Mario Builder

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Mario Builder is a video game inspired by the Mario Bros. saga where, in addition to running and jumping through two-dimensional levels in an effort to rescue the Princess, you can build your own levels to play and share. It gives you a simple level and campaign editor that makes it possible to create an infinite amount of levels. In all, you'll have more than 100 enemies to use anywhere you like, as well as a staggering 1,000 tiles to create and decorate each level. It's even possible to create the world map of your Super Mario game, as well as the title screen. Best of all, all of these options - which can seem a little overwhelming - are located in a simple, easy-to-use interface that you'll learn to control in a matter of minutes. If it all just seems like too much, check out the sample levels that come with the download. You can explore them to get an idea of where to start with Mario Builder. It's basically a complete game with various Super Mario levels that's sure to entertain you. Mario Builder is an authentic game creator that contains infinite possibilities. You can create hundreds of levels and share them with your friends... or download levels made by other users and play them right on your computer.

Torque 3D

The Torque Community

Torque 3D is a video game creation tool that allows you to pass through practically every stage in a games development. You can create your own adventure from scratch, designing each and every one of its features, before publishing it on the Internet. Torque 3D contains various different tools. The world editor for example, gives us the chance to create huge three dimensional scenes from scratch. You have to add all the materials and textures that make up the new world yourself, but the control system is intuitive enough to make the system fairly easy to work with. Torque 3D also has much to offer with regards to 3D character modelling. It not only allows you to create and import projects, but it is also specially designed to recreate and display human arms in the first person, something that will enhance any FPS. On top of all this, Torque 3D includes tools to work with in the game physics using Nvdia Physx technology. By doing so, it is possible to apply real world physics to solid or moving objects, or to create destructible elements that can be affected by the impact of other objects in your virtual world. Another key ingredient for all modern games is lighting. The program offers a huge range of possibilities when applying your different lighting effects and by providing both basic and advanced effects, you are not limited by your prior knowledge, but you can instead realize everything you want in the game. Once your game is fully developed (something that is not generally accomplished in only a few hours), you just have to publish it. Torque 3D also comes with an inbuilt tool to help allowing you to publish your games on platforms such as Kongregate, Facebook and BigFish. Torque 3D is one of the most complete game creation engines on the market. The quality and quantity of its features is overwhelming and the chance to carry out the entire process of creating a game in one tool makes it a unique application.

Algodoo

Algoryx Simulation AB

Algodoo is an educational program that works practically the same as an interactive games workshop, where the users can have a good time learning, inventing, trying new things or, of course, playing. The application is designed with a care that can be seen from the first moment in its interface. It's simple, clean and perfectly adapted to the needs of children. Nevertheless, this doesn't mean that it hides or leaves out any information because any adult user will discover that it has a lot of possibilities in reach. So if all these benefits turn out to be a little overwhelming, Algodoo includes an enormous quantity of tutorials inside the application itself, that will show you exactly how to use the majority of actions you can carry out. Once you start to play with physics and all the options that you have to change it and have fun with it, you can start to create projects. These, once done, can easily be shared through the internet with people from all over the world. In the same way, you can download the projects of other users to play them. Algodoo is a tool for programming, learning and playing, with which you can pass hours and hours creating, inventing, discovering, learning, playing... In short, it's a professor as well as a tool or a play buddy. All in one.

Game Maker

YOYO games

Game Maker is a powerful tool for creating your own video games without needing much programming knowledge, all thanks to a simple interface on which you can do almost everything you need by simply dragging and dropping various elements. You can design games with your own graphics, sounds, and effects, or use the ones that Game Maker includes on its editor. This way, you can tackle practically any genre, from graphic adventures and conversation-based games to traditional platformers and games full of action. On the app itself, you'll find a few games made with Game Maker that you can use as a foundation to develop your own. Of course, if you're brave enough, you can also try creating your own video game from scratch. Game Maker is a comprehensive video game creation platform that, instead of focusing on a single genre, gives your imagination free rein, so you can create anything you want. Best of all, all you need is a simple tutorial in order to do it.

RPG Maker

RPG Maker

RPG Maker is a videogame creation tool specialized in role games that will allow us to create fantasy worlds from scratch, to enjoy them afterwards...or let others enjoy them. Thanks to its aesthetics and mechanics, it will be easy to create JRPG games (games with the same style as Final Fantasy, Legend of Mana or Lufia). The application already has lots of sprites, sounds, music and various illustrations with which we can work, although we will be able to import our own material to create a totally unique adventure. So that it´s easier to start working with RPG Maker, it includes an example module that we can use as tutorial and thanks to which we will be able to learn nearly all its controls. In just a few hours, we will have already started to create our own adventure and we can start the first fights. RPG Maker is one of the best tools for the creation of videogames that we can find at this moment. It has everything that is necessary for the creation of fantasy worlds and unique adventures. In fact, more than one independent successful game like To The Moon has been created using this tool.

M.U.G.E.N

Elecbyte

M.U.G.E.N is the gaming engine of lots of fighting games and now you'll be able to create your one. Insert the characters you want, the environments you like the most and modiy next to all properties and features to create an amazing and funny fighting game. Although it can seem a bit difficult the truth is that it is very easy thanks tothe intuitive interface of M.U.G.E.N. You only need some time and patience. You are just a few minutes and a pair of video tutorials away from having your own custom videogame. Finally, we have to say that this program includes a basic videogame you can modify to create your own and create it even easier.

Construct 2

Scirra

Construct 2 is a program that lets you create HTML5 computer games without any programming experience using an intuitive, "drag and drop" development environment. Most of the programs tools can be used from the graphical interface without writing a single line of code. Construct 2 is aimed at creating 2D games, and comes with lots of resources that make this easy, including a physics engine that causes items in the game to be governed by the law of gravity, as well as graphic and sound bits like sprites, backgrounds, and sound effects. Furthermore, it is a simple matter to add any media file from outside the application. The philosophy of Construct 2 is one of simplicity, and an intuitive visual environment. When you drag out your sprites and lay out their position on screen, another part of the program will make them interact with other objects according to the object type. For example, "My character -> hits a wall -> stops". How easy to understand is that? The free version lets you export your creations to HTML5, which can be played on any browser regardless of platform, but this won't earn you any money. The pro paid version, though, adds an export tool that allows your games to run on Android or iOS terminals and create executables that can be run on a PC without a browser. Undoubtedly, Construct 2 is an interesting tool for anyone who wants to start making video games but has no programming skills. Its easy tools and extensive documentation make it an interesting choice.

Unreal Engine

Epic Games

Unreal Engine is the most powerful video game creation tool on the market today. The proof is that the most popular commercial games such as Daylight, Dead Island 2, Space Hulk: Deathwing, Fable Legends, and Tekken 7 (plus many more) have used it. The download provided by Uptodown (the same link that is listed on the official page) is the official client of Epic Games, though which you can download the newest version of Unreal Engine. Also, it allows you to install the new Unreal Tournament or access the marketplace of Unreal Engine, where you can buy and download lots of extras for the engine. Of course Unreal Engine allows you to create from scratch, but thanks to the marketplace option, you can buy anything from an already constructed city to different types of firearms. Once you have downloaded them, you just have to insert them into your work area. Unreal Engine is one or the most important video game engines that exists. And it's totally free. Best of all is that, thanks to the client that sponsors it, you are provided with direct access to lots of tutorials that will help you learn how to use it. Regardless, it's not a simple prospect.

GDevelop

Florian Rival

There are many assisted environments for creating video games, but few are actually open and free. GDevelop is an open source tool to create all types of games using the flexible HTML5 and then export your creations to executable file locations for Windows or Mac as packages ready to compile in Android and use on your smartphone. Best of all, this tool is completely free and has no limitations. Game development with GDevelop requires no knowledge of programming languages since it all works via a system of events assigned to objects. For example, if you want a character to move, you have to enter the condition that when pressing the corresponding key, the characters moves to the right. This command, which would normally take several lines of code to work, is summarized in a small submenu with drop-down options anyone can understand. The game's characteristics and genre are entirely up to you, although the tool is designed to create 2D games (or at most, fake 3D in the style of the first shooters in the 90s). You have access to different sections of the game, like a scene editor where you can place game elements and see the results visually at all times, and a section where you can manage all the sprites and background images you're going to include in the project. GDevelop is a fantastic tool for creating video games. While it may not lead to the next great video game, it does put the possibility of game development within reach for anybody who dreams of creating their own game.

Godot Engine

Juan Linietsky / Ariel Manzur

Nowadays you can find many tools to help you create video games based on unified development environments with all sorts of assistants to make them easy to use. While most have to be purchased or have limited features, Godot Engine has now appeared as an alternative that's completely free and open-source, and lets you create 2D as well as 3D games. Its interface aims for intuitiveness for both designers and programmers, using a scheme of hierarchical context windows that, despite being not quite as simple as drag-and-drop alternatives like Game Maker, still offers an accessible learning curve. The developers have provided extensive documentation so you can familiarize yourself with the program, and its high-level scripting language has many similarities to Python, so it's relatively easy to grasp. You can export your projects to multiple platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, iOS, and even commercial consoles like PlayStation 3, 4, and Vita (though each console is still subject to the publishing restrictions of its respective developer). In terms of features, Godot Engine includes a 2D engine (not an adaptation from the 3D one like Unity) that can transform and resize sprites, create physics and collision systems, and animate easily. The 3D engine works with OpenGL ES 2, so it's compatible with all types of rendering effects, lighting (HDR), and anti-aliasing. It also lets you export 3D models from well-known environments like Blender, Maya, and 3D Studio Max.

GameMaker Studio

YOYO games

Game Maker: Studio is a complete videogame creating tool, thanks to which its users will be able to develop complex games perfectly playable in different operating systems like Windows, Mac, iOS, Android or HTML 5. These last three, will be only available for the paid version of the application. The program has a very intuitive interface from which we will be able to manage all phases of the development of our videogame. To be able to use this program, we will of course have to use a tutorial first, but once we know all the options, developing a game will be a question of minutes. GameMaker: Studio includes a series of fundamental differences that separate it from the normal GameMaker. For example, `Studio´ includes its own physics and collisions motor (BOX2D). Although maybe the major difference between these two programs is the facility that this version has for the publication of our game in any of the many distribution platforms and operating systems that are available. GameMaker: Studio is a very complete videogame creating tool that despite the huge range of possibilities and options that it offers, it allows the creation of videogames in a simple and intuitive way.

Scratch

MIT Media Lab

Scratch is a free application for Windows that lets you easily generate your own graphic animations (aka, cartoons). Its controls are so easy-to-use and adaptable that kids love creating their own cartoon designs. Animations are generated based on different visual elements (backgrounds, images, and graphics generated from within the program), which you'll program to perform any moves you want. Programming these actions is not at all complicated, thanks to the full-featured graphic editor you get in Scratch. It has all the functions you need to create your design and make it perform any way you want. Plus its simplified format greatly reduces the difficulties you'd otherwise normally encounter when it comes to programming movements, playing sounds and modifying how characters behave. Create as many objects as you want, tailor any of the available backgrounds to match and get started making your characters come to life. Games, animated cartoons, visual caricatures -- sky's the limit when it comes to what you can create thanks to Scratch. Even if you're just starting out on your coding journey, there's no doubt you'll be on your way to making anything you want.

Frhed

kimmov

Frhed is a lightweight, compact hex editor that you can run without having to install it. The program allows you to load any file, no matter how large, and displays the data in three perfectly ordered columns: memory directions on the left, ANSI/OEM text on the right, and hex columns in the middle. Frhed has a relatively large amount of features, since it can do things like change the background color and font color of your data, or help you perform advanced copy/paste functions that are sure to save you a lot of work. Frhed is an excellent tool for anyone who needs a hex editor, since it offers a staggering amount of possibilities and comes with an excellent help file to get you started.

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Neurotechnology

CCode

Yubsoft

TextEncoder

Stefan Trost Media

ConTEXT

Eden Kirin

ConTEXT is a simple text editor specially aimed at programmers as secondary tool. ConTEXT supports C/C++, Delphi/Pascal, Java, Java Script, Visual Basic, Perl/CGI, HTML, SQL and FoxPro languages, so it?s a good choice. ConTEXT doesn’t limit the filesize of the file we want to create neither the ones that are running. In addition you can select different colours to make differences between the different commands on the different programming languages. ConText also allows you to create shortcuts with hotkeys, it includes an explorer and searcher and even lets you preview the file before printing it. It includes a system of macros to save the last actions and an application for projects and compilations.

FireBug

Joe Hewitt

FireBug is a really good add-on for Firefox that allows you to depurate the code of your webapps without having to close Firefox. Thanks to Firebug, you will be able to edit HTML code and check how it works instantaneously, without having to reload. That same action can be performed on stylesheets (CSS) and you'll also check changes on the fly. Firebug includes a lite ruler that will be reallyuseful when working on the design of the application. Other interesting features of firebug are: - Network activity monitoring. - Javascript code checker. - DOM explorer (Document Object Model). - etc.

IBP

SAP

One of the keys for success in Internet is to power up and optimize the position on search engines with the goal of receiving more visits through them. Reaching this goal can be very difficult if we don't know anything about that theme or if you don't have the right tools. IBP -Internet Business Promoter- lets you save time scanning each aspect of each URL to know the weak points than can be powered up to reach a better position. IBP scans the list of keywords, the position on different world rankings and it even create a report about optimization and tips to be successful. Finally, the developers ensure that if you use the full version of the program you'll reach the Top 10 in the most popular search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing...).

LopeEdit

LopeSoft

LopeEdit is an amazing source code editor for professionals who use any programming language. Its main features are: - Supports multiple files at the same time and of unlimited sizes. - Highlights based on syntax for any programming language. It includes the following languages by default: C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Visual Basic, VBScript, HTML, ASP, JSP, SQL, Cobol, CSS, Cascading Style Sheets, Pascal, Perl, PHP. You can also set up new languages and decide the color for each part of the code (comments, reserved words, strings, numbers, etc.). - Highlights opposite parentheses, brackets, and keys. - Lets you search text quickly and easily through two search bars with different purposes. The quick search bar takes up very little space. The other search bar, which is more advanced, allows you to find and replace text with more options. - Includes two search bars (one to explore folders and one to explore files) so you can check the directory and open the files quickly. - Includes a selection of tools so you can execute external applications. And various other features that will making editing or programming with any text much, much easier.

XPontus

XPontus Team

XPontus XML Editor is a multiplatform open-source text editor for the XML programming language, which is extensible using plugins and has support for XPath 1.0 and 2.0. You can use XPontus XML Editor to validate DTDs, XML schemas (individual and batch), and Relax NG, as well as to perform XSL transformations to these formats: HTML, XML, PDF, and SVG. XPontus XML Editor includes the following features as a text editor: code completion and indentation, syntax highlighting, document structure explorer, and more.

Basic4ppc Desktop

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JustAjaxTable

JustAjax.com

Minimum Profit

TTC Development Team

Firecookie

Jan Odvarko

Firecookie is an extension for Firebug which adds a new column to the interface that offers you a new way to view and manage cookies. The goal is to offer you a new functionality within the useful Firebug. It will make easier to deal with cookies without having to open a new panel. That new column added by Firecookie will feature detailed information about the cookies in your browser such as name, value, date, domain, size, path and expiration date. Everything at a glance. If you want to locate a certain cokie, just use the search box. Finally, you'l be able to create new cookies and manage the ones in your system.

Forms To Go

Bebosoft, Inc

Programming a web form isn't a complicated task, since the HTML tags it uses are pretty simple. The problem lies in validating the information in the fields and saving it. Forms To Go is an application for Windows that lets you generate scripts in several different languages (PHP, ASP, and PERL) to validate the fields of an HTML form and send the information to an email or database, even if you don't have any programming knowledge. The only thing you have to do to validate a specific field on a form is select the conditions it should meet. You can also add an error message to tell the user what he or she should write in a specific field. If you choose to send the information via email, you can customize the look of the message and whether to send a copy to the user who filled it out. If you prefer to send it to a database, Forms To Go is compatible with MySQL, Access, and PostgreSQL. Finally, Forms To Go includes some measures to fight spam, like filtering the IP from which the form can be sent, using a CAPTCHA, controlling for undesired words, etc.

Flowplayer

flowplayer.org

If you own a website and you want to feature any FLV flash video on it, Flowplayer is the media player that will give you the solution. It is a media player very similar to the one you see on Youtube featuring basic controls like, play/pause, volume control and fullscreen button. The installation of Flowplayer is pretty simple. You only need to copy one of the flash players (FlowPlayerLight, FlowPlayerDark, FlowPlayerLP or FlowPlayerClassic) and the file html/flashembed.min.js.

Python para todos

Raúl González Duque

Python for all is an excellent tutorial for the programming language which was developed by Raul González Duque, and is distributed under the Creative Commons license. Suitable for all levels, Python for all features 108 pages that take you through all the key aspects of this programming language: basic types, flow control, functions, object orientation, functional programming, exceptions, inputs/outputs, and so on. The introduction shows you to the main features in Python, how to install it, and why you should use it. The document comes in a PDF.

The Web Developer SEO Cheat Sheet

SEOmoz.org

AJAX Chat

Sebastian Tschan

AJAX Chat lets you create a chat room on your website, as long as you have server technologies such as PHP and MySQL. The features of AJAX Chat are very satisfying: multiple chat channels, private messages and channels, invitation system, bans, emoticons, flow control, and much more. Also, AJAX Chat is optimized to integrate with various content management systems, including: phpBB, MyBB, PunBB, SMF, and vBulletin. Note Requires a server equipped with PHP 4 or later and MySQL 4 or later.