Which Game development software should I buy?
Why not research if Open Source software vs Commerical (buying the tools) will give you the tools to develop software? Source forge is a good web site showing active projects that are open sources (according to General Public License) for quick sharing and distrubtion as opposed to selling the software like you have to download and pay for it when you wanted to finish it. Also note that there are nice character generators software you may want to consider as well as how other do their That is one option. The other option is to see what other game developers has suggested from their book (and their work). So there are book store such as Amazon or Borders who will tell you the type of development (that has changed over 20 years, in your case), how much effort in development is required and where you can submit your final work. Have fun. I recommend you have a look at source forge anyway to see how other have done that you had in mind and may have to refine it a bit more. Also the source
