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PythonProtoCards Open Source Card Game Design Helper Scripts

Board games and card games often deal with the use of fancy cards or cards with animated character or instruction embedded on them. If you’re planning to build any card game then there is one helper script that can help you automate this task. You can use this script to build your own set of animated or instruct-able cards. This script is mainly suitable for folks who wants to build card or board game for offline playing. This script is released as opensource and you can work on python script from any operating system that python supports.

Python Proto Card

There’s not much of information about this script from official site. So it’s hard for me to explain it here in this post. You can check for more information on pythonprotocards page and thread.

Adventure Game Studio

Old sieraa point and click games are still loved by most of the gamers. In fact plenty of newbie and intermediate game developers prefer these point-click type adventure games. The reason behind so many games in such category is because they are easy for developers to make. [Read more...]

Java 2D Game Frameworks

In this post i’m listing some of the game frameworks for the java development environment. These frameworks are for 2D games but some of the frameworks are suitable for 3D game development as well. [Read more...]

Quantum Engine v1.0.0.25 Released

Here is the update from quantum games to their quantum engine.

Quantum Engine is an cross-language 32bit native code compiler with an advanced 2D game engine for PC’s running Microsoft Windows® and uses Direct3D® for hardware accelerated rendering. It’s robust, designed for easy of use and suitable for making all types of 2D games and other graphic simulations. Your code can compile to a stand-alone EXE and/or to dynamic loadable compiled units (runtime packages). The core game engine consists of a high-level object oriented game application framework with a plethora of classes and routines to allow you to rapidly and efficiently develop your graphics simulations. There is support for surfaces, textures, sprites, audio, streams, archives, configuration files, render targets, swap chains, databases and much more.

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Free: Unreal Development Kit

As game development industry is opening more towards small publisher studios and independent developers. Almost every leading game developer studio is coming up with open source SDK version which carries source used for commercial games.

Makers of unreal tournament released the development kit for free.They offer this SDK free and for almost any type of game development usage be it commercial or presentation or for education,personal,collaborative project.

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System requirements are higher so if you’re with limited system resource then this SDK is not for you.

Minimum:
* Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
* 2.0+ GHz processor
* 2 GB system RAM
* SM3-compatible video card
* 3 GB Free hard drive space
Recommended for Content Development:
* Windows Vista 64 SP2
* 2.0+ GHz multi-core processor
* 8 GB System RAM
* NVIDIA 8000 series or higher graphics card
* Plenty of HDD space

Check the UDK site here.

Cocos 2D Framework

If you’re in search of 2D framework in python then Cocos is for you. It is 2D framework and suitable for making games and graphical demos.

It is available for multiple platforms: linux, mac and windows. Python and pyglet is necessary on system before you start working with cocos2D.

You can have sprite based animation and can direct sprites on where to move, delete and perform some action etc.

Documentation is also well written. You can browse it online or you can download. There are 5 tutorial videos for the beginners as well as intermediate users.

For more information you can check here.

Review : Pushbutton engine

Flash is an excellent platform for game developers. It is perfect for online games, small games and promotional motion picture games. Flash games are easy to create and are very rich with graphics and networking capbilities.
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