Resources for Game Design & Cultural Studies of Games Gizmos<\/strong><\/p>\n RPG-Maker<\/a><\/p>\n Unity<\/a><\/p>\n GameMaker<\/a><\/p>\n Twine<\/a><\/p>\n Ren’Py Visual Novel Engine \/ Game System<\/a><\/p>\n StoryStylus (http:\/\/www.<\/span>storystylus.com<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/a>) is currently in open beta. It creates 2D point and click narrative games with varying degrees of complexity. help content can be found on YouTube and within StoryStylus itself.<\/p>\n A programming language developed by Choice of Games<\/a> to create multiple-choice games, as a Choose Your Own Adventure electronic book. Don\u2019t feel intimidated by it being a programming language: it\u2019s based on javascript, and it\u2019s very easy to use and get started, as long as you keep your indentations in the text consistent.<\/p>\n Inform 7 Home Page<\/a><\/p>\n Texture Home Page<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Ink is the scripting language developed by Inkle Studios<\/a> to write choice-based games, whereas Inky is the editor to create the text. It is a mark-up language, not very dissimilar from Choicescript above, although in order to release it as a game it needs Unity. So you still need to know how to use Unity in order to make a game. It\u2019s open source. Ink Home Page<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n A visual novel engine that has been around since 2004, so that there is a large community of support as well as tutorials. Uses Python, one of the most accessible programming languages, it is also open source. One of its most attractive features is that it creates games that run both on desktop computers as well as mobile.<\/p>\n Ren\u2019Py Home Page<\/a><\/p>\n A tool to make point-and-click adventure games.<\/p>\n A proprietary tool to make Japanese-style role-playing games; it is pretty powerful and also has an extensive community because it has been around for a long time. The games use tile-based art, which facilitates both making visual assets as well as finding pre-made ones. It can also be used to make adventure games.<\/p>\n RPG Maker Home Page<\/a><\/p>\n Another plug-in for Unity, also proprietary. It is a toolkit to make both 2D and 3D point-and-click adventure games. It uses visual scripting, which is a bit more accessible to non-programmers, and comes with a collection of pre-set templates to create inventories, branching dialogue, and object interactions. There is a growing community of developers.<\/p>\n The Gamebook Authoring Tool<\/strong>Another proprietary tool, it is designed to make Choose-Your-Own-Adventure games, but also works to write books.<\/p>\n Scratch<\/a>\u00a0 (MIT Site – Coding)<\/p>\n CraftStudio<\/a><\/p>\n Construct2<\/a><\/p>\n Stencyl<\/a><\/p>\n WIKIPEDIA entry on Perspective<\/a><\/p>\n Code<\/a> \/ Tynker<\/a> \/ Blockly<\/a> (basic object coding, conditional<\/p>\n Twine<\/a> \/\u00a0 (Open Source Tool for Developing Non\/Linear Narratives\/Games)<\/p>\n Twine on Gamasutra<\/a><\/p>\n Twine DMG Powerpoint<\/a><\/p>\n Twine<\/a> is an easy-to-use browser-based tool for creative interactive, non-linear narratives (multimodal stories, poetry, essays, or really any genre) and interactive narratives games.<\/p>\n Glorious Trainwrecks<\/a> (Twine Support)<\/p>\n
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Adventure Game Studio (AGS)<\/h4>\n
Visionaire<\/h4>\n
RPG Maker<\/h4>\n
Adventure Creator for Unity<\/h4>\n
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