Software Used in Our Game Design Camps & Game Modding Camps
These products are used in our Game Design and Game Modding courses. Please select a course below to find out more:
- Adventures in Game Design
- RPG Game Design & Graphic Arts Hybrid
- Game Creation – Arcade & Platform
- 3D Game Design – Racing Games
- Game Design for iPhone® & iPad®
- 3D Game Design – Role Playing Games
- FPS Game Design – Unreal® Engine 3
- 3D Game Modding – StarCraftrcraft® II: Wings of Liberty
- 3D Game Modding – Half-Life® 2
- Maya® – 3D Modeling & Animation
Product Specials
Many of these software and hardware products can be purchased at a discounted price during the camp season.
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Check Back in June for New Product Specials |
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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®. |
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Adobe® Photoshop® 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. |
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Autodesk® Maya® modeling, animation, rendering and visual effects software offers artists an end-to-end creative workflow. It includes sets, advanced matchmoving capabilities and high dynamic range compositing in a single package. Since the world of 3D is changing every day, prepare yourself with the new Autodesk® Education Suite for Entertainment Creation 2012 which features flexible learning resources and tools used by top creative professionals. With a free Autodesk® Maya® download for personal use at home and special pricing institutions for classroom use, it’s easy to get started with 3D. Autodesk® Education Suite for Entertainment Creation 2012 includes full versions of the following software solutions: Autodesk® Maya®, Autodesk® 3ds Max®, Autodesk® Softimage®, MotionBuilder®, and Autodesk® Mudbox™. For great new learning material, digital study packets, career information and more, visit the new Autodesk® Digital STEAM Workshop. |
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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. |
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GameSalad® is a visually based tool for game creation that allows anyone to make games for the iPhone® or iPad® without programming a single line of code. Its drag & drop functionality, combined with a complex library of established behaviors, helps GameSalad® open the door of game making to anyone looking to bring their ideas to life. |
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MilkShape 3D allows gamers to create and import basic 3D models. A skeletal animator, MilkShape 3D allows vertex and face editing, and includes standard and extended primitives like spheres, boxes and cylinders. MilkShape 3D can export to over 70 file formats, making it ideal as an asset creation tool for anyone into modding games. As a low-polygon modeler, it allows low level editing with a vertex and face tool. It has basic operations like select, move, rotate, scale, extrude, turn edge and subdivide, as well as primitives such as spheres, boxes, and cylinders. |
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NVIDIA® (Nasdaq: NVDA) awakened the world to the power of computer graphics when it invented the graphics processing unit (GPU) in 1999. Since then, it has consistently set new standards in visual computing with breathtaking, interactive graphics available on devices ranging from portable media players to notebooks to workstations. NVIDIA®’s expertise in programmable GPUs has led to breakthroughs in parallel processing which make supercomputing inexpensive and widely accessible. Fortune magazine has ranked NVIDIA® #1 in innovation in the semiconductor industry for two years in a row. |
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Spore™ Creature Creator How do you feel about tentacles? Why only two eyes? With a truly unprecedented level of flexibility, Spore™ lets you build, paint, and play with a limitless number of fun creatures using an easy drag-and-drop interface. |
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Steam® is a pioneering and the world’s largest online gaming platform that provides the ability to distribute games and other content directly to more than 35 million gamers around the world. Steam® opens up new channels of distribution and allows for non-traditional product offerings while increasing profit margins to content creators. Steam is available in 237 countries and 21 different languages. |
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TrackMania United® is a series of arcade racing games. Instead of following the usual trend of choosing a set car and track for playing in the game, the TrackMania United® games allow players to create their own tracks using a “Block” process. TrackMania United® offers both a deep single-player mode as well as endless multi-player challenges across a world-wide community of racers who are ranked by the game’s ladder system. In contrast with most other racing games, the TrackMania series lets players race a track as many times as they want, until time runs out. Players can choose to respawn at any time – due to landing upside down, going off the track or because the start did not go optimally. |
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Unreal® Development Kit (UDK) is Unreal® Engine 3 – the complete professional development framework used to power many bestselling video games. Experience the power and potential of Unreal Engine 3 and create amazing games, lifelike scenes, fantastic worlds and much more. Access the same toolset used by many of the world’s best game developers. See why hundreds of thousands of people have installed UDK in just a matter of months. You can download UDK for free at www.udk.com. |
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The Valve® debut title Half-Life® was released in 1998, winning more than 50 game of the year awards. By taking the original suspense, challenge, and visceral charge, and adding startling new realism and responsiveness, Half-Life® 2 opens the door to a world where the player’s presence affects everything around him or her, from the physical environment to the behaviors and even the emotions of both friends and enemies. Portal™ has been called one of the most innovative games of the decade. A hybrid of FPS style and a new genre of spatial brain teasers, Portal™ offers hours of totally unique gameplay. Portal™ 2, released in April 2011, draws from the award-winning formula of innovative gameplay, story, and music that earned the original Portal™ over 70 industry accolades and created a cult following.The single-player portion of Portal™ 2 introduces a cast of dynamic new characters, a host of fresh puzzle elements, and a much larger set of devious test chambers, while two-player cooperative mode features its own entirely separate campaign with a unique story, test chambers, and two new player characters. |
© 2011 Electronic Arts Inc., SPORE and the SPORE logo are trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. © 2011 Valve Corporation. Valve, the Valve logo, Steam, the Steam logo, Half-Life 2 and the Half-Life 2 logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Valve Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. All rights reserved.
