Guide to Content Creation
"PC Master Race" - and for good reason! We can do almost anything with our machines. This guide will focus on software tools that can be used for content creation. Some are proprietary, some open source. Some simple, some powerful.
| Name | Category | Description | Difficulty | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FL Studio | Music | Easy-to-use music and audio composition software. Demo version can't save. | Easy | Demo |
| Pro Tools | Music | No Description | Moderate | Unknown |
| Ableton | Music | |||
| Reason | Music | |||
| LMMS | Music | Linux only! Open source media studio very similar to FL Studio. | Easy | Freeware |
| MixMeister | Audio | Very simple timeline-based audio slicing and editing tool. | Easy | Free Demo |
| Video | ||||
| Blender | 3D | Powerful fully open-source 3D modelling and animation tool. | Moderate | Free |
| Flash | Animation | Suite of tools for making animations, art, advertisements, and games. | Easy | Free Demo |
| GIMP | Images | Extremely powerful open-source image editor. | Moderate | Free |
| UDK | Games | Development kit from Unreal Technologies. State-of-the-art. | Moderate | Free |
| Roblox | Games | Game with tools alongside it. Game creation and distribution is relatively simple. | Easy | Free |
| Unity | Games | |||
| Visual Basic Express | Applications | Design quality windows applications with a visual interface. | Easy | Free |
| Visual C++ Express | Applications | Design powerful windows applications with a visual interface. | Moderate | Free |
| NotePad++ | Programming | Multi-purpose open programming tool, especially helpful for website creation. | Moderate | Free |
| LibreOffice Write | Text | Feature-rich text editor that's completely open source. | Easy | Free |