AIRNovel, Novel Game Development Software Works on Multi-platform

Category : Software

AIRNovel provides a framework for development a novel game (The software itself is coded in Japanese, but since there is no English introduction website for this software I thought I can give a shot.)

AIRNovel is made by Adobe Air, which means the software works on Windows / Max OSX / Linux and is open source. Novel games are good choice for story writers to make game without high defined graphics.


Sample Game

Novel game is one of the popular type of the games even though the game isn’t multi-ending. AIRNovel provides a framework for those novel games.

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Open Web Apps by Mozilla Aims Web-apps Store

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Open Web Apps is an open-source software written in Python / HTML / JavaScript. Marketplace is in vogue as a brand-new business model. An administrator provides a infrastructure, and third-party enterprises or individuals provide services on it.
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Mozilla’s App Store

App Store by Apple is leading, while Android Market, Google Apps Marketplace, Chrome Web Store are chasing after. Open Web Apps appeared as a new strategy by Mozilla Foundation in a such situation.

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Duplicati- Makes backup safer and easier!

Category : Software

Duplicati is a backup software that supports local, network, FTP,Amazon S3 etc.

Duplicati is an open source software for Windows/Linux. We all need to backup some important files regularly. Neglecting to backup files ends up damaging the HDD in many cases. It’s too late to think about the importance for backup until something has actually happened.

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Setting up the backup using wizard system

In the past, a common for us to backup our data was to use CD/DVD. Now there are so many tools available for us to choose for backing up, and even Network and web service offer the back up as well. Here is a backup software called Duplicati that supports various services.

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NeoTextureEdit-Make highly detailed textures for 3D game

Category : Software

NeoTextureEdit is an open source software for Windows/Mac OSX/Linux. Including 3D games, when you make a background, you need a textures such as rocks,trees, and walls. There are free materials you can use, but it looks boring if you use same materials over and over again.

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Make better realistic textures

There are so many details you need to think about when you make backgrounds. For example how the city looks like or what kind of damages of the each walls have in the scene of a certain history. Those detail jobs add more realism to the game. But it is too much doing all the effects by hand. With NeoTextureEdit, you can easily use a variety of settings for a visual.

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Pinoco – web site environment using PHP and TAL

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Pinoco is an OSS product written in PHP. Though PHP is known as one of the best language choice for web system development, we rarely use it as is for now. It is typically used with some kind of  web application framework to make secure system readily.

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An empty project

Furthermore, designers and developers should work separately each other in large scale web system. To work separately, view and logic must be separated. Pinoco framework can go for it.

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EpubBinder settles plural ePub files

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EpubBinder is a Open source software for OpenOffice.org. ePub is a image to have a lot of files every documents. But you can make plural documents one ePub file in a mass. May be suitable for series.

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Screen for a making

But most of the functions to summarize plural files in have not looked. It unfolds and does not make it one document by force, and what you are separate in usual times, and packaging does as needed will be the best. EpubBinder is a help the these works.

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iGoSyncDocs – a Google Document front-end

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iGoSyncDocs is OSS written in Java. Google Document is amazing web application that can use word processor, spread sheet, presentation online. But it’s messy to activate web browser anytime.

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Interface similar to Google Docs top page

So they often use software that work together with local applications. Though there are various stuff such as uploader or downloader, I’d like to introduce quaint one this time, iGoSyncDocs, a Google Document front-end.

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