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"*": "{{ infobox_updates\n| item1 = [[Downpour]]\n| item1_date = 23/4/24\n| item1_description = New page for recently released tool.\n| item2 = [[Shooting Game Builder]]\n| item2_date = 24/8/23\n| item2_description = Working on page for recently released tool.\n| item3 = [[:Category:Visual Scripting]]\n| item3_date = 22/5/23\n| item3_description = New category for tools with<br>{{jargon|Visual Scripting|visual scripting/programming}}.\n| item4 = [[Hover Your Own Pixel]]\n| item4_date = 24/1/23\n| item4_description = Created.\n| item5 = [[Map Generators]]\n| item5_date = 5/11/22\n| item5_description = New page for procedural map generators.\n}}\n'''Welcome to the Game Making Tools Wiki!'''\n\nThe purpose of this wiki is to collect together information and resources on as many game making tools as possible, and make all that accessible and relevant to amateur game making people and people who would like to make games (''et cetera'').\n\nI hope you find it useful! ~~\n\nIf you have any issues with, or ideas for the wiki, please make a note on [[Talk:Main_Page#Issues|the Talk page]], make a post on [https://www.gamemaking.tools/forum/ the forum], or [[User:Rjt|contact me directly]].\n\n== For Game Makers / People Who Would Like to Make Games ==\n* This wiki's [[Guide:Main_Page|Guide]] section. Especially [[Guide:Communities]] and [[Guide:Texts]].\n* Trying your luck with a [[Special:Random|random page]].\n\n== For Wiki Contributors / How To Help ==\n* Fix any errors or make any other edits to pages! Fixing typos, and broken links is pretty good way to get used to editing wiki pages that's also really helpful.\n* Make a page on something, even if it's just a few links!\n* '''You can't break anything, do whatever you think is best!'''\n* Check out [[Guide:Game Making Tools Wiki|this wiki's Contributor Guide]], and maybe the MediaWiki [//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents User's Guide].\n* If a page you're on raises questions, or you have any feedback, feel free to post them on the 'Discussion' page. You're also welcome to contact [[User:Rjt|Rylie]] directly.\n* '''Nothing here's really set in stone yet, so throw whatever ideas you want at me: terminology, wiki name, URL, design, organisational stuff, other extensions, etc. etc.'''\n\n== Other Web Resources ==\n* [http://creatools.gameclassification.com/EN/index.html Game Creation Tools] does a good job of gathering together a big range of game making tools, but does a poor job of actually being useful to people making games.\n* [http://www.ambrosine.com/resource.php Ambrosine's Game Creation Resources] is mostly just a big list of links. The term 'authorware' is a nice one.\n* [http://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22game+creation+software%22&sort=titleSorter Game Creation Software] on The Internet Archive.\n* [http://freegameslist.weebly.com/game-creation-tools.html Game Creation Tools] on Free Games List.\n* [https://wiki.secretgeek.net/procedural-content-generation Procedural Content Generation Wiki] - info on using {{jargon|Procedural_Generation|procedural generation}} in games.\n* [https://onlinegamedev.tumblr.com/ Online Game Development] - Contemporary list of [[:Category:Browser|browser-based]] tools.\n* [https://github.com/Calinou/awesome-gamedev Awesome Gamedev] - Long list of {{jargon|Free Software|free software}} and assets for game making.\n* [https://leetusman.com/nosebook/you-must-make-games You Must Make and Play Games] - Well described list of beginner-friendly tools and resources covering a good variety of game-making approaches.\n* [http://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/the-wonderful-world-of-tools-made-by-small-teams-solo-devs-and-shareware-weird-beautiful-and-experimental-things-to-be-creative-in-an-analysis-on-building-for-approachability The wonderful world of tools made by small teams, solo-devs, and shareware (weird, beautiful, and experimental things to be creative in + an analysis on building for approachability)] - Great article, by Nathalie Lawhead, on game making tools.\n* [https://tinytools.directory/ Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup] - Big, filterable, list of all sorts of game-making-related software, by Everest Pipkin and contributors.\n* [https://notimetoplay.org/ No Time To Play] - Regular newsletter for game makers. Info on tools, articles, etc.\n* [https://risingthumb.xyz/GamesDevelopment/Resources/ Game Development links and resources] on risingthumb.xyz\n* [https://book.leveldesignbook.com/appendix/tools/ The Level Design Book] - Tools page has good lists and links, primarily for [[:Category:Level Editor|level editors]] and moddable games.\n* [https://github.com/RetroDevDaemon/retro-platform-jam-tools Retro Platform Jam Tools] - Links for tools for making games on old computers and consoles.\n* [https://gamedevsoftware.com/ \u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u5236\u4f5c\u30c4\u30fc\u30eb\u96c6] (Game Making Tool Collection) - Japanese site with lots of tools I hadn't heard of before. Affiliated with game distribution site [https://www.freem.ne.jp/ Freem].\n\n== And \u2014==\n* This wiki's theme is available in a [[Guide:Git|Git]] repository on Tildegit: [https://tildegit.org/rjt/mediawiki-theme-timeless-gmt tildegit.org/rjt/mediawiki-theme-timeless-gmt]<br>You're welcome to contribute to that too (or just send suggestions to [[User:Rjt|Rjt]])!"
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