PopCap Games Developer Framework

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[url=\"http://developer.popcap.com/\"][u]PopCap Developer Programme[/u][/url]

**makers of Bejeweled & Bookworm**

The purpose of the PopCap Developer Program is to contribute to the indie game community by allowing free access to the programming Framework we've successfully based our own games on. There are a few reasons we want to do this.

First, we hope that by reducing technical barriers we help developers to focus more on actual game design instead of compatibility bugs and multimedia programming issues. This will hopefully allow people to make better games, which helps the entire indie/casual game market (including PopCap).

Second, when we publish a game from a third party it makes things a lot easier if we're already using the same technology base. PopCap has already published or co-developed a few games from external groups, such as Insaniquarium and Rocket Mania, and we hope to work with other talented game developers in the future.

And third, we just feel it’s the right thing to do, to "give something back" to the community if we can.

There are only a few things that we ask in return for using our Framework. The framework's license agreement places simple formal constraints on its usage, such as requiring you to put an acknowledgement in your documentation indicating that you used the PopCap Games Framework. Outside of that we ask, but do not require, that you consider publishing your game with us.