350+ Tools to Make Game Development Easy

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- cartoon user interface asset pack. It comes as a layered psd file.

🆓 - 3D models, particle systems/effects

💸 - a community-driven marketplace that connects indie game developers with talented asset creators.

🆓 - Another free icons resource for your games.

💸 - Free graphic assets of the Liberated Pixel Cup (LPC) held by the OpenGameArt forums

🆓 - a media repository intended for use with free software game projects.

💰 - Free high resolution textures, brushes and photos

🆓 - 6000+ free low poly models

🆓 - Publish & embed interactive 3D models.

🆓 - Free transparent PNG images.

🆓 - Free material stock textures

💸 - High efficient and fast 2D bin packing tool

🎉 - Texture Packer built into Libgdx

🆓 - Bitmap font generator

🆓 - Great spritesheet creation editor.

🎉 — Mac OS X GUI for pngquant and other tools

🆓 - Windows GUI for batch conversion.

🎉 — Mac and Windows. Comparison with "Save for Web"

💸 - A plugin for Adobe Photoshop that allows you to build your own filters.

🆓 - PixPlant is a smart 3D texturing tool that creates high quality normal, displacement, specular maps and seamless textures from photos.

Character Generators

• 🆓 - AutoTileGen is an automatic tileset generator for 2D game terrains.


• 🎉 - A cloud based tile map editor used to create 2D levels directly in the browser.


• 🎉 - generic level editor.


• 🎉 - A free level design tool to craft beautiful 2D tilemaps right in your browser using any tileset.


• 🎉 - Powerful physics-based 3D character animation


• 🎉 - small tool for Clickteam Fusion 2.5 to facilitate the animation of 2D character sprites for developers.


• 🆓 - tool for auto auto rigging and animation of 3D humanoid models,


• 🎉 - Spine is dedicated to 2D animation, providing an efficient workflow both for creating amazing animation and for integrating it into your games.


• 💰 - Vector graphics editor with a bunch of features which also supports Adobe file formats


• 💰 - animated sprite editor & pixel art tool.


• 🎉 - An open-source vector graphics editor similar to Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, or Xara X.


• 🎉 - LibreSprite is an open source fork of Aseprite.


• 💰 - A cross-platform (Win, Linux, Mac) image editor/painter which covers the color limitations of 8-bit machines (like C64, ZX Spectrum etc.)


• 💸 - Another Pixel art Editor.


• 🎉 - Full-featured image editing app for the Mac


• 💰 - Pixel Art Editor for OSX


• 🆓 - Pixel art editor designed to make it fun and easy to make tilesets, levels and animations.


• 🆓 - a modern & minimalist pixel editor


• 🆓 - A pixel art editor for the Commodore 64 computer running on Windows


• 🆓 - Online Editor for Commodore 64 Sprites


• 🎉 - Free Raster to Vector Graphics Converter


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• 💸 - The free software and open-source 3D grate of the world


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• 💸 - A 3D intuitive and easy to use for create right in your browser


• 💰 - The new version of sculptris by MAXON

Terrain Generators

• 🆓 - Live 3D textured terrain generation from real data - export height/normal maps, glTF, OBJ, STL


• 🎉 - Procedural terrain and landscape generation on the GPU in real time, simulation of erosion and sediment, beautiful editor. much more


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Code

Set of game frameworks, engines and platforms

Engines and Frameworks

• 🎉 - Allegro 4 & 5 are cross-platform, open source, game programming libraries, primarily for C and C++ developers.


• 🎉 - A type safe (as much as possible) engine for the web written in TypeScript.


• 🎉 - A fork of Cocos2d-x-4.0, it has Full Support OpenAL for all platforms, single texture multi GPU texture handler and C++ 17.


• 🎉 - Javascript 3D Library.


• 🎉 - Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.


• 🎉 - Classic point and click adventure game engine and editor.


• 💸 3D basic-like programming language for fast 3D desktop games.


• 🎉 - A 2D Physics Engine for Games.


• 🎉 - C# implementation of the Chipmunk2D lib.


• 🎉 - Cinder is a community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++.


• 🆓 - graphic library for games and multimedia, for python language


• 🎉 - an HTML5 game maker, meaning you are not actually writing JavaScript. Instead, you use actions, events and conditions to do the heavy lifting.


• 💸 - A micro framework for JavaScript games. Handles collision detection, the game update loop, canvas rendering, and keyboard and mouse input.


• 🎉 - A free and open 3D game engine written in D.


• 🎉 - Free 2D Game Engine for Cross-Platform Publishing


• 🎉 - A modern cross-platform low-level graphics library that supports Direct3D11, Direct3D12, OpenGL/GLES, and Vulkan.


• 🎉 - The Eight-Bit Universal Role Playing Engine


• 🎉 - Engo is an open-source 2D game engine written in Go.


• 🎉 - ecs-lib is a tiny and easy to use ECS (Entity Component System) library for game programming. It's written in Typescript but you can use on node.js and web browser too.


• 🎉 - Gaming meets modern C++, a fast and reliable entity-component system (ECS) and much more


• 🎉 - a collision detection system with realistic physics responses.


• 🎉 - free ActionScript 3 library designed for developing 2D Flash games.


• 🎉 💸 - A small cross-platform 2D game framework in C#.


• 💸 - A free, open-source, cross-platform, 2D + 3D game framework written in C++. It is aimed towards indie game developers who are creating desktop and mobile games.


• 💸 - A free and easy to use retro adventure game creator for your favourite handheld video game system.


• 🎉 - A Rust library to create Good Games Easily.


• 🎉 - Engine for making 2d games on iOS, macOS and tvOS in Swift programming language, with practical examples and tutorials.


• 🎉 - A 2D rendering API for .NET, written in C#.


• 🎉 - Create cross-platform games easier and free.


• 🎉 - small open source 3D rendering engine.


• 🎉 - Impact is a JavaScript Game Engine that allows you to develop stunning HTML5 Games for desktop and mobile browsers.


• 🆓 - Scripting language for writing interactive narrative.


• 🎉 - a fast and lightweight physics engine written in C#.


• 🎉 - a 2D open-source game engine. Develop on Linux, Windows, OS X. Deploy to Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Linux, Windows, OS X, Web, Android, iOS and more.


• 🆓 - Clean and lightweight 2D game framework written in TypeScript


• 🎉 - A 2D game framework for Kivy.


• 🎉 - Modern Multiplatform Game Engine for Kotlin. Write games for the JVM, JavaScript, Android and iOS in no time using Kotlin.


• 💸 - Powerful (totally free) library for Java, code once and run the game on desktop, Android, Web, and iOS.


• 🎉 - 2D Java Game Engine. It provides all the infrastructure to create tile based 2D games with plain java


• 🆓 - 3D Game engine built on C++.


• 🎉 - Lua 2D Game Engine.


• 🎉 - The cross-platform game engine in Rust.


• 🎉 - a lightweight and modular 2D/3D graphics/game engine written in C++11


• 🎉 - open source light-weight HTML5 game engine.


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• 🎉 - Distributed server for social and realtime games and apps.


• 🎉 - a family of Python tools to create generative design.


• 🎉 - 2D Game Engine with Lua Scripting made on top of SFML !


• 🎉 - is a scene-oriented, real-time, flexible 3D rendering engine (as opposed to a game engine) written in C++.


• 🎉 - An open source and free C++ toolkit for creative coding.


• 🎉 - a community-modified X-Ray engine used in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series.


• 🎉 - A fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs.


• 🎉 - a framework for 3D rendering and game development for Python and C++ programs.


• 🎉 - a modular open source game engine written in Rust.


• 🎉 - is a newcomer HTML5 game renderer - first released in early 2013. A main appeal of the engine is its use of WebGL for faster performance. If WebGL isn't supported, the engine falls back to standard canvas.


• 🎉 - A WebGL Game Engine.


• 🎉 - open-source HTML5 puzzle game engine.


• 🎉 - a retro game engine for Python.


• 💰 - Android OpenGL ES 2.0/3.0 Engine


• 🎉 - An open-source visual novel engine using the Python language in simplified form. It supports Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android and iOS.


• 🎉 - A 2d rpg game engine and editor based on scala and libgdx. Ease of use, with no programming knowledge.


• 🆓 - An easy-to-use Vulkan rendering engine. Provides a render graph for Rust.


• 🎉 - Simple and Fast Multimedia Library.


• 🎉 - Cross-platform 2D Action/Adventure C++ game engine with Lua API and game editor.


• 🎉 - Apple proprietary 2D game engine (available on macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS and watchOS).


• 🎉 - The GPU powered 2D Flash API


• 💸 - Open Source C# Game Engine.


• 🎉 - HTML5 Collaborative 2D/3D Game Maker


• 🎉 - TPE is a small, completely public domain fixed point physically inaccurate pure C header-only 3D physics engine built to run on tiny computers such as embedded and even bare metal.


• 🎉 - Turbulenz offers the ability to build, publish, iterate and monetise high-quality games that react like no others, with immersive 3D effects and real-time physics that open up a whole new world of unprecedented and extraordinary web content.


• 🎉 - A development engine for the creation of 2D and 3D games and interactive content.


• 💸 - Cross-platform rendering and game engine.


• 🎉 - Vassal is a game engine for building and playing online adaptations of board games and card games. Play live on the Internet or by email. Vassal runs on all platforms, and is free, open-source software.


• 🎉 - Cross-platform engine written in C#.


• 🎉 - 3d javacript framework for building apps and games

AI

• 🎉 - C++11 behaviour tree based library with a QT5 based remote debugger (and with optional LUA bindings) released under MIT.

Audio

Audio editors, sounds collections and more.

Collections

• 🆓 - collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds.


• 🆓 - free library of UI sounds.


• 🆓 - Royalty-free, searchable archive of sound effects under various licenses.

Music and Audio Editors

• 🎉 - transforms your web browser into a fast and flexible music production studio with built in synthesizers and live effects.


• 🆓 - A tool to make sound effects for computer games.


• 🆓 - Online sound effect generator


• 🆓 - free windows tracker for producing music for the NES/Famicom-systems.


• 🎉 - Cross-platform music production software.


• 🆓 - open source tracker for Mac/Linux/Windows platforms.


• 🎉 - Resemble's voice cloning engine within Unity


• 🎉 - Online Professional music studio.


• 🆓 - Board Game Design Tool.


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Videos/Podcasts

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Game Jams

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Project Management

• 💰 - Project Management Tool inspired by Collectible Card Games


• 💸 - Project management platform for agile developers & designers


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Communities

Where to find other game developers

Ads

We still need to make some money, right?

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Learn

Online courses, tutorials, screencasts

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