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- | === Tools for rapid prototyping of games === | + | ==== Tools for rapid prototyping of games ==== |
Good things for prototype systems: | Good things for prototype systems: | ||
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* Ease of moving to a production engine | * Ease of moving to a production engine | ||
- | == Online == | + | ==== Experimental gameplay ==== |
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+ | Making games with little time, people or costs -> http:// | ||
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+ | How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days: Tips and Tricks from 4 Grad Students Who Made Over 50 Games in 1 Semester | ||
+ | http:// | ||
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+ | < | ||
+ | A good rapid prototyper would realize that failure is ok! That's what prototyping is for, so go crazy! If you fail, there will be dozens more, and chances are, you'll learn something anyway. By embracing the possibility of failure, rewarding experimentation becomes possible. | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | ==== Online | ||
Advantages: | Advantages: | ||
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haxe (compiles to swf/js/...) -> [[http:// | haxe (compiles to swf/js/...) -> [[http:// | ||
- | == 3D Engine | + | ==== 3D engine |
Advantages: | Advantages: | ||
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PyGame -> http:// | PyGame -> http:// | ||
- | Mainly sprite based examples, there are some 3D games, but most seem to involve calling opengl commands wrapped in scheme, rather than a complete entity model (I might be wrong these days tho) | + | Mainly sprite based examples, there are some 3D games, but most seem to involve calling opengl commands wrapped in python, rather than a complete entity model (I might be wrong these days tho). |
- | == Old School == | + | Panda3d -> http:// |
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+ | Free software python based game engine for windows & linux from Carnegie Mellon. Looks good, I need to try it out. | ||
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+ | ==== Old School | ||
Blitz Basic -> http:// | Blitz Basic -> http:// | ||
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Lots of games written in this, very popular in the indy game dev scene. | Lots of games written in this, very popular in the indy game dev scene. | ||
- | == Costly == | + | ==== Costly |
Virtools -> http:// | Virtools -> http:// | ||
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Unity -> http:// | Unity -> http:// | ||
- | Panda3d -> http:// | ||