A curated list of game development resources to make magic happen.
License Legends
- :free: - Free
- :tada: - Open Source
- :moneybag: - Paid
- :money_with_wings: - Partially Free
Table of Contents
- Graphics
- Assets/Placeholders
- Spritesheet Tools
- Bitmap Compression
- Texture Tools
- Character Generators
- Tile/Level Editors
- Animation
- Vector/Image Editor
- Modeling
- Terrain Generators
- Voxel Editors
- Code
- Engines and Frameworks
- AI
- Audio
- Collections
- Music and Audio Editors
- Board Games
- Must see
- Blogs and Portals
- Books
- Magazines
- Videos/Podcasts
- Game Jams
- Project Management
- Complete Game Sources
- Communities
- Ads
- Learn
- General Game Development
- Computer Graphics
Graphics
Great graphics placeholders and tools to turn that squared game into a picasso painting
Assets/Placeholders
- :free: 2D Cartoon Mobile Game UI Pack - cartoon user interface asset pack. It comes as a layered psd file.
- :free: 420 Pixel Art Icons for RPGs - Set of 420 RPG icons, free for commercial use.
- :free: Blender 3D models - 3D models, particle systems/effects
- :money_with_wings: CGTextures - A large collection of textures.
- :money_with_wings: GameDev Market - a community-driven marketplace that connects indie game developers with talented asset creators.
- :free: Games-Icons Set - free icons for your games.
- :free: Iconmonstr - Another free icons resource for your games.
- :money_with_wings: Kenney Assets - Royalty free assets
- :free: Liberated Pixel Cup assets - Free graphic assets of the Liberated Pixel Cup (LPC) held by the OpenGameArt forums
- :free: Matcaps - A Huge library of matcap textures in PNG and ZMT, organized by color.
- :free: OpenGameArt - a media repository intended for use with free software game projects.
- :moneybag: Oryx Design Lab - Cheap high quality royalty free sprites
- :money_with_wings: PlainTextures - Free high resolution textures, brushes and photos
- :free: Pixelicious - Image-to-Pixel Art converter.
- :free: Poly Pizza - 6000+ free low poly models
- :free: Reiner's Tilesets - A blog with free 2D and 3D graphics.
- :free: Sketchfab - Publish & embed interactive 3D models.
- :free: SpriteLib - a collection of static and animated graphic objects (also commonly known as sprites).
- :free: StickyPNG - Free transparent PNG images.
- :free: TextureHaven - Free textures with additional maps like displacement and bump maps. Also HDRIs.
- :free: TextureKing - Free material stock textures
- :money_with_wings: Vecteezy - Free Vector Art.
Spritesheet Tools
- :tada: Cheetah-Texture-Packer - High efficient and fast 2D bin packing tool
- :tada: EzSpriteSheet - Creates sprite sheets from animated GIFs and more
- :tada: Libgdx Texture Packer - Texture Packer built into Libgdx
- :free: Littera - Bitmap font generator
- :tada: SnowB Bitmap Font - Bitmap font generator
- :free: ShoeBox - Adobe Air based app with game and ui related tools.
- :money_with_wings: TexturePacker - Great spritesheet creation editor.