CS437/CS641 - Development Tools, Kits, and Environments

Winter Session 2005

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• Very little of this software is mirrored locally. The availability of other sites is not under our control. If you find a dead link, please report it and we will attempt to fix it.

• Since we did not author this software, we cannot guarantee its correctness in your home computing environment (or GAUL, for that matter). Please use it carefully and follow all instructions and documentation. If you encounter difficulties with this software, please let us know and we will either attempt to have the authors revise it, or remove the link.

• If you know of other useful game development software not listed below, please let me know, and I will add it to the list.

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• Nokia Developer Site for Series 60 (3600 and N-Gage)
  • Tools and SDK Listing (be sure to look at Borland C++ Mobile Edition from Nokia and the Series 60 SDK for Symbian OS, which can be used with Microsoft Visual Studio available here)
  • Nokia Developer's Suite for J2ME
• Home Page for FExplorer - A Freeware File Explorer for Symbian
• Nokia Documentation Repository
  • Nokia Game Development Documentation
  • Nokia Java Documentation
  • Nokia Symbian Series 60 Documentation
  • Nokia Bluetooth Networking Documentation
• Symbian Developer Tools (for the Nokia devices)
• J2ME Home Page and Archives
• Open source projects (including games) for Nokia Symbian devices (in C, C++, Java, etc.):
  • Symbian Open Source Community Center
  • Symbian Developer Network Open Source Projects
  • Also be sure to look for Symbian or J2ME projects on repositories like SourceForge or FreshMeat.
• Microsoft Developers Network Academic Alliance Software (free for Western Computer Science)
• 3D Game Studio (trial version downloadable, full version will be installed on GAUL shortly)
• 3D Developer Studio (free for university use)
• Anim8or - A Free 3D Animation Tool
• Blender - Now Back With Its Game Engine!
• Klik & Play
• Adventure Game Studio
• PopCap Games Framework
• RPG Toolkit
• Game Maker (free and extended non-free versions)
• AGAST Adventurge Game Tools
• SLUDGE (Scripting Language for Unhindered Development of a Gaming Environment)
• Blitz Tools (not free)
• OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine)
• The Open Source Cube Engine
• The Irrlicht 3D Engine
• Newton Game Dynamics Engine
• The Open Dynamics Engine
• The Tokamak Physics Engine
• The Novodex Physics Engine
• Source code for Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and Quake II (also check out ports of Doom and Quake II here and elsewhere)
• Java port of Quake 2 and its engine (very cool)
• Source code for Rise of the Triad (home page, Linux, Win32, and MacOS port)
• Source code for Duke Nukem 3D (home page, ports)
• Liberated Games (other free and liberated games, some now available in source form)

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