Comments on: Do You Own More Game Development Creation Software Than You’ve Finished (Developed) Games?

By: Lumooja

Lumooja — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:28:08 +0000

I counted only active tools which I use daily for game development, and came to the conclusion that I have made more games than I have tools :)

So far I’m happy with a quite small set of tools: GIMP, Blender, 3D World Studio, Ultimate Unwrap 3D Pro, WavePad, Cubase Studio, Leadwerks Engine, Visual Studio 2008 C++.

I can’t imagine what other tools I would really need for making games.

By: Juuso

Juuso — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:22:40 +0000

True, the counting can be somewhat tricky. :) I think I have more tools (blitz3d, blitzmax, gamemaker, … and tons of more. :))

By: Fili

Fili — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:11:23 +0000

Interesting, no one mentioned 3ds max. Does this mean that most of the games you guys are working on are 2D, or that you are using models that you buy online?
For me: vs2008, xcode, 3ds max + exporter plugin, photoshop + converter to PVRTC, 2D sprite editor, text converter (from .ODS to binary), various config parsers/converers (from text to binary).
Most of the tools I’m using is written by me in Java so that it’s portable on win32 and mac. I’m not using linux for development because i don’t need to.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:44:32 +0000

I have Games Factory, Game Maker, 3d Game Maker, Unity and currently learning Blender Game Engine.

GM & 3d GM have sample games made for school projects. Unity and BGE are in process. Most game I have finished on are for Flash.

By: hermitC

hermitC — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:05:53 +0000

Wasn’t sure how to vote because I’ve no all-in-one game dev solution like Game Maker or Blitz-stuff. Finally MS Visual Studio, GIMP and Audacity alone outnumber my single finished game.

By: merc-ai

merc-ai — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:00:19 +0000

UDK + A bunch of programs for the 2D/3D game stuff.
Writing minor code in notepad now, will need to get some better software for that soon. Plus some king of build version control software.
Together that would be close to 10.

Versus 7 or so games I worked on that went gold.

By: Tobias Scheuer

Tobias Scheuer — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:47:51 +0000

Do compilers count? Really? I would suggest they don’t count, because even if they are tools and used for game development, they are much more general purpose.

By: Soren B. Nowak

Soren B. Nowak — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:48:35 +0000

I have Game Maker, Dark Basic Pro and FPS Creator. So far I haven’t released any “real” games with any of these. A few demos however. The future is brighter I hope :)

By: Jake Birkett

Jake Birkett — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:17:24 +0000

The question is how far back should we go? For example I have some DOS-based compilers that I made unfinished games in :-)

As for modern compilers I have 5 (2x Blitz, Flex, Game Maker, VS 2008 … although Game Maker is really for my son). And complete games = 11+, so the ratio is 2.2 complete games to compilers.