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PythonProtoCards Open Source Card Game Design Helper Scripts

mahesh — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:01:33 +0000

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.

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

mahesh — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 07:11:48 +0000

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. There is one IDE that let’s you create such games without any pain. This game IDE is known as “adventure game studio”. With adventure game studio,all you have to do is concentrate on game design and levels. It has a editor that let’s you design the environment and a built in engine that runs the game.

Image credit – Copyright crystal shard- Game A tale of two kingdoms

What is the price of this editor ?

It is completely free of cost. You can even create game and distribute it for free or commercially. The editor is not so huge and is only 7MB installer that runs on Windows XP and higher operating systems.

What are the features of this game ?

You should take a look at this.
You should have .NET 2.0 installed on your computer but you don’t need it while distributing your game. Game engine will take care of the runtime environment during deployment.

Can I create Multiplatform games with this IDE ?

Though IDE is windows-only. You can create games that runs on windows, linux and DOS. these games can run from resolution of 320×200 to 1024×768.

Does it supports scripting ?

It has it’s own java/c# style scripting language. If you have experience with these languages then you will find it easy to work around this scripting language.

What about Developer License ?

AGS has no objection if you compile and distribute games freely or commercially. But there are some license terms that chris wants you to take a look at. You should read those terms before publishing any commercial game.

So if you are interested in point-and-click adventure game then download AGS studio. Have Fun.

Java 2D Game Frameworks

mahesh — Mon, 03 May 2010 12:13:00 +0000

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.

1. Basilisk
2. GameFrame for Java
3. Golden T game engine
4. Pulpcore
5. Genuine Advantage Game engine
6. Gentus Easyway
7. Slick2D
8. JGame
9. Game Gardens

Physics Engine

1. Tokamak ( Open source physics api)
2. APE (Actionscript Physics Engine)
3. Flade ( Flash Dynamics Engine)
4. Fisix Engine (Another flash actionscript engine)
5. Simple Physics Engine
6. Newton game dynamics
7. Novodex
8. ODE

Sound Libraries

1. FMod
2. OpenAL

Quantum Engine v1.0.0.25 Released

mahesh — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 07:11:24 +0000

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.

Quantum engine is free of charge for freeware projects but if you plan to sell them then you need to buy license for the game.

Free: Unreal Development Kit

mahesh — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:51:58 +0000

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.

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

mahesh — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:50:29 +0000

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

mahesh — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:00:43 +0000

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.

Pushbutton engine is framework based on flash platform. Pushbutton engine is can help you get most out of other flash game frameworks.

Official quote:

“Build your game with reusable gameplay, physics, rendering, and networking components – some written by others, and some written by you. There are lots of great libraries for game development on Flash, and PBEngine helps you use them more effectively.”

How to obtain pushbutton engine?

You can check the official website for more information. Forum is perfect place to ask your questions related to PBE. http://www.pushbuttonengine.com/forum/
You can download SDK from here: http://pushbuttonengine.googlecode.com/

PBE is licensed under MIT license. So you can do preety much out of this engine. For more information on Pushbutton engine, check the official site.

http://www.pushbuttonengine.com