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Freeware - Games - Creation

ChessGrafix is a Windows utility to create beautiful chess diagrams easily. Features include: Save the diagram in BMP or JPG format, Copy the diagram to the clipboard, Save with a customizable border, customizable coordinates. Colour-changeable squares, Ability to save your own custom configuration options, A database feature to save and recall your positions and more features planned!

Make your graphical adventure game with "My Adventure Game" software utility. You can - Import pictures (BMP & JPG), videos (AVI, MPEG)and sound files into the editor. Define every location of the game and mouse-click areas (Hot Spots). Distribute the Graphical Adventure Game that you have created (including the game engine executable) on the Internet. The game engine is based on Direct X technology which allows you to quickly render pictures and videos and play sounds.

An explosion generator that is completely customizable, add or remove particle effect, change explosions' color, and export it out, rendered and ready for use. Plus many other features.

AutoREALM is a free Fantasy Role-Playing mapper software ("cartographer") and a new GNU Community of Role-Playing Gamers. AutoREALM can design maps of castles, cities, dungeons and more.

World Creator - Create your Artwork for Games quickly and easily, specialises in Game Tiles, 2D, Platform, Overhead, Isometric, Pseudo3D, and Animations. More Textures and Masks can be found in our large Resource Center. Full Product support and Help on our Forums.

Create and print your own Word Finder puzzles, add as many words as you like, preview the puzzle before adding the random letters, save your puzzle and print it out. Open your saved puzzle in Notepad or any other text editor and you can print out two sheets, one with the words and puzzle and one with the answers.

The Point&Click DK is a gamecreator to make classic 2d adventures like the ones from Lucas Games. It has a powerful script system, many file supports and you can choose the game resolution. There is a also a Demo Adventure to learn how to use the Editor.

Onekit Texture Converter is a freeware tool for 3D game developers. This tool converts PNG format images to JPG images, taking into account the alpha channel presence. However, that's not all this tool can perform, also available are such features as output size managing and size correctness checking that are required in 3D game development.

"HLA Adventure" is a freeware adventure game that anyone may contribute to and the game includes the source code needed for further expansion of the gaming environment. HLA Adventure features Mippy, a cute dragon that lives happily in the forests and caves and often comes out during the later part of the day to eat leaves, smoulder decaying trees, and generally romp around like every good dragon should. Mippy prefers cats to dogs, likes to eat flowers and occasionally can be seen prancing around after rabbits.

Adventure Game Studio (AGS for short) allows you to create your own point-and-click adventure games, similar to the early 90's Sierra and Lucasarts adventures. It consists of an easy-to-use development environment, and run-time engine. The game interface is fully customizable, although the classic Sierra interface is supported by default. You need no programming experience to make a game using AGS - setting most game options is just a matter of point-and-click! AGS manages most of the game so that you don't have to - it provides load/save game functions, inventory management, and more.

Game Maker is a program that allows you to make exciting computer games without the need to write a single line of code. Using easy to learn drag-and-drop actions you can make professional looking games in very little time. Games with backgrounds, animated graphics, music and sound effects. Once you get more experienced there is a built-in programming language that gives you full flexibility. Game Maker can be used completely free of charge, you can use the games you produce in any way you like, you can even sell them!
Note: The latest version 6.0 of Game Maker is a major rewrite. This makes it not fully compatible with previous versions. Also the new version has higher requirements for the machines that run the games. If you are working on old games or your machine does not have a 3D graphics card with at least 16MB of memory, you might want to use version 5.3 instead.

Raycasting engine, writen in C (LCC compiler) source code available. To customize the 3d world, you can change the map.pcx file and the texture files. Uses Winalleg libraries for dealing with DirectDraw. It does not require a 3D card to run.

DimensionEX Multiplayer Developer is a Freeware kit written in Java for quickly developing and running true multiplayer adventure games. Sample games and documentation are included, once you have it working on your PC you can easily develop a role-playing adventure game with the scenes and characters you like and, as soon as you are connected, your game works as an online multiplayer game so you can invite friends to play! Use it also to create a graphic and interactive chat environment! However, if you just want to play, we have some sample games and worlds built and running on DimensioneX servers! No downloads are required to play, you just need your browser, and all DimensioneX games are fully compatible with Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera.

The Legendary Tales Engine and Visual Editor is a gaming environment for the creation of text-based role-playing games set in any fantasy world. The Editor is world-independent so the author can create games in any medieval fantasy setting by defining the races and maps. The author can also create many different types of monsters, creatures and items. The use of scripts also allows dynamic manipulation of the events in an adventure.

A cross-word puzzle grid generator for WIN/32 and Linux. Linux version can be downloaded from web site. Source code is also available at web site.

This program is a little tool for those that like the Half-Life game. This program generates random maps to use with the game, allowing you different fighting action each time. Maps are simple labyrinths, with some crates sparse around. They are not so beautiful like manually built maps (obviously) but they are always different.

Byakhee is an investigator sheet generator and editor for the Call of Cthulhu role playing game. It generates character sheets for both Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green. It also provides facilities for keepers to print out player handouts.