GAME DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

• Tile Studio
  Tile Studio is a complete development utility for graphics of tile-based games.
  The application contains a bitmap editor for creating tiles and sprites and a map editor for designing level maps.
  http://tilestudio.sourceforge.net/
• Array Painter
  Array Painter is a powerful tool for making 2D arrays fast and easy ready for copy pasting into your own code. This utility is a nice simple solution for making your map background easily.
  http://www.arraypainter.com/
• XStream
  Library for saving and loading data to and from XML data type. The mechanism is like serializing objects to XML and get it back again.
  Perfect for saving/loading map data, game data, animation, etc.
  http://xstream.codehaus.org/
• Tiled Map Editor
  A general purpose map editor that has many features to create tiling background easily.
  Also support for making isometric map.
  http://tiled.rpgdx.net/
• PNGOUT
  Compress PNG files for smaller disk usage.
  Super compression, but slow in processing.
  http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm
• PNG Crush
  Compress PNG files for smaller disk usage.
  Decent compression, fast processing.
  http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/
• Bitmap Font Writer
  Utility to create bitmap font.
  http://www.stefan-pettersson.nu

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