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

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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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You can add the steam platform to your incoming games.

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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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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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Tags: flashgame, GAMEMAKER, java, macintosh, scratch, web

Adventure Game Studio (AGS for short) allows you to create your own point-and-click adventure games, similar to the early 90’s Sierra and Lucasarts adventures. It consists of an easy-to-use development environment, and run-time engine. The game interface is fully customizable, although the classic Sierra interface is supported by default. You need no programming experience to make a game using AGS – setting most game options is just a matter of point-and-click (though scripting is of course available if you prefer). AGS manages most of the game so that you don’t have to – it provides load/save game functions, inventory management, and more. Add in some interactions (ie. what happens when the player clicks on various things) and you’re done. You can even create a standalone EXE file containing your entire game, which you can then distribute. So, how much does it cost? Nothing. That’s right, AGS is free, and you can even create commercial games with it (subject to license terms). Games you create will run on Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP and Vista. They require DirectX 5 or later (DirectX 9 is required to use the hardware accelerated graphics driver). The .NET framework is not required by people playing your games.
The zip contains AGS 3.0 (both installer and zip version) and AGS 2.72
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A nice engine for game maker 6, to create a Super Matio Type game.

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The Dungeon Master engine is an extraordinarily advanced legend of zelda engine, that can be fully customized.
This is not a point and click engine. You’ll have to do alot of scripting and theres heaploads of graphics to work on.

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My Game Builder – Watch a Video

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This up are two online applications that allows you to create online games, after (free)registration you can save them on their servers, share with friends or embed in your website.

Tags: create, GAMEMAKER, shockwave

Crystal Space is a free cross-platform software development kit for realtime 3D graphics, in particular games.

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DimensioneX is what people would call a Multiplayer Game Engine. It lets you develop a game without having to re-inventing the wheel. Here’s what DimensioneX does for you:
-Display of the game scene, play sounds.
-Positioning and behaviour of the players in the game
-Communication via network between the players
-Management of saved games
-The users will play your games simply via their browser.

This game engine is actually a Java Servlet. It is not for a specific platform (i.e. PC or Mac) it will run on any Java-enabled web server (such as: Tomcat, also freeware).

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If you need tools, sdk to make your games or apps you may wanna check our gamemaker section, hopefully yoy’ll find something useful.. see ya.

Tags: GAMEMAKER, java, MMO, sdk