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Tools for commercial game development?

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Locking for good combinations of:

Language (compiler/IDE) and Graphics Library (+ other tools)

For game development or other software requiring more than forms.

My requirements:

Licenses allowing commercial software!!
Freeware (or cheap) / Open source
Multiplatform (Linux/Windows/*)
2D or 3D

Also plz explain your choice.
Sep 1 '08 #1
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RedSon
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Python and pygame!

Can't beat it unless you want to run natively on windows. Then you want DirectX or XNA.

Good luck!
Sep 2 '08 #2
asedt
125 New Member
Python and pygame!
Good luck!
Thanks,

I will try that out.
I have done some Python before so it can't be that hard :)
Sep 3 '08 #3
pootle
68 New Member
If you are interested in C#, you can use visual studio express with the Microsoft's XNA. See:
http://msdn.microsoft. com/en-us/xna/default.aspx

Have Fun.
Sep 9 '08 #4
asedt
125 New Member
If you are interested in C#, you can use visual studio express with the Microsoft's XNA. See:
http://msdn.microsoft. com/en-us/xna/default.aspx
Cool, in my mind I think I had remembered that the express versions had a license that not allowed commercial use (don't know if they had befor?), but your right it is allowed. I guess that’s a great option if you are using Windows.
Sep 10 '08 #5

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