GameTune Home

Welcome to the GameTune Homepage. GameTune is a user interface creation toolkit geared towards real-time programs, it is being developed by Wade Brainerd. First time visitors can read the introduction and feature list below, and then feel free to visit the download page or browse the documentation.

Current Version - GameTune v1.0b6

8/2/2000 - New home
The GameTune website finds it's permanent home on wadeb.com, which is now hosted by esew.net. Thanks Erik! :)

7/22/2000 - Closed Beta Period
We are now in a closed beta period, pending the initial release. To request a copy of the current beta, please send an email to wadeb@wadeb.com, subject: GameTune Beta. Feel free to describe what you're working on, or just send a link or a picture.

7/21/2000 - Web site up!
The first version of the GameTune website goes online, temporarily using my GeoCities account until it gets set up in its permanent home.

What's GameTune?

GameTune is a user interface creation toolkit, geared towards real-time programs such as graphics demos, games, rendering tests and simulations. You just link your program to GameTune.lib, call a few functions to create the tuning panel and then begin reading the controls. The layout of the panel can be loaded from a GameTune INI (GTI) file, or embedded directly in your program.

With GameTune it's easy to add a nice tweaking interface to your program, without spending a lot of time writing Win32 or MFC code. It's also useful for adding a quick GUI to a command line utility, or a simple property sheet to any program.

One way to describe GameTune is with screenshots:

Stained Glass Window - A quick graphics demo that shows of using some of the GameTune controls.
Water Test - Example using GameTune to test out a simluation.
KillerDB Import Utility - Example using GameTune as the interface for a conversion utility..

Also, check out some of the other features:

Saves the state of all controls, automatically loads them on startup.
Quake-style console with support for logging to a file, colored text and a command history. Macros, scripts, variables and aliases coming soon. If you've ever wanted to add a powerful console to your game, this is the way to do it.
Other custom tabs coming soon, such as Screenshot/AVI capture and control over the MSVC Debug Heap.
Real-time monitors, useful for reporting debugging and performance info such as frame rate, available memory, etc.
Can save/restore the parent window's position and size as well as its own from the registry.

If there's something you don't see here that every game tuning panel needs, or if you just have a comment or question, let me know.

Who wrote it?

GameTune is being developed by Wade Brainerd, an game programmer on leave from Treyarch Invention. It started when I decided I needed an Animation Speed slider in my Graphics Engine test app and GameTune is the result of this incredible tangent. It has consumed many more hours of my time than the engine ever did..

What does it cost?

GameTune will always be free for non-commercial use. After version 1.0 final is released, I will begin charging a reasonable fee to use it in commercial applications intended for retail sale. Anyone who helps me during the development process, be it bug reporting, good suggestions or fan mail.is entitled to unlimited free use for life.

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