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6.15.09 There is a new, more updated version of this page at: http://www.ambrosine.com/index.php
Latest Additions
- Platform Studio free to use software for creating great platform games
- GameBrix the first product created for Adobe flash designers that enables
them to build flash based web games
- Golden Realm 2d Game Maker engine available for only $1.00
- Engine001 a game creation engine where you can bring your Action RPG and RPG ideas to life
- Sakari Infinity a music resource web site with entirely original and custom music
- JACL Adventure Creation Language free open-source language for creating interactive fiction and web-based adventure games
- PlayerRealms free online adventure game maker
Engines/Authorware for Non-Programmers
- 2D Shooter Game Creator The 2D shooter game creator will let YOU create your own games, in the style of classic lightgun games, e.g. Time Crisis
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3D Adventure Studio an editor for creating adventure games in style of Gabriel Knight 3 (WIN)
- 3DCakeWalk allows the development of commercial quality games with all the "state of art" features you will find in today's leading games
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3D
Game Engine alpha release of an unfinished 3D game engine (DOS/GNU/Linux)
- The 3D Game Maker point & click 3D game creator (Win)
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3D
Game Studio produce 3D realtime applications - demos, adventures, role
playing, action, advertising, or racing games - without programming skills
(WIN)
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3D Rad
a programmable, user-friendly, 3D real-time engine (WIN)
- Abstract RTS Engine An RTS engine under development intended for user-produced rules, AI, and media modules (mods)
- ADePT adventure developing and playing toolkit
- ADRIFT a simple, yet powerful IF game designer (WIN)
- Adventure Book CYOA creator
- Adventure Builder text adventure authoring system (DOS/WIN)
- AdventurEd
system in development for creating graphical adventure games (Amiga)
- Adventure
Game Engine engine for creating graphical first-person adventure games
with full support for inventory, save/load games, inventory, puzzles, conversations,
full motion video, cutscenes (WIN)
- Adventure
Game Studio make your own point and click adventure games without programming; recently rewritten, now supports the standard Sierra interface as well as the LucasArts interface. Very nice. WIN)
- Adventure
Maker free toolkit to creat point-and-click software for Windows and PSP without programming(Win/PSP)
- AGAST Adventure Game Authoring System to create and play your own graphic adventure
games like those from LucasArts and Sierra On-line (WIN)
- AGT
Adventure Game Toolkit for creating text adventures with graphics and sound
(DOS)
- Aiee! design text adventures without programming experience
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ALAN
for creating interactive fiction (Amiga/Unix/DOS)
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Alice
create your own scripts that control the motion of 3D objects for games, training simulations, etc (WIN95+)
- Antiryad Gx easy multi platform game creator tool
- AZALTA system with endless adventures, an infinite number of large worlds to explore, hundreds of puzzles to solve, creatures to meet, and items to find -- you can even
create your own worlds/creatures/items (WIN/Amiga)
- Blades of Exile a fantasy role-playing system (WIN/MAC)
- Blender free and fully functional 3D modeling/rendering/animation
package, including games (Unix/Windows/BeOS)
- Blitz Basic the legendary Amiga Basic compilier for the PC (WIN)
- Blitz Basic II basic programming package for creating high-quaility games on the Amiga (Amiga)
- Blox Game Engine Simple 2D game engine targeted at windows users using visual
- Byond create online games and applications using a simple programming language
- ButtonTalkeasy to use tool for creating interaction fiction (MAC to create, exports
HTML)
- CAECHO
Spanish program for creating interaction fiction (DOS)
- Ca3D-Engine create a variety of 3D applications, including games, simulations, and training and architectural software
- CAT Creative Adventure Toolkit: adventure authoring utility for writing text adventures on your PC (WIN)
- Clean Game Library complete development system for 2D games (platform games, side scrollers), using the functional language Clean (Win, MAC, Linux)
- Coconut 2D adventure game development tool (WIN/LINUX)
- Coldstone the most complete solution for developing games on the Macintosh (MAC)
- Crystal Space free (LGPL) and portable 3D engine written in C++ (WIN/MAC/DOS/LINUX)
- Cycon Online Gaming -COG- Engine Open Source project aimed at simplifying the creation of online video games with no programming experience necessary.
- Dark Basic BASIC language that lets you create fast full-screen DirectX and Direct3D games with
incredible ease. You can write a 3D game in minutes! (WIN)
- Delver shareware single-player overhead-view tile-based computer RPG construction kit written in Java (JAVA)
- Digital Loca-Lite 3D authoring tool, especially designed for beginning 3D-Game-makers (Win95+)
- Dimension3 3D game creator (MAC)
- Divinty
RPG maker/editor (MAC)
- Erasmatazz
Authoring tool used to create interactive storyworlds (WIN/MAC)
- Explorations RPG System independent role playing game engine
- FPS Creator make your own action packed FPS games without any programming or 3D modelling knowledge
- Game Book Player This application allows you to write fighting fantasy like game books and has lots of neat features.
- Game
Builder Lite for creating animated adventures and educational programs
(DOS)
- Game Editor design 2D games for PCs and mobile devices
- Game Maker allows you to make exciting computer games, without the need to write a single line of code(WIN)
- GameMaker
& GameMaker Lite simple, card-based development system that enables
you to create simple adventure games with graphics, buttons, and text (MAC)
- Game Studio the leading authoring suite for 2D and 3D multimedia projects, especially computer games
- GRAAL
script-based Graphic Adventure Authoring Language (Amiga)
- Golden T Game Engine game programming for JAVA programmers
- G-Wiz Game Wizard will be tool for designing and playing text
adventure and role-playing games (WIN)
- Hephaestus computer role-playing game system with loadable
adventures; with the compiler, you can write your own adventures in a simple yet powerful scripting language, and share them with anyone else
who has Hephaestus (JAVA)
- HUGO
a programming language and authoring system for interactive fiction (WIN/DOS/Linux)
- IndianaJava
system to create and run 2D graphic adventure games (JAVA)
- Inform a design system for interactive fiction (WIN/MAC/Amiga)
- InterAx create games in an easy to use yet powerful visual environment without programming or scripting. (WIN95+) 
- KPL Kids Programming Language a freeware educational program
- KOF91 2D fighting game engine (WIN)
- Lassie Adventure Studio freeware adventure game creation tool for building classic Lucas Arts-style games with Macromedia (now Adobe) Flash and Shockwave
- LawMaker Game Engine new game engine tailored toward indie game developers
- Legendary Tales Editor text-based gaming environment which allows anyone to create or enjoy independent adventure modules set in any medieval, swords and sorcery fantasy setting(WIN)
- LucasHacks the ultimate SCUMM hacking resource including the new SCUMM Revisited (WIN)
- MAC Game Creator Toolkit CD ROM special registered versions of 5 MAC creators, plus tutorials, utilities, and sample games (MAC)
- Magx compiler for creating text adventures which is downward compatible with all of the existing versions of the AGT
language(DOS/Linux)
- MechaniQue easy to use programming language for IF (JAVA)
- Megazeux
an object oriented ANSI game maker with many features not found in ZZT
(DOS)
- M.u.C.e.S Multichoice Creation System (MuCeS) allows you to create any type of multiple choice text adventure
- Multimedia
Fusion create exciting interactive applications with a mouse-driven
interface - this is the one I use (WIN)
- My Adventure Game simple tool for creating graphic adventures
- Odyssey-Creators software to help in game creation and game creation software
- Official
Hamster Republic RPG Construction Engine create your own role-playing
games with no programming experience (DOS)
- PAWS IF authoring system (Various)
- Pie 3D
Game Creation System make your own 3D action games (DOS/WIN)
- Play Basic a game programming language designed to take the learning curve out of 2D game making
- Playground build computer environments for 4-8 year olds to play, design, and create games (WIN)
- Point & Click Developers Kit 2D point and click adventure game developer
- QML Quest Markup Language free XML-based
Choose-Your-Own-Adventure game system
- Quest
Axe Software's app that allows you to create your own text adventure/RPG
games, quickly and easily. (WIN95+)
- QuestMaker
for making graphical adventure games (DOS)
- RayDream Game Studio program to design computer games for Windows, Linux and MacOSX
- Ray Game Designer Previously commercial (now freeware) 3D Game building system for Windows 3.x and Windows 95. It allows you to create games based on a RayCaster engine without any knowledge of coding: you only use a point-and-click interface and your favorite drawing tools
- Reality Factory suite of applications that have
been created in order to enable people that are NOT programmers to make advanced, 3d first and third person games for PC's running Windows (WIN)
- Realm Crafter create your own multiplayer online RPG
- Ren'Py a programming language and runtime, intended to ease the creation of visual-novel type games
- REXX
Adventure text adventure engine (OS2 Presentation Manager)
- RPG Toolkit Development System for the Creation and Play of your own RPG Games (WIN)
- RuneSword RPG game and construction set (Win95+)
- SCI Studio create games for Sierra's SCI engine(WIN)
- Scribe development system for interactive fiction
- Scrolling Game Development Kit complete game development system whose features
can be used by experts and beginners alike
- Silent Walk FPS Creator create FPS style games without any programming knowledge
- SKClone RPG game maker (WIN)
- SLUDGE (Scripting Language for Unhindered Development of a Gaming Environment) is the box of cogs that will be available so that anyone (within reason) can use it to make an adventure game. (WIN)
- Sphere
RPG engine specialized for making 2D, console-style RPGs, similar to Final Fantasy and
Phantasy Star (WIN)
- Stagecast
create multi-level games, mazes, puzzles and simulations for the Web, using the mouse to demonstrate what you want each character to do(MAC/WIN)
- StoryHarp
Audioventure Authoring System adds the dimension of voice to interactive
fiction development (WIN95/NT)
- StoryLand create Cooperative stories, using only a WEB browser
- StorySprawl a site devoted to the creation of hyperfiction
- SUDS adventure game system which combines the content and feel of a text adventure game with the point-and-click style of Windows (WIN)
- TADS
text adventure development system (DOS/WIN/MAC/Amiga/AtariST/OS2/Acorn)
- ThinBASIC Adventure Builder Interactive Fiction creator
- ToonTalk - Making Programming Child's Play build and run all sorts of computer
programs (WIN)
- VERGE
a role-playing game creation system (DOS)
- Visionaire2d (English Version) software that enables you to create your own adventure game without even having experience in a programming language
- WinPAW windows version of the Professional Adventure Writer (PAW)(WIN)
- Wintermute Engine a set of tools for creating and running graphical adventure games(WIN)
- World
Builder create your own adventure games (MAC)
Graphics, Music, and Other Resources
- Anim8or free 3D animation software (WIN9x/NT)
- Art-O-Matic instant 3D graphics 
- Automated Composing System automatic music composing system
- Basic 2D Character Sprite Kit Create baseline sprites for your games in record time (found under products tab)
- Baumgarten
Enterprises Web's largest free Poser parts place, and Bryce© tutorials
- Button
Blast 300 beautifully-textured buttons
- Bytten weekly magazine for small and independent games
- Caligari
TrueSpace
- Clickteam Install Maker professional installations for everyone
- Clickteam Patch Maker secure update patches in minutes
- GameBeep game textures, models, and sprites for sale
- Games Factory Pack 3.1 sprite, tile, and map maker
- Game Making Resources sprites, music, tutorials for beginning game makers
- Hash
Complete animation software
- Icon
Bank icon viewer/collection for webmasters, desktop publishers, programmers
- IndieGameJobs jobs for indi game developers and artists
- Infinity Textures powerful texture designer and generator
- JASC
Paintshop Pro
- ModelSmith3d CAD tool built to be simple and easy to use
- Pivot free stick figure animator
- Pixia freeware painting tool for full-color graphics (WIN)
- Pro Motion drawing and animation package for bitmap graphics (WIN)
- Roencia royalty free media for your games
- Serendipity various random generators
- SpriteLib
Ari Feldman's free game sprites
- SpriteWorks
Two-thousand sprites and animation sequences for Java and game programming
- Terragen photorealistic scenery rendering software
- Tile Studio complete development utility for tile-based games for use with The Game Library for the language Clean.
- Universe
Image Creator create realistic images of deep space
- WickedWavs Royalty free musics, sounds, voice for multimedia
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