Knowledge: development tools and software
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- Vector Graphics
http://www.vectorg.com/ - Real-time 3D modeling experts! We create custom artwork (environments, characters, animations) for games, VR simulations, VRML, architecture.
- 3Dlabs
http://www.3dlabs.com/ - A leading innovator and supplier of high end performance semiconductors, software and related technologies for accelerating 3D graphics on the PC.
- Ascension
http://www.ascension-tech.com/ - Full line of motion trackers and sensors for virtual reality, entertainment, medical and biomechanical usage. Track humans, peripherals, & medical instruments in real time.
- Darwin
http://darwin3d.com/ - For all your software programming, graphic and web design needs.
- Build Your Own Net Dream (BYOND)
http://www.byond.com/ - A multi-player world building utility; allows you to create, host, and connect to text or graphical games, even web apps. Excellent for RPGs. Non-programmers can create worlds in minutes, while seasoned coders may take advantage of the powerful OO language behind the system.
- JavaWorld
http://www.javaworld.com/ - JavaWorld magazine - IDG's magazine for the Java community of developers, managers, and enthusiasts. Hands-on, how-to features and columns by Java experts; news; Java applets; sample code; tips.
- MultiGen Inc
http://www.multigen.com/ - MultiGen Inc. develops and markets realtime 3D authoring software
- Polhemus
http://www.polhemus.com/ - A leading manufacturer of electromagnetic 3D measurement systems used for motion tracking and 3D digitization. Offers a full range of products.
- RAD Game Tools
http://radgametools.com/ - RAD Game Tools is the developer and publisher of Smacker and the Miles Sound System.
- SOFTIMAGE
http://softimage.com/ - Softimage is a leading developer of high-end software for all areas of professional visual content production, including tools for 3D and 2D animation, and for creating, editing and finishing video programs.
- Totally Hip Software Inc.
http://www.totallyhip.com/ - Developers of WebPainter and Sizzler
- SpriTec Software
http://www.spritec.com/ - SpriTec Software: 2D art animation and game engine 'solutions'.
- Meta Motion - Motion Capture Hardware and Software Mocap Tools
http://www.metamotion.com/ - Worldwide distribution and sales of motion capture tools: Gypsy Motion Capture System, Kaydara Filmbox and Famous faces motion capture software, data gloves and face trackers - mocap.
- MOTEK Technology in Motion
http://www.e-motek.com/ - Design, creation, and marketing of real-time motion capture data solutions and products for the entertainment and commercial markets, including medical, simulation and advertising industries.
- Lone Coyote
http://lonecoyote.home.mindspring.com/ - Offers helpful game development documents and project information.
- Games Factory Pack
http://www.arrakis.es/~esanchez/ - Contains Map Maker 3.0 and Sprite Maker 3.5 for download.
- Quazal
http://www.quazal.com/ - Supplies cross-platform networking tools for creating multiplayer online games and contains evaluation versions of the tools for download, resources, and technical support.
- Legendary Tales Engine and Editor
http://www.legendarytales.com/ - A text-based gaming environment which gives anyone the ability to create or enjoy independent adventure modules set in any medieval setting.
- Peak Performance Technologies, Inc., Motion Analysis, Motion Capture and Biomechanics Solutions Provider
http://www.peakperform.com/ - Peak Performance offers Peak Motus, a Video and Optical Motion Analysis System used in biomechanics, research and animation applications.
- Explorations RPG Development System
http://www.explore-rpg.com/ - Explorationsv4 RPG Creates REAL-TIME Adventure games that is a mix of Diablo action and Age of Empire Strategy and Game Play!
- Afterworks
http://www.afterworks.com/ - Manufactures plugins for 3DS MAX. AfterBurn simulates realistic clouds, smoke, fog and explosions. Enlight fakes radiosity rendering efficiently, exports pre-illuminated light maps, ScatterVL Pro offers numerous enhancements for volume lights.
- 3D Digital Motion Analysis and Motion Capture
http://www.spicatek.com/ - Internet ready 3D Digital Motion Analysis and High Speed Digital Video recording for scientific, gait, biomechanics and industrial imaging
- Official Verge Engine
http://www.verge-rpg.com/ - The most powerful RPG creation system available. Verge 2 supports 16 bit color, high resolutions, FLC/AVI playback, MOD/S3M/XM module music playback, .WAV playback, MIDI, HUGE maps, animated characters, and is fully expandable using the VergeC scripting language.
- Delver
http://kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu/~kamikaze/Delver/ - Delver is a shareware single-player overhead-view tile-based computer RPG construction kit written in Java, currently in beta.
- Louder Than A Bomb! Software
http://www.louderthanabomb.com/ - Provides low cost tools to easily and quickly integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into applications, especially in video games.
- Radon Labs Homepage
http://www.radonlabs.de/ - German Game Developer offering the Free Portable Game Engine NEBULA with TCL-Interface, Supporting D3D, OpenGl, Windows, Linux
- Super Ghetto Monkey
http://ghettomonkey.gq.nu/ - Game Creation System, Pie in the Sky, 3D Games, Doom, Duke, Wolfenstein, GCS games, Super Ghetto Monkey
- Stagecast Creator
http://www.stagecast.com/ - Create your own interactive games, stories, and worlds. Visual programming language makes it easy for anyone to learn.
- Conitec
http://conitec.net/ - We're creating and producing development tools, multimedia tools and game engines for our customers.
- Yagga portal
http://www.yagga.net/ - Yagga Portal. A door on an environment to write multi-player strategy game servers. Only turn based games are covered. It has its own miniOO language. It is free, written in Java and requires JDK 1.2. by Walter Gamba and Marco Becchio.
- White Tigers of the Shogunate
http://www.angelfire.com/anime/byako/ - Resource page for the OHRRPGCE construction engine. Demo game: EDO, a feudal Japanese RPG about a medieval Japanese youth with the wit and humor of a modern teenager.
- O.H.R.RPG.C.E.
http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/ - Official Hamster Republic RPG Construction Engine: An easy to use all-in-one editor for creating your own Role Playing Games. (DOS/Windows, VGA graphics)
- Game Maker
http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/markov/gmaker/ - Allows you to create many types of computer games without the need to write a single line of code.
- Scrolling Game Development Kit
http://gamedev.sourceforge.net/ - Contains a 2D game engine for Win9x and DirectX, screenshots, and games for download as freeware.
- The Cycon Online Gaming (COG) Engine
http://cogengine.sourceforge.net/ - An Open Source project aimed at simplifying the creation of online video games. Currently, games have a text-based interface, with photo-realistic graphics and a clickable compass for movement.
- Digital Complete
http://www.digitalcomplete.com - Offers the following tools for sample download and for sale, 3D modeling and animation, game development, video editing, and sound creation.
- Quest Markup Language [QLM]
http://questml.com/ - Program for developing choose your own adventures with images, sounds, flags using an XML syntax.
- gmax
http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/ - Discreet's game development and level editor based on the world's best selling 3D modeling, animation and rendering platfrom, 3ds max.
- GMAX forum
http://www.planettime.de/sites/gmax/main.php - GMAX resources, GMAX tutorials, .gmax file downloads, and GMAX discussion at gmaxforum.com.
- Replica Systems
http://www.replicanet.com/ - ReplicaNet is an API that enables games to become network capable.
- The Lost Realm of Anoria
http://lroa.sourceforge.net/ - An open source software engine designed to allow creation of a diverse variety of online worlds, ranging from online multiplayer fantasy rpg to online museums.
- Open tUME (the Universal Map Editor)
http://members.aol.com/opentume/ - A Versatile 2D map editor.
- Tile Studio
http://tilestudio.sourceforge.net/ - A development utility for graphics of tile-based games. It contains a bitmap editor for creating tiles and sprites and a map editor for designing level maps.
- Mappy
http://www.tilemap.co.uk/ - A free utility for creating flexible 'maps' for 2D and 3D tile based games.
- PPTactical Engine
http://aspc.cs.utt.ro/~karg/ppt/ - GPL licensed 2D engine suitable for real-time tactics/strategy games.
- DimensioneX Multiplayer Game Development Kit
http://www.dimensionex.net/ - Freeware for developing a multiplayer games and run them over any java-enabled web server.
- Game Editor
http://game-editor.com/ - Create 2D games with little or no programming knowledge. Site includes documentation, downloads, screenshots and forums.
- Immersion Corporation
http://www.immersion.com/ - Immersion produces a wide range of products, including 3D Digitizing hardware, the MicroScribe-3D, and force feedback technology and hardware.
- Oak Technology
http://www.zoran.com/ - Oak Technology, Inc. designs, develops and markets high-performance semiconductors (and related software solutions) to original equipment manufacturers worldwide who serve the optical storage, consumer electronics and digital office equipment markets.
- Okino Computer Graphics
http://www.okino.com/default.htm - Okino Computer Graphics develops and markets a broad range of 3d rendering, visualization, 3d data translation/conversion and toolkit software: the NuGraf Rendering System, the PolyTrans 3D Data Translator/Converter, and the NuGraf Developer's 3D Toolkit/Library
- RPGToolkit
http://www.toolkitzone.com/ - A program for the creation of your own RPG's. The software is free to download.
- Sphere RPG Engine
http://aegisknight.org/sphere - A console-style RPG engine that allows others to create an RPG similar Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, or Phantasy Star.
- Egerter Software
http://www.powerrender.com/ - Home of the Power Render 3D Engine, WordUp Graphics Toolkit 2D libraries, and SEAL audio libraries.
- 3D Game Maker - Gamespy.com Review
http://archive.gamespy.com/reviews/october01/gamemaker/ - Review of simplified game design software. Includes screen shots.
- 3D Game Studio 4.0
http://www.conitec.net/english/gstudio/ - GameStudio is a toolkit for creating interactive virtual world applications - especially, but not restricted to, computer games. The toolkit contains a map editor, an actor editor, a state-of-the-art game engine, libraries of prefabricated objects, and three example games.
- Hephaestus
http://markdamonhughes.com/Hephaestus/ - A computer role-playing game system with loadable adventures. Using the included compiler, you can write your own adventures in a simple yet powerful scripting language, and share them with anyone else who has Hephaestus.
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