Tools Development Resources

International Game Developers Association

These items were originally taken from a forum post on the IGDA forums here.

Contents 1 Articles 2 Presentations 3 Books 4 Others

Articles

Swiss Army Chainsaw: A Common Sense Approach to Tool Development

A Software Process for Online Game Tools Development

Growing a Dedicated Tools Programming Team: From Baldur's Gate to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

The Tools Development of Turbine's Asheron’s Call 2

Tool Postmortem: Climax Brighton's Supertools

Presentations

Being a tools developer for the computer video games industry

Books

Game Engine Toolset Development by Graham Wihlidal, Cengage Learning Course Technology (2006) - 640 pages

Others

Tools SIG Wiki