Free Game Development Tools

[Cole S.]

I felt like doing something useful for the community, so I'm just gonna list plenty of free game development resources/tools I know about to help people out.

Programming IDE's
-Visual Studio Express Editions(Windows only) http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/
-XCode(OSX only) http://developer.apple.com/technologies ... xcode.html
-Code::Blocks http://www.codeblocks.org/
-MonoDevelop http://monodevelop.com/

Modeling programs
-Blender(A really great modeling program. The new 2.5 alpha is even better.) http://www.blender.org/
-Sculptris(A free sculpting program that is easy to use and powerful. Comparable to Autodesk MudBox) http://www.sculptris.com/

Image Editing Programs
-GIMP(A free Photoshop, basically) http://www.gimp.org/

Audio Editing Programs
-Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

API's/SDK's
-OpenGL(Cross platform 3D graphics library) http://www.opengl.org/
-DirectX http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/directx/default.aspx
-XNA(Windows and Xbox) http://creators.xna.com/en-US/
-SDL(Cross platform graphics/input library) http://www.libsdl.org/

I'll add much more, but in the mean time, I have things to do. Feel free to tell me anything you want to add to the list that isn't already up there.

[XianForce]

You'll probably want to add SFML

[Milch]

Maybe you want to add OpenAL (http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/default.aspx)

[pythip]

nice but check this out http://thechaosrift.com/viewtopic.php?f ... e5be9247e7

[Cole S.]

Aw, shit. Well, nevermind then. I guess there's no point in updating this thread.