, you can opt to receive a full refund for your purchase instead. Those who qualify for the full refund should receive an email with details soon.

Finally, I’d just like to say thanks to everybody that uses, learns, and teaches Unity. Our community is about to grow again with new Unity users, and I’m just really proud of how the spirit of helping and supporting each other perseveres throughout each new influx. It’s just great, plain and simple. I’m looking forward to playing all your brilliant creations!

LINK TO UNITY

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Tags: 3d, BROWSER, compiler, developer, Free, GAMEMAKER, iphone, MAC, script, sdk, tool, unity

Platinum Arts Sandbox is an open source easy to use standalone 3D Game Maker and 3D Game Design program currently based on the cube 2 engine being used in many schools throughout the world that allows kids and adults to create their own video games, worlds, levels, adventures and quests, even cooperatively! The goal is to make it accessible to kids but also powerful enough for full game projects. With a simple click and roll of a mouse wheel users can modify the world however they want. In the words of Margaret, a nine year old Sandbox whiz I babysit for, “Press Edit and go fulfill your dreams!”. Now features new game modes such as sidescroller, machinima, kartmode, RPG, and more!

The Mission: The mission of Sandbox is to make it as easy as possible for kids and adults to make their own games and worlds. The idea is that if we make it easy enough for kids to use, hopefully it will be easy enough for adults as well.

Platinum Arts Sandbox Main Features:
* Kid Friendly, Free and Open Source.
* Editing is done in game, including cooperatively over the Internet or LAN.
* Easy enough for kids to use but powerful enough for full game projects.
* Several different modes, including cart, sidescroller, movie (machinima) and RPG
* Several custom maps that feature saving a princess, mazes, houses, quests, etc
* The pursuit of making it as easy as possible to add map features and content.

Download for Windows
Download for Linux (Multiplatform)
Downloa for Macintosh

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Tags: 3d, Arts, builder, children, cooperative, creator, fun, game, kids, landscape, platinum, sandbox, world

The Star Wars: The Clone Wars Game Creator is a free games site that lets you build your own action games and send them to Cartoon Network’s online game gallery for everyone to play. Or you can play games built by other kids, rate your favorites or share the games you make with your friends. make your own game where Anakin, Captain Rex and Cad Bane battle their way past enemies and obstacles to reach the goal!

LINK to SW Clone Wars GameCreator

Tags: Ben, cartoon, Clone, creator, game, online, star, wars

Native code for web apps.

Native Client is an open-source technology for running x86 native code in web applications, with the goal of maintaining the browser neutrality, OS portability, and safety that people expect from web apps.

Basically a plug-in (for browser) and sdk (for developers) to use the browser to run x86 native code.

Link to Native Client

Nice and crazy, isn’t it?

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Tags: apps, client, code, compile, google, LINUX, MAC, Native, open, quake, source, web

It’s an online on-demand self-publishing service for paper games that anyone can use. If you’re interested in creating and publishing your own paper games yourself, check it out.

Create your own Boardgame (cards, rules, map, dice etc) then let this guys print it for you. You can also Sell your board game at their shop (they retain 50% of the selling price).

LINK TO GAME CRAFTER

Tags: boardgame, card, Crafter, create, dice, game, paper, pen

(Bucaneer was actually made with TGEA not Torque 3D)

Torque 3D is a professional SDK used to create games. In simpler terms, Torque 3D is a game engine developed by GarageGames. Game development is one of the most difficult, yet fun and rewarding, professions in the world.

Using a game engine is not just a shortcut to finishing a game. Using Torque 3D will save you the time and effort required to create a complex rendering system, high speed networking, real time editors, a scripting system, and so on. However, you must also realize that there is a lot of power “under the hood” that should be harnessed.

More than just a powerful, C++ driven game engine, Torque 3D is also a collection of tools that will aid you in making your games. The engine, also referred to as the source code, was developed entirely in C++. The most important thing to realize about Torque 3D is that it is a large, complex system. It is possible to complete a game without ever touching the source code. However, having source code access allows you to extend the engine to be whatever you want.

This one is priced (the moment i write) 1000 us dollars.
There is also TGEA which is 295 us dollars for indie.
Or torque 2d which is 100-250 us dollars.

LINK to Torque 3D
LINK to TGEA
LINK to Torque 2D

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Tags: 3d, create, engine, GAMEMAKER, make, multiplayer, online, sdk, tool, torque

This is a collection of various ‘gamemakers’, tools to create games without writing a single line of code or minimal code. This programs are for windows, here the details:

GameMaker 7.0 (create 2d games)
This is a great tool, the shareware edition is very generous.
At some point will be available for Mac too. (beta currently)

NovaShell (focus on Adventure, RPG)
This is a game creation system, more focused on creation on adventure and RPG (role playing games). Novashell is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

WME – winter Mute Engine (Create Adventure)
Wintermute Engine Development Kit is a set of tools for creating and running graphical “point and click” adventure games, both traditional 2D ones and modern 2.5D games (3D characters on 2D backgrounds).

AGS – Adventure Game Studio (Create Adventure)
Adventure Game Studio allows you to create your own point-and-click adventure games, similar to the early 90’s Sierra and Lucasarts adventures. It consists of an easy-to-use editor to create your games, and a run-time engine to play them.

Contruct (create 2d games)
Construct is a free open-source game creator for DirectX 9-based games. It includes an event based system for defining how the game will behave, in a visual, human-readable way – without programming! It’s intuitive for beginners, yet powerful for advanced users. Optionally, expert users can also use Python scripting to add code to your creations.

DOWNLOAD GameMaker Pack for windows 2009

I left out a lot of tools (i am sure of) like mmo makers, 3d engine, compilers, sdk and so on.. you can
check the others gamemaker tools HERE
Or suggest a brand new one or one i don’t know.

P.s The Guy in the first picture is Professor. Overmars, he don’t play Football-Soccer 😆
so i guess he is one of the minds behind GameMaker program.

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Tags: Collection, GAMEMAKER, Games, make, program, tools

TORCS, The Open Racing Car Simulator is a highly portable multi platform car racing simulation. It is used as ordinary car racing game, as AI racing game and as research platform. It runs on Linux (x86, AMD64 and PPC), FreeBSD, MacOSX and Windows. The source code of TORCS is licensed under the GPL (“Open Source”).

TORCS features more than 50 different cars, more than 20 tracks, and 50 opponents to race against. Your can steer with a joystick or steering wheel, if the device is supported by your platform. It is also possible to drive with the mouse or the keyboard. Graphic features lighting, smoke, skidmarks and glowing brake disks. The simulation features a simple damage model, collisions, tire and wheel properties (springs, dampers, stiffness, …), aerodynamics (ground effect, spoilers, …) and much more. The gameplay allows different types of races from the simple practice session up to the championship. Enjoy racing against your friends in the split screen mode with up to four human players.

TORCS was initially written by Eric Espié and Christophe Guionneau, substantial parts have been added by other contributors. The TORCS source code is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), most of the artwork is licensed under the Free Art License.

Download Torcs 1.3.1 (windows)
Download Torcs 1.3.0 (Linux binary Installer)
Download Torcs 1.2.4 (Macintosh)
Download Torcs Source Code

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Tags: car, Drive, open, race, RACING, simulation, source, torcs

An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.

Available for Windows, Linux and Mac Os X.

LINK to Inkscape

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Tags: CorelDraw, editor, graphic, Illustrator, Inkscape, map, open, source, vector, Xara

Flash Fight is an open source fighting game engine for Adobe Flash. It is based on popular side-scrolling fighting games such as Final Fight, Streets of Rage and Double Dragon.

LINK

Tags: engine, fight, Fighting, flash, game, opensource