Hi, welcome to the RAD Game Tools website!

Here at RAD, we make video game development tools. In fact, at least one of our products is built into almost every video game made today. To date, we've appeared in more than 13,600 games!

Game developers like our products for a couple reasons. First off, they are designed specifically for them - we aren't just repurposing technology designed for some other market. Secondly, our developers are the ones doing the actual technical support and documentation. When you need help, you talk to the right people. Finally, our licensing is the easiest in the industry - simple agreements and flat fees.

You can read all about our products on this site, but the best way to evaluate them is to let your programmers try them! Give us a call at 425.893.4300 or email us to get a trial version!

We currently have four main tools: Bink Video, the Miles Sound System, Granny 3D and Pixomatic. Each of these tools solve a different problem for game developers.

Our Products:

Bink Video is our ubiquitous video codec. It is super, super fast, uses massively less memory than other codecs, and is optimized for each platform specifically. Bink includes a great audio codec with multi-channel and multi-language support. Bink is available for all game platforms.

The Miles Sound System has been used in games since 1991! It handles all aspects of sound - multichannnel digital audio mixing, audio decompression (ADPCM, Ogg, MP3), 3D spatialization, voice chat, MIDI with DLS, and much more. Miles is available for all game platforms.

Granny 3D is a powerful toolkit for building 3D games. Granny can be used for as little, or as much, as you want her to handle! She can export all of your Max, Maya and XSI data (models, animations and/or textures), she can do all your run-time animation, she can do normal and texture map generation, and she can be used to build your game engine or just strengthen it. Granny is available for all 3D platforms.

Pixomatic is a software 3D renderer. Pixomatic is available in two versions - a DirectX 7 class renderer, and a slower DirectX 9 class renderer that features pixel and vertex shader support. Although Pixomatic isn't as fast as a GPU, it is guaranteed to work, regardless of what video hardware and drivers that your end-users have installed. That means your games will always run - no more returns due to bad hardware.

If you have any questions about any of our products, don't hesitate to email us!