Ubuntu / Linux - 2D / 3D Game Makers - List
UBUNTU LINUX - 2D and 3D GAME CREATORS/MAKERS
Searching for software, like the classic Windows Games Factory, (was also known as Klik and Play 2) very easy and fast learning curve,
"Click and Play" or "Drag and Drop" style (objects like graphics, audio, scripts, etc.), with very simple scripts.
Most of cases you just dont need to write a single line of code!
Related links: Games Factory 2 home | Multimedia Fusion 2 Developer home | In wikipedia, here | In "Click Team" home page, here
Searching in Youtube, for examples, i found:
kjellm87 says: "I used "The Games Factory" and "Photoshop" to create it. Enjoy." here and here
3D splash screen for the CD-ROM version of Clickteam's Klik & Play (1994) here
Multimedia Fusion here, here and in 3D here
Ok, that was nice... On Windows... With all strange licences fees for the games that you develop, and sell, $$$, etc, etc...
Now, how about software or help, for develop the games i have in mind, in a easy and fast way, in my Linux?
So caled games creators, game developers, 2D or 3D games engines (usefull code)...
GAME MAKERS - Open Source or Free (From posts and search) (Alphabetical order)
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Allegro - "Allegro library provides C/C++ programmers low level routines commonly needed in game programing"- home - games
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Alpha Z313 - "It is called Alpha Z313 you can look", "I will be making all my programs .deb files for Ubuntu Users" - here - games
News: dark joev: "I am currently working on a game maker for linux. I am looking for more people to help becaues there is currently no contributers."
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Blender - Blender!? A 3D Modeler here, Why? "Blender is the first of the 3D packages to integrate a game engine as well as tools for editing game-logic and creating interactive animation"
Home, Newbies, Link about the game engine, Finished projects, Topics, -- Videos: Fluids, Physics, Tutorials (awesome ones there)
News: Not sure about this, but some people say that Blender will have 3D Game Engine Ogre included in future, well if this is true, then this could be a SERIOUS ultimate tool for game development in open source community. Cant wait to see it!
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BYOND - Licence: (Free ???, and for Windows only ???) - "Free Multiplayer Gamming" - home - games
"It is composed of: Dream Maker, Dream Daemon, The Hub, Dream Seeker" - here
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ClanLib - "Its primary focus is on games, although not limited for that usage only" - home
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Crystal Space 3D - (3D engine) - home - example game video
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Game Editor - Licence: (Many doubts here, Linux version seems to be free, but...) - home
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Mokoi - "Create a game that is able to be play on almost any platform": home
"Game for Mokoi can be create 2 ways, by hand or with the game editor Alchera": Alchera
News: "Mokoi Gaming is looking for skilled people with development knowledge"
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Ogre 3D - (maybe the best open source 3D engine around) - home
Ogre linux install: here - Debian package: here - Export models from Blender: here
Hydrax plugin (water effect): here - video1 - Gallery: here - 3D Game example: here - More games: here
>> Open Source Video Games using Ogre 3D engine, examples: Wings Of Fury 2
>> Commercial Video Games using Ogre 3D engine, examples: MotorM4X
They say: (...) "A common question is 'can I create commercial applications using OGRE under the LGPL'? The answer is an emphatic yes" (...)
Note: Google Summer of Code 2008 Student Applications Open! - This event helps to improve this (OGRE) 3D engine.
OFFTOPIC: Portugeuese / Brazilien MS Visual C++ and Ogre tutorial video: link and easy start learning c++ here: videos
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phpMMORPG - Creates MMORPG games - home
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pygame - (They say: Takes the "C++" out of "Game Development"), ( Python modules designed for writing games)
"under the LGPL licence, you can create open source, free, freeware, shareware, and commercial games" - home -games
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Arensus Crossword Puzzle Editor (€29,99 to €69,99) - Only for crosswords - home
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BlitzMax ($80) - Blitz3D ($100) - BlitzPlus ($60) - "The ultimate in game creation tools and utilities",
"a very streamlined compiled basic syntax language" - home
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Stagecast (from $79.95 to $755.00) - "Create interactive simulations, stories, games, and more" - home
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Tools (Libraries, etc):
Lua - "Powerful, fast, light-weight, embeddable scripting language" and "it can be used for both academic and commercial purposes at absolutely no cost." - home
OpenGL - News: "OpenGL ARB announces an update on OpenGL 3.0" - home | SDL - "Cross-platform multimedia library" - home
Lazarus - (Class libraries for Free Pascal that emulate Delphi) - home
A must see 3D Game Engines List - http://www.3dengines.de/feat_patch.html
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Integrated Development Environments (IDEs): (IDE examples for Windows are, Microsoft Visual Basic Studio or MS Visual C Studio)
Bloodshed Dev-C++ - "for the C/C++ programming language" - home | Code::Blocks - "Meet the most demanding needs of its users" - home - Ubuntu nightly builds: download
Anjuta DevStudio - "For C and C++ on GNU/Linux" - home | Eclipse - "For C, C++, Java, etc" - home
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Code (C, C++ Resources, examples, tutorials, etc):
C++ tutorials / learning videos, a lot there, from absolute beginner to expert: videos
Very Complete Starting Guide for Beginners - link
Beginner C++ - link, simple code examples here | Physics with C++ - link - link - code
SOIL - "C code for loading BMP/PNG/JPG file" - home
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Off-Topic:
• Want to play really good native linux games? Try this list: TOP Ubuntu/Linux/Windows games
• Want to help in a open source game project? (Similar to "Gunbound" and "Worms") Its called iteam. C, C++ coders, we need you!Check here
• Comments, ideas, etc. (posts) from people that use any king of software for game creation, are welcome.
• Help in maintain this thread updated, corrected and organized is welcome. Post your comments, so i can edit this. Thanks.
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Resources:
Resources for making your games. Graphics, sounds, music and other things that you can use:
http://www.pygame.org/wiki/resources
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