21st Century Tools for Teaching-People and Learners

What is Kodu?

Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and XBox via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming. Anyone can use Kodu to make a game, young children as well as adults with no design or programming skills.

Create original interactive games, simulations, and puzzles for entertainment, education, and the Web.

Do you want to make games? Create games today, no programming knowledge required! Make and publish games to the web and share your creations. Build games the fast way.

Novelty is a tool for creating your own visual novels and2 D games.

- Easy to use WYSIWYG visual novel editor.
- Visual point & click programming with "Actions".
- No actual programming required.*
- Create and share art assets easily.
- Hardware-accelerated graphics.
- Play your visual novels in and out of the editor.
- Compatible with Windows XP/Vista/7.

* No coding is required. A scripting language is available for advanced users...

Creative tools for the creative age....

The Games Factory 2 provides everything you need to manufacture Arcade games, Platform games, Adventures, Screen Savers, and much, much, more. You simply click on an object, drag it to the play field, and click on the action it should perform. We supply all the heroes, monsters, powerups, and other objects you need, plus the sound and music for your games. Of course, you can easily add your own, custom items if you choose.

Not only that, The Games Factory 2 is so powerful, it gives you fast screen scrolling, fade effects, and can display FLI animations, Video for Windows, and QuickTime movies. You can also play your favorite music tracks directly from your CD.

Toon Boom Animation recognizes the value of its software products as teaching and learning animation programs in education, from k12 to higher education.

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web.

Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.

Scratch: a programming language for everyone. Create interactive stories, games, music and art - and share them online.

Game Develop is a free game development software, allowing creation of any kind of 2D games. No programming knowledge is required.

Creative tools for the creative age....

Multimedia Fusion 2 provides you with everything you need to start creating software of your own imagination and design.

From multimedia applications and presentations, to exciting games and stunning screensavers, you can be creating, sharing, and even publishing your work in no time.

Web Cartoon Maker is an online tool using simple C++ scripts to produce high quality animated cartoons. There is a desktop application available as well. You do not need real programming skills to make simple animated cartoons.