Mar
18th

Demoniak3D

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Demoniak3D is a tool designed to help developers and technical artists quickly create and prototype realtime 3D solutions: demos, benchmarks, little applications or games. It’s also a fantastic tool to start and learn real time 3D programming.

Demoniak3D uses a clever mixture of XML, LUA scripting and GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language). Demoniak3D’s 3D engine uses OpenGL for hardware graphics acceleration.
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Mar
16th

AIKA (game engine)

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Aika is a simple and powerful Game Engine, written in C++ (without any platform dependence), you could compile and run aika on several types of platform (including nintendo ds, symbian, etc).

The main proposal of the engine is to create a portable and easy of use framework to create multimedia content, e.g. games. LINK

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Mar
16th

Sony PhyreEngine dev toolkit

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PhyreEngine is a free cross-platform development toolkit for PC and PS3 (and potentially also X360)

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Mar
15th

The SimsCarnival

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The Sims Carnival is a new online community and gaming experience from The Sims that makes game creation and sharing more accessible and fun than ever before.

The introduction of this new creative endeavor from The Sims is designed to convert millions of players into game designers – no programming skills required!

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Mar
14th

NOCTURNAL INITIATIVE (Source Code)

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Open collection of libraries and utilities for addressing common challenges in game development.

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Mar
13th

BOOST (C++ libraries)

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Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries.

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Mar
12th

HAVOK (core physics for free)

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Havok announced today that they will offer the PC version of their award-winning physics and animation software product – Havok Complete – for download free of charge. Available for non-commercial use, Havok Complete for the PC will be freely downloadable in May 2008.

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Mar
11th

STEAMWORKS

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You can add the steam platform to your incoming games.

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Feb
22nd

Houdini with Torque Engine

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Free with watermark or low-cost license to use with torque engine exporter (99 $) 

Side Effects Software, an industry leader in 3D Animation software is pleased to announce the Torque exporter for Houdini. Developed by programmers at GarageGames, this exporter will put Houdini’s renowned node-based approach to 3D modeling and animation into the hands of both professional and independent game artists.

“Houdini Apprentice HD and the Torque Game Engine make a perfect match.” says Kim Davidson, President, Side Effects Software. “GarageGames recognizes the value in providing low-cost solutions to indie game developers, in the same way Side Effects supports artists and animators with Houdini Apprentice HD.”

Houdini offers game developers a wide range of artist-friendly modeling, animation, lighting, rendering, character and effects tools. But it is Houdini’s procedural node-based solutions that will make it easier to populate games with next-gen quality content. The exporter supports the output of meshes, nodes, animation, bone animation, level of detail, textures, UV coordinates and more, to the Torque Game Engine.

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Feb
21st

Scratch (educational tool)

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Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.

Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design.

Scratch is available free of charge.
Currently available for Mac OSX and Windows. DOWNLOAD

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