Software Used in Our Game Design Camps and Game Modding Camps

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Software Used in Our Game Design Camps & Game Modding Camps

Below is a list of cool software and hardware products we use at our summer camps. Many of these software and hardware products can be purchased at a discounted price during the camp season. Click Here to view our product specials page.

These products are used in our Game Design and Game Modding courses. Please select a course below to find out more:


	Activision® Call of Duty® 4: Modern Warfare™ is an action-thriller from the award-winning team at Infinity Ward. The game arms gamers with an arsenal of advanced and powerful modern day firepower, transporting them to the most treacherous hotspots around the globe to take on a rogue enemy group threatening the world. As both a U.S Marine and British S.A.S. soldier fighting through an unfolding story full of twists and turns, players use sophisticated technology, superior firepower and coordinated land and air strikes on a battlefield where speed, accuracy and communication are essential to victory.
	Adobe® Flash® Develop games in Flash with a powerful ActionScript tool to help you automate, repeat, change, anticipate and govern the actions of games from a simple word game to a complicated multi-player game of pool. If you are new to Flash gaming, you’ll acquire the knowledge and techniques to build your own games. If you aren’t new to gaming, you’ll be able to see what you can do better–using Flash.
	Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 is the professional image-editing standard which helps you work more efficiently, explore new creative options, and produce the highest quality images for print, the Web, and anywhere else. Create exceptional imagery with easier access to file data, streamlined Web design, faster, professional-quality photo retouching, and more.
	Autodesk® Maya® Unlimited software is a powerful, integrated 3D modeling, animation, and rendering solution based upon an open architecture. Everything can be scripted or programmed using either of Maya software’s two embedded scripting languages (MEL or Python® scripting) or its well-documented and comprehensive API (application programming interface). Maya is used by film and video artists, game developers, multimedia designers (both print and web), design visualization professionals, and 3D enthusiasts to create engaging, lifelike digital images, realistic animation, and extraordinary visual effects.
	Blizzard Entertainment® Warcraft® III: Reign of Chaos® and Warcraft® III: The Frozen Throne® computer strategy games are brilliant real-time, three-dimensional graphics powered by Blizzard’s own 3D engine, which offers support for multiple resolutions and customizable detail settings. There are four unique races armed with distinctive units, magical abilities and weapons of war. Gamers build Legendary Heroes whose ability to advance in levels and learn new spells and abilities makes them the core of each race’s force.
	Clickteam® Multimedia Fusion 2 Developer® is a visual, object oriented software and video game development environment that gives students complete control of application, game, and multimedia elements without inhibiting their natural curiosity. This approach allows emphasis to be placed on core concepts like planning, design, structure, logic, and troubleshooting. Students can drag and drop objects and define the behavior using events, an entirely new way of programming. This tool is powerful and enhances your application with thousands of conditions and actions and dozens of extension objects. The possibilities are endless.
	DigiEffects™ is the developer of popular software plug-ins for Adobe® After Effects®, Adobe Premiere® Pro, Apple® Final Cut Pro® and Autodesk® Combustion®. Delirium is the plug-in collection that established the standard for essential visual effects and motion graphics capabilities, and continues to be a staple in the toolboxes of motion graphics and visual effects artists nationwide. This set of 40 effects has helped drive the edge of post production since its introduction and this visual effects favorite continues to add flexibility for new users every day.
	Electronic Arts® Spore Creature™ Creator - How do you feel about tentacles? Why only two eyes? With a truly unprecedented level of flexibility, Spore™ Creature Creator lets you build, paint, and play with a limitless number of fun creatures using an easy drag-and-drop interface.
	Electronic Arts® The Sims™ 3 lets you create unique Sims by customizing their appearances and personalities. Build their dream house! Explore their ever-changing neighborhood and meet other Sims in the town center. Choose whether (or not!) to fulfill their life destinies and make their wishes come true. Get inspired by the endless creative possibilities and unexpected moments of surprise and mischief.
	Epic Games® Unreal® Engine 3 is known for cutting-edge graphics and its best-of-breed toolset. Unreal Engine 3 maintains those features while adding massive world support, multi-processor support, next-generation console optimizations, and one of the most mature tool pipelines in the industry. Unreal Engine 3’s advanced toolset is designed to accelerate productivity for ultra-complex, next-generation content.
	Epic Games® Unreal Tournament® 3 unleashes the full power of Unreal Engine 3, taking graphics, gameplay and challenge to a whole new level. Players engage in intense battles with other human players online, or against Unreal artificial intelligence that sets the industry standard. With the most powerful futuristic weapons and vehicles available, this is FPS action at its best.
	FPS Creator™ allows you to create your game instantly with the intuitive 3D editor. Drag and drop walls, lights, doors, enemies, ammo, weapons and more - with pixel perfect precision, and watch as they intelligently link together. Then with one click of the mouse, play your game! Make single player adventures or multiplayer arena games, the possibilities are endless.
	NVIDIA®is the world leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the GPU, a high-performance processor which generates breathtaking, interactive graphics on workstations, personal computers, game consoles, and mobile devices. NVIDIA serves the entertainment and consumer market with its GeForce® products, the professional design and visualization market with its Quadro™ products, and the high-performance computing market with its Tesla™ products. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. and has offices throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
	Realm Crafter™, or RC, is a 3D MMORPG game engine developed by Solstar Games. The game creation system includes a game editor, scripting language (basing on ideas from basic and c), terrain editor, character editor, and can be utilized to create character classes, equipment, NPCs, and more.
	Scratch software from the MIT Media Lab makes it easy to program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations on the web. As you create and share projects with Scratch, you learn to think creatively, analyze systematically, and work collaboratively.

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