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Game Creation => Other Languages & Tools => Topic started by: GMG Tim on February 20, 2008, 02:06:17 PM

Title: Other Languages & Game Making Tools
Post by: GMG Tim on February 20, 2008, 02:06:17 PM

Want to try some other languages out there? Here is a list of tools that you might want to consider!

Freeware/Open Source

• TNT Basic (http://www.tntbasic.com/)
  
• FutureBASIC (http://www.stazsoftware.com/)
  
• pygame (http://www.pygame.org/)
  
• METAL (http://www.iit.edu/~sarimar/GDS/metal.html)
  
• Ruby (http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/)
  
• dim3 (http://www.klinksoftware.com/)
  
• PTK 2D Game Engine (http://www.phelios.com/ptk/)
  
• Adobe Flex (http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/?ogn=EN_US-gntray_prod_flex_home) (free for students)
  

Shareware/Commercial

• BlitzMax (http://www.blitzmax.com/)
  
• Torque Game Builder (http://www.garagegames.com/products/torque/tgb/)
  
• Torque Game Engine (http://www.garagegames.com/products/torque/tge/)
  
• UNITY (http://unity3d.com/)
  
• Blender (http://www.blender.org/)
  
• Power Game Factory (http://www.sawbladesoftware.com/)
  
• REALbasic (http://realbasic.com/)
  
• Adobe Flash CS3 (http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/?ogn=EN_US-gntray_prod_flash_home)
  

Hopefully this list comes in handy. Not all of these game systems are super-advanced, but each has its strengths (and weaknesses).

Title: Re: Advanced Game Making Tools
Post by: Mystor on February 21, 2008, 06:08:19 PM

Don't forget about flash :o

Mist

Title: Re: Advanced Game Making Tools
Post by: GMG Tim on February 21, 2008, 06:13:02 PM

Added, and I also added Adobe Flex, which is similar to Flash, but free for students!

- Ghost

Title: Re: Advanced Game Making Tools
Post by: Mystor on February 22, 2008, 10:08:42 AM

It is?

Where?

Mist

Title: Re: Advanced Game Making Tools
Post by: GMG Tim on February 22, 2008, 11:33:58 AM

http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/productinfo/faq/#item-45

Cheers!
Ghost

Title: Re: Advanced Game Making Tools
Post by: Mystor on February 22, 2008, 02:20:27 PM

TYVM

Mist

Title: Re: Advanced Game Making Tools
Post by: Gnome on February 25, 2008, 06:35:54 PM

Thanks, but I won't forget the experience I will get from GM when I move on.

Title: Re: Advanced Game Making Tools
Post by: Mystor on August 11, 2008, 11:44:18 AM

The unity interface is really easy to use and the language is javascript (my 3rd fave, after as and PHP)

Mist

Title: Re: Advanced Game Making Tools
Post by: Xiphos on June 27, 2009, 09:14:34 AM

Which of the freeware ones would be the easiest to learn?

Title: Re: Advanced Game Making Tools
Post by: Telstar5 on June 27, 2009, 10:09:56 AM

Metal.

It's a good language, but it's runtimes, editors and general execution is fuck awful.

Title: Re: Advanced Game Making Tools
Post by: WarHampster on June 27, 2009, 11:19:26 AM

It's also completely dead.

Title: Re: Advanced Game Making Tools
Post by: Xiphos on June 27, 2009, 05:17:15 PM

The Metal link is down and I can't find it anywhere on google. I think I will learn TNT first since it is first on the list. Don't ask why...

Title: Re: Advanced Game Making Tools
Post by: WarHampster on June 27, 2009, 05:33:45 PM

Power Game Factory is now open source, that should probably be added to the list.

Title: Re: Advanced Game Making Tools
Post by: Xiphos on June 27, 2009, 05:48:50 PM

TNT programming seems very similar to silver creator. Except for a few new things, but thats just from looking at the Programming Tutorial.

I am so used to silvercreator were the card is in front of you and you can draw on it and whatever.

Can anyone explain this graphics stuff on TNT?

Title: Re: Other Languages & Game Making Tools
Post by: Connors on July 06, 2011, 12:22:20 AM

Ah, so you're interested in TNT?

I can help with starting out. But you should really just go through at least the Tron tutorial and the Tile Map tutorial.
In TNT you have to import graphics and display them as sprites, or paint them on the canvas... It's less convenient than SC in some ways, but it has the tile maps and I think it's more powerful overall because of it's speed. I love the tile maps, have I mentioned how much I like built-in tile maps?