Daily Nuggets of Wisdom From an Indie Game Producer
I’ve happily dived into the world of BlitzMax, and using Leadwerks to create 3D games (yes, you can create 3D games using BlitzMax).
I asked at the Insider forums what tools people are using, and there was tools ranging from c++ to Game Maker. I thought to ask the same question from you readers: what tools and software you are using to make games?
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About - the guy behind the cut-scenes.
The release of my grandest project so far happened. Nowadays my days pass by me watching how this cute lil creature sleeps.
Juuso: "True, power of licenses are great. It has some effect on my purchasing decisions too… but since I’m no ice hockey fan, I can live with few year old..." 4 hours 53 minutes ago. 
Christian: "I prefer soccer over icehockey, but hey, EA makes now great soccer games again (PES sucks!), but it doesn’t matter: What differentiates big sports..." 8 hours 31 minutes ago. 
stu: "whatever man im not getting into a flame war on a comment section, and actually i have all consoles of the current gen and a lot of previous gen ones plus a..." 1 day 1 hour ago. Juuso: "On my list right now are these finalists: http://minecraft.net/ “*clears throat* MineCraft” http://www.mysticmine.com “if you like those..." 1 day 5 hours ago. 
Sargon: "The wii is the best point at the screen device. But it is the worst motion sensing device. If nintendo have marketed the wii is a “point to screen”..." 1 day 10 hours ago. 
Dave: "Honestly, the market is saturated. The gold rush is over, and now people are fighting for that 1oz piece of gold floating in the stream. As an indie developer,..." 1 day 13 hours ago. 
Fili: "The same stick can be held by both an adult and a child. With the gloves it’s a different thing. Hands have sizes and shapes. Some have thick short..." 1 day 16 hours ago. Fili: "(I’m the Anonymous, don’t know why it didn’t put my name there…) Actually I hate Mario games but I respect the enormous sales that it..." 1 day 16 hours ago. Sargon: "@stu, Notice I myself have no idea what will successed and what not. But I am tired of people saying this or that will be doomed before it was even released." 1 day 17 hours ago. stu: "Haha sargon you sound like a typical fanboy yourself, read his comments again juuso never trash talked any console. And yeah move looks good but reviews are in on..." 2 days 2 hours ago. 
Sarper Soher: "Camtasia Studio is perfect for desktop recording (e.g. creating video tutorials) http://www.techsmith.com/camta sia.asp It also has very nice editing..." 2 days 4 hours ago. 
Jack: "http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/ 2010/gesture-computing-0520.ht ml mayby something like this (link from time when Kinect was stil Project Natal)" 2 days 5 hours ago. 
I think your blog post broke the page, I’ve got no background and the bar on the right is underneath now, ah well.
I am using C++ (In Microsoft Visual Studio Pro 2008) with Irrlicht (Graphics), and IrrKlang (Sound) for DtD Tower Defense 2; and I’m loving them!
~DtD
(Yaiks, fixed!)
XNA Game Studio 3.0. Since I’ve started using that I’ll never touch C++ again. :)
Hey, XNA must be cool. Anything to show us Jim?
At the moment the only thing that’s relatively complete (albeit in a beta form) is a Zune game:
http://www.zuneboards.com/forums/download-completed-games/33655-beta-crates.html
I’m finishing up a book on role-playing game programming using XNA GS 3.0