• Adventure Maker Adventure Maker is one of the fastest, most powerful and less expensive ways to create games and multimedia software. It is very easy to use and does not require any scripting or programming. It can create single, compressed, stand-alone files, which can be distributed and sold for a profit, without having to pay royalty fees.Adventure Maker is particularly useful for creating first-person adventure games, such as Myst or Riven. After adding pictures for the backgrounds (BMP, JPG, GIF,WMF or EMF), the user can add hotspots, texts, animated gif's, sounds (WAV's, MIDI's or MP3's), videos (AVI's), timers, variables, items to be picked up and much more. The program can create single, fully-featured, compressed, stand-alone installation files, so that software can be easily distributed also over the Internet. Particularly user-friendly (drag and drop support...), the program can be used by beginners as well as experts. Free online tutorials are also available for fast learning of basic and advanced functions.
• Nanneko Geneware Concept SourceVery interesting concept about source code of the software Fight! Pussycat Heart.
• AdventureGame Engine engine for creating graphical first-person adventure games with full support for inventory, save/load games, inventory, puzzles, conversations, full motion video, cutscenes (WIN) 
• Abstract RTS Engine An RTS engine under development intended for user-produced rules, AI, and media modules (mods)
• Text-World text adventure authoring tool
• StoryLand create Cooperative stories, using only a WEB browser
• Scribe development system for interactive fiction
• Ren'Py a programming language and runtime, intended to ease the creation of visual-novel type games
• M.u.C.e.S Multichoice Creation System (MuCeS) allows you to create any type of multiple choice text adventure
• Game Book Player This application allows you to write fighting fantasy like game books and has lots of neat features.
• FPS Creator make your own action packed FPS games without any programming or 3D modelling knowledge
• The 3D Gamemaker With just one click of a mouse, you can create a uniquely playable game without needing any programming knowledge or artistic skills at all
• 2D Shooter Game Creator The 2D shooter game creator will let YOU create your own games, in the style of classic lightgun games, e.g. Time Crisis
• Ray Game Designer Previously commercial (now freeware) 3D Game building system for Windows 3.x and Windows 95. It allows you to create games based on a RayCaster engine without any knowledge of coding: you only use a point-and-click interface and your favorite drawing tools

• 3D Adventure Studio an editor for creating adventure games in style of Gabriel Knight 3 (WIN) 
• 3DCakeWalk soon to be released commercial game engine
• 3D Game Engine alpha release of an unfinished 3D game engine (DOS/GNU/Linux) 
• The 3D Game Maker point & click 3D game creator (Win)
• 3D Game Studio produce 3D realtime applications - demos, adventures, role playing, action, advertising, or racing games - without programming skills (WIN) 
• 3D Rad a programmable, user-friendly, 3D real-time engine (WIN) 
• ADePT adventure developing and playing toolkit
• ADRIFT a simple, yet powerful IF game designer (WIN) 
• Adventure Book CYOA creator
• Adventure Builder text adventure authoring system (DOS/WIN) 
• Adventure Construction Kit create your own roleplaying/adventure games ala the early Ultima games (DOS) 
• AdventurEd system in development for creating graphical adventure games (Amiga)  
• Adventure-Editor German text adventure creator
• Adventure Game Studio make your own point and click adventure games without programming; recently rewritten, now supports the standard Sierra interface as well as the LucasArts interface. Very nice. (WIN) 
• Adventure Maker 2 make your own 1st person adventure games with no programming or scripting required (Win95+) 
• AdventureR Lab planned professional tool to create classical point & click adventures 
• AGAST Adventure Game Authoring System to create and play your own graphic adventure games like those from LucasArts and Sierra On-line (WIN) 
• AGT Adventure Game Toolkit for creating text adventures with graphics and sound (DOS) 
• Aiee! design text adventures without programming experience
• ALAN for creating interactive fiction (Amiga/Unix/DOS) 
• Alice create your own scripts that control the motion of 3D objects for games, training simulations, etc (WIN95+)
• AMOS get the source code for the classic Amiga game creation program (Amiga) 
• Antiryad Gx easy multi platform game creator tool
• AZALTA system with endless adventures, an infinite number of large worlds to explore, hundreds of puzzles to solve, creatures to meet, and items to find -- you can even create your own worlds/creatures/items (WIN/Amiga) 
• Blackfish open source isometric game engine written in C++ (WIN)
• Blitz Basic the legendary Amiga Basic compilier for the PC (WIN) 
• Blades of Exile a fantasy role-playing system (WIN/MAC)
• Blender free and fully functional 3D modeling/rendering/animation package, including games (Unix/Windows/BeOS) 
• Blitz Basic II basic programming package for creating high-quaility games on the Amiga (Amiga)
• The Bluespere Project text adventure creation software that is in development (WIN/DOS) 
• Byond create online games and applications using a simple programming language
• ButtonTalk easy to use tool for creating interaction fiction (MAC to create, exports HTML)
• CAECHO Spanish program for creating interaction fiction (DOS)
• CAT Creative Adventure Toolkit: adventure authoring utility for writing text adventures on your PC (WIN)
• Clean Game Library complete development system for 2D games (platform games, side scrollers), using the functional language Clean (Win, MAC, Linux)
• Coconut 2D adventure game development tool (WIN/LINUX)
• Coldstone the most complete solution for developing games on the Macintosh (MAC) 
• Crystal Space free (LGPL) and portable 3D engine written in C++ (WIN/MAC/DOS/LINUX) 
• Cycon Online Gaming -COG- Engine Open Source project aimed at simplifying the creation of online video games with no programming experience necessary.
• Dark Basic BASIC language that lets you create fast full-screen DirectX and Direct3D games with incredible ease. You can write a 3D game in minutes! (WIN)
• DC Games tool kit for creating the hottest CRPGs available (DOS)
• Delver shareware single-player overhead-view tile-based computer RPG construction kit written in Java (JAVA)
• Digital Loca-Lite 3D authoring tool, especially designed for beginning 3D-Game-makers (Win95+)
• Dimension3 3D game creator (MAC)
• DIV Games Studio programming language that has been designed exclusively for the creation of games (WIN
• Divinty RPG maker/editor (MAC)
• EdPack authoring tool for graphic adventures. Site is in Spanish but based on the translation I got from AltaVista, program sounds promising.
• Endless Opportunity MMORPG Maker Site tools to create Massive Multiplayer Online RPGs
• Erasmatazz Authoring tool used to create interactive storyworlds (WIN/MAC) 
• Explorations RPG System independent role playing game engine
• Freeplay free, 2D development environment for multimedia adventure games. Integrated are editors for sprites, scripts, paths and other game components. (JAVA)
• Game Builder Lite for creating animated adventures and educational programs (DOS) 
• Game Editor design 2D games for PCs and mobile devices
• Game Maker allows you to make exciting computer games, without the need to write a single line of code(WIN) 
• GameMaker & GameMaker Lite simple, card-based development system that enables you to create simple adventure games with graphics, buttons, and text (MAC) 
• GAUGE will be able to support any sort of 3D game, including first person shooters, real time strategy, simulations, and more 
• Genesis 3D a completely free 3D gaming engine (WIN)
• Glumol clone of the mythical LucasArts SCUMM engine (WIN)
• GMAX a free 3D content creation platform designed to let game enthusiasts create custom art for their favorite titles (WIN)
• GRAAL script-based Graphic Adventure Authoring Language (Amiga) 
• Golden T Game Engine game programming for JAVA programmers
• G-Wiz Game Wizard will be tool for designing and playing text adventure and role-playing games (WIN)
• Hephaestus computer role-playing game system with loadable adventures; with the compiler, you can write your own adventures in a simple yet powerful scripting language, and share them with anyone else who has Hephaestus (JAVA)
• HUGO a programming language and authoring system for interactive fiction (WIN/DOS/Linux) 
• IndianaJava system to create and run 2D graphic adventure games (JAVA) 
• Inform a design system for interactive fiction (WIN/MAC/Amiga) 
• InterAx create games in an easy to use yet powerful visual environment without programming or scripting. (WIN95+) 
• Jamagic (fka JAMA3D) if you can program your web page, you can program your 3D game in JAVA Script(Win/MAC/Linux) 
• KOF91 2D fighting game engine (WIN)
• Legendary Tales Editor text-based gaming environment which allows anyone to create or enjoy independent adventure modules set in any medieval, swords and sorcery fantasy setting(WIN)
• LucasHacks the ultimate SCUMM hacking resource including the new SCUMM Revisited (WIN)
• MAC Game Creator Toolkit CD ROM special registered versions of 5 MAC creators, plus tutorials, utilities, and sample games (MAC)
• MAD Free graphical adventure game engine, designed to be able to create Sierra-style adventures, but flexible enough to handle other types (WIN/DOS/others coming soon)
• Magx compiler for creating text adventures which is downward compatible with all of the existing versions of the AGT language(DOS/Linux)
• MediaForge an event-driven, object-based authoring tool (WIN) 
• Megazeux an object oriented ANSI game maker with many features not found in ZZT (DOS) 
• Multimedia Fusion create exciting interactive applications with a mouse-driven interface - this is the one I use (WIN)
• My Adventure Game simple tool for creating graphic adventures
• Nautilus Engine create a retail quality game by writing less than 100 lines of C (Win and Visual C++)
• Official Hamster Republic RPG Construction Engine create your own role-playing games with no programming experience (DOS) 
• OZ Project technology and art to help artists create high quality interactive drama, based in part on AI technologies 
• PAGAN full featured arcade game authoring system for shooters, puzzle games, racing games etc (Win)
• PAWS IF authoring system (Various)
• Pie 3D Game Creation System make your own 3D action games (DOS/WIN) 
• Play Basic a game programming language designed to take the learning curve out of 2D game making
• Playground build computer environments for 4-8 year olds to play, design, and create games (WIN)
• Point & Click Developers Kit 2D point and click adventure game developer
• QTAC the quick text adventure creator (DOS/WIN95+/JAVA)
• QML Quest Markup Language free XML-based Choose-Your-Own-Adventure game system 
• Quest Axe Software's app that allows you to create your own text adventure/RPG games, quickly and easily. (WIN95+) 
• QuestMaker for making graphical adventure games (DOS)
• Reality Factory suite of applications that have been created in order to enable people that are NOT programmers to make advanced, 3d first and third person games for PC's running Windows (WIN)
• Realm Crafter create your own multiplayer online RPG
• REXX Adventure text adventure engine (OS2 Presentation Manager) 
• Role Maker a masters thesis project to develop a free authoring system for RPGs (WIN)
• RPG Toolkit Development System for the Creation and Play of your own RPG Games (WIN)
• RPGMaker.net site for top 3 RPG makers(WIN)
• RuneSword RPG game and construction set (Win95+)
• Scripted Adventure Game Engine (SAGE) for creating text adventures with or without graphics (WIN 95/98/NT)
• SCI Studio create games for Sierra's SCI engine(WIN)
• Scrolling Game Development Kit complete game development system whose features can be used by experts and beginners alike
• SFCI ScienceFact Creative Interpreter is a 2D (3D later?) adventure game engine (WIN32)
• SKClone RPG game maker (WIN)
• SLUDGE (Scripting Language for Unhindered Development of a Gaming Environment) is the box of cogs that will be available so that anyone (within reason) can use it to make an adventure game. (WIN)
• Sphere RPG engine specialized for making 2D, console-style RPGs, similar to Final Fantasy and Phantasy Star (WIN)
• Stagecast create multi-level games, mazes, puzzles and simulations for the Web, using the mouse to demonstrate what you want each character to do(MAC/WIN) 
• StoryHarp Audioventure Authoring System adds the dimension of voice to interactive fiction development (WIN95/NT) 
• StoryMaker create your own interactive fiction games (MAC) 
• StorySprawl a site devoted to the creation of hyperfiction 
• STOS get the source code for the classic AtariST game creation software (AtariST)
• SUDS adventure game system which combines the content and feel of a text adventure game with the point-and-click style of Windows (WIN) 
• TADS text adventure development system (DOS/WIN/MAC/Amiga/AtariST/OS2/Acorn) 
• Text-World 1.2 text game creator (DOS)
• TROAICS upcoming engine - an acronym for Text Rooms and Objects Interactive Adventure Creation System (WIN) 
• ToonTalk - Making Programming Child's Play build and run all sorts of computer programs (WIN)
• Ultimate AGI & SCI Web Site great resource for demos, games, utilities
• VERGE a role-playing game creation system (DOS) 
• WinPAW windows version of the Professional Adventure Writer (PAW)(WIN)
• Wintermute Engine a set of tools for creating and running graphical adventure games(WIN)
• World Builder create your own adventure games (MAC)

Graphics, Music, and Other Resources 

• Ambrosia Software utilities for the MAC 
• Anim8or free 3D animation software (WIN9x/NT) 
• Art-O-Matic instant 3D graphics 
• Automated Composing System automatic music composing system
• Baumgarten Enterprises Web's largest free Poser parts place, and Bryce© tutorials 
• Blender free and fully functional 3D modeling/rendering/animation package (Unix/Windows/BeOS) 
• Button Blast 300 beautifully-textured buttons 
• Bytten weekly magazine for small and independent games
• Caligari TrueSpace 
• Clickteam Install Maker professional installations for everyone 
• Clickteam Patch Maker secure update patches in minutes 
• Cyberoptics freeware drawing program
• Dark Music Media game music for sale 
• Games Factory Pack 3.1 sprite, tile, and map maker 
• Game Making Resources sprites, music, tutorials for beginning game makers
• Hash Complete animation software 
• Icon Bank icon viewer/collection for webmasters, desktop publishers, programmers 
• Infinity Textures powerful texture designer and generator 
• JASC Paintshop Pro 
• Metacreations Bryce2, Bryce 3D, Poser, Painter, RayDream and other creative tools 
• Nichimen Graphics N-World, Nendo, Game Exchange 
• Pivot free stick figure animator
• Pixia freeware painting tool for full-color graphics (WIN)
• Pro Motion drawing and animation package for bitmap graphics (WIN)
• Reptile 2 free application that lets you create funky backgrounds (WIN) 
• SpriteLib Ari Feldman's free game sprites 
• SpriteWorks Two-thousand sprites and animation sequences for Java and game programming 
• Terragen photorealistic scenery rendering software
• Thomas Baier's page 3D file converters 
• Tilesets
• Tile Studio complete development utility for tile-based games for use with The Game Library for the language Clean.
• Universe Image Creator create realistic images of deep space 
• WickedWavs Royalty free musics, sounds, voice for multimedia
• Game Development News and Resources
• Articles on IF game design and asthetics