The Abyssal Engine is a powerful professional game creation tool kit and rendering system for creating quality 3D software. The technology is designed to reduce development time while empowering developers with a strong suite of tools needed to produce great visual effects and immersive online or offline worlds. The technology allows the developer to create everything [...]

A Microsoft Research project, visual programming language for creating games. Targeted at kids this is a great visual tool for beginners to learn how to program games. There is no code to write, just pick and arrange actions. You may also want to read the kodu blog “I Didn’t Know You Could Do This in [...]

123Ticket.com is an online alternative payment provider, headquartered out of Barcelona, Spain. The company provides a popular micropayment system that allows customers to make purchases online without a credit card. The billing solution is for merchants who wish to sell digital content (video, music, applications, etc…) through (short message service) and micropayment mobile billing. 123Ticket [...]

A good idea indeed! I would actively encourage it, as it will make you learn a lot of things in a lot of different areas. However, before attempting to pick a game engine, or to start coding your own, you should consider a few things:

What do YOU like as a game (e.g. [...]

For new players in the field, and especially for young people, having your own game seems a real achievement and look like something fun. In this article I want to talk about my own experience and point out the good and the bad side of it.

I personally started my own experience as game owner [...]

Pro Version Graphical Effects Added
New Post Processing Editor for 2.30

Realm Crafter Pro has a new Post Processing pipeline and editor. Post Processing effects are shaders which are applied to the rendered scene which can really change how the game feels. By default, we will include a bloom shader which makes all [...]

Space Commander 
An online space war game in which each player starts with his own planet. The first important step which should then be taken is to build facilities including energy plants and mines to collect raw materials. This material can then develop new buildings, including shipyards for space vehicles, ships and weapons to develop defenses [...]

 
Gangster World

This is a Gangster Multiplayer Online Game with many unique options. You start as an ordinary laborer and you end up in the world of the Mafia. You will be asked to do crimes muscles to grow in the gym. with each rank you will get more benefits, you can buy new weapons, new [...]

A big struggle in game design is finding the perfect color (colour) combinations.
Lucky there are some free tools on the web available to help make your job easier.

ColorCombos.com

colourlovers.com

ColorToy 2.0, a color scheme generator
colorbe.com
Colour palette generator based on an image you upload
Colordb the colour database
4096 color wheel
Colorhunter.com 
Color scheme generator2 
colorjack.com
Colors on the Web 
colorschemer.com
Colormixers.com 
colorblender.com 
kuler.adobe.com 
colr.org
pic2color.com 
krazydad.com/colrpickr

As a game developer you often have the need of gradients, those are small images that are pretty usefull for backgrounds, player stat bars etc…
A easy and free to use tool is Gradcolor. Gradcolor is a website with the one and only purpose of creating gradients fast. You can then use the image generated as [...]