Indie Gamming Setup

So its been a while but I have collected all the knowledge and programs needed for a serious Indie game project. I am developing on MacOS so its been a long and curvy road to finding all the tools I needed. Herewith the:

Kegans Indie Game Development App List.

Torque Game Builder ( 100 USD from GarageGames.com )
Platformer Starter Kit (50 USD from GarageGames.com )
2D Fantasy Character Pack ( 30 USD from GarageGames.com )
Pixen Sprite Editor ( FREE opensword.org )
Blender for Modeling to Render 2D Objects ( FREE blender.org )
Gimp Image Editor ( FREE gimp.org )
Cosmic Painter to create Tiles (FREE garagecube.com )
Smultron to Edit .CS files (FREE tuppis.com )
Pencil Animator ( FREE pencil-animation.org )

Wikkad Internet Resources for Textures
http://cgtextures.com/

Want to recreate your favourite games from the early gaming era? see:
http://www.vgmaps.com/Atlas/PC


GarageGames.com has some awesome forums and tutorials which you will have a lot of fun with and is a great way to kill the Winter! :D With these apps and resources you will be able to go nuts!

Starting Game Development

Starting Game Devel

So its friday morning, I have managed to catch some kind of nordic cold which has kept me home for the day, ( and the next few also ), and I have decided to scratch around the web for 2D game engines.

There are many commercial really easy to use alternatives, but I want something free and preferably open source!

After much searching in google and comparing I have selected the LÖVE engine from http://love2d.org

It offers the following in features:

LUA Programing Language

Physics from box2d (http://box2d.org)

OpenGL

SDL

Sound and Midi goodness

Getting Started:

LÖVE on has a integrated LUA interpreter, so it runs your game code in source form, meaning there is no compiling and waiting bullshit. So its just a matter of downloading it for Mac / Linux or Windows from love2d.org. I am using a Mac!

For code editing I have selected Eddie from www.el24.com, you can also use Smultron or eclipse with LUA syntax highlighting plugin.

For now im going to play with getting the structure of the code to familiarize myself with it.