Game Design Research Guide

A community of professional and hobbyist artists posting, collaborating, and helping each other like no other 3D art website.

A comprehensive portal for Computer Graphics Professionals, bringing together digital artists with the latest in computer graphics technologies and practices.

Forum for board game designers and access to a site database with reviews, articles, and session reports for 59,000 games.

This site was founded to showcase game making tools and selected games that were created with them.

Make your own platformer games, spaceship shooters, or space adventure games. Advanced game maker? Try the physics game maker for creating original minigames! You can even customize it with your own game art using our new free graphics editor!

Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing games.

Spring is a versatile 3D RTS game engine. Using extensively Lua for scripting game-specific code to make nearly every aspect of the engine customizable, from GUI, to unit AI, to pathfinding.

Ren'Py is a visual novel engine that helps you use words, images, and sounds to tell stories with the computer. These can be both visual novels and life simulation games. The easy to learn script language allows you to efficiently write large visual novels, while its Python scripting is enough for complex simulation games.

A complex game creation environment that allows you to create browser based games.

Create games in your browser. (Account creation required)

With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community.

Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.