Games Technical Resources

Main Menu of Resources for Teaching about Educational Games

2D/3D Game Engines
Game-engines that have been used in classes to develop games.
 * Torque Low-cost game engine with 2D and 3D versions. Full source code is provided when you purchase a license.
 * Unity 3D game authoring tool and engine that allows for Mac, PC, and Web-based deployment.
 * Delta3D Open-source gaming and simulation engine developed by US Military
 * Second Life This is not necessarily a game engine but is a 3D multiplayer virtual environment that can be modified for games and learning purposes.
 * Open Source and Commercial Game Engines Resource. DevMaster's Game and Graphics Engines Database.

Text-Based Game Engines

 * Inform
 * TADs

Game/Multimedia Authoring Software
Other software that instructors have used in classes either for content creation or game design/development
 * Adobe Director
 * Adobe Flash
 * Blender Open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Includes a built-in game engine.
 * Pygame an open-source set of Python modules designed for writing games, based on the SDL library.
 * ALICE open source game creation tool
 * Game programming wiki
 * Game Maker by YoYo Games
 * Microsoft XNA

Games You Can Mod
Commercial and non-commercial games that have been used to teach game design in general and educational game design in particular through modding.

First Person Shooters(FPS)
 * Far Cry
 * Unreal
 * Far Cry
 * Crysis

Turn Based Strategy
 * Civilization 4

Role Playing Games (RPG)
 * Neverwinter Nights

Real Time Strategy
 * Starcraft
 * Warcraft III