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[Strelok]

You could put a Game Design section with some programs for workflows, word processing softwares, prototypes, etc... I could use a good workflow program.

[TertiumQuid]

I wanted to give a nod to Siege, a free HTTP load testing app that lets you quickly stress a website. It works great, of course, attacking from a virtual server, but also still provides very useful heuristics when run from a dev machine.

www.joedog.org/siege-home/

Runs on *nix, mac osx, etc.

Here's a little installation script:

Code:

cd ~/
curl -L -C - -O http://www.joedog.org/pub/siege/siege-latest.tar.gz
tar -xvf siege-latest.tar.gz
cd siege-*
./configure
make
make install
cd ~/
rm -rf siege-*

Siege a site like so:

Code:

siege -c 100 -r 10 -b http://forums.tigsource.com/

Sample output:

Code:

** SIEGE 2.72
** Preparing 25 concurrent users for battle.
The server is now under siege..      done.

Transactions:		         250 hits
Availability:		      100.00 %
Elapsed time:		        2.93 secs
Data transferred:	        1.34 MB
Response time:		        0.25 secs
Transaction rate:	       85.32 trans/sec
Throughput:		        0.46 MB/sec
Concurrency:		       21.59
Successful transactions:         250
Failed transactions:	           0
Longest transaction:	        0.75
Shortest transaction:	        0.14

IIRC, it's used by various GREE developers, so there's some gamedev use in the wild.

[doihaveto]

I wanted to give a nod to Siege, a free HTTP load testing app that lets you quickly stress a website.

For doing HTTP load testing, I'd also recommend ApacheBench (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/ab.html), as a simple and well-supported tool.

Of course standard disclaimers apply - load testing should be done from a separate machine, over a real network connection, httpd should live on a box similar to the final server setup, etc.

[TertiumQuid]

I wanted to give a nod to Siege, a free HTTP load testing app that lets you quickly stress a website.

For doing HTTP load testing, I'd also recommend ApacheBench (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/ab.html), as a simple and well-supported tool.

Of course standard disclaimers apply - load testing should be done from a separate machine, over a real network connection, httpd should live on a box similar to the final server setup, etc.

Yep. Unless you've taken the time (and expense) to setup real world scenarios, these tests should be treated as heuristics like I said, and their results are not the type of thing you'd share in public as representative of your capacity. With that in mind, the more heuristics the better, and ab is also nice.

Code:

ab -n 100 -c 10 http://forums.tigsource.com/

By comparison here is the output:

Code:

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   19.960 seconds
Complete requests:      100
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      2920667 bytes
HTML transferred:       2861100 bytes
Requests per second:    5.01 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       1995.971 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       199.597 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          142.90 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:       74 1774 3408.3    534   12537
Processing:     0  165 235.6     72     950
Waiting:        0   72 148.0      0     502
Total:        394 1940 3375.8    682   12552

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    682
  66%    985
  75%   1140
  80%   1297
  90%   7942
  95%  12188
  98%  12518
  99%  12552
 100%  12552 (longest request)

[Trystin]

Dont know if anybody has posted this yet but I rekon' that Graphics Gale and Idraw should be added to the list.

Idraw3:
http://wombatrpgs.net/downloads.php?view=detail&df_id=33&sid=02201d22f0d158116bedccbdf1bf1f73

GraphicsGale:
http://www.humanbalance.net/gale/us/

[SolarLune]

^ My goodness, I remember iDraw3. Right around the time of RPG Maker 2000, hah. Incredible that someone out there might still use it.

[Trystin]

^ More people than you think still use it, I just found out about it about 6 months ago and I was surprised to see that on some peoples live streams they use it constantly.

[Bas100]

It looks like Photoshop CS2 is now free to download: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?pid=4485850&e=cs2_downloads

[Paind33r]

That's a really good list of tools you got, but the only thing I would add is Rubber Duck for music.

[pinaster]

Hi, I'm developing a (really)simple level editor with Ogre3d engine (but the level files could be used in other engines with a good amount of will).
The beta will be out this weekend, can I open a thread in "feedback" even if it's not a game?

I posted here also because some of you may be interested, the plan is to release the source code so it could be used and/or extended by other developers.

Links in my signature.



I'm not asking to add it to the op.

[rosholger]

The beta will be out this weekend, can I open a thread in "feedback" even if it's not a game?

yes you can, there are a number of non game apps there already

[SF]

3 of these categories are missing what I would consider the most important entries for each. Namely;

Audio
Reaper is the only low-cost DAW that can realistically compete with the likes of Logic, Pro Tools, and Cubase. Anything else in the price range is either going to baby you through a restrictive workflow only well suited to certain electronic genres (like FL Studio) or just end up being a glorified general MIDI notation program.

Get Reaper plus a used copy of any of the last several versions of NI Komplete and you'll probably have more power than you know what to do with.

Text Editor/IDE
Sublime Text has too many quality of life improvements over every other text editor for me to properly summarize how much of an impact it's had on my efficiency. I can no longer stand using anything else. It has plugins for just about any application imaginable, and the fully functional free trial is time limited only by the honour system. The website does a good job of selling you on its features.

Version Control
git, period. Nobody in their right mind should still be using CVS or SVN for new projects these days.

If you need to manage huge amounts of binary data in your repo, there's also git-annex.

[Mipe]

Shhh! Stop making everyone's lives easier. 

[toiletsnakes]

I'm not seeing sublime text 

[Player 3]

I'm not seeing sublime text 

Sublime Text has too many quality of life improvements over every other text editor for me to properly summarize how much of an impact it's had on my efficiency. I can no longer stand using anything else. It has plugins for just about any application imaginable, and the fully functional free trial is time limited only by the honour system. The website does a good job of selling you on its features.

Also going to suggest Sublime Text. It's too perfect.

[nereke]

This has probably been suggested already, but what about SunVox for music and SFX? It's a fantastic program.

[Thomas Hiatt]

The list says notepad++ is cross-platform but it is actually only for Windows. I also use Sublime Text.

[icoplay]

Hi guys - this one's only really applicable if you use Unity.

If you do, then we've got an awesome plugin - it's a chat window that fits in the IDE and you can ask other devs questions and post pictures of cats. It's beta at the moment, so you'll have to email me at [email protected] - I'll send you a version immediately!



I'll post back here when we do a general release, but if you love living on the edge then get the beta version.

You can also follow @icoplay for updates!

[Liza]

I'm not seeing sublime text 

Sublime Text has too many quality of life improvements over every other text editor for me to properly summarize how much of an impact it's had on my efficiency. I can no longer stand using anything else. It has plugins for just about any application imaginable, and the fully functional free trial is time limited only by the honour system. The website does a good job of selling you on its features.

Also going to suggest Sublime Text. It's too perfect.

I came here hoping someone else had brought up the gaping hole in the original post where Sublime Text should be listed.

[Saishy]

The fact that Graphics Gale is not listed makes me sad :c

I think it's the best sprite tool ever made by humanity.