Game Tools part 1.

Don’t want to learn complicated programming languages ? Your solution is the game tools !

In this article I’ll review only some of the many ones that are currently available, free or paid.

GameMaker

One of the most known game tools ever. Easy to use, a lot of possiblities ( you may even make 3D games !), a great community to help you, the possibility to import your own scripts and the best part: it’s free. Highly recommended.

95 % Visit website

The Games Factory

Very easy to use, you can do a lot of 2D games quickly, but TGF has a lot of limitations, due to the objects limit, and it’s pretty old. Anyway, it’s cheap and have many and huge communities in the Internet.

80 % Visit website

RPGMaker XP

Free, easy to use, many communities, many default graphics but has a big limitation: it’s limited to one genre: the RPG. With a lot of work you can make superb games.

85 % Visit website

Scrolling Game Development Kit

New one, not yet very known, but very good. Easy to use, a lot of possibilites (from platform games to space shooters) and free. The problem is communities you won’t find much…

85 % Visit website

FPS Creator

Well this one is hard to review: it’s powerful, easy to use but has 2 huge limitations: Single Player: the player can’t save/load; MultiPlayer: Only deathmatch and very limitated. It’s not very expensive, but to make a decent game, you’ll have to write scripts, who aren’t easy to do. At least, you have a big community to help you...

70 % Visit website

3D GameMaker

Making 3D games easely. But too much. Very limitating but good community. Paid.

60 % Visit website

Ray Game Designer 2

Almost everything you need to make a 3D game: easy to use, many possibliites and free. The problems are 2: no community and you’ll need 3D models, because there aren’t any default ones.

90 % Visit website

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