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Mon, 03/17/2008 - 15:14 — SpindleyQ

Hey, let's have a thread listing all of the rapid game development tools we know about! I'll keep the list updated.

  1. Klik N' Play (freeish, terribly buggy, beloved by all)
  2. Construct (free)
  3. BYOND (free, networked)
  4. Novashell (free, crossplatform)
  5. Scrolling Game Development Kit (free, Windows)
  6. Scrolling Game Development Kit 2 (free, Windows)
  7. Adventure Game Studio (free, games vaguely crossplatform, editor Windows-only)
  8. Game Maker (free lite version)
  9. Ray Game Designer 2 (free, 3D)
  10. ZGameEditor (free, 3D, crossplatform, procedural)
  11. Processing (free, Java)
  12. MegaZeux (free, textish, platforms?)
  13. ZZT (DOS, even more textish)
  14. VERGE (free, RPG-oriented, crossplatform)
  15. Multimedia Fusion / The Games Factory
  16. Unity (MacOS editor, crossplatform deployment)
  17. ExtenDS (Nintendo DS)
  18. Garry Kitchen's GameMaker (C64)

Anything else worth looking at?

rest in peace, klik leechin' ›
Mon, 03/17/2008 - 16:50 — rboehme

Novashell

Novashell (http://www.rtsoft.com/novashell) (cross platform)

Tue, 03/18/2008 - 05:57 — snapman

ExtenDS

ExtenDS (http://invisionsoft.co.uk) has been touted as a way to "Make DS Games in the style of kilk and play." (Quote from dev-scene.com)

No wonder I never found this in my searches before. They misspelled Klik!

Tue, 03/18/2008 - 12:48 — SpindleyQ
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Welcome! Novashell looks

Welcome!

Novashell looks pretty cool, actually. I like how the game source isn't just one giant binary blob, so that there might be some hope of actually using it collaboratively.

Tue, 03/18/2008 - 14:44 — .KKliker

Deep Creator

Deep Creator Is pretty good, and can generate games with a very light HD footprint, but it's just too expensive for it's own good ($1995.). The absoulte maximum price of any software program, under any licence, should be $200. And that's even the full price of some cheapo Linux desktops. :P

Wed, 03/19/2008 - 12:12 — .KKliker

Ray Game Designer 2

Ray Game Designer 2 is another good one. The only problem is that it hasn't been updated in forever, and unless you speak french, you won't get much help with it.

Mon, 03/31/2008 - 09:37 — kirkjerk
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oops moved

oops moved

Mon, 03/31/2008 - 09:38 — kirkjerk
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processing!

Does http://processing.org/ count?

I guess "rapid" is in the eye of the beholder ;-)

Mon, 03/31/2008 - 23:43 — Pizza Time
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ZGameEditor

ZGameEditor, for making games that are 64kb in size.

Mon, 04/07/2008 - 16:26 — SpindleyQ
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Can't believe I forgot about

Can't believe I forgot about MegaZeux.

Fri, 04/25/2008 - 08:55 — SpindleyQ
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So I picked up a box

So I picked up a box labelled "Independant Games" the other day, and inside was a little program called The Scrolling Game Development Kit that looks pretty interesting. Also interesting-looking is the sequel.

Mon, 05/05/2008 - 15:11 — SpindleyQ
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Microsoft just released an

Microsoft just released an Alpha of a clipart-tastic browser-based Popfly. The clipart is ENORMOUS and the user-created games are atrocious. Trying to edit the graphics crashed my browser.