protocol intended for use in networked roleplaying games, and provides a flexible and extensible means of communicating between the components of a game system. The protocol is transport independant, encoding independant and portable.
a free / freeware open source tool for 2-D game development. It is designed for the Windows 9x/DirectX platform, and targeted at people spanning a range of skill levels.
a cross-platform C++ framework for rapid AI development. Loom evolved out of the idea that in game development there is often the need for placeholder AI while an application is in initial development phases.
With hundreds of published titles, 3D GameStudio authoring suite for 2D, 3D realtime applications. It combines the C-Script programming language with a high-end 3D engine, a 2D engine, a physics engine, a level, terrain and model editor, etc...
a comprehensive system for designing realistic NPC AI for persistant worlds. It uses a meme metaphor to rationalize the "hows and whys" of NPC life. The Memetic AI Toolkit provides an artificial life designer with a host of tools, documentation, example c
an interpreted computer language originally designed for programming text adventure games. Its migration to the web now allows the author to create a much wider variety of graphical and non-graphical programs, all of which can be used online using nothing
includes sound effects, music, a complete 3D engine, font rendering, a simple Windowing library, a game scripting language, a GUI, networking, 3D math library and a collection of handy utility functions.
concept created by lone developer (Eskil Steenberg) bent on creating an entire massively multiplayer online world single-handedly, using procedural generation techniques that cause the game to build itself by starting with clever rules and exploring them
A complete game framework, editor and toolset for the creation of PC multiplayer action games. It is the result of several years of development effort at spanish developer Tragnarion Studios, and is based in nebula2, the open-source 3D engine from Radon Labs.
or the one-day tutorial Essential Math for Games Programmers, which is presented every year at the Game Developer's Conference. Within you will find information about the tutorial, free tutorial materials, and some updates for the companion book.
a framework for tile-based (isometric) RTS games. It provides the basic entities for an RTS game with implemented SDL and GRP components. As a proof-of-concept, a Starcraft clone is being implemented with it.