Game Development Software is the software you need to make or modify video games.

Game Design Software

Game design software is any program that makes games and is not as complex as a game programming language. Game design software packages often have their own engine and a scripting language.

Game Programming Software

Programming Languages

Programming languages can be used to make video games. However, it is harder than using a game programming language. A game programming library can help programming games with a programming language much easier.

Game Programming Languages

A game programming language is a modified programming language made specifically to make games. It is generally easier to make games with a game programming language than a general purpose programming language because they include most of the common features you will need to make a game. For example, easy to use functions for loading and manipulating sprites.

IDE

An IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is a programming tool. IDEs commonly feature a word processing like interface with syntax highlighting to ease the actual coding process.

Game Engines

A game engine is a pre-built … game engine that can be plugged into a programming language.

Panda3D

Panda3D is an open source 3D game engine developed (strangely enough) by Disney, who no longer seems to maintain it. It doesn't seem to have been updated recently (as of April 29 2007, when this was written.)

• Official Panda3D website

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