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-=== Tools for rapid prototyping of games ===+==== Tools for rapid prototyping of games ====
  
 Good things for prototype systems: Good things for prototype systems:
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   * Ease of moving to a production engine   * Ease of moving to a production engine
  
-== Experimental gameplay ==+==== Experimental gameplay ====
  
 Making games with little time, people or costs -> http://www.experimentalgameplay.com/ Making games with little time, people or costs -> http://www.experimentalgameplay.com/
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-== Online games == +==== Online games ==== 
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 +Eg: [[plant game]]
  
 Advantages: Advantages:
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 haxe (compiles to swf/js/...) -> [[http://haxe.org/]] haxe (compiles to swf/js/...) -> [[http://haxe.org/]]
  
-== 3D engine based games ==+...? 
 + 
 +==== 3D engine based games ====
  
 Advantages: Advantages:
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 PyGame -> http://www.pygame.org/news.html PyGame -> http://www.pygame.org/news.html
  
-Mainly sprite based examples, there are some 3D games, but most seem to involve calling opengl commands wrapped in python, rather than a complete entity model (I might be wrong these days tho).+Mainly sprite based examples, there are some 3D games, but most seem to involve calling opengl commands wrapped in python, rather than a nice high level entity model (I might be wrong these days tho).
  
 Panda3d -> http://panda3d.org/ Panda3d -> http://panda3d.org/
  
-Free software python based game engine for windows & linux. Look good, need to try it out.+Free software python based game engine for windows & linux from Carnegie Mellon. Looks really good. 
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 +some more notes can be found in the [[game engines]] node
  
-== Old School ==+==== Old School ====
  
 Blitz Basic -> http://www.blitzbasic.com/ who make Blitz3D -> http://www.blitzbasic.com/Products/blitz3d.php Blitz Basic -> http://www.blitzbasic.com/ who make Blitz3D -> http://www.blitzbasic.com/Products/blitz3d.php
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 Lots of games written in this, very popular in the indy game dev scene. Lots of games written in this, very popular in the indy game dev scene.
  
-== Costly ==+==== Costly ====
  
 Virtools -> http://www.virtools.com/ Virtools -> http://www.virtools.com/

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