   Game Making Tool
  HI forum , I am new to game programming.I want to prepare an Game making tool software, like Game Maker , Multimedia fusion 2 etc. for this i made search on google i found many game engines . some are with source code. but i am not able to execute those to check whether the code useful to me or not .the game softwares uses some editors to achieve the task . like creating objects rendering those etc. even i search for editors all i found either .exe format . i want to do this using c++ . i am looking for the code related to c++ only.can any one suggest me how can i start , what are main resource that i need to start . is there any open sources available which help to my application.i dont want to start from scratch i want to build my application using the existing sources . so please share Your ideas related.    thanking you in advance   
  I don't undestand.You want to make a kit?Or you want a kit to make a game?Don't go making an engine or a kit if you have never even made a game.   ;  Do you want to know HOW to develop games? what tools to use? there are many, but theese are free and fully functional.Here is a software do develop c++ applications/ games:http://www.microsoft.com/express/Windows/And you'll also need a library that can render graphics and sound, take inpust and so on. I use Dark GDK:http://gdk.thegamecreators.com/   ;  lol you need to actually know the in's and out's of making games before you can make an engine like game maker. Several years knowledge and experience at the minimum. lolOnly reason I say this is because you would know where to start if you have the required knowledge.   :p   ;  How about Construct. It is open source and free... It is made mostly by a group of former add-on developers for Multimedia Fusion.   ;  Thanks for sharing . firstly i am looking open source code for 2D level game editor software like Multimedia fusion2 . to prepare software like we need different editors like frame editor, object editor ,map editor etc . so i am looking to build those editors first so for this i would like to know what are the resources available . i there any open source with respect to c++ for this editors which help to my project . so please share Your ideas with respect to this. thanking you   ;  As with some of the other posters, I'm not sure if you want to code an editor or find a free one.If your looking for an editor I would suggest Torque2D (I think they do a 30 day trial).If you are wishing to build one yourself then I suggest you learn the structure of an engine. A good book that I have found for this are "Advanced 2D Game Development by Jonathon S. Harbour". Its a step by step approach to building a 2d engine but by the end you should understand enough to do an editor.If you haven't had much experience with C++ or DirectX before then you might find it tricky to follow. I hope that helps...   ;  mrobbins Thanks for Your post , Yes i am looking to build an editor , i had experience in c++ so i am search for source code of an existing editors . i feel more better to build this tool using that existing open source code rather than to start from the scratch .i found some source code for editors like map , egameeditor etc but those are not in c++.Any ideas?   ;  I did a search and found an open source editor: http://dannylum.com/D2DProject/Its C# / .NET based so you can use it as a reference but not really as an implementation. I would recommend you find an engine as you will still need one to build an editor on top of.Also, you should probably contact the guy who made it and give him some praise for it.   ;  Its not a complete tool , it is map editing tool i observe that we have to do some programming for creating game using this.the code is completely c# where difficult to me to understand can any one suggest more.   