====== Software ======
Software used for developing, and editing, games.

Often these titles will refer to a series of programs, rather than a particular one.

===== General =====
Designed for making no game type in particular, though they can suit some ideas more than others.

  ***[[3D Rad]]**
  ***[[Action Game Maker]]**
  ***[[Build your own Net Dream]] (BYOND)**
  ***[[Construct]]**
  ***[[DS Game Maker]]**
  ***[[Game Develop]]**
  ***[[Game Maker]]**
  ***[[Game-Maker]]**
  ***[[knp|Klik & Play / Multimedia Fusion (etc.)]]**
  ***[[OmniLudiCon]]**
  ***[[ZGameEditor]]**

===== Genre Specific =====
Software designed for making games in particular genres. Though they can often be used, through force, to create other things.

====Fightmans====
  ***[[Fighter Maker]]**
  ***[[MUGEN]]**

====Pinball====
  ***[[Pinball Construction Set]]**

====Platformer====
===3-D===
  ***[[Atmosphir]]**

====Pointing and Clicking====
  ***[[Adventure Game Studio]]**
  ***[[Game Builder]]**
  ***[[World Builder]]**

====RPG & Adventure====
  ***[[001 Game Creator]]**
  ***[[Adventure Construction Set]]**
  ***[[Adventure Creation Kit]]**
  ***[[Coldstone]]**
  ***[[DC Games]]**
  ***[[Explorations]]**
  ***[[Hephaestus]]**
  ***[[Gamescape]]**
  ***[[IsoWorld]]**
  ***[[Official Hamster Republic Role Playing Game Construction Engine]] (OHRRPGC)**
  ***[[RPG Maker]]**
  ***[[RPG Toolkit]]**
  ***[[Scenario RPG Maker]]**
  ***[[Sphere]]**
  ***[[Verge]]**
  ***[[Zelda Classic]]**
  ***[[ZZT]]**

===First-person perspective===
  ***[[DrawMaze]]**
  ***[[Dungeon Craft]]** (formerly UAForever)

===3-D===
  ***[[3D RPG Editor]]**
  ***[[RPG Builder 3D]]**

===MMORPG===
  ***[[Eclipse Origins]]**
  ***[[Elysium Engine]]**
  ***[[Divinity]]**
  ***[[NetGORE]]** (formerly vbGORE)

====Shooter====
  ***[[Shoot'Em-Up Construction Kit]] (SEUCK)**
  ***[[Shooter Maker]]**

====Strategy====
  ***[[Sim RPG Maker]]**

====Text Adventure====
  ***[[Twine]]**

===== Game Specific =====
Level editors, and such, included within games, and those by other parties designed for specific games.

  ***[[1942 Level Editor]]** (//[[game:1942]]// - NES version)
  ***[[Abuse]]**
  ***[[Advance Wars]]**
  ***[[game:bangai-o_spirits#home_brewed|Bangai-o Spirits]]**
  ***[[Championship Sprint]]**
  ***[[drod|Deadly Rooms of Death]] (DROD)**
  ***[[Elebits|Elebits / Eledees (PAL)]]**
  ***[[Excite Bike]]**
  ***[[Excite Bike 64]]**
  ***[[F-Zero X Expansion Kit]]**
  ***[[Forge]]** (//[[game:Marathon 2]]/////[[game:marathon_infinity|Infinity]]//)
  ***[[frogatto_and_friends|Frogatto & Friends]]**
  ***[[Knytt Stories]]**
  ***[[Lazy Shell]]** (//[[game:super_mario_rpg|Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars]]//)
  ***[[Lunar Magic]]** (//[[game:Super Mario World]]//)
  ***[[Mach Rider]]**
  ***[[mapmaker|MapMaker]]** (//[[game:timesplitters_series|TimeSplitters]]// [[game:timesplitters_series|series]])
  ***[[Marble Madness Construction Set]]** (Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum versions only)
  ***[[Mario Improvement]]** (//[[game:Super Mario Bros.]]//)
  ***[[Mario Improvement3]]** (//[[game:Super Mario Bros. 3]]//)
  ***[[Pyro II]]**
  ***[[Race Track]]**
  ***[[Racing Destruction Set]]**
  ***[[Reggie]]** (//[[game:New Super Mario Bros Wii]]//)
  ***[[ReMaster]]** (//[[game:Blaster Master]]//)
  ***[[Runesword]]**
  ***[[Stunts|Stunts / 4D Sports Driving / 4D Driving]]**
  ***[[The SMB2 Level Discombobulator]]** (//[[game:super_mario_bros_2|Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA)]]//)
  ***[[Toad's Tool 64]]** (//[[game:Super Mario 64]]//)
  ***[[TrackMania]]**
  ***[[Wily's Toolbox]]** (//[[game:mega_man_wilys_revenge|Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge / Rockman World]]//)

===== Hardware Specific =====
For software for use on hardware that is not a PC or Mac. Many of these also have PC---often DOS---versions, and will be listed twice.

  ***[[3D Fighter Maker]]**
  ***[[Adventure Construction Set]]**
  ***[[Dezaemon]]**
  ***[[Pinball Construction Set]]**
  ***[[RPG Maker]]**
  ***[[warioware_diy|WarioWare DIY / Made in Ore / WarioWare: Do it Yourself]]**

===== Assets =====
Programs for the creation of game assets, with an emphasis on freeware.

==== Sound ====
  ***[[AdLib Visual Composer]]**
  ***[[Audacity]]**
  ***[[Cakewalk]]**
  ***[[duncs_algomusic]]**
  ***[[fruityloops|FL Studio / FruityLoops]]**
  ***[[Organya]]**
  ***[[PXTone]]**
  ***[[sfxr]]**
  ***[[ToneMatrix]]**

==== Graphics ====
  ***[[Anim8or]]**
  ***[[Blender]]**
  ***[[Games Factory Pack]]**
  ***[[GIMP]]**
  ***[[Graphics Gale]]**
  ***[[IDraw]]**
  ***[[Mappy]]**
  ***[[MS Paint]]**
  ***[[NES Screen Tool]]**
  ***[[Open tUME]]**
  ***[[Paint.net]]**
  ***[[Simple Tile Map Editor]]**
  ***[[TaT Tile Map Editor]]**
  ***[[Tiled]]**
  ***[[Tile Map Editor]] (TME)**
  ***[[Tile Studio]]**

===== Related links =====
  * [[http://www.ambrosine.com/index.php|Ambrosine's Game Page]] - Massive database of game creation tools.
  * [[http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=22509|Learn how to Game Design ITT]] - SB forum game development info. dump.
  * [[http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=1080|do it your fucking self then]] - SB forum thread about games with level editors.