Unreal Engine 4 is free to use (unlimited) for colleges and universities. The engine can be installed and used on all school owned computers, and personal copies can be provided free of charge to all students enrolled in accredited video game development, computer science, art, architecture, simulation, and visualization programs.
Clickteam released Fusion 2.5 Free Edition! There is no time limit, this is not a demo version and what’s more – you can even export your projects as HTML5 and are free to sell them online. Whatever you create is yours to keep, share or sell as you see fit. If you like this product, support the clickteam and buy the standard edition!
Nightmod is a tool for making live-moddable games. You can view a game’s code while it’s running and inject changes by simply hitting “Save”. With the powerful Clojure programming language, you’ll see your game come to life as you type.
Godot is a fully featured, open source, MIT licensed, game engine. It focuses on having great tools, and a visual oriented workflow that can export to PC, Mobile and Web platforms with no hassle. The editor, language and APIs are feature rich, yet simple to learn, allowing you to become productive in a matter of hours.
Unreal Engine 4 is available to everyone. Epic’s goal is to put the engine within reach of everyone interested in building games and 3D content, from indies to large triple-A development teams, and Minecraft creators as well. For $19/month you can have access to everything, including the Unreal Editor in ready-to-run form, and the engine’s complete C++ source code hosted on GitHub for collaborative development.
Stencyl 3.0 is released!
Stencyl is a great program to make games. The free version of Stencyl lets you publish Flash games. Commercial version let you publish to Desktop (windows, mac and Linux), iOS or Android. For Windows, Linux and Mac.
Clickteam released Fusion 2.5! If you purchased Multimedia Fusion 2 or Multimedia Fusion 2 Developer between August 1st and December 5th 2013, you will get a free upgrade. For product owners there is a limited discount offer to upgrade.
Update: GameMaker Studio Standard is now 100% free.
GameMaker Studio version 1.2.1214 was just released, and with it comes an offer to upgrade to the Standard edition free of charge. Valued at $50, GameMaker Studio Standard is a significant improvement upon the free version of the software which imposes harsh restrictions on the resources that developers can make use of.
Additionally, developers can use their free Standard edition license to upgrade to the Professional edition for only $50 more. It’s likely that this is a time-limited offer, so if you’re using the free version of GameMaker Studio be sure to act quickly.
Your browser is the console, your phone is the controller.
Brass Monkey is video game console that uses smartphones as controllers and any screen with a web browser as the main display. Brass Monkey provides a free SDK (software development kit) that lets developers create games with similar features to traditional consoles (XBox, PS3, Wii, Wii U, etc.) using tools for creating Web based games: HTML5, Unity and/or Flash.
GameMaker: Studio caters to entry-level novices and seasoned game development professionals equally, allowing them to create cross-platform games in record time and at a fraction of the cost! In addition to making games development 80 percent faster than coding for native languages, developers can create fully functional prototypes in just a few hours, and a full game in just a matter of weeks.
