In my journeys as a wannabe bandwagon indie games developer, I recently stumbled upon this free bit of 2d game engine software -
http://www.scirra.com/construct/
Supposedly there's no code involved, which suits me! Its been quite uninspiring coding in C# with XNA.. I've worked through a couple of tutorials and whilst the logic behind most of the code makes sense, it all does seem rather longwinded :(
Edit - and here's a free music sequencing program, that looks quite good!
http://www.drpetter.se/project_musagi.html
Edit 2 - and a sketching program!
http://al.chemy.org
Of course the downside is that this stuff is not particularly geared toward retail! I suppose the main thing is that I'm able to get whatever my ideas are up and running quickly...
Also F' Yeah! Friday!
