Learn to create your first game.

In kongregate labs you can watch many tutorials on how to create flashgames.

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Tags: creat, flash, game, GAMEMAKER, Kongregate, Labs, tutorial

NeL is a toolkit for the development of massively online universes. It provides the base technologies and a set of development methodologies for the development of both client and server code.

It contains for instance a 3d engine, a network engine, a sound engine.

NeL is working on Windows, Linux and Mac under GNU General Public License.

The Ryzom MMORPG is based on NeL framework and is the best example of what you can do with NeL.

LINK

Tags: code, GAMEMAKER, MMO, nel, open, source

Hephaestus is a freeware computer role-playing game construction kit (often called an “RPG maker”). A map editor is included, and scripting is done in the Java programming language. Hephaestus is written in Java, and therefore runs on every platform.

You’ve wanted to make your own computer role-playing game all your life. Hephaestus 2 makes it easier than ever to make any adventure you can imagine. Use your own art and sounds, or use the standard libraries. Make “static” maps with the map editor, or create your maps entirely with code – even making mazes and dungeons that are different every time you play. There’s never been a better time to start writing your own CRPG!

Hephaestus 2 now includes the post-holocaust horror adventure, Umbra! After the Great Old Ones return to reclaim the Earth, the few survivors cower in towns hidden in the wilderness, or have given themselves over to madness and worship of inhuman gods. You start out alone and helpless, but can rise to strike back, and perhaps return Earth to humanity!

Being in Java this works under linux and mac too.

LINK

Tags: GAMEMAKER, Hephaestus, java, maker, RPG, rpgmaker

Maplet is now *free*!
Maplet is an extremely easy to use modelling tool, designed to make creating ‘indoor’ style scenery as painless as possible.
Maplet is a ‘Constructive Solid Geometry’ based modeller. This means that instead of modelling with polygons, vertices and so on, all modelling is performed with solid ‘primitives’. Using operations such as ‘carve’ and ‘fill’, solid primitives are combined together to create models.
This modeling approach allows you to create highly detailed models very rapidly. It also guarantees the production of geometrically ‘correct’ models which is very important for precise collision detection and optimal rendering.
Maplet features a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor:
All editing is performed in full 3D, using a ‘reference plane’ which can easily be moved up or down.
Maplet also features a ‘lightmapper’. This tool generates special lightmap textures based on lights placed within the scene, creating realistic light and shadow effects.
Maplet can export either .B3D or .X format models. Unfortunately, the .X format does not support features required for lightmapping, so lightmaps can only be produced for .B3D models.

LINK

Tags: basic, Blitz, GAMEMAKER, MAPLET, tool

Future Pinball is a real time Pinball Development System.
It allows you to design and play your very own pinball simulation in True real time 3D. It uses Advanced Physics to provide the best possible Simulation of a true to life pinball machine.

Download Future Pinball

Tags: future, game, GAMEMAKER, pinball, RETRO

Xconq is an engine for turn-based strategy games. Variety of game genres run under Xconq: historical, sci-fi, fantasy, and modern. AIs. Network games. Multiple UIs and platforms. Easy-to-learn game design language. Large games library available.

– free/open source software; license: GPL.
– is an engine for turn-based strategy games.
– has an extensive library of prebuilt games and images.
– has an easy-to-learn, yet flexible game design language.
– is multi-player. Network play and computer opponents are available.
– runs on many platforms, including Linux/Unix, Windows, and MacOS.
– has been around a long time, and is being actively maintained and improved.

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Tags: engine, GAMEMAKER, LINUX, MAC, strategy, turn, War, xconq

If you build it, they will play… The War Engine is the ultimate table top war game simulation and replication kit. Limited only by your imagination, all units, weapons and terrain are fully configurable in artwork and stats. Ready made worlds range from sci-fi to fantasy to space to World War 2.

Download The War Engine

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Tags: Battle, board, editor, engine, GAMEMAKER, kit, strategy, turn, War

A frag-fest with unlimited possibilities! Featuring ultra-smooth graphics, and unparalleled sound and music! The bots outsmart you with every chance they got, and the range of customization options will get your knickers in a twist!

Download Worms v1.71

Tags: arcade, bot, GAMEMAKER, shooter, worms

Caveman Craig is a simulation survival game. Your aim is to grow your cave’s population as much as you can, while fighting off predators and keeping cavemen trained. To do this, you must gather food (berries from bushes, or meat from dead dinosaurs), process it inside the cave, and then use the food to breed more cavemen, whom you can teach to gather, prepare, or hunt.

Download Caveman Craig

Tags: ancient, caveman, craig, GAMEMAKER

UPDATE: DeleD is being remade at LINK as an online modeling solution.

DeleD is a game-orientated 3D modeler. It is aimed at 3D game development but can be used perfectly in other areas too, like educational services, prototyping or image creation. DeleD enables you to create static 3D objects and complete 3D scenes easily by manipulating primitives like poly-lines, cubes, cylinders and spheres. It unites the functionality needed to create great 3D scenes with a simple user interface. You can create and modify 3D objects and use various types of lights to bring your scene to life. DeleD comes with a number of import and export plugins for various well-known file formats.

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Tags: 3d, del, editor, engine, GAMEMAKER, modellling, online, tool