Tools of the Trade

For low-budget indie developers like us, we try to do more with less. We want to use tools that are simple enough to use and are of course, free! So other than the 1500$ Macbook Pro and the 99$ Development fee that Apple charges per year, most of the tools that we use are pretty much free. Here's a rundown of some of the tools that we use:

Project Management: Google Docs

SCM: Project Locker (They offer a free 500 MB repository)

Visuals: Pen and Paper + Scanner, ZwopTex, Tile Map Editor

IDE: XCode

Development Framework: cocos2D, iPhone SDK 4

Test Device: iTouch

Sounds: Garage

Diary and Updates: This Blog!

It's amazing how much you can achieve for less! So until we earn a couple of bucks from this project, I'll be relying on these tools in completing our daily tasks!