Tools that make game dev easier

[pkt]

Path Branching

http://www.xmind.net/
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/in ... /Main_Page
http://www.openoffice.org/
http://inkscape.org/

I have used those for making paths. You can also do it in a lot of other programs. Basically all of these are useful for making flowcharts and such like that.

Graphic Tools

http://www.gimp.org/
http://al.chemy.org/
http://www.getpaint.net/

All free tools decent for making graphics.

Any others you want me to add. I'll make a list with free paid and the like and what their useful for too but for now I'll leave the list unfinished since I have to go soon.

[Jake]

Any others you want me to add. I'll make a list with free paid and the like and what their useful for too

You may wish to note/add to the Community Wiki, which already has a list of graphics tools alongside many other things.

[Topagae]

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[Morhighan]

Art:
http://mypaint.intilinux.com/

I've been using this for character relationships, family trees and some paths.
http://www.habitualindolence.net/labyrinth/
Examples of Labyrinth:

[Jake]

I added XMind, Freemind and Alchemy to the community wiki, and added a new section for version-control or collaboration software, including SVN (and the Tortoise client Topagae linked to above, which will need a server to function) and the others I could think of off the top of my head:

http://wiki.renai.us/wiki/Collaboration ... l_Software


I didn't add MyPaint or Labyrinth, because they were already there. If people find useful software, it's really a good idea to add them to the community wiki; like that there's always one place people can go to find the list of all the tools we know about, rather than having to try and find a possibly-months-old thread which might have mentioned that tool they heard about a little while ago but forgot. There's nothing wrong with threads like these, but since the wiki already has a large number of links to useful stuff on, it would be good if we could keep it up to date - it's no harder than a forum post to edit.