Some Useful Windows Game Making Resources

It’s not going to be easy to make a game in 24 hours. Prepare yourself by learning to use one or many of these easy and free to use Windows game creation tools.

• Game Maker – WYSWYG game maker that allows for complex scripting. Mighty Jill Off was made in this.
• XNA – Program games in C# using an easy-to-use set of game libraries put out by Microsoft. Being and My Love is Across the Gap were made in this.
• Demina – Create easy-to-use animations for use in XNA games.
• PyGame – Libraries to make programming games in Python a snap. Cave was made in this.
• Adventure Game Studio – Editor for quick and easy Adventure Game creation. Snow was made in this.
• Inform – A design tool to create worlds of interactive fiction (text adventures)
• Mappy – Easily create tiled maps for use in games.
• Construct – One of the most simple WYSWYG game makers there is. Used to make Glorious Trainwrecks in under 2 hours.
• Graphics Gale – An excellent bitmap sprite editor.
• Paint.net – A very good, free Photoshop-like graphics editor.
• SFXR – Dr. Petter has created the easiest sound effect creation tool of all time.

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