Tom's Tools

Gdevelop
by Tom Smith, post on Wed 29 March 2023

Gdevelop is a no-code, open source, free tool to create 2D computer games, such as platformers or rogue-like or isometric style games.

You can create and edit games online, or download an app to do so. To create your game you don't code, instead you create a number of events …

PyGame Zero
by Tom Smith, post on Wed 29 March 2023

Pygame Zero is a way to make games using the Python programming language. What I like about Pygame Zero is how easy it is to create a sophisticated computer game.

Twine
by Tom Smith, post on Wed 29 March 2023

Twine is tool to create interactive narrative games, similar to choose your own adventure books from the 1980s. It was used to prototype the interactive Netflix show, Bandersnatch.

To get an idea of the sorts of thing you can make with Twine go have a play with a couple of …