Build Your Game from the Scratch with these Effective Game Development Tools

As a game lover, you have several game ideas that continue to bubble up every now and then. But have you ever thought of shaping that idea into a robust game? You do not have a coding background, right? Well, that cannot prevent you from building your first game from the scratch. You cannot make a huge investment with game engines and expert developers and designers, right? Again, that too cannot prevent you from making your game idea into a reality.

Unity3D started way back in 2005, but it took more than half a decade to become really popular. It is one of the most powerful engines that can deliver a game experience similar to major AAA titles. Unity3D is robust with support for the majority of platforms including Windows, Mac, iOS, PS3, Xbox360, Linux, Android, Wii U, and obviously, the web. Beginners can easily handle the engine with intuitive elements.

The biggest selling point for the engine is its robust Asset Store that allows developers creating a wide variety of assets including models, GUIs, scripts, tools, animations, systems, etc. It also allows importing assets for faster development. There are two editions of the engine available today, respectively as Unity Free and Unity Pro($1500). Defying the popular logic Unity Free is feature rich and offers more than enough to build your game as a beginner.

If you are an admirer of simple point and click adventure games this 2D game development tool can be the right one to start with. Adventure games are preferred for active storytelling with lots of fun elements poured in. The Adventure Game Studio offers enough features and tools to make your story based game stand out with beautiful visual effects and engaging game characters.

The free version of the Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3 released in 2009 is called Unreal Development Kit or UDK. The original Unreal Engine was a step ahead of the game scene at the time of its release with several never before features and elements and over the years those superb game experience creating attributes have culminated in a free for everybody toolset called UDK. With UDK you can ensure staying up to date in game features and visual output while saving your coding time to a great extent. But when it comes to mastering the development skills, UDK can be a bit challenging for the newbies since it is a matured development kit.

Suppose you have an engaging game story in mind and have penned it down as well. But, you have no idea of how to build an interesting game on that story. Well, Twine is just the ideal tool for such scenarios. To let a fiction turn into an interactive game on the web, Twine is one of the most preferred tools. It offers simple interface and controls for the beginners and anyone can enjoy transforming a small story into gaming actions. But there are advanced features as well and to master those beginners may need to learn.

Want a rapid game building tool for the web? Are you already familiar with HTML5 and its tools? Well, in that case, Construct 2 can be the ideal game creation engine to build your first 2D game for the web. Beginners often struggle to understand the game development flow while using traditional engines and tools. Construct 2 in this respect helps to make things easier just by simplifying a few concepts in the process. It is as simple as dragging and dropping the game entities in the various levels followed by addition of respective events and behaviors. The engine offers extensive support for all platforms including Chrome, Firefox, Facebook, NewGrounds and Kongregate.

Cocos2D has long been popular with developers as an open source 2D game development tool. It allows building feature rich 2D games with C++ besides Lua and JavaScript support. With a whole array of popular games built with this tool it has been used for web-based 2D games for years and is one of the oldest tools out there. The games built on Cocos2D can be published over the Web or across various platforms including Windows, Mac, Android, iOS and Windows Phone.

GameMaker is another tool that is quite open to the adoption of newbie developers. When you try building the game with its scripting language it will offer relentless support at each and every step. It has been used by many big and popular game titles initially. The free version has enough tools and features to make the experience for the newbie developers smooth and enjoyable.

Do you want a web based game development tool that can address the requirements of a wide variety of game types? Well, in that case, Sploder should be your ideal choice. It offers five different sub-tools and each one of them is destined for building different types of games including 3D Adventure, Physics Puzzle, Classic Shooter, Retro Arcade and Platformer. Moreover, you have Graphics Editor tool to create your desired assets.

If you are absolutely non-interested to master the minimum programming skills that many of these tools require to a certain extent, Stencyl can really be your choice. It comes loaded with a robust collection of pre-programmed blocks of code which are arranged in order to build a relationship between them for the desired gaming actions. For a drag and drop style development and editing Stencyl is a great tool.

Unlike most other tools the developers here do not need to build the game engine assets and make the balancing act. Thanks to Mod Tools all you need to do is to manage the available assets to craft a new game story and actions. Putting together the pre-made assets to make a satisfactory game is key here.

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I am Keval Padia CEO at Nimblechapps a Game Development Company I hope these tools help you a lot to develop a game. Let me konw in comment if you know other game development tools or game desing tools that can inspire me to write new blogs.