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
- Game Design & Graphic Arts Hybrid
- 3D Game Design – Racing Games
- Role-Playing Game Design with RPG Maker®
- 3D Game Design with Minecraft
- FPS Game Design
- 3D Level Design – Portal™ 2
- Game Design for iPhone® & iPad®
- Fencing & Video Game Creation
- Fencing & Level Design with Minecraft
- Minecraft – Game Modding & Java Coding
- 3D Game Design – Role-Playing Games
- FPS Game Design – Unreal® Development Kit
- 3D Level Design – Portal™ 2 & Team Fortress® 2
- Autodesk® Maya® – 3D Modeling & Animation
- Game Design for Apple® iOS® & Android™ with Unity
Product Specials
Many of these software and hardware products can be purchased at a discounted price during the camp season.
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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® 2013 software delivers practical toolsets to help facilities working in 3D animation, visual effects, game design, and post production create and maintain the modern, open pipelines they need to address today’s challenging productions. Powerful new toolsets for dynamic simulation, animation, and rendering help artists realize new levels of creativity while offering the enhanced productivity that will help keep them on schedule and within budget. In addition, the Open Data initiative introduced in Maya® 2013 helps facilitate data-centric, nonlinear workflows. With it, content creators can work in parallel to finish faster and more easily handle the massive complexity requirements they face. |
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Autodesk® Mudbox® 2013 2013 software helps artists working on visual effects, game design, and certain other 3D animation projects create complex production-ready scenes with greater ease, with the new Gigatexel engine for creating massive amounts of detail, and the ability to work efficiently with significantly more objects. Meanwhile, the creative painting and sculpting toolset is extended with new multipurpose curves; the ability to combine bump and normal map information; and easier methods for creating and extracting tiled detail. In addition, with enhanced interoperability with Adobe® Photoshop® software and support for edge sharpness data, Mudbox® 2013 offers better pipeline integration. |
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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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Minecraft is a game about breaking and placing blocks. At first, people built structures to protect against nocturnal monsters, but as the game grew players started to work together to create incredible creations, ranging from scale replicas of spaceships, to working computers, to entire cities influenced by their favorite movies. It can also be about adventuring with friends or watching the sun rise over a blocky ocean. It’s pretty. Brave players battle terrible things in The Nether, which is more scary than pretty. You can also visit a land of mushrooms if it sounds more like your cup of tea. |
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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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RPG Maker® VX Ace is a powerful yet easy to use game making program. It allows the user to create and customize every aspect of their role playing game. A default graphic pack is included so games can be created without any artistic skills but importing custom made art is also possible. With advanced features such as RGSS scripting and an in depth database and features system RPG Maker® VX Ace is a powerful game making tool. |
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Steam® is the ultimate entertainment platform with over 2,500 games and tools, over 50 million community members, and the ability to create and share content with millions of other gamers around the world through Steam® Workshop and Steam® Greenlight. Steam® is available in 187 countries and 24 different languages. |
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Ubisoft® is the third independent publisher of video games worldwide. It was founded by Yves Guillemot in 1986. It is the 2nd largest in-house development staff in the world with 26 studios in 18 countries including the Nadeo Studio, renowned developers of TrackMania United® , Trackmania² Canyon® and more recently ShootMania®: Storm. Car racing or first-person shooter gamer, those games are made for you. Earn the respect of your opponents by improving your ranking, winning eSports competitions or creating your own incredible gaming experiences. A community of players awaits you at the heart of the ManiaPlanet network! |
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Unity is flexible development platform built to help democratize game development by bringing features previously only accessible by high-end studios with high budgets to development studios of every size and financial situation. Efficient, intuitive, and powerful, Unity makes development fun again by doing the hard work behind the scenes in quickly porting projects to all of the most multiple platforms. With over 1.2 million registered developers worldwide, Unity is one of the most popular tools in the world to develop games and other wildly creative and intelligently interactive 3D and 2D content. |
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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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Valve® has award winning titles, Team Fortress® 2 and Portal™ 2, which offer distinctive art styles, challenging gameplay, and the ability to create and share game based content through Steam® Workshop. Team Fortress® 2, a team-based first person shooter multiplayer game, offers exciting class-based action and appeals to a broad range of tactical abilities and skills. Team Fortress® 2 is free-to-play, with unique equipment and character outfitting created by Valve® and the Team Fortress® community available as microtransactions. Portal™ 2 is an innovative first person perspective puzzle game, winning multiple game of the year awards for 2011. Available in both single player and co-op version, Portal™ 2 offers memorable characters, clever writing, and challenging physics-based game mechanics. The Portal™ 2 Puzzle Maker, or Perpetual Testing Initiative, is the accompanying level editor. The Portal™ 2 community has uploaded almost 730,000 puzzles, screenshots and videos to date through Steam® Workshop. Students around the world are using the interactive Portal™ 2 Puzzle Maker as a virtual lab bench in their physics, math and tech classes. |
Image from Autodesk® Maya®. ©2012-2013 Autodesk, Inc. All rights reserved. © 2012 Ubisoft Entertainment. All rights reserved. Ubisoft and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. and/or other countries. Nadeo, Shootmania and Trackmania are trademarks of Nadeo in the U.S. and/or other countries. Nadeo is a Ubisoft Entertainment company. Image from Unreal® Tournament Kit. ©2012-2013, Epic Games, Inc. All rights reserved. Only need to include products listed. ©2012-2013 Valve Corporation, all rights reserved. Valve, the Valve logo, Portal, the Portal logo, Half-Life 2, the Half-life 2 logo, Left 4 Dead, and the Left 4 Dead logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Valve Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.
