Adobe is offering Flex Builder for free for Unemployed Developers.

LINK

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FlexFighters is a tutorial on game programming with Adobe Flex.
Step by step tutorial, source code and demo.

note:Adobe Flex is a free tool.

LINK

Tags: code, create, fighter, flash, flex, Free, GAMEMAKER, source, tool, tutorial

Design your own video game adventures.

Atmosphir is a free video game / creation tool for Mac & PC. Design mode lets you create enormous 3D platforming levels filled with fun gameplay elements like power-ups and fireballs, while Play mode lets you explore through the thousands of diverse user-created challenges being uploaded every day.

Download for: windows or macintosh

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Tags: ADVENTURE, Atmosfir, Build, create, Free, tool

Another great software from DrPetter, a talented programmer from Sweden, create your music.

You may also wanna try sfxr (sound effects generator.)

Download Musagi

Download SFXR (available for linux too)

Tags: create, game, GAMEMAKER, Musagi, MUSIC, resource, tool

NeoAxis Engine is an all-purpose, modern 3D graphics engine for 3D simulations, visualizations and games.

NeoAxis Engine is a complete integrated development environment for creating interactive 3D graphics including 3D virtual worlds, AAA games, and realistic simulations. The system comprised of both a real-time 3D engine and a suite of full featured tools.

The NeoAxis Engine Non-Commercial License intended for non-commercial applications and for learning NeoAxis Engine.

Indie license available for 99 dollars.

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Tags: gameengine, GAMEMAKER, neoaxis, sdk, tool

Unity is a multiplatform game development tool, designed from the start to ease creation. A fully integrated professional application that just happens to contain the most powerful engine this side of a million dollars.

Unity 2.1
Unity has evolved to be the perfect MMO and virtual world client, both in the browser and stand-alone. Stream in limitless landscapes as your users travel your universe, customize characters, and load infinite locations and virtual items on demand. When Funcom, makers of Anarchy Online and Age of Conan, decide to use Unity for their upcoming browser based MMO project, you know it has to be good.

Unity can be purchased by indie developers only for 149 euro!!

The only downside (as far as i know) it’s that you can publish on many platform, pc, wii, iphone BUT you can develop only on the Macintosh platform. BUT as you can see from a guy comment down here, the PC version will (should) be available very soon.

LINK

Tags: 3d, create, development, game, MAC, MMO, tool, unity

DX Studio is a complete integrated development environment for creating interactive 3D graphics. The system comprises of both a real-time 3D engine and a suite of editing tools, and is the first product to offer a complete range of tools in a single IDE. The system includes both 2D & 3D layout editors, and allows full JavaScript control of everything from changing the background to editing meshes in real-time. You can also command and control your documents from outside of the player using the powerful ActiveX/COM interface. Using DX Studio you can build complete real-time interactive applications, simulations or games, for standalone use or for embedding in other Microsoft Office/Visual Studio applications.
The engine behind DX Studio uses DirectX 9.0c to make the most of 3D graphics hardware acceleration, and includes support for the latest pixel and vertex shader effects found on the more powerful 3D graphics cards.
The playback engine in both EXE and ActiveX DLL forms can be redistributed without any further royalties.

DX Studio is available in Freeware , Standard and Professional editions.

LINK

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Maplet is now *free*!
Maplet is an extremely easy to use modelling tool, designed to make creating ‘indoor’ style scenery as painless as possible.
Maplet is a ‘Constructive Solid Geometry’ based modeller. This means that instead of modelling with polygons, vertices and so on, all modelling is performed with solid ‘primitives’. Using operations such as ‘carve’ and ‘fill’, solid primitives are combined together to create models.
This modeling approach allows you to create highly detailed models very rapidly. It also guarantees the production of geometrically ‘correct’ models which is very important for precise collision detection and optimal rendering.
Maplet features a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor:
All editing is performed in full 3D, using a ‘reference plane’ which can easily be moved up or down.
Maplet also features a ‘lightmapper’. This tool generates special lightmap textures based on lights placed within the scene, creating realistic light and shadow effects.
Maplet can export either .B3D or .X format models. Unfortunately, the .X format does not support features required for lightmapping, so lightmaps can only be produced for .B3D models.

LINK

Tags: basic, Blitz, GAMEMAKER, MAPLET, tool

Powerful 3D modelling, rendering and animation software for Apple Mac OS X.

You can download and try out the demo version of Cheetah3D for free (please bear in mind that if you want to save any of your documents, you’ll need to purchase a serial number).

Link

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Author:”  Splashmap is a fluid, non-tiling, 2D map and terrain editor designed for creating beautiful game maps that are simply not possible with traditional tile-based methods.

SplashMap is designed to be usable by anybody wanting to make a sidescroller of any kind, and as such it features a very simple, easy to parse and human readable file format. If you’re in the market for a map editor and want just a little more flexibility in your map creation process, give it a spin.”

Available for Windows and Linux.
Requires Sun Java Run Time 1.6 or higher.

Download

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