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Assets/Placeholders

  • Kenney - Kenney game studio creates games and free to use game assets!

  • Reiner`s Tilesets - Free Gamegraphics, Freeware Games

  • OpenGameArt - OpenGameArt.org

  • Mobile Game Graphics - Game assets store providing game assets, sprites, backgrounds, pixel art, game characters and game resources. Free game assets, free sprites, free pixel art.

  • SpriteLib - SpriteLib is a collection of static and animated graphic objects (also commonly known as sprites).

  • GameDev Market - GameDev Market is a marketplace for high quality, affordable 2D, 3D, GUI & Audio game assets, handcrafted by talented creators around the world.

  • Dev Assets - High-quality 3D models for game developers! Dev Assets allows you to pay what you want for full-featured asset packs. Textured, rigged, animated & optimized.

  • Lost Garden - Lost Garden: free game graphics

  • 1001 - 1001com | OpenGameArt.org

  • Gamedeveloperstudio - Free game assets, royalty free audio and graphics, graphics and audio clips for game developers

  • Placehold.it - Placehold.it - Quick and simple image placeholders

  • 4,300+ hand-drawn isometric objects - r/gamedev: All things related to game development, programming, math, art, music, business, and marketing.

  • Glitch | Public Domain Art & Code - A game of giant imagination.

  • Game Art 2D Freebies - Collection of various completely free game assets. From 2d character sprites, platformer tileset, game GUI, and many other themes. No hidden costs, for sure.

  • Super Game Asset - Super Game Asset provide time saving 2D game resources. We sell game sprite, game icons, isometric sprites, buildings, props, game portraits and game maps.

  • 2D Cartoon Mobile Game UI Pack - A fun, colorful, cartoony game interface kit great for 2D mobile games. All elements are build with vector shapes and...

  • 420 Pixel Art Icons for RPGs - Set of 420 RPG icons, free for commercial use You can download a pack with them all in individual .png files here: www.dropbox.com/s/n7ng8w9rehco&hellip... 420 -Pixel Art- Icons for RPG

  • Games-Icons Set - 3553 free SVG and PNG icons for your games or apps | Game-icons.net

  • Sketchfab - With a community of over one million creators, we are the world’s largest platform to publish, share, and discover 3D content on web, mobile, AR, and VR.

  • Unity Asset Store - Asset Store

  • Daily WF - WFC (Webfonts Bulk Converter)

  • PNG Trees - Here you can download free png images on theme: Tree png images, pictures, download free

  • Top game assets - Find game assets like FREE minimal future pixelart 2D assetpack, Simple Dungeon Crawler 16x16 Pixel Art Asset Pack, Basic 140 tiles Grassland and Mines., Pixeltier's 16x16 Modern RPG Icon Pack, Chevy Ray's Pixel Fonts on itch.io, the indie game hosting ma

  • Matriax Free Assets - Sprites, tiles, rpg icons... mostly PixelArt

  • Renderosity - Renderosity - 3D Models for game developers

  • Craftpix - 2D Game Assets Free & Premium

  • Epic art & assets collection by Estúdio Vaca Roxa - Free Vector Assets for Personal and Commercial Use

  • Generic Platformer Pack by Estúdio Vaca Roxa - Generic platformer pack - Free assets for personal and commercial use.

  • Quaternius lowpoly assets - Free lowpoly assets

  • Pixelgameart.org - Sharing Pixel Art for your GameDev

  • FREE Keyboard and controllers prompts pack - Hey there awesome people on OpenGameArt (this is my first post). I got to the point where I have to add controller prompts in the menu of my game, so I thought.. instead of making just the 2/3 buttons I need... why not make Over 500?   And so I did…

  • ProductionCrate - Original Production Elements, VFX, Original Music & More.

Famous Game Sources

  • id Software - GitHub is where people build software. More than 12 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 31 million projects.
  • DOOM - DOOM Open Source Release
  • Duke Nukem 3D - 3D Realms is the legendary developer/publisher of such games as Duke Nukem, Max Payne, Commander Keen, Wolfstein 3D and many more.
  • Prince of Persia -
  • Sim City - Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/micropolis
  • Serious Engine - Serious-Engine - An open source version of a game engine developed by Croteam for the classic Serious Sam games.
  • Collection of computer game source code - This is a collection of computer game source code. The majority of these titles were originally released as commercial products and the source code was made available to the public at a later time. Developers have released these assets under varying licen
  • Video Game Preservation - An archive of commercial video game source code. Video Game Preservation has 89 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

Tile Editors

2D Normal Mapping

Vector Editors

  • Inkscape - Inkscape is professional quality vector graphics software which runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows desktop computers.
  • Vectr - Free vector graphics editor. A simple yet powerful web and desktop cross-platform tool for everyone.
  • Affinity Designer - Vector based Graphic tool
  • Sketch - Sketch - Professional Digital Design for Mac
  • Figma - Figma is the first interface design tool with real-time collaboration. It keeps everyone on the same page. Focus on the work instead of fighting your tools.
  • Gravit Designer -
  • Adobe Illustrator CC - Professional vector editing application
  • Lunacy, Sketch for Windows - Lunacy is a native Windows app that opens, edits, and stores .sketch files. And it’s completely free.

Pixel Editors

  • Aseprite - Aseprite - Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool
  • Piskel - Piskel, free online sprite editor. A simple web-based tool for Spriting and Pixel art. Create pixel art, game sprites and animated GIFs. Free and open-source.
  • Pyxel Edit - Pyxel Edit pixel art and tile creation tool
  • Pickle - Pickle is a cross-platform pixel editor for creating game animations, repeating tiles and sprite sheets.
  • Marmoset Hexels 2 - Hexels is an intuitive 2D, grid-based painting tool enabling you to effortlessly create brilliant works of art. Try it out today and revel in the grid! Buy...
  • PixelShop - PixelShop | blackflux.com
  • Cosmigo Pro Motion - Deluxe Paint for Windows! pro motion is a drawing software to create pixel precise images and animations. Use it as sprite and bitmap editor with common game creation engines or frameworks of your choice.
  • GoyaPixel - An online open source Pixel editor.
  • Animation Graphic Editor - Powerful tool for spriting and pixel art
  • PikoPixel for Mac OS X - Twilight Edge Software - PikoPixel for Mac OS X
  • UPA Toolkit: Pixel Art Editor for Unity 3D - Unity Pixel Art Toolkit makes it fast and easy to create Pixel Art sprites without leaving the comfort of Unity.
  • Paint.NET - Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows.
  • Lodepaint - A pixel editor with good functionality and performance
  • FontSprite by AdamStrange - Simple fontsprite editing with lots of functions
  • Lospec Pixel Editor - Free online pixel art program. It's easy to use, intuitive and unobtrusive. Use any palette from our database.

Terrain Generators

  • Nem's Terrain Generator - Nem's Half-Life and Half-Life 2 editing tools.
  • Artifex Terra 3D - 3D Terrain Editor for realtime heightmap manipulation, texturing and color painting.
  • World Machine - Command powerful tools like erosion and advanced colormaps to create terrain heightmaps, meshes, and textures for your game or 3D scene. Download for Free!
  • Canyon Terrain Editor - Canyon Terrain Editor (working title) is a tool designed to allow users to create quality, realistic terrain quickly and intuitively. It is focused toward game development, but it could easily be utilized for other applications. Features include a wide va
  • Bryce 7 -

    Bryce is an award winning, fun, feature-packed 3D modeling and animation package designed to allow new users to quickly create and render stunning 3D environments. Bryce combines exceptional power with an innovative interface for incredible

  • WorldCreator - BiteTheBytes - WorldCreator
  • Gaia - Asset Store
  • Large 3D Terrain Generator (L3DT) - Easy, free, customizable, large 3d terrains that can easily be exported to different formats.
  • MapMagic World Generator - A node based procedural and infinite game map generator. Demo | Wiki | Issues/Ideas | Forum | More Each node on a graph represents a terrain or object generator: noise, voronoi, blend, curve, erosion, scatter, forest, etc. Once
  • Gaea- Quadspinner - QuadSpinner Gaea creates the industry's most loved terrain design tools for games, films, and virtual experiences.

Browser 3D Publishing

  • Sketchfab - With a community of over one million creators, we are the world’s largest platform to publish, share, and discover 3D content on web, mobile, AR, and VR.
  • p3d.in - p3d.in - your 3D online
  • Marmoset Viewer - "We’ve pushed the boundaries to deliver cutting edge 3D rendering to the web and mobile devices."

Projection Texturing

  • Pixexix - Pixexix - Projection Texturing Tool
  • Substance Painter - Substance Painter is the complete tool to texture your 3D assets.
  • Mari 3D - The Foundry’s cutting-edge 3D paint tool, MARI gives you a fluid & flexible way to paint directly onto 3D models.
  • Sculptris - Sculptris: Enter a world of digital art without barriers.
  • Autodesk Mudbox - Autodesk Mudbox digital sculpting and texture painting software provides 3D artists with an intuitive toolset for creating and modifying 3D geometry and textures.
  • 3DCoat - 3D-Coat is the one application that has all the tools you need to take your 3D idea from a block of digital clay all the way to a production ready, fully textured organic or hard surface model.

3D Search Engine

  • Poly - Browse, discover, and download 3D objects and scenes. Poly lets you quickly find 3D objects and scenes for use in your apps, and it was built from the ground up with AR and VR development in mind.
  • Yobi3D -
  • TurboSquid - Find 3D models for your project in our vast online catalog of cars, people, textures, architectural models and more.
  • Blender Swap! - The one place for Open Source 3D models by Blender users for Blender users. Come swap some blends with friends!
  • Humster3d - We make all 3D models ourselves. High-Quality of every single unit, full product support and Game-ready model is available. All 3D formats.
  • TF3DM - Free 3D Models, we offer thousands of 3d models, in various formats, that you can download absolutely for free.
  • Pixelsquid - PixelSquid makes 3D content easy for graphic designers to download at any angle as transparent PNG or PSD. Free Photoshop plug-in also available.
  • Archive3d - Download Free 3D Objects
  • UE4Asset - UE4 asset marketplace includes various types of unreal engine assets which are optimized and ready to be used in your architectual/personal projects

DAW

  • LMMS - LMMS is a free, open source, multiplatform digital audio workstation.

  • ardour - ardour - the digital audio workstation

  • REAPER - REAPER | Audio Production Without Limits

  • Ableton - Ableton makes Push and Live, hardware and software for music production, creation and performance. Ableton´s products are made to inspire creative music-making.

  • FL Studio - FL Studio is a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) for Windows PCs and macOS. FL Studio is a complete software music production environment, everything you need in one package to compose, arrange, record, edit, mix and master.

  • Logic Pro X - Logic Pro X is a complete professional recording studio on the Mac. And it has everything musicians need to go from first note to final master.

  • Bitwig Studio - Bitwig Studio is a multi-platform music-creation system for production, performance and DJing, with a focus on flexible editing tools and a super-fast workflow.

  • Renoise - Renoise is a digital audio workstation. It lets you compose, edit and record production-quality audio using a music tracker-based approach. It features a wide range of built-in audio processors, alongside support for all commonly used virtual instrument a

  • Reason - Record, edit, mix, remix and finish your music with Reason. It will help you along the journey, from inspiration to mixdown. Try Reason free for 30 days.

  • Buzz - Buzzmachines hosts all the official Jeskola Buzz machines

  • Cubase - Steinberg is known the world over for its audio software and hardware solutions. The company has been developing, manufacturing and selling...

  • Pro Tools First - Free music software using many of the same tools used by your favorite artists and recording studios—absolutely free—with Pro Tools | First. Simple enough for beginners, yet sophisticated for experienced musicians, enabling you to compose, record, edit, a

  • SONAR Steam Edition - Choose the creative experience only SONAR offers: advanced technology, effortless workflow, and an inviting interface that amplifies inspiration. Fueled by 30 years in the relentless pursuit of innovation, SONAR is re-inventing the modern recording studio

  • Synthfont - Home site for SynthFont, Viena, and other tools for playing MIDI files and working with SoundFonts

  • SunVox Modular Music Studio - sunvox, synth, synthesizer, tracker, sequencer, beatmachine, daw, modular studio, sequencer, generator, effects, music creation, analog, analogue, mobile, demoscene, professional

  • Studio One - Studio One | PreSonus

  • Stagelight by Open Labs - free usic making program

  • Audacity® - Free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing.

  • Cakewalk - The most complete music production package

  • SoundBridge - SoundBridge is a free and easy to use full-featured DAW. It contains the essential tools you need to make music. It supports third-party VSTs and professional audio drivers.

2D Game Engines

  • Unity - Unity real-time development platform. Create 3D, 2D VR & AR visualizations for Games, Auto, Transportation, Film, Animation, Architecture, Engineering & more.
  • libgdx - libgdx
  • Flixel - Flixel is and open source game-making library in ActionScript3. Designed for use with free tools Flixel is easy to learn, extend and customize.
  • Unreal Engine 4 - Unreal Engine 4 is a suite of integrated tools for game developers to design and build games, simulations, and visualizations.
  • Construct 2 - Make games with Construct 2. Create HTML5 games without needing to code. Construct 2 is a powerful and intuitive free games editor for Windows.
  • GameMaker: Studio - Making top 2D games with the GameMaker: Studio game engine is easy. No code or programming required
  • FlashPunk - FlashPunk: A game creation library for Actionscript 3
  • RPG Maker - Make your own PC game with RPG Maker. Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child, and powerful enough for a developer. Try it free today!
  • Cocos2d-x - Cocos2d-x is an open-source and cross platform open source free 2D game engine for mobile game development known for its speed, stability, and easy of use
  • Stencyl - Make iOS (iPhone/iPad), Android, Flash, Windows & Mac games without code using Stencyl.
  • Fusion 2.5 - Development software for creating video games, tools and apps.
  • GameDevelop - Create your own games with GDevelop: an open-source game creator. No programming skills are required! Quickly build and share your games on mobile (Android and iOS), desktop and on the web.
  • LÖVE - LÖVE - Free 2D Game Engine
  • Duality - Duality - a 2D Game Development Framework
  • BYOND - Make games for free with BYOND. Easy to learn, but powerful. Play online & multiplayer: RPGs, action, strategy, board games, and more!
  • Adventure Game Studio - AGS is an Adventure Engine to create graphical point-and-click adventure games - Adventure Game Studio
  • Impact - Impact - HTML5 Canvas & JavaScript Game Engine
  • HaxePunk - HaxePunk is a 2d game engine written in Haxe for cross-platform deployment.
  • Haxeflixel - HaxeFlixel is a 2D Game Engine that lets you create cross-platform games easier with free, open source technology!
  • Pygame -
  • SFML - SFML
  • Wimi5 - WIMI5 is an HTML5 gaming platform that makes it easy to CREATE, PUBLISH & MONETIZE HTML5 games in the cloud
  • Urho3D - Urho3D - Cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine
  • Orx Portable Game Engine - Orx - a portable open source game engine
  • Godot Engine - Godot Engine - Free and open source 2D and 3D game engine
  • Phaser - Phaser: The fun, fast and free HTML5 Game Framework
  • jsGFwk - jsGFwk - JavaScript and HTML5 minimalistic framework
  • Felgo - Felgo - Create Cross-Platform Mobile Apps and Games 50% Faster For iOS, Android, Windows Phone and Desktops.Download Your Free SDK Now
  • AppGameKit - AppGameKit is a game creation system for mobile cross platform development. Write once, deploy everywhere
  • Wintermute Engine - Wintermute Engine
  • Pixi.js - 2D webGL renderer with canvas fallback
  • Buildbox - Buildbox is the easiest drag and drop game maker software.Make your own games without coding and export them to iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, PC and Microconsoles
  • Gideros Mobile - Gideros Mobile
  • Defold - Defold is a multi-platform game engine that simplifies development of 2D games for all major platforms – HTML5, Android, iOS, Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
  • Otter2D - Otter - A 2D C# Framework built on SFML 2
  • Corona SDK - Corona SDK builds rich mobile apps for iOS, Android, Kindle and Nook. Build high quality mobile apps in a fraction of the time.
  • Castle Game Engine - Free open-source 3D game engine. Supports a lot of 2D and 3D data formats, including VRML / X3D, Collada, Spine... Cross-platform, for standalone (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X...), mobile (Android, iOS), web browser plugin... Many beatiful 3D features (shadow
  • MonoGame - MonoGame | Write Once, Play Everywhere
  • Luxe - A free and open cross platform game development engine.
  • GameSalad - With over 750,000 developers and 65,000 games published, GameSalad is the fastest and easiest way to create, publish and monetize your games on all the major mobile platforms.
  • Superpowers - Superpowers — Free 2D+3D game maker, open source
  • Starling - Starling is pure ActionScript 3 and recreates Flash's display list architecture on the GPU providing a performance unlike anything else! Starling runs in the browser and on all major mobile platforms, like iOS and Android.
  • Torque2D - Torque 2D is an extremely powerful, flexible, and fast open source engine dedicated to 2D game development.
  • PuzzleScript - PuzzleScript - an open-source HTML5 puzzle game engine
  • OpenFL - OpenFL - Creative expression for desktop, mobile, web and console platforms
  • TIC-80 by Nesbox - tiny computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games
  • Pixel Vision 8 by Pixel Vision 8 - All the tools you need to design, code, and play Pixel Vision 8 games.
  • LIKO-12 by RamiLego4Game - A lua fantasy computer
  • Solarus - Solarus | An open-source ARPG game engine
  • Bennu Game Development - Bennu Game Development | The game programming language
  • inkle's narrative scripting language - As used to author Heaven's Vault, 80 Days and Sorcery!: produce interactive scripts by writing in pure-text with ink markup.
  • VASSAL - VASSAL
  • Amulet - Amulet is a free Lua-based audio/visual toolkit suitable for small games and experimentation. It runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, HTML5 and iOS.
  • Heaps - Cross platform graphics for high performance games.
  • Pyxel: retro game engine for Python - A retro game development environment in Python
  • PICO-8 Fantasy Console - PICO-8 is a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs. New carts available every day!

Tiled Texture Tools

  • Filter Forge - Filter Forge, Photoshop plugin, create own filters
  • PixPlant - PixPlant is a smart texturing app with everything needed to quickly transform a plain photo into seamless repeating textures and 3D maps.
  • Tilemancer by Led - Procedural pixel-art tile creator
  • Seamless Texture Generator - Seamless Texture Generator is a tool for creating professional seamlessly-tileable textures from photographs quickly and easily.
  • Spiral Graphics Wood Workshop - The Wood Workshop is a free seamless texture editor that specializes in the creation of seamless wood textures.
  • Littera - Littera — bitmap font generator
  • Paletton - In love with colors, since 2002. A designer tool for creating color combinations that work together well. Formerly known as Color Scheme Designer. Use the color wheel to create great color palettes.
  • Texture Exporter - Texture Exporter is an intuitive Photoshop plugin that provides an easy to use, customizable, and extremely fast way to export and manage your texture maps.
  • Seamless Texture Generator for Photoshop - the-orange-box.com | Free Seamless Texture Generator

Control Mapping

  • JoyToKey - Download the latest version of JoyToKey for free! JoyToKey enables PC game controllers to emulate a mouse and the keyboard input, so that windows applications and web games can be controlled with joysticks.
  • Xpadder - Xpadder
  • AntiMicro - Graphical program used to map keyboard buttons and mouse controls to a gamepad. Useful for playing games with no gamepad support

Simple Game Mechanics

  • ABA Games - I have created 50 mini browser games this year. This is it. Click the image to play the game. Games are roughly placed as follows.
  • Orisinal - Orisinal games collection by Ferry Halim with Winterbells, Sunny Day Sky, These Little Pigs, Bubble Bees, Chicken Wings, Bum Bum Koala, Snowbowling, Dare Dozen, Cranky Crabs, and more!
  • Eyezmaze - EYEZMAZE --Original game site--
  • Gamedesign.jp - The site holds a lot of free games for public.
  • HOSHI SAGA - 猫ゲームサイト
  • Cursors.io - Collaborate (or not) with other cursors to progress further.
  • SOOMLA - SOOMLA is about helping game developers do more together. At the heart of it there is a community supported platform for in app purchase stores
  • Squidi 300 Mechanics - Three hundred game mechanic ideas, tutorials, and so on. Some ideas contain functional demos and code snippets for creating the game mechanic in question.

Games & Tools

  • 35 Gamification Mechanics - Level up your business through Gamification
  • Life is a game - Life is a game - We explain how different aspects of life are like games
  • Art Of Game Design - Companion to the acclaimed book "The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses", this convenient deck contains 100 unique "lens cards" each featuring key questions that will make your game great, and a magnificent color illustration to help you remember each p
  • Game Mechanics Flash Cards - Print Your Own Version of SCVNGR's Game Mechanics Flash Cards - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. This deck was made by @EricJFernandez to help you memorize game mechanics. It lets you easily print your own versio

Game Design Documents

Lectures,Talks & Articles

  • GDC Vault - GDC Vault
  • Warren Spector Lectures - interesting videos about game development
  • Hobbygamedev - Most months follow a 4 entry pattern: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, and Special Topic. I’ve curated and cleaned up my best articles from five years of material here as the Videogame Devel…
  • Extra Credits: Game Design - Take a deeper look at the principles of Game Design.
  • Game accessibility guidelines - Game accessibility guidelines | Full list
  • Rediscovering Mystery Series - All the videos in our series about mystery and player discovering. Featuring interviews with Jonathan Blow (The Witness, Braid), Derke Yu (Spelunky) and Jim ...
  • Narrative in Videogames - how games are better than other media in narration
  • Game Maker's Toolkit - How does Half Life teach without tutorials? Why didn't Capcom tell you that it was manipulating Resident Evil 4's difficulty? How are Nintendo's level design...

Interactive Non-Linear Storytelling

  • Twine - Twine / An open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories
  • Fungus - Fungus brings your game to life by making it easy to add colourful characters and gripping storylines to your Unity 3D game. Its intuitive interface lets you create beautiful story games easily - for free and with no coding!
  • inklewriter - Independent developer of narrative games and interactive stories.
  • Inform7 - Home : Inform
  • Ren'Py - The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine
  • Scapple - Scapple | Literature & Latte
  • Chat Mapper - Homepage - Chat Mapper
  • Edventure Builder - Edventure Builder
  • ChoiceScript - ChoiceScript is a simple programming language for writing multiple-choice games (MCGs) like Choice of the Dragon. Writing games with ChoiceScript is easy and fun, even for authors with no programming experience.
  • TADS - TADS - the Text Adventure Development System, an Interactive Fiction authoring tool
  • Adventure Cow - Adventure Cow lets you play and write interactive stories, similar to Choose Your Own Adventures.
  • TalkTree by winterdrake - Create complex branching dialog trees for Game Maker Studio!
  • StoryStylus - StoryStylus is software designed for storytellers to create, publish & play interactive story games for web, & mobile. Let’s create Story Worlds together!
  • Roleplay / Text Adventure Engine by liamtwose - Multiplayer Text Adventure Engine in development by Liam Twose
  • articy:draft - articy:draft is the perfect writing, planning and content management tool with super easy export option to unity. Has a 14 day trial version that doesn't require any kind of payment option.

Script Writing

  • Celtx -
  • Plotbot - Plotbot
  • Articy:draft - articy:draft 2 is a collaborative environment for the creation and organization of game content like quests, interactive dialogues, characters, items and level layouts – from first design to export right into your game.
  • Amazon Storybuilder - Amazon Storybuilder
  • Amazon Storywriter - Amazon Storywriter
  • Scrivener - Scrivener for Mac OS X and Windows is an Award-winning writing software for novelists, scriptwriters, academics or anyone working on long texts requiring research and structure, or taming the chaotic process of writing.

Fonts

  • Font Squirrel - Font Squirrel scours the internet for high quality, legitimately free fonts . Download thousands of completely legal, high quality, free fonts.
  • Font Library - Font Library is all fonts. Free Downloads and Quality Support.
  • Use & Modify - Home - Use & Modify
  • Google Fonts - Making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography
  • 1001fonts - 20,066 free fonts in 10,596 families · Free licenses for commercial use · Direct font downloads · Mac · Windows · Linux
  • dafont.com - Archive of freely downloadable fonts. Browse by alphabetical listing, by style, by author or by popularity.
  • The League of Moveable Type - The League of Moveable Type
  • FontForge Open Source Font Editor - FontForge is free and open-source outline font editor.
  • Pixel Font Gallery - BitFontMaker2 - Pixel Font Gallery
  • The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack - Home of the world's biggest collection of classic text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era IBM PCs and compatibles

UI Elements

  • 365psd - Download free, high quality PSD files, vectors and graphics. Browse our library and quickly find the perfect image, completely free for commercial use.
  • Sketch App Sources - The largest collection of free and premium Sketch resources for mobile, web, UI, and UX designers working with Sketch by Bohemian Coding. All .sketch files and .svg files are editable and easy to use.

Screenshot Tools

  • ShareX - ShareX is an open source program that lets you take screenshots or screencasts of any selected area with a single key, save them in your clipboard, hard disk or instantly upload them to over 80 different file hosting services.
  • Puush - puush is a super-quick way to share screenshots. Quickly capture any portion of your screen, upload any file, and share them with a short URL automatically placed in your clipboard. Share them with the world or make them private, for your eyes only.
  • Camtasia Studio - Camtasia gives you the tools you need to record on-screen activity, edit and enhance your content, and share in high-quality to viewers anywhere.
  • Greenshot - Greenshot allows quick creation of screenshots, easy annotation, highlighting and obfuscating using the built-in image editor and sending the screenshot to a file, the clipboard, a printer or as e-mail attachment.
  • Gyazo - Gyazo lets you instantly grab the screen and upload the image/GIF to the web. You can easily share them on Chat, Twitter, Blog, Tumblr, etc. Available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
  • Fraps - Fraps can show fps (frame rate) in Windows PC games! Fraps performs video capture, screen capture and can benchmark your fps! Supports both DirectX capture and OpenGL capture!
  • Lightshot - Lightshot
  • ScreenToGif - Free screen recorder tool. Record, edit and save as a Gif or video.

Project Management Systems

  • Trello - Infinitely flexible. Incredibly easy to use. Great mobile apps. It's free. Trello keeps track of everything, from the big picture to the minute details.
  • Asana - Easily organize and plan workflows, projects, and more, so you can keep your team's work on schedule. Start using Asana as your work management tool today.
  • KanbanFlow - KanbanFlow is a Lean project management tool allowing real-time collaboration between team members. Supports the Pomodoro technique for time tracking.
  • JIRA - Plan, track, and manage your agile and software development projects in Jira. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and release great software.
  • Targetprocess - Featuring Targetprocess Kanban board, visual development flows, flow chart reports, teams board, custom flow setup.
  • Taiga - An Agile, Open Source, Free Project Management System
  • Kanban Tool - Kanban Tool is an enterprise visual management software for boosting team productivity. Empower your productivity with online Kanban boards for business.
  • Casual.pm - Looking for a simple online project management tool? Casual.pm is the best tool for managing your projects as visual workflows online.
  • Wrike - Wrike is an online project management software that gives you full visibility and control over your tasks. With the help of our product, managing projects becomes easier. Our project management tools include time tracking, project planning and organizatio
  • Todoist - To-do list and task manager. Free, easy,…
  • Nostromo - Nostromo is a project management tool specifically designed for digital product development.
  • Pivotal Tracker - Pivotal Tracker: The awesome, lightweight, agile project management tool for software teams. Get your 30-day Free Trial started today!
  • Kunagi - Kunagi is a web-based tool for integrated agile project management and collaboration based on Scrum
  • Online Scrum Software / Agile Scrum Tool - Flying Donut is a powerful, simple, effective, agile project management tool, for public and private projects, that allows your team to collaborate in real time
  • Icescrum - iceScrum and iceScrum Pro are designed for Scrum & agile projects and help to success! Online cloud plans and Standalone licences are available.
  • Telegram Messenger - Telegram Messenger
  • Scrumdo - ScrumDo is a powerful work management platform andcontinuous improvement engine. We make it easy forteams and entire organizations to adopt modernworkflow management processes (like Scrum,Kanban, Scrumban, SAFe and others) forbetter business outcomes.
  • Freeter - Freeter offers the smartest way to work on your projects. It enables you to collect all things you need to work in one place and switch between them like a super hero!
  • Meistertask - MeisterTask is the most intuitive collaboration and task management tool on the web. Sign up, invite your team and start working. No training required.
  • Codecks - Project management tool inspired by collectible card games
  • Taskulu - Taskulu helps you manage your projects easier by allowing you to define roles and assign permissions within your projects.
  • Producteev - Producteev is a task management software for teams. It's more than an online to-do list and has helped hundreds of thousands of teams get work done faster with better results. Learn more.
  • Workamajig - Streamline operations, improve efficiencies & increase collaboration. Get your demo to see what Workamajig's Creative Project Management Software can do for you
  • HacknPlan - HacknPlan
  • Favro - Favro is the planning and collaboration app for organizational flow. It helps organizations do what they excel at - making products and services that change the game. Fast.
  • Notion - A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

Code Management

  • Github - Build software better, together.
  • Bugzilla - bugzilla bug track tracking enterprise solution
  • Redmine - Redmine
  • Bitbucket - Collaborate on code with inline comments and pull requests. Manage and share your Git repositories to build and ship software, as a team.
  • SourceForge - Free, secure and fast downloads from the largest Open Source applications and software directory - SourceForge.net
  • GitLab - GitLab.com | GitLab
  • Assembla - SVN, Git, Perforce (offers 1 GB free for private repo)
  • Gogs - Gogs (Go Git Service) is a painless self-hosted Git service
  • Perforce - Discover why enterprise teams powered by Perforce have freedom to innovate at unrivaled scale.

Pitches

  • Game Pitches - This website is currently unavailable.
  • Slidebean - Browse +100 pitch deck template options. We are a venture-funded startup, a 500 Startup alum, and we've helped over 100,000 companies with their fundraising. Create your investor deck free.
  • The Best Pitch Deck Examples from Real Startups - A collection of real fundraising decks from real startups. In total, these decks have raised over $400 million.

PR

  • presskit() - presskit() (pronounced 'do presskit') is the completely free solution to fast, simple & beautiful press kits.
  • Promoter - Polylists is a website for sharing lists of recommended games.
  • Evolve PR - Evolve PR – Video Game PR and More
  • TriplePoint PR - The leading video games PR agency, with select experience in technology, specializing in strategic counsel, media relations, and messaging.
  • Black Shell Media PR - Black Shell Media LLC is a marketing and publishing partner for independent game developers across the globe.
  • Submit.co (Press Coverage) - Submit.co – Where to get press coverage for your startup
  • Indie Gamedev Marketing Checklist -
  • Indie Game Marketing & PR Services - Free actionable tips and resources on how to improve your marketing strategy. Don't have time to promote your game? Contact me today.
  • Gamasutra Business/Marketing - The Art & Business of Making Games. Video game industry news, developer blogs, and features delivered daily
  • App Marketing ZEEF Page - Anything and everything to do with App Marketing. Curated by a specialist in the app marketing industry with 15 years experience, you can be sure that this list has everything and that it is updated frequently!
  • BIG Youtubers Contacts List - YFI list - final
  • ANDi for Indie Developers - ANDi uses machine learning to make real game recommendations. Learn how we are working with Indie Developers to promote their games directly to users via our app, for free/
  • Big Games Machine - Video Game PR & Marketing agency. PR campaigns for game developers & publishers of all sizes. Steam/PC,mobile & console. Based in London.
  • Game Drive - Game Drive offers strategic and result oriented Game Marketing
  • Keymailer - Keymailer

Website Builder

  • Webflow - Build responsive websites in your browser, then host with us or export your code to host wherever. Discover the professional website builder made for designers.
  • ThemeForest - WordPress Themes
  • Squarespace - Squarespace is the easiest way for anyone to create an exceptional website. Pages, galleries, blogs, e-commerce, domains, hosting, analytics, 24/7 support - all included.
  • RocketCake - free responsive website designer
  • Weebly - Weebly makes it surprisingly easy to create a high-quality website, blog or online store. Over 40 million people use Weebly to bring their unique ideas to life.
  • Strikingly - Strikingly is the best free website builder for anyone to create a gorgeous, mobile-friendly website easily. Quick, simple and stylish. Make your own free website today.
  • Dudamobile - Build and sell high-converting websites at scale with the Duda Website Builder.
  • Mozello - Create beautiful, modern and mobile-ready website, blog or online store in just 5 minutes. Mozello is the world's easiest to use website builder.
  • Tilda - Create a website, landing page or online store for free with the help of Tilda modules and publish it on the same day. No knowledge of coding required.
  • Bootstrap Studio - A powerful web design tool for creating responsive websites using the Bootstrap framework.
  • Free Website Builder - Create a free website with Wix.com. Choose a stunning template and customize anything with the Wix website builder—no coding skills needed. Create yours today!
  • Wordpress.org - Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.
  • Jekyll - Transform your plain text into static websites and blogs
  • Pinegrow Web Editor - A professional visual editor for CSS Grid, Bootstrap 4 and 3, Foundation, responsive design, HTML, and CSS. Convert HTML to WordPress themes.

Game Metrics

  • Gameanalytics - Measure, understand and control player experiences in a single free tool, trusted by 40,000+ game developers across the world.
  • Flurry - Flurry’s mission is to optimize the mobile experience through better apps and more personal ads. Our market leadership in mobile analytics means data is at the center of everything we do.
  • Devtodev - devtodev - real-time mobile app tracking and app store analytics tool, push notification service and mobile ad tracking kit
  • Analytics - Unity is the ultimate game development platform. Use Unity to build high-quality 3D and 2D games, deploy them across mobile, desktop, VR/AR, consoles or the Web, and connect with loyal and enthusiastic players and customers.
  • Smartlook - Smartlook is a free and intuitive product analytics tool for websites and mobile apps. Visitor recordings, heatmaps, conversion funnels, and automatic event tracking will give you great insights. 50+ integrations with all major solutions. 170K+ happy cust
  • Qualitative Analytics for Native Mobile Apps - Have a native mobile app? User recordings, customer journeys, UX improvements, event tracking, conversion funnels, and loads more! Get unparalleled insights into your iOS or Android mobile apps!

EXTRAS

  • GitHub Student Developer Pack - The GitHub Student Developer Pack is all you need to learn how to code. Get your Pack now.
  • Eclipse - The Eclipse Foundation - home to a global community, the Eclipse IDE, Jakarta EE and over 350 open source projects, including runtimes, tools and frameworks.
  • Bulletphysics - Bullet Real-Time Physics Simulation | Home of Bullet and PyBullet: physics simulation for games, visual effects, robotics and reinforcement learning.
  • Box2D - About | Box2D
  • Rant - The Rant Procedural Text Generation DSL

Game Jams

Domain Names

  • Namemesh - Get smart domain name suggestions using synonyms, suffixes, prefixes, short url, new gtlds to find the perfect domain name. Generate ideas for social user names and check availability for free!
  • Namevine - Free tool to search for a Domain, Facebook Vanity URL, Twitter Account, YouTube ID and Pinterest ID at the same time.
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Voxels

  • Qubicle - Minddesk offers professional voxel tools for design and development.
  • SpriteStackStudio - SpriteStackStudio
  • MagicaVoxel - MagicaVoxel Official Website
  • sproxel - sproxel - A voxel model editor focused on the creation of sprite-like objects. - Google Project Hosting
  • blackflux.com - VoxelShop | blackflux.com
  • Goxel - goxel - Open source 3D voxel editor
  • Kovel - kovel - Kovel, a voxel editor for Haiku, Linux and Windows
  • Binvox - binvox 3D mesh voxelizer, keywords: voxelization, voxelisation, 3D model
  • Zoxel - A free cross-platform editor for small voxel models.
  • DotModeler - DotModeler
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  • Q-BLOCK - Q-Block is a browser-based application that can be used to create 3D pixel(voxel) art.
  • Sproxel - The weblog of the Sproxel editor software project, a voxel model editor focused on the creation of sprite-like objects.

Learn more at its google code page: http://code.google.com/p/sproxel/

Game Art

  • Game Art Tricks - Game Art Tricks | Simon schreibt.
  • GDquest - Become a better game designer with open source programs! Learn game programming, game art, and game design. Here, you'll learn the techniques professionals u...
  • 2D Game Art Tutorials - Game art tutorials for the 'artistically challenged' using inkscape and gimp
  • Digital Painting Simplified - Free Video Library — Ctrl+Paint - Digital Painting Simplified
  • Open Game Art - Recursos gráficos y de sonido, gratis
  • Stock images for Artists - CA-Stock.com, A great place for Artists to find low cost stock images to download and use in their artwork
  • Kenney - Kenney game studio creates games and free to use game assets!

Contribute!

  • $1 PayPal Donation - PayPal es la forma más segura y fácil de pagar en Internet sin revelar su número de tarjeta de crédito.
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Icons

  • Game-Icons Set - 3553 free SVG and PNG icons for your games or apps | Game-icons.net
  • iconmonstr - Free simple icons for your next project
  • NounProject - Creating, Sharing and Celebrating the World's Visual Language.
  • Iconizer - Free icons maker and search engine
  • Iconfinder - Iconfinder is the leading search engine and market place for vector icons in SVG, PNG, CSH and AI format.
  • IcoFX - Icofx is a professional icon and cursor editor used to create icons with transparency for Windows and Macintosh
  • famfamfam - famfamfam is the personal website of Mark James
  • FindIcons - FindIcons.com - Search through 300,000 free icons in more than 2,000 icon packs
  • Flat Icon Maker - Flat icon maker. ✓ Over 2,500 royalty free flat icons. ✓ Customize within seconds. ✓
  • Flaticon - 1,838,000+ Free vector icons in SVG, PSD, PNG, EPS format or as ICON FONT. Thousands of free icons in the largest database of free vector icons!
  • Free PSD icons - Free PSD icons - Freebiesbug
  • 18,500 Free Icons - Single icon pack with 18,500 free icons. Each icon is in 5 flat styles. Download as PNG, SVG, or as a font.
  • Fontawesome - Font Awesome, the iconic font and CSS framework
  • Freepik - More than a million free vectors, PSD, photos and free icons. Exclusive freebies and all graphic resources that you need for your projects
  • Craftpix - In this section you will find a collection of Free and Premium Game Icons for fantasy, RPG, platformer, casual, cartoon and others.
  • Feather - Feather is a collection of simply beautiful open source icons. Each icon is designed on a 24x24 grid with an emphasis on simplicity, consistency and readability.
  • Material Design Icons - Material Design Icons' growing icon collection allows designers and developers targeting various platforms to download icons in the format, color and size they need for any project.
  • RPG Awesome - A fantasy themed font and CSS toolkit
  • illustrio - A smarter icon library. Build something great with 100% customizable icons. 100% free download (all icons in SVG or PNG format).

Bitmap Compression

  • PNGGauntlet - PNG compression app for Windows. Uses PNGOUT, OptiPNG, and DeflOpt to create the smallest PNGs, without sacrificing any image quality.
  • TinyPNG - Make your website faster and save bandwidth. TinyPNG optimizes your PNG images by 50-80% while preserving full transparency!
  • PunyPNG - PNG compression and image optimization tool
  • Compressor.io - Optimize and compress your images online. Compressor is a lossy and lossless photo compression tool.
  • Kraken.io - Optimize your images with blazing speed using powerful API and online web interface
  • smush.it! -
  • PngOptimizer - psydk.org - PngOptimizer
  • OptiPNG Home Page - OptiPNG Home Page
  • Optimus.io - Compress and optimize images with Optimus. Lossless compression of images in WordPress or through the developer API. Convert JPEG or PNG to WebP.
  • ImageAlpha - ImageAlpha — image minifier (like JPEG with transparency!)
  • SuperPNG photoshop plug-in - SuperPNG, the advanced PNG plug-in. Write 16-bit PNGs in Photoshop and After Effects.
  • Pngquant PNGoo - pngquant — lossy batch PNG compressor
  • Bulk Resize Photos - Quickly and easily resize images for free. No uploading required.
  • Jpeg.io - Jpeg.io | Convert any major image format into a highly optimized JPEG

Character Generators

Vectors

  • Vecteezy - Choose from over a million free vectors, clip art designs, vector images, icons, and illustrations created by artists worldwide! Download free vector art and templates for personal, educational, an...
  • vector.me - Free Vector Search Engine - Vector.me
  • Freepik - More than a million free vectors, PSD, photos and free icons. Exclusive freebies and all graphic resources that you need for your projects
  • Public domain vectors - Royalty-free vector clip art and graphics | Public domain vectors

2D Animation

  • Spriter - Pre-order Spriter 2 and get Spriter Pro now for free. Pre-Order Spriter 2 https://brashmonkey.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Spriter-2-teaser.mp4 Pre-order Spriter 2 and get Spriter Pro now for free. Pre-Order Spriter
  • Anima2D - Unity - Asset Store
  • Spine - Spine is 2D skeletal animation software for video games. Bring your Unity, C#, cocos2d-x, iOS, Android, C++, HTML5, JS and other games alive with 2D animation!
  • Synfig Studio - open-source 2D vector animation software
  • Pencil2D - Pencil2D – opensource animation software | Community about the 'Pencil2D', an open-source animation software in development.
  • Creature Animation - Creature Animation: Automated 2D Skeletal Animation Tool
  • HelloWorld - helloworld
  • COA Tools - COA Tools is a 2D Animation Suite for blender. It offsers a 2D cutout animation workflow similar to programs like spiner or spriter.
  • OpenToonz - OpenToonz - Open-source Animation Production Software to Develop and Create ALL Together
  • Dragonbones - DragonBones is a 2D game animation and righ media content creative platform for designer. It provides 2D animation solution and motion comic solution. It contains a integrated creative tool DragonBones Pro, Flash Pro plugin for animation export and lots o
  • Leshy SpriteSheet Animator - Leshy SpriteSheet Animator - Online Sprite Sheet Animation Utility
  • Aseprite - Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool
  • Adobe Animate CC - Design interactive animations with cutting-edge drawing tools and publish them to multiple platforms — including Flash/Adobe AIR, HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, or even custom platforms — and reach viewers on broadcast TV or virtually any desktop or mobile device.
  • Magic Pixelator - Tool to create pixelart animations.
  • Toon Boom Harmony - The most powerful software ever created for animation production.
  • Toon Boom Storyboard Pro - Storyboard software that combines drawing and animation tools with camera controls. Develop the story with total artistic control.
  • MotionArtist - Make motion comics with this visual, comic design software meant to animate static imported images with easy export for sharing
  • Moho (Anime Studio) - The best animation software for creating cartoons, 2D movies, or cutout animations direct from Smith Micro - Moho is perfect for beginner to pro!
  • TVPaint - Makers of computer assisted animation, compositing and special effects software for digital artists, cartoon animators and TV stations.

3D Modeling

  • 3ds Max - 3ds Max is software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and visualization. Create stunning game environments, design visualizations, and virtual reality experiences.
  • Maya - Maya is 3D computer animation software with powerful modeling, rendering, simulation, texturing, and animation tools for artists, modelers, and animators.
  • Blender - Home of the Blender project - Free and Open 3D Creation Software
  • Asset Forge - Asset Forge · 3D modeling studio
  • Waveform - Waveform
  • Maya LT - Subscribe to Maya LT, 3D game development software. Buy online or through a reseller. Subscribers get the latest updates and access to prior versions.
  • Houdini - Creators of Houdini, procedural node based 3D animation and visual effects tools for film, broadcast, entertainment and visualization production.
  • LightWave - When time is short and the job impossible, LightWave simply delivers. Workflow enhancements and powerful new tools solve your animation and design challenges and streamline your creative process. Direct and robust, LightWave serves the artist first, for v
  • Cinema 4D -
  • 3D-Coat - 3D-Coat is the one application that has all the tools you need to take your 3D idea from a block of digital clay all the way to a production ready, fully textured organic or hard surface model.
  • Wings 3D - Wings 3D
  • Crocotile 3D - Create 3d maps and models with 2d tilesets
  • ZBrush - ZBrush is a digital sculpting and painting program that has revolutionized the 3D industry with its powerful features and intuitive workflows.
  • Clara.io - Free online 3D modeling software: Design, editor, animation, rendering, & lots of free 3D models. Supports Three.JS, Blend, FBX, OBJ, V-Ray, Babylon.JS, STL.
  • SketchUp Make 2015 - SketchUp Make 2015, descargar gratis. SketchUp Make 2015 última versión: SketchUp Make 2015: el editor 3D más sencillo del mercado. SketchUp Make 2015 debe definirse como un programa gratis de modelado en 3D basado en caras que, ...
  • MAXON - MAXON Computer is a developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions.
  • MODO - Modo by Foundry brings you the next generation of 3D modeling, texturing and rendering tools in a powerful integrated software package.
  • Anim8or - Anim8or
  • Curvy3d - 3D modelling software for artists. An easy to pick up, fast, non-technical modelling tool, ideal for first time 3D modellers. Draw in 3D, Sculpt and Paint.
  • Bforartists - Bforartists is a complete 3D suite to create 3D content. It offers you the full 3D art pipeline to create game graphics, prerendered movies and stills. Bforartists is a fork of the popluar open source 3d software Blender.
  • Silo 3D - Silo 2 is a focused 3D modeling application with the ability to effortlessly switch between organically sculpting high-poly models and precisely controlling hard-edged surfaces.
  • Nvil - Nvil - Home
  • Rocket 3F - Rocket 3F! Fast, Fun and Free!Polygonal modeling software.
  • iClone - iClone is software for real-time 3D animation, blending character creation, scene design, and cinematic storytelling into a real-time engine.

3D Characters

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  • DAZ 3D - DAZ 3D, 3D Models, 3D Animation, 3D Software
  • Adobe Fuse CC (Beta) - Create 3D human models and characters with Adobe Fuse (Beta). Easily import into Photoshop projects to pose and animate your new characters.
  • Zbrush - ZBrush gives you access to unparalleled power and control previously unknown in digital art creation software. Controls enable artists to create digital sculptures intuitively as if using their hands on a block of clay.
  • 3DRT - Buy lowpoly 3d models for game developers: characters, vehicles, environments. Fantasy, sci-fi and realistic real-time models for indie developers.
  • 3D Models Textures - 3D Models Textures - Ideal place for Game Creators3d Models from a great selection of 3d Models. Royalty free, multiple usage rights.
  • Autodesk Character Generator - Autodesk Character Generator
  • Reallusion Character Creator - Character Creator, the universal 3D character creation platform, connects industry leading pipelines into one system for character generation, animation, rendering, and interactive design.
  • Mixamo - Animated 3D characters. No 3D knowledge required. Rapidly create, rig and animate unique characters for design projects.
  • Poser - Poser 3D animation software & character creator for digital artists delivers powerful 3D character animation tools and over 5GB of free content to get started!
  • VRoid Studio, a free software to create 3D characters! #VRoid - Today, we will release the Beta Version of VRoid Studio, a character maker that allows users to create, in easy steps, 3...

3D Sculpting

  • Sculptris - Sculptris: Enter a world of digital art without barriers.
  • Mudbox - Subscribe to Mudbox 3D digital painting and sculpting software. Buy online or through a reseller.
  • ZBrush - Pixologic : ZBrush 2019 Features
  • Blender - Blender is the open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation.
  • 3dcoat - 3D-Coat is the one application that has all the tools you need to take your 3D idea from a block of digital clay all the way to a production ready, fully textured organic or hard surface model.
  • Bforartists - Bforartists is a complete 3D suite to create 3D content. It offers you the full 3D art pipeline to create game graphics, prerendered movies and stills. Bforartists is a fork of the popluar open source 3d software Blender.
  • Polybrush - Polybrush - 3D for Artists
  • A WebGL sculpting app - SculptGL is a small sculpting application powered by JavaScript and webGL.

3D Community & Showcase

  • ArtStation - ArtStation is the leading showcase platform for games, film, media & entertainment artists.
  • Polycount Forum - Polycount Forum
  • CGTalk - CGTalk, the CGSociety's official forum for digital artists
  • Renderosity - Renderosity - a digital art community for cg artists to buy and sell 2d and 3d content, cg news, free 3d models, 2d textures, backgrounds, and brushes
  • // 3DTotal.com - Discover the latest in the world of digital art – learn from fellow artists, create your own masterpieces, and share them with the art community.
  • WebGL Fundamentals - WebGL Fundamentals
  • CGSociety - The CGSociety supports artists at every level by offering a range of services to connect, inform, educate and promote digital artists worldwide.
  • Develteam - A Community for Creating Games. Share your game developer portfolio, collaboration forums, chat rooms, game dev team up, indie team up. Start Making Games!

Free Music

  • incompetech - incompetech – Music and also Graph Paper
  • Icons8 - Download free background music for your videos, movies, and websites. Free both for personal and commercial projects.
  • YouTube Audio Library - Share your videos with friends, family, and the world.
  • TeknoAXE - Royalty Free Music for your commercial/non-commercial videos or projects. This website has Techno, Dubstep, Metal, Rock or Soundtrack.
  • Open Music Revolution - Music For Everyone - powered by composers around the world

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  • Free Music Archive - Free Music Archive
  • Sound Image - Royalty Free Music and Soundscapes
  • Musopen - Musopen is a non-profit offering free access to sheet music, royalty free public domain music recordings, and other music resources.
  • IMSLP - IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library: Free Public Domain Sheet Music
  • FreePD - FreePD.com - Free Public Domain Music Creative Commons 0 Completely Royalty Free
  • SHW - The music published at SHW can be used freely in advertisements, movies, games, and other works you produce. Naturally, you can use this music freely when selling or publishing your completed work. It can be used commercially.
  • Freesound - Freesound: collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers. Have you freed your sound today?
  • Machinimasound - Royalty Free Music by Machinimasound
  • PlayOnLoop - Discover our looping Royalty Free Background Music for use in Videos, YouTube, Trailers, Video Games, Apps and other Media. Start downloading music now!
  • Bensound - Download Creative Commons Music / Royalty Free Music for free and use it in your project: Videos(youtube,...), Websites, films,...
  • The Mod Archive - A distinctive collection of modules to give your games that perfect retro sound
  • Free Download, Borrow and Streaming - Welcome to the NASA Audio Collection. This collection is administered and maintained by the Houston Audio Control Room, at the NASA Johnson Space Center. The purpose of this collection is to make available the historic audio record of the history of Huma
  • Pacdv - Free sound effects for media productions. Categories include ambience, domestic, interfaces, machines, mechanical, miscellaneous, people, and transportation sound effects.
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  • Ccmixter.org - ccMixter
  • Songs from cafofo - We do awesome music, crispy sound effects and enlightening voice overs for games.
  • Filmstro - Download & keyframe high-quality production tracks from our royalty free music library. Use in film, TV and online including YouTube. Find your perfect score today

Sound Effects

  • Bfxr - Sound-effects generation for your games in flash.
  • Freesound - Freesound: collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers. Have you freed your sound today?
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  • Leshy SFDesigner - Leshy SFMaker - Online Sound Effect Generator
  • ChipTone - ChipTone is a free tool for generating sound effects, primarily for games but they could be used for anything you like!
  • LabChirp - LabChirp is a multi layered sound effects generator, that outweight sfxr by tons.
  • as3sfxr - as3sfxr
  • 99Sounds - 99Sounds is an indie sound design label providing royalty free sound effects and sample libraries for audio and video production.
  • Noiseforfun - NoiseForFun.com: Download High Quality Royalty Free Sound Effects
  • Octave - Octave, the free library of user interface sounds.
  • PacDV - Free sound effects for media productions. Categories include ambience, domestic, interfaces, machines, mechanical, miscellaneous, people, and transportation sound effects.
  • freeSFX - Download Free Sound Effects
  • Soundjay - Free sound effects in wav and mp3 formats
  • Soundly - Soundly is a fully featured sound effects platform for Mac & PC. Find your perfect sound effect in our massive cloud library, use the powerful Soundly search engine on your local files, and share files in the Soundly Collaboration Cloud. With a wealth of
  • SoundBible.com - SoundBible.com offers free sound clips for download in either wav or mp3 format. We offer free and royalty free sound effects and clips for video editors, movie scores, ...
  • GameSounds.xyz - GameSounds.xyz - Royalty free or public domain game music and sounds
  • Octave - Octave, the free library of user interface sounds.
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  • Sound Image - Royalty Free Images, Music and Soundscapes
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  • Footsteps Generator - Interactive Footstep Sound Effects Generator
  • ToneDock - ToneDock - Home
  • BOOM Library - Professional Sound Effects for Games, Trailers, Movies, TV-Shows and more. Recorded and edited by award-winning sound designers. Royalty-Free.

Voice Acting

  • Voice Acting Alliance - This website is currently unavailable.
  • Voicebunny - Listen to thousands of voiceovers by professional voice-actors that collectively speak 50+ languages and dialects. Book one or submit a contest and get auditions.
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  • Vananvoiceover - We offer attractive & professional voice over services in all genres. We work on almost all global languages with ease. Quick Deliveries and Nominal prices.
  • VOPlanet - Hire voice actors direct. Free, simple voice over casting to professional voice over talent. Work direct with the industry's best voices. Post voice over jobs free and get auditions fast.

Online Code Editors

  • collabedit - Collabedit is an online text editor that allows real-time collaboration.
  • Gists - Gists
  • glot.io - Home - glot.io
  • Cloud9 - Cloud9 combines a powerful online code editor with a full Ubuntu workspace in the cloud. Cloud9 supports more than 40 languages, with class A support for PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Go, and more.
  • objShare (GameMaker) - objShare is a single page web application that makes it easy to share basic GameMaker: Studio objects that only use GML over the internet.
  • Codeshare - Codeshare - Share code in real-time in your browser
  • Shadertoy - Build shaders, share them, and learn from the best community.
  • repl.it - Powerful and simple online compiler, IDE, interpreter, and REPL. Code, compile, and run code in 30+ programming languages. including JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Java, Node.js, Go, Scheme, C, C#, C++, Lua and many more.

Offline Code Editors

  • Sublime Text - Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance.
  • Atom - At GitHub, we’re building the text editor we’ve always wanted: hackable to the core, but approachable on the first day without ever touching a config file. We can’t wait to see what you build with it.
  • Caret - Professional text editing for Chrome and Chrome OS
  • Flashdevelop - FlashDevelop is a free and open source code editor.
  • Visual Studio - Release notes for the latest features and improvements in Visual Studio 2017. Plan better, code together and ship faster with Visual Studio.
  • Notepad++ - Notepad++: a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.
  • Brackets - Brackets is a lightweight, yet powerful, modern text editor. We blend visual tools into the editor so you get the right amount of help when you want it. With new features and extensions released every 3-4 weeks, it's like getting presents all year long.
  • Qt - With Qt, you can reach all your target platforms with one technology and one codebase, minimizing your time-to-market. Qt is available under a dual-licensing model.
  • Geany - Home | Geany
  • Vim - Vim, Vi IMproved, text editor, home, documentation, tips, scripts, news
  • Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.  Visual Studio Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
  • CodeLite - CodeLite • A free, Open Source, Cross Platform C/C++/PHP IDE
  • Emacs - GNU Emacs - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
  • ZeroBrane Studio - ZeroBrane Studio is a lightweight Lua IDE/editor/debugger for Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux
  • Jet Brains - Intelligent development tools, alternative to Visual Studio. PyCharm community edition is free.
  • Neovim - vim out of the box

Seamless Patterns

  • Subtle Patterns - Subtle Patterns brought to you by Toptal, free textures for your next web project. Find out more here.
  • Colourlovers - Seamless Lite - Seamless Pattern Design by COLOURlovers
  • Novapattern - Novapattern - Curated Collection of High-Quality Patterns
  • DinPattern - DinPattern – Free seamless patterns – A design resource for seamless pattersn, brushes and wordpress themes
  • Patterncooler - 10,000s Cool Editable Seamless Patterns for Backgrounds and Wallpapers

Control API

  • Gamepad - The Gamepad specification defines a low-level interface that represents gamepad devices.
  • PxGamepad - PxGamepad - HTML5 gamepad helper for standard mapped controllers
  • Smartbox - smartbox - SmartTV universal library for Samsung, LG, Philips, SmartTV Aliance, STB Mag app development.
  • Leap Motion Developers - The Leap Motion API is extremely robust, supporting a number of different languages and platforms. Learn the specifics about our API, and check out the latest tutorials.
  • Gallant Games - InControl: Introduction - Gallant Games

Game Design

  • Tiny Game Design Tool - Tiny Game Design Tool
  • Game Design Tutorials - Welcome to a Game Design Quest, or GDquest. In these tutorials, I share the techniques we use as professional game designers and artists.
  • MDA -
  • Indie Game Design Do-s and Don't-s - [Veteran indie game creator Edmund McMillen, known for his work on 2005 IGF Grand Prize winner Gish, Time Fcuk, and Super Meat Boy for WiiWare, shares his opinions and manifesto on making...
  • Game Design Tricks - Game Design Tricks | Simon schreibt.
  • 80.lv - 80lvl - is the best source of valuable information about the gaming industry and its recent trends
  • iThrive Games Foundation - The iThrive Games Foundation works to benefit teens at the intersection of game development, education, and mental health.

Word Brainstorm

  • OneLook Reverse Dictionary - OneLook Reverse Dictionary and Thesaurus
  • Onym - Tools and resources for naming things.
  • More Words - Find words for crosswords, codewords, Scrabble®, Upwords, Words with Friends and other word games and puzzles. Discover the full list here!
  • Wordnavigator - Solve Word Puzzles and Crosswords with Ease at WordNavigator.com!
  • All Acronyms Dictionary - 308 Permanent Redirect
  • Palabrasque (Spanish) - Laboratorio de palabras, para buscar que acaban con una letra, palabras que empiecen o que tengan la letra que quieras y muchas opciones más.
  • Writing and RPG-Related Generators - chaotic shiny, chaotic shiney, generators, random generators, roleplaying games, role playing games, RPGs, dungeons and dragons, tri-stat, tri-stat dx, D&D, roleplaying generators, roleplaying, fantasy generators, fantasy name generator, writing…
  • Litscape - Tell us your letters. Find all words that you can make using only these letters. Find all words in a word. Live dictionary word finder tool. Use for free.

Mind Maps

  • bubbl.us - Brainstorm online with Bubbl.us. Easily create colorful mind maps to print or share with others. Almost no learning curve. Millions of people are using Bubbl.us worldwide to generate ideas, map out processes and create presentations.
  • XMind - XMind is the most professional and popular mind mapping tool. Millions of people use XMind to clarify thinking, manage complex information, run brainstorming and get work organized.
  • FreeMind - Main Page - FreeMind
  • Scapple - Scapple | Literature & Latte
  • Mind42 - Free social and collaborative online mind mapping software. Mind mapping can be free, fast and simple. Features import/export, mind map publishing and live collaboration.
  • Text 2 Mind Map - Text 2 Mind Map - Simple mind mapping online
  • MindMaple - MindMaple® will increase your productivity and creativity by visually organizing your ideas and thoughts onto a mind map. MindMaple® is perfect for project managing, concept mapping, brainstorming and task scheduling.
  • MindNode - mind,map,mapping,ideas,thoughts,note,brainstorming,mindmapping,diagram,mindnote,visualise,opml
  • Coggle - Thinking, rethought. Coggle is designed to help you make sense of complex things - it's a shared workspace to help your team work more effectively together
  • MindMup 2 - Free online mind mapping. The most productive online mind map canvas on the Web. Supports Freemind mindmap import/export. Easy mindmapping software.
  • MindMeister - Free and can connect to Meister task, what allows user to make plan from mind map. Great tool!
  • Sligrid - Start mind mapping your game ideas. Sligrid is a free idea building platform. Its thinking framework such as mindmap, cornel note, flexible template and 4*4 grid, can help you come up with ideas.
  • Imindq.com - iMindQ is premier mind mapping software, which inspires innovation by stimulating creative thinking, brainstorming, organization and presentation of ideas.

Game Idea Generators

Books

  • The Art of Game Design - Amazon.com: The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses (8601300089522): Jesse Schell: Books
  • Challenges for Game Designers - Amazon.com: Challenges for Game Designers (9781584505808): Brenda Brathwaite, Ian Schreiber: Books
  • Rules of Play - Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals (The MIT Press) [Katie Salen Tekinbas, Eric Zimmerman] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. An impassioned look at games and game design that offers the most ambitious framework for understandi
  • Game Feel (Morgan Kaufmann Game Design Books) - Amazon.com: Game Feel (Morgan Kaufmann Game Design Books) (9780123743282): Steve Swink: Books
  • A Theory of Fun for Game Design - Theory of Fun for Game Design [Raph Koster] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. A Theory of Fun for Game Design is not your typical how-to book. It features a novel way of teaching interactive designers how to create and improve their
  • Game Design Workshop - Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games, Third Edition [Tracy Fullerton] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers.

    Create the Digital Games You Love to Play

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  • 100 Principles of Game Design - Amazon.com: 100 Principles of Game Design (9780321902498): DESPAIN: Books
  • DevFreeBooks - A collection of free books for devs
  • Indie Game: The Movie - INDIE GAME: THE MOVIE, is the Sundance award winning film directed by Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky. It looks at the underdogs of the video game industry, indie game developers, who sacrifice money, health and sanity to realize their lifelong dreams of
  • GameDev Movies - Download the best classic and new games on Windows, Mac & Linux. A vast selection of titles, DRM-free, with free goodies and 30-day money-back guarantee.
  • Game Developer Magazine Archive - GDC Vault
  • An Architectural Approach to Level Design - Integrates architectural knowledge with level design.
  • Game Programming Patterns - Game Programming Patterns
  • An Indie Game Developer Story - DISCLAIMER - The film is very language heavy(i.e. I say the F word a lot), I have a clean version of the film up here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O41xQc...
  • The Hotline Miami Story (Documentary) - In October 2012 independent video game developers Jonathan Söderström and Dennis Wedin dropped Hotline Miami, a surreal and violent 2D PC game inspired by ic...
  • GameLoading - GameLoading: Rise Of The Indies is a feature length documentary about the exploding subculture of indie game developers around the world.
  • The Making of The Elder Scrolls IV - Video-Documentary material about the making of Oblivion.
  • The Making of Fallout 3 - The Making of Fallout 3. This DVD Is Included With The Collectors Edition of Fallout 3. Like and Subscribe! Buy Fallout 3: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002BXKJA...
  • The Game That Time Forgot - The true story of how I spent 13 years making a video game. http://www.tobiasgame.co.uk Written and Directed by @AdamButcherFilm "Awe Baby" photo from @johne...
  • Artificial Intelligence for Games - Artificial Intelligence for Games [Ian Millington, John Funge] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers.

    Creating robust artificial intelligence is one of the greatest challenges for game developers, yet the commercial success of a game is o

  • Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience - Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) [Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of optimal experience have revealed t
  • Game Coding Complete - Game Coding Complete, Fourth Edition [Mike McShaffry, David Graham] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Welcome to Game Coding Complete, Fourth Edition, the newest edition of the essential, hands-on guide to developing commercial-quality
  • Game Development Essentials - Game Development Essentials book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. Learn how to design game levels for the next generation of gam...
  • Game Engine Architecture - Game Engine Architecture
  • Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design -
  • Game Programming Gems - Game Programming Gems (GAME PROGRAMMING GEMS SERIES) [Mark DeLoura] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. For the countless tasks involved in creating a game engine there are an equal number of possible solutions. But instead of spending ho
  • Game Scripting Mastery - Game Scripting Mastery (Premier Press Game Development) [Alex Varanese] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. As a game programmer, you realize the importance of creating stunningly realistic characters and captivating plots? players should
  • Interactive Computer Graphics - Angel & Shreiner, Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-Down Approach with Shader-Based OpenGL | Pearson
  • The Guide to Great Video Game Design - Level Up!: The Guide to Great Video Game Design [Scott Rogers] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Unusual book
  • Mathematics for 3D Game Programming - Mathematics for 3D Game Programming and Computer Graphics, Third Edition [Eric Lengyel] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. This updated third edition illustrates the mathematical concepts that a game developer needs to develop 3D compute
  • The Nature of Code - The Nature of Code
  • Physics for Game Developers - Physics for Game Developers [David M Bourg] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers.
    Colliding billiard balls. Missile trajectories. Cornering dynamics in speeding cars. By applying the laws of physics
  • Programming Game AI - Programming Game AI by Example (Wordware Game Developers Library) [Mat Buckland] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Programming Game AI by Example provides a comprehensive and practical introduction to the bread and butter AI techniques
  • Real-Time Rendering - Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition: 9781568814247: Computer Science Books @ Amazon.com
  • Rules of Play - Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals (The MIT Press) [Katie Salen Tekinbas, Eric Zimmerman] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. An impassioned look at games and game design that offers the most ambitious framework for understandi
  • The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing - The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing and Design book. Read 16 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. • Authors are top game designer...
  • The Visual Story - Amazon.com: The Visual Story, Second Edition: Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV and Digital Media (8601404327018): Bruce Block: Books
  • Theory of Fun for Game Design - Buy Theory of Fun for Game Design on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders
  • Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus - Amazon.com: Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus (0752063313619): Andre Lamothe: Books
  • AI Game Programming Wisdom - AI Game Programming Wisdom (Game Development Series) [Steve Rabin] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Learn how AI experts create intelligent game objects and characters with this first volume in the AI Game Programming Wisdom series. Th
  • Unity in Action - Joe Hocking wastes none of your time and gets you coding fast.
  • Learning Unreal® Engine iOS - Explore the powerful features of UE4 and build a complete Unreal game with this accessible and practical iOS game development guide

Mockups

  • Balsamiq - Balsamiq is the company behind Balsamiq Wireframes, the industry standard low-fidelity wireframing tool.
  • Sketch 3 - Sketch is a design toolkit built to help you create your best work — from your earliest ideas, through to final artwork.
  • Pencil UI - Home - Pencil Project
  • Moqups - Moqups is a streamlined and intuitive web app that helps you create and collaborate on wireframes, mockups, diagrams and prototypes — for any type of project.
  • Draw.io - draw.io is free online diagram software for making flowcharts, process diagrams, org charts, UML, ER and network diagrams
  • Lucidchart - Lucidchart makes it simple for any business to start diagramming. Our security and collaboration features will increase efficiency and peace of mind. Take a tour of Lucidchart and try it for free today!
  • Justinmind - A powerful wireframe software to define web and mobile applications
  • Mockup.io - Mockup.io – Present and Manage iOS Mockups
  • Prototype faster, smarter and easier with Mockplus! - An all-in-one prototyping tool to create faster, smarter and easier prototypes with simple drag-and-drop, supporting mobile, web and desktop apps prototyping. Try it for FREE and enjoy fast interaction, fast design and fast previewing.
  • Adobe XD - Download Adobe XD free with the starter plan. XD is your UI/UX design solution for designing websites and mobile apps. Design, prototype, and share for free.
  • Figma - A better way to design. Design, prototype, and gather feedback all in one place with Figma.

Font Creation

  • Fontstruct - FontStruct. Build, Share, Download Fonts
  • NFG's Arcade Font Tool - NFG's Arcade Font Tool
  • FontEditor BitfontMaker - FontEditor BitfontMaker
  • BitFontMaker2 - BitFontMaker2™ BitMap Font Editor
  • Bitmap Font Generator - BMFont - AngelCode.com
  • High Logic Font Editor - FontCreator is an inspiring and beautifully designed font editor built to help you create amazing new fonts and edit existing fonts.
  • Fontforge - FontForge is free and open-source outline font editor.
  • Fontark - FontArk is an innovative new browser based online font editor, font creator, featuring a unique real time Multiple-Character-Editing tools.
  • Glyph Designer - A Bitmap Font Generator for Mac - Glyph Designer is a powerful bitmap font generator app for Mac. Create beautifully styled fonts to enhance your apps and games.
  • Glyph Combiner - Bitmapped Fonts Optimized ! - Glyph Combiner - allows bitmapped font Textures to be combined & optimized to fit only glyphs you need for a given project. Save VRAM - get Optimized !
  • Prototypo - Prototypo is a professional tool allowing to create unique identities with custom fonts. It takes designers to another level, completing their skillset with type design.
  • Glyphr Studio - Glyphr Studio - font design, online

Screen Recording & Capture

  • ScreenToGif - Free screen recorder tool. Record, edit and save as a Gif or video.
  • chronolapse - Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.
  • LICEcap - Cockos Incorporated | LICEcap
  • GifCam - GifCam | BahraniApps Blog
  • glapse - Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.
  • Open Broadcaster Software - OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.
  • Dxtory - Dxtory is a movie capture tool for DirectX and OpenGL Applications. Since data is directly acquired from a surface memory buffer, it is very high-speed and works with small load.
  • Fraps - Fraps can show fps (frame rate) in Windows PC games! Fraps performs video capture, screen capture and can benchmark your fps! Supports both DirectX capture and OpenGL capture!
  • oCam - oCam is the most convenient screen, game, video, webcam recording program in the world.
  • Bandicam - Bandicam is the most advanced screen recording software on the planet for screen, game and webcam capture. Try our free recording software to capture all you want on your PC!
  • FFsplit - FFsplit
  • Icecream Screen Recorder - Record screen and take screenshots easily with the free Screen Recorder from Icecream Apps. Available for Windows, Mac and Android.
  • Gyazo - Take screenshots, screen GIFs, and full page captures you can instantly share now and search later. Get the free app for Windows, Mac, and mobile.
  • CamStudio - CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software
  • keijiro/ImageSequenceOut - ImageSequenceOut - Image sequence output utility for Unity
  • Mirillis Action! - Screen Recorder - Action! is the best screen recorder. Download the most advanced screen recording and gameplay recording software for PC. Try now for free!

TeamComm

  • Slack - Slack is where work flows. It's where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come together to get things done.
  • Discord - A voice chat dedicated to online gaming, but can be used for work and team communication.
  • HipChat - HipChat is hosted group chat and video chat for companies and teams. Supercharge real-time collaboration with persistent chat rooms, file sharing, and screen sharing.
  • Gitter - Get unlimited public rooms and one-to-one chats, free forever. Private team plans start from $5 per user per month. No credit card required.
  • Teamspeak - TeamSpeak is a proprietary Voice over IP software that allows users to speak on a chat channel with other users, much like a telephone conference call.
  • Hangouts - Hangouts is a messaging app that lets you send and receive messages, photos and more, and even start free video and voice calls – one to one or with a group!
  • Mumble - Mumble, the open source VoIP solution
  • Mattermost - Mattermost
  • Self-hosted chat for small teams - Self-hosted chat for small teams.
  • Zulip - Powerful open source group chat
  • Matrix.org - Matrix.org | A new basis for open, distributed, real-time communication
  • Telegram - Telegram is an instant messaging system which focuses on privacy and multi-platform availability.
  • Twistapp - Twist makes team communication less chaotic. A Slack alternative that keeps teamwork organized, on-topic and easy to find (forever). From Doist, the makers of Todoist.
  • Use-together - Share your screen and collaborate with your team on any applications.

Market Analysis

  • App Annie - App Annie is the standard in app analytics and app market data, giving you one easy-to-use platform for running every stage of your app business.
  • apptrace - apptrace gives you complete access to discover the app economy. It is the most successful way to trace apps on this changing global market.
  • Facebook Top Charts - The Facebook App Center is a place to play games and discover great apps on Facebook.
  • Steam Game and Player Statistics - Steam: Game and Player Statistics
  • Steam Charts - An ongoing analysis of Steam's player numbers, seeing what's been played the most.
  • Android application ranking - Android application ranking. Complete list of most popular android applications, data, growth and stats.
  • Google Play: Top Free - Enjoy millions of the latest Android apps, games, music, movies, TV, books, magazines & more. Anytime, anywhere, across your devices.
  • Google Play: Top Paid - Enjoy millions of the latest Android apps, games, music, movies, TV, books, magazines & more. Anytime, anywhere, across your devices.
  • Google Play: Top Grossing - Enjoy millions of the latest Android apps, games, music, movies, TV, books, magazines & more. Anytime, anywhere, across your devices.
  • App Store: Top Paid - Browse the top apps on iTunes, then download them to use on your computer, iPad, iPhone, or iPod.
  • App Store: Top Free - Browse the top free apps on iTunes, then download them to use on your computer, iPad, iPhone, or iPod.
  • Console: Top Entertainment Software UK - GFK Chart-Track
  • Console: Global Top Charts - Global Weekly Video Game Chart, Week Ending 01st Aug 2015 - VGChartz
  • SteamSpy - SteamSpy - All the data and stats about Steam games
  • SteamDB - This tool was made to give better insight into the applications that Steam has in its absolutely huge database.

UML

  • StarUML - StarUML
  • UML Design Tools and UML CASE tools for… - UML 2.5,SysML,BPMN,Archimate,ArcGIS,TOGAF,Zachmann,UPDM,Fully integrated,Requriements Management,Project Management,Maintenance,Test Management,Document generation,Code Engineering,Simulation,Debugging,Execution Analysis and Recording,Scripting,Profiling
  • Online Diagram Software - GenMyModel is an online modeling platform to design software architecture in the cloud. Create class diagrams, use case diagrams and more in seconds, share your models and generate code in the cloud. Design UML online, create diagrams with the best UM
  • Draw.io - draw.io is free online diagram software for making flowcharts, process diagrams, org charts, UML, ER and network diagrams
  • Alexdpee - Violet is a free UML editor with these benefits : very easy to learn and use, draws nice-looking diagrams, cross-platform. Violet is intended for developers, students, teachers, and authors who need to produce simple UML diagrams quickly
  • Astah - Astah is a software design tool which supports UML, ERD, DFD, Flowchart, Mindmap, SysML, GSN and more. Free for students. Code Generator, reverse engineering with Java, C++, C#, PHP and XMI import/export supported.
  • Diagram CASE Tool for Software Modeling & Analysis - Powerful diagram CASE tool for software design, documentation and business processes using UML, BPMN, SysML, ArchiMate & other diagrams.
  • Dia draws your structured diagrams - Dia is free (open source) drawing software. Sketch your favorite structured diagrams! Windows version available as a free download.
  • UMLet - UMLet - Free UML Tool for Fast UML Diagrams

Landing Page

  • Instapage - Turn your ad clicks into conversions on the only platform designed to create, personalize, & optimize post-click landing pages & experiences at scale.
  • Wordpress Free Landing Pages Builder - Free Landing Pages Builder by Wishpond – Plugin WordPress | WordPress.org

Distribution

  • Steam - Welcome to Steam
  • itch.io - itch.io is a simple way to find, download and distribute indie games online. Whether you're a developer looking to upload your game or just someone looking for something new to play itch.io has you covered.
  • distribute() - distribute() (pronounced 'do distribute') is a new & better way to keep track of your press lists and (p)review build distribution.
  • Game Jolt - Game Jolt - Indie games for the love of it
  • Humble Store & Widget Application - Humble Store & Widget Application
  • GOG.com - Download the best games on Windows & Mac. A vast selection of titles, DRM-free, with free goodies, customer love, and one fair price for all regions.
  • GamePix - We are the world's first supplier of an all-in-one HTML5 games publishing platform for developers and publishers. Give us a try and check our page out!
  • GetJar - GetJar is the biggest open appstore in the world, currently listing 969898+ apps with more than 3M downloads per day.
  • Google Play - Enjoy millions of the latest Android apps, games, music, movies, TV, books, magazines & more. Anytime, anywhere, across your devices.
  • Newgrounds - A community of artists, game developers, musicians, voice actors and writers who create and share some of the best stuff on the web!
  • Kongregate - Play thousands of free web and mobile games! Discover the best shooters, role playing games, MMO, CCG, tower defense, action games and more!
  • Kartridge - Kartridge: A PC gaming platform from Kongregate
  • Discord Nitro - Support Discord's development and get sweet features with a Nitro subscription - animated avatars, larger file uploads, nitro profile badge, and use your custom emoji anywhere.
  • SIMMER.io - A place for Unity developers to share their games in WebGL format.

Ads

  • Vungle - Welcome to Vungle, leaders of mobile advertising and app monetization. With creativity and performance, we transform how people discover and engage with mobile apps.
  • Unity Ads - Integrate Unity Ads into mobile games to increase player engagement and maximize revenue. Ad formats include rewarded video, banners, interstitials, rich media, playables & AR.
  • Google AdMob - Earn more from your mobile apps using in-app ads to generate revenue, gain actionable insights, and grow your app with easy-to-use tools.
  • Chartboost - Grow your mobile business with the leading in-app monetization and programmatic advertising platform. Mobile success starts here.
  • AdColony - AdColony is the leading mobile video advertising platform trusted by top grossing mobile app developers and Fortune 500 brands.
  • appodeal - Monetize with confidence. Over 60 ad demand sources. All popular mobile ad formats. 100% unbiased ad mediation. All in one SDK.
  • Startapp - StartApp - a Mobile Ad Network specializing in android app monetization and distribution of free mobile applications, maximize your app revenue.
  • Leadbolt - ads
  • Pollen.vc - Pollen VC allows developers to unlock their app store revenues the day after you’ve earned them, rather than wait up to 60+ days to be paid out by the platforms.
  • Addapptr - The premium display and video ad provider. All ad networks in one handy SDK. Highest CPMs and highest filtrates. One integration, one dashboard, all the benefits. All ad formats (video, display, native), all key networks. Great support.
  • In-Game Native Advertising - GreedyGame is an in-game native advertising company that helps Developers & Publishers to monetize their In-game assets & non-paying users and maximize revenues.
  • Globalhop - Earn money with your app! Simple integration, flexible payouts, compatible with other app monetization formats. Monetize your app today with Globalhop.

Technical Studies

Spritesheet Tools

  • TexturePacker - TexturePacker creates sprite sheets for your game engine
  • Aseprite - Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool
  • ShoeBox - ShoeBox
  • GraphicsGale - Powerful tool for spriting and pixel art
  • libGDX Texture Packer - libgdx - Desktop/Android/HTML5/iOS Java game development framework
  • Cheetah-Texture-Packer - Cheetah-Texture-Packer - High efficient and fast 2D bin packing tool
  • Piskel App - Piskel, free online sprite editor. A simple web-based tool for Spriting and Pixel art. Create pixel art, game sprites and animated GIFs. Free and open-source.
  • Pyxel Edit - Pyxel Edit pixel art and tile creation tool
  • Imagesplitter - ImageSplitter is a Swiss army knife solution for your simple image processing. When it comes to cropping, resizing, converting or splitting images — ImageSplitter is your best companion.
  • darkFunction - darkFunction Editor is a free, open source 2D sprite studio that allows you to rapidly define spritesheets and build complex animations, which can be exported
  • Sprite Sheet Packer - An archive of the CodePlex open source hosting site
  • Leshy SpriteSheet Tool - Leshy SpriteSheet Tool - Online Sprite Sheet & Texture Atlas Packer
  • Quadtastic by Moritz Neikes - Manage sprite sheets and color palettes
  • amakaseev/sprite-sheet-packer - A FLOSS Sprite sheet packer

Tree Generators

  • SpeedTree - SpeedTree – 3d Vegetation Modeling and Middleware
  • Tree It - TreeIt | Tree Generator

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Free Pictures

  • Public Domain Pictures - Home for Public Domain Pictures. Free for private and commercial use.

  • Pexels - Free high quality photos you can use everywhere. ✓ Free for commercial use ✓ No attribution required

  • StockSnap.io - The #1 source for beautiful free photos. High quality and high resolution stock images free from all copyright restrictions (CC0) - no attribution required.

  • Unsplash - Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. Better than any royalty free or stock photos.

  • Gratisography - The world's quirkiest collection of free high-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects. All completely free of copyright restrictions. New photos added every week!

  • Morguefile - Morguefile.com. Over 380,000 high quality, high resolution photos. Free for commercial use. No attribution required.

  • Pond 5 - Public Domain - Download thousands of media files including stock footage, images, songs, and more for FREE from Pond5's Public Domain Project.

  • NYPL Public Domain Digital Collection - Explore hundreds of thousands of digital items from The New York Public Library.

  • Internet Archive - Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 366 billion archived web pages.

  • Wikimedia Commons - Wikimedia Commons

  • Google Advanced Search - Google Advanced Search

  • Pixabay - un almacén de imágenes de dominio público de extraordinaria alta calidad.

  • The Met Public Domain Collection -

  • NASA Image and Video Library - {{ngMeta.description}}

  • FreeImages (was sxc.hu) - Over 389,898 Free Photos and Images

  • Free Stock Photos - Browse thousands of beautiful copyright-free images. All our pictures are free to download for personal and commercial use, no attribution required.

  • Moose Photos - A collection of stock photography in a single style. Good for collages. Free for commercial use.

RPG Mappers

Image Browsing

  • IrfanView - IrfanView ... one of the most popular viewers worldwide.
  • pViewer -
  • ImageGlass - ImageGlass is a lightweight, versatile image viewing application that is designed to take the place of Photo Viewer in Windows OS, especially those installations that may have trouble displaying PNG and GIF files in Photo Viewer.
  • nomacs - nomacs is a free, open source image viewer, which supports multiple platforms. You can use it for viewing all common image formats including RAW and psd images. nomacs features semi-transparent widgets that display additional information such as thumbnail
  • Xnview - XnView Software · Software for reading, organizing and processing images
  • Nexus Image - Very simple and clean image viewer.
  • FastStone Image Viewer - FastStone Image Viewer, Screen Capture, Photo Resizer ...

Image Editors

  • Adobe Photoshop - Create and enhance your photos, images, and designs with Adobe Photoshop, the world's best imaging and photo editing software.
  • GIMP - GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program: The Free and Open Source Image Editor
  • Photopea - Open and edit PSD, XCF, Sketch (Photoshop, Gimp and Sketch) or any other image files. Inspect PSD and Sketch files. Convert Sketch to PSD. Apply photo effects and filters. A perfect alternative to Photoshop or Gimp.
  • Ormr -
  • Paint.NET - Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows.
  • Krita - Krita is a FREE digital painting and illustration application.
  • FireAlpaca - FireAlpaca is the free paint tool that is available in 10 languages and compatible with both Mac and Windows. Simple tools and controls let you draw an illustration easily. Download FireAlpaca right now!
  • Pixelmator - Pixelmator for Mac
  • Aseprite - Aseprite - Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool
  • Pickle - Pickle is a cross-platform pixel editor for creating game animations, repeating tiles and sprite sheets.
  • Pixen - Pixen - Pixel art editor for Mac OS X
  • PikoPixel - Twilight Edge Software - PikoPixel for Mac/Linux/BSD
  • Black Ink - BLACK INK drawing software for high quality generative art
  • Autodesk SketchBook - Autodesk SketchBook is the digital painting, drawing, and sketching software used for coloring, comic and manga art, industrial design, and concept design. SketchBook includes the digital Copic Color Library, hundreds of custombrushes, perspective tools,
  • Mischief - Mischief sketching, drawing, and painting software for Mac OSX and Windows.
  • Clip Studio Paint - Clip Studio Paint (Manga Studio) drawing and painting software is specifically designed for digital artists. Intuitive features mimic pens and brushes. Trusted by professionals but easy to learn for the beginner.
  • Affinity Photo - Affinity Photo - the fastest, smoothest, most precise professional image editing software.
  • Lunacy, Sketch for Windows - Lunacy is a native Windows app that opens, edits, and stores .sketch files. And it’s completely free.
  • PaintTool SAI - Raster drawing program, has much of the same functionality as photoshop, with better brush customization
  • IsometrIcon for Photoshop - the-orange-box.com | Free IsometrIcon Generator
  • MediBang Paint - The free digital painting and manga creation software.

Normals & Textures

  • Substance Designer - Substance Designer is the ultimate 3D material authoring and scan processing tool.
  • ArmorPaint | 3D PBR Texture Painting - ArmorPaint | 3D PBR Texture Painting
  • CrazyBump - CrazyBump
  • Njob - Njob is a simple tool that supports a number of filters related to normalmapping and texture creation. I’ts key design philosophies are: Intelligent filters that make your life, creating game textu…
  • xNormal - xNormal is a free app to bake texture maps
  • SmartNormal 2.0 - SmartNormap 2.0
  • MindTex 2 on Steam - MindTex is a normal map generation utility for game developers and 3d professionals. Whether you want to generate a normal, height, specular, gloss, self-illumination, occlusion, or reflection map, you can easily do it in seconds flat from a single source
  • Handplane 3d - Handplane 3d
  • AwesomeBump - Najlepszy Tanie Web Hosting w 2019 roku z tanimi nazwami domen & Specyfikacje premium. Uzyskaj nieograniczoną i najtańszą witrynę hostingową WordPress z bezpłatną domeną i programistą internetowym
  • Knald - Knald
  • ShaderMap - ShaderMap software for generating Normal Maps and PBR Rendering Maps from Textures and 3D Models.
  • Image-to-Material Generator - Generate all your needed outputs from a single image thanks to Substance B2M | Bitmap-2-Material
  • Substance Painter - Substance Painter is the complete tool to texture your 3D assets.
  • NormalMap-Online - Online NormalMap Generator FREE! Create a Normalmap directly inside your browser! No Uploads required, completely client-based
  • SSbump Generator download - Download SSbump Generator for free. A GUI interface to a tool for generating SSBumps (Self Shadowed Bump Maps). Includes a CUDA GPU rendering extension.
  • Quixel - Discover a world of unbounded creativity. Explore a massive asset library, and Quixel’s powerful tools, plus free in-depth tutorials and resources.
  • MARI indie - MARI indie is the fastest, most artist-friendly way to texture, paint, and detail amazing 3D assets for your game projects.
  • P-XCEL - P-XCEL - simple on-model texture editor [UPDATE v1.01]
  • NVIDIA Texture Tools for Adobe Photoshop - */
  • PixaFlux Image Editing Evolved - PixaFlux is an accessible, approachable powerful PBR Texture Composer. With PixaFlux you have total access to all steps in your image and texture composition workflow. With PixaFlux you will improve the quality of your images by creating photorealistic p
  • Marmoset Toolbag - Toolbag is a full-featured real-time rendering, animation, and baking suite, providing artists a powerful & efficient workflow for all stages of production.
  • Poliigon - Poliigon

3D Tree Generators

  • Arbaro - Arbaro - tree generation for povray
  • ngPlant - ngPlant - Open Source plant modeling suite
  • powerPlant - Download powerPlant for free. powerPlant is a plant modelling tool based on parametric plant descriptions, producing highly detailed models that can be exported to 3ds. Deriving similar plants is a matter of 1 click!
  • Tree It - Tree Generator
  • PlantFactory - PlantFactory is e-on software's cutting-edge solution for creating any kind of photo-realistic plant for use in special fx, architectural visualization and real-time environments. Because plants are built procedurally, you can generate and export them wit
  • Ivy Generator (GuruWare) - GuruWare

Blueprints & Reference

  • The-Blueprints - The largest free blueprint and vector drawing collection on the Internet - 19000 vector templates for sale
  • Gary's Place - A collection of anime and military images and information.
  • Photo Reference for Comic Artists - Photo Reference for Comic Artists.com is the biggest online source of Hi-Res photo references for artists. You will find here more than 71,000 photos for your artworks.
  • Kavewall: Stock Photos - KAVEWALL: STOCK PHOTOS
  • PureRef - PureRef, the simple reference image viewer.
  • Kuadro - Kuadro is an image viewer that allows you to open as many windows as you want, lay them out as you need them and store those layouts for later.

Chiptune Editors

  • Distractionware l Bosca Ceoil - Terry Cavanagh's music editor.

  • pxtone - Pixel - pxtone

  • musagi - DrPetter's homepage - musagi

  • MilkyTracker - Open source multi-platform Fasttracker II compatible music application.

  • FamiTracker - FamiTracker

  • SunVox - sunvox, synth, synthesizer, tracker, sequencer, beatmachine, daw, modular studio, sequencer, generator, effects, music creation, analog, analogue, mobile, demoscene, professional

  • OpenMPT - OpenMPT - Open ModPlug Tracker | OpenMPT - Discover the music inside...

  • Renoise - Renoise is a digital audio workstation. It lets you compose, edit and record production-quality audio using a music tracker-based approach. It features a wide range of built-in audio processors, alongside support for all commonly used virtual instrument a

  • BeepBox - BeepBox is an online tool for sketching and sharing chiptune melodies.

  • LMMS - LMMS • Home

  • ModBox 3.1 - BeepBox is an online tool for sketching and sharing chiptune melodies.

Audio Editors

  • Audacity - Download Audacity for free. A free multi-track audio editor and recorder. Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. The interface is translated into many languages.
  • ocenaudio - The ocenaudio is a cross-platform audio editor, easy to use, fast and functional.
  • Reaper - REAPER | Audio Production Without Limits
  • Audiokinetic - Audiokinetic Wwise - revolutionizing audio authoring and sound engine development tools for game developers and interactive media.
  • ardour - ardour - the digital audio workstation
  • Fabric - Fabric, GameAudio, Unity3d
  • FMOD - Made for games - FMOD is the solution for adaptive audio.

Music Creation Tools

  • Audiotool - Audiotool
  • AudioSauna - AudioSauna is a free music software for making songs online. AudioSauna is available for Windows®, Mac® and Linux® operating systems.
  • Chirp composer - Chirp is free online music composer.
  • MadTracker 2 - madtracker,madtracker.org,tracker,mad,music,sequencer,vst,asio,rewire,compose,composition,mastering,scene,tracking,tracks,trax,fasttracker,impulse,madtracker2,madtracker3,module,midi,sound,dsp,audio,tool,mt2,mt3,mod,xm,it,s3m,yannick,yannick delwiche
  • ELIAS Software (Adaptive Game Music) - Welcome to Elias
  • Soundation - Record, mix and share music online together with millions of Soundation users.
  • iNudge - A pentatonic step sequenzer which produces relaxing sonal patterns. Also available in the complete sequenzing studio app on audiotool.com
  • jfxr - jfxr
  • BeepBox - BeepBox is an online tool for sketching and sharing chiptune melodies.
  • Chrome Music Lab - Music is for everyone. Play with simple experiments that let anyone, of any age, explore how music works.
  • ZynAddSubFX - About ZynAddSubFX
  • BlokDust - Interactive music-making. Build synths & sounds all in the browser, and share your creations...
  • Splice - The cloud platform for music creation, collaboration and sharing. Create fearlessly with Splice
  • Imitone - imitone: mind to melody
  • Cantabile - Cantabile - Software for Performing Musicians
  • Generative Musical Sequencer - This is a very popular generative music sequencer that helps you create beautiful music by arranging little cells on a grid and watching them evolve. Also works inside your browser.
  • MuseScore - Create, play back and print beautiful sheet music with free and easy to use music notation software MuseScore. For Windows, Mac and Linux.

Unity

3D Game Engines

  • Unity - Unity real-time development platform. Create 3D, 2D VR & AR visualizations for Games, Auto, Transportation, Film, Animation, Architecture, Engineering & more.
  • Unreal Engine 4 - Unreal Engine 4 is a suite of integrated tools for game developers to design and build games, simulations, and visualizations.
  • libgdx - libgdx
  • Amazon Lumberyard Game Engine - Amazon Lumberyard
  • Godot Engine - Godot Engine - Free and open source 2D and 3D game engine
  • OGRE - OGRE - Open Source 3D Graphics Engine | Home of a marvelous rendering engine
  • Irrlicht Engine - Irrlicht Engine - A free open source 3D engine
  • Openscenegraph - Project website for OpenSceneGraph
  • Horde3D - Horde3D - Next-Generation Graphics Engine
  • Panda3D - Panda3D is an open-source, cross-platform, completely free-to-use engine for realtime 3D games, visualizations, simulations, experiments — you name it! Its rich feature set readily tailors to your specific workflow and development needs.
  • jMonkeyEngine - jMonkeyEngine
  • PlayCanvas - Collaboratively build stunning HTML5 visualizations and games
  • Spring RTS - Spring RTS Engine - Index page
  • Urho3D - Urho3D - Cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine
  • Away3D - Home > Away3D
  • CRYENGINE - Game engine which offers true realtime lighting.
  • Zest3D - Zest3D - Open source 3D engine for Adobe Flash and Air.
  • GameGuru Game Maker - Making your own games has never been easier. GameGuru is packed with game making technology and expanding with new features all the time.
  • Blender (BGE) - Blender is the open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation.
  • Castle Game Engine - Free open-source 3D game engine. Supports a lot of 2D and 3D data formats, including VRML / X3D, Collada, Spine... Cross-platform, for standalone (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X...), mobile (Android, iOS), web browser plugin... Many beatiful 3D features (shadow
  • ShiVa 1.9.2 - ShiVa 1.9.2 - Cross Platform Game Development
  • Torque 3D - Torque 3D MIT
  • Polycode - Polycode
  • Atomic Game Engine - Atomic Game Engine
  • WaveEngine - WaveEngine is a new cross-platform mobile engine to develop games for iOS, Android, Windows Store and Windows Phone.
  • gameplay3d - gameplay3d - free 2D/3D game framework
  • bkaradzic/bgfx - bgfx - Cross-platform rendering library.
  • BabylonJS - A complete JavaScript framework for building 3D games with HTML5, WebGL and Web Audio
  • Superpowers - Superpowers — Free 2D+3D game maker, open source
  • UrhoSharp - A fork of Urho3D with C# and Xamarin support
  • CopperCube - 3D authoring and game engine for WebGL, Windows, Mac OS X, Windows, Flash and Android apps
  • Xenko Game Engine - Xenko Game Engine
  • Leadwerks - Leadwerks Game Enigne
  • Stingray Engine - Stingray Engine
  • Craftstud.io - The multiplayer cooperative game-making platform. Craft games of all kinds in real-time multiplayer with friends and play awesome stuff made by the community!
  • Amethyst - Amethyst - The open source, data-driven game engine
  • Heaps - Cross platform graphics for high performance games.

Visual Scripting

Textures

  • Textures.com (Former CG Textures) - Textures.com is a website that offers digital pictures of all sorts of materials. Sign up for free and download 15 free images every day!
  • CG Textures - Textures.com is a website that offers digital pictures of all sorts of materials. Sign up for free and download 15 free images every day!
  • CC0 Textures - Get hundreds of PBR materials and textures for free under the Public Domain license.
  • Textureking - Free high resolution, high quality textures for personal and commercial use from TextureKing.
  • Plaintextures - Free high resolution textures and Photoshop brushes for personal and commercial use.
  • Pixar One Twenty Eight - Pixar's RenderMan | Learn
  • Spacescape - Space Skybox Generator - Spacescape Spacescape is a tool for creating space skyboxes with stars and nebulas. Powered by Ogre3d and Qt.
  • Urbandirty -
  • Imageafter - Free high resolution images and textures for commercial and personal use. Daily additions. Free hi-res stock photography, with abstract graphics search.
  • Texture Haven - 100% Free High Quality Textures for Everyone
  • 800+ free textures - I've already released a lot of these a few years back. Just releasing a new pack so I can focus on going out and doing some more texture photography.
  • Free Seamless Textures - Download 4k seamless textures for free
  • PlainTextures - Free high resolution textures and Photoshop brushes for personal and commercial use.

Control Emulation

  • x360ce - x360ce - XBOX 360 Controller emulator - Google Project Hosting

Web Based Meeting

  • Discord -
  • Slack - Slack is where work flows. It's where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come together to get things done.
  • Twiddla - Twiddla is an Online Whiteboard for the Modern Classroom. Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Voice and Text chat too!
  • appear.in - appear.in – one click video conversations
  • Zoom - Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room so
  • Blab Beta - Welcome to Blab, a place to watch, join, and interact with live conversations about the topics that matter most to you.
  • Skype - Stay in touch with your family and friends for free on Skype. Download Skype today to chat and call on desktop and mobile.
  • Game-Jam-Talk/Lobby - Share your game jam experiences, work, requests and questions!
  • Dead Simple Screen Sharing - FREE and Open Source Screen Sharing and Audio Conferencing for Online Meetings, Sales, Customer Support and Team Collaboration.

Inspiration

  • Dribbble - Dribbble is where designers gain inspiration, feedback, community, and jobs and is your best resource to discover and connect with designers worldwide.
  • GameLogos - [ Game Logos ] A collection of logos for a variety of games from all eras, A feast for the eyes and/or a reference for designers. Curated by Dom2D.
  • PlayPeep - A quiet, straight-forward look at good-looking games as a reference for game creators, illustrators and user interface designers.
  • MS-DOS Games - Software for MS-DOS machines that represent entertainment and games. The collection includes action, strategy, adventure and other unique genres of game and entertainment software. Through the use of the EM-DOSBOX in-browser emulator, these programs are b
  • Classic PC Games - Take a step back in time and revisit your favorite DOS and Windows games. The files available in this collection consist primarily of PC demos, freeware, and shareware. These files are the original releases which will require intermediate to advanced know
  • Internet Arcade - The Internet Arcade is a web-based library of arcade (coin-operated) video games from the 1970s through to the 1990s, emulated in JSMAME, part of the JSMESS software package. Containing hundreds of games ranging through many different genres and styles, t
  • Art of the Title - Art of the Title
  • Submarines Default page - Submarines Default page
  • Pinterest - Pinterest is a visual discovery tool that you can use to find ideas for all your projects and interests.
  • Gavin Bird - Lead UI Artist/Graphic Designer @ Ubisoft Toronto
  • Creative Uncut - Home to more than 34,000 official video game artworks. Explore game design with concept art of characters, monsters, and environments from the original artists.

Post-Mortems

  • PixelProspector.com - PixelProspector.com
  • 10 seminal game postmortems - A few timeless game postmortems, written by pioneering designers like Warren Spector and Dr. Ray Muzyka, that detail the trials and triumphs of devel
  • Team Meat's Super Meat Boy - In this Game Developer Magazine postmortem, Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes candidly discuss the development process of smash Steam and Xbox Live Ar
  • Stanley Parable Launch Postmortem - How we launched The Stanley Parable, and elements of our design and marketing that helped the game become successful despite it being incredibly bizarre.
  • Why PWN will be my last iOS game - Erik Asmussen: Why PWN will be my last iOS game | Pocket Tactics

Game Mechanics

Color

  • COLOURlovers - COLOURlovers is a creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns, discuss the latest trends and explore colorful articles... All in the spirit of love
  • Adobe Color CC - Color
  • Picular - Picular is a rocket fast primary color generator using Google’s image search. If you ever needed the perfect yellow hex code from a banana, this is the tool for you.
  • Google Art & Culture Experiment - Art Palette is part of Arts & Culture experiments, which explore innovative ways for users to interact with art collections. With Art Palette, you can search for artworks that match a color combination of your choice.
  • Coolors.co - Generate perfect color combinations for your designs.
  • Color Supply - A Hex Color Palette Generator
  • Paletton - In love with colors, since 2002. A designer tool for creating color combinations that work together well. Formerly known as Color Scheme Designer. Use the color wheel to create great color palettes.
  • Color Oracle - Color Oracle
  • Color Cop - a free multi-purpose color picker for computers that run Windows
  • Cohesive Colors - A tool for creating more cohesive color schemes. Pick a bunch of random colors that you like and add a touch of magic.
  • Color Ramp Creator - Welcome to new Color Ramp Creator - a place where some good old 8 bit pixelart palettes are created. Now in inspirational retro mode!!
  • Colorable - Color palette combination contrast tester
  • Colorlisa -
  • Color Scheme Designer 3 - A designer tool for creating color combinations that work together well.
  • CChimera - CChimera - Palette Generator
  • Color Picker From Image - Find your color using our online color picker. Click on the image to get color in HEX, RGB and HSL format. You can also generate a color palette from image.

UI Reference

  • Videogameinterfaces - The best collection of the most beautiful, exceptional and inspiring video game interfaces and screenshots.
  • User interfaces from movies, tv, video games and more - Fantasy User Interfaces, Fictional User Interfaces, Fake User Interfaces, Futuristic User Interfaces, Film User Interfaces, Future User Interfaces.
  • HUDS+GUIS - HUDS and GUIS is an inspiration resource site featuring Future User Interfaces, Graphic User Interfaces, Heads Up Displays and UX/UI Design from areas such as film and games.
  • Video game user interface design - In this article, the Dave Russell introduces the basic concepts of diegesis theory in video game interface design.
  • Science Fiction Interfaces - A project by nnkd

Video Compression

  • Virtualdub - Welcome to virtualdub.org! - virtualdub.org
  • Handbrake - HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder.
  • Xilisoft Video Converter - Here is Xilisoft video converter software list. These video converting tools can convert any videos/audios, convert MP4/AVI/FLV/MKV/RM/iPhone/HD videos, etc.
  • MeGUI - MeGUI - Open source compression tool
  • FFmpeg - FFmpeg

Stock Footage

  • Detonationfilms - Welcome to Detonation Films!
  • Openfootage -
  • Mazwai - Download free creative commons HD video clips & footages.
  • Mixkit - Browse our library of extraordinary free stock footage and motion clips for every occasion. Download them and use them free of charge for all your projects.

Video Editors

  • Hitfilm - The most popular free editor & compositor for Mac & PC. Includes over 410 powerful effects & presets.
  • Adobe Premiere Pro CC - Make visually stunning videos virtually anywhere with Adobe Premiere Pro. Create professional productions for film, TV, and web.
  • Shotcut - Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor for Windows, Mac and Linux
  • Avid Media Composer - Free video editing software that brings your imagination to life. The perfect video editing solution for the aspiring filmmaker or vlogger looking to get a start in editing. 95% of all mainstream movies and most TV shows released in 2016 were edited on Me
  • DaVinci Resolve 12 - Professional video editing, color correction, visual effects and audio post production all in a single application. Free and paid versions for Mac, Windows and Linux.
  • Kdenlive - Kdenlive | Libre Video Editor
  • Lightworks - Lightworks NLE official webpage
  • OpenShot Video Editor - OpenShot is an award-winning free and open-source video editor for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Create videos with exciting video effects, titles, audio tracks, and animations.
  • blender.org - Home of the Blender project - Free and Open 3D Creation Software
  • Final Cut Pro - Final Cut Pro X revolutionizes post-production with 360° video editing and motion graphics, 4K HDR support, and advanced tools for color correction.

Cloud Storage

  • Dropbox - Dropbox
  • Google Drive - Safely store and share your photos, videos, files and more in the cloud. Your first 15 GB of storage are free with a Google account.
  • Microsoft OneDrive - Store photos and docs online. Access them from any PC, Mac or phone. Create and work together on Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents.
  • Box - A secure platform for content management, workflow, and collaboration
  • pCloud - Highly innovative and secure cloud storage with client-side encryption
  • MEGA - MEGA provides free cloud storage with convenient and powerful always-on privacy. Claim your free 50GB now!

File Transfer

  • WeTransfer - WeTransfer is a free service to send big or small files from A to B
  • Filedropper - Free File Hosting and online file storage expert. File Hosting, online file storage, Music File Hosting, Video File Hosting
  • Transfer.pcloud - With pCloud Transfer you can send large files to anyone, no registration needed!
  • JustBeamIt - file transfer made easy
  • transfer.sh - Easy and fast file sharing from the command-line.

File Sync

  • Dropbox - Dropbox is a modern workspace designed to reduce busywork-so you can focus on the things that matter. Sign in and put your creative energy to work.
  • Google Drive - Cloud Storage sinc with gmail
  • Resilio - Unbelievably fast p2p file sync software for enterprises and individuals that performs on any machine, data, scale, or network.
  • Syncthing - Syncthing
  • Microsoft OneDrive - Store photos and docs online. Access them from any PC, Mac or phone. Create and work together on Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents.
  • ownCloud.org - ownCloud provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices — wherever you are. It also provides a platform to easily view & sync your contacts, calendars and bookmarks across all your devices and enables basic…
  • pCloud - With pCloud you can use your cloud space as a virtual hard drive
  • Nextcloud - Nextcloud is a self-hosted Dropbox alternative and more.

Bug Tracking

  • The Trac Project - The Trac Project
  • Mantis Bug Tracker - MantisBT is a popular free web-based bug tracking system. It is written in PHP works with MySQL, MS SQL, and PostgreSQL databases. MantisBT has been installed on Windows, Linux, Mac OS, OS/2, and others. It is released under the terms of the GNU General P
  • Bugzilla - bugzilla bug track tracking enterprise solution
  • Jira - Plan, track, and manage your agile and software development projects in Jira. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and release great software.

Timezone Converter

  • The Time Zone Converter - The Time Zone Converter converts times instantly as you type. Convert between major world cities, countries and timezones in both directions.
  • World Time Buddy - Effortless time conversion and world time. Schedule conference calls, webinars & online meetings, plan travel and track flight arrival time across time zones.
  • Online Unix timestamp converter - Unix timestamp converter - online tool - supports Unix timestamp, ISO 8601, RFC 2822

Trends

Tutorials

  • Unity Learn - Unity Learn provides award-winning free tutorials, sample projects, and full courses for mastering real-time 3D development skills with Unity Learn to make video games, VR, AR, and more.
  • Steb's Design Mastermix - A list where I added small samples of some great sources of information on Youtube that I found relevant to Game Design. Go Forth and learn! :)
  • A Study Path for Game Programmer - game-programmer - A Study Path for Game Programmer
  • Introduction to GameDev (Unity and C#) - Introduction to Game Development (Unity and C#) - YouTube
  • MH Tutorials - Tutorials on 3D modeling, texturing, lighting rigging and animation
  • Game Programming Patterns - Table of Contents · Game Programming Patterns
  • Construct 2 (Spanish) - Hola amigos les voy a enseñar cómo hacer un juego sin saber programar. Para eso vamos a usar el motor Construct 2. Gracias a él podemos hacer juegos para and...
  • C++ Sfml 2.0 Made Easy - You guys have asked and I have answered your request. I have started a brand new tutorial series teaching sfml 2.0. Hope you enjoy :)If you like my content f...
  • Introduction to Modeling in 3D Studio Max - Excelent 3D Studio Max videos made by a professional modeler. Talks slowly about stuff, but gets everything covered.
  • The Knights of Unity - Unity Tips & Tricks
  • 2D Game Art for Programmers - Learn how to quickly and easily make 2D gameart assets using vector tools like Inkscape, Affinity Designer, Illustrator or CorelDraw.
  • Tuts+ Free Game Development Tutorials - Free tutorials and online courses to help you learn game development from experienced industry instructors, for building and designing your own games. Join our community to learn new skills, theory, game dev software, and more. What would you like to lear
  • CGDemy - Get development tips on OpenGL and C++ as I develop my first game engine.
  • Game Audio Table - Game Audio Table - Audio Middleware Implementation Table
  • 2D Game Art Tutorials: ZEEF - Game art tutorials for the 'artistically challenged' using inkscape and gimp
  • Handmade Hero - Handmade Hero is an ongoing project to create a complete, professional-quality game accompanied by videos that explain every single line of its source code. ...
  • Orx Portable Game Engine Tutorials - tutorials,orx
  • Fast Demonstration of 2D Game Dev in Orx - This is an overview of how to write a game using the Orx Portable Game Engine. Takes the viewer from nothing to a completed game in 20 minutes. This demonstrates…
  • Game Development and OpenGL Video… - Create your own games by downloading video tutorials that show how to create art resources and program the game logic. Learn to program in OpenGL using C++, create 3D models and sprites, and learn the skills needed to build your own game engine.
  • The 3D Tutor - Hey guys, I'm The3DTutor and on this channel I will be devoting myself to teaching you the ins and outs of creative software such as 3ds Max, Photoshop, UDK and more
  • Sonarlearning - Thousands of free video tutorials. Courses provided for programming, Maths, Science, History plus much more.
  • Pixel Art Tutorials - Browse our database of hundreds of pixel art tutorials on all different subjects, filter and search for just the one you're looking for.
  • MortMort - Pixel Art Tutorials
  • Kemo Jallow Godot tutorials - Learn game development using Godot engine
  • FlippedNormals - Incredible source of information on 3D modeling, sculpting, texturing, and the industry standard pipeline process for films and game.

Other resource sites

  • GitHub Magictools - magictools - A list of Game Development resources to make magic happen.
  • PixelProspector - PixelProspector.com
  • Get ready for Ludum Dare - Ludum Dare 39 starts today! I previously wrote about Ludum Dare with tips for completing your game along with getting the most out of itch.io, so check that out if you haven’t already. Ludum Dare
  • Useful programming and game development resources - Useful programming and game development resources · Elias Daler's blog
  • Global Game Jam Resources A - Maintained by Ciro Continisio (GGJ Rome). If you want to add a link, please suggest it here or on Twitter @CiroContns. About suggestions: There are a million tools out there, but this list is intended to be readable and useful, rather than an encyclopedi
  • GGJ Jammer Resources B - Sponsored:Check out our new Jammer Dashboard for all of the 2019 sponsored resources, and take advantage of all the great exclusive offers for everyone taking part in the jam!
  • /r/gamedev resources wiki - r/gamedev: All things related to game development, programming, math, art, music, business, and marketing.
  • Pocketknives for Game Developers - r/gamedev: All things related to game development, programming, math, art, music, business, and marketing.
  • GamePix HTML5 Games Blog - The hottest source for News, HowTo and more in the world of HTML5 Games. We got it on our HTML5 games blog. Visit us for more free resources on HTML5.
  • Game Development Resources | ZEEF - Game Dev Resource Sharing Community.
  • gamedevmap - gamedevmap
  • Game developer resources - For coders, one of the most difficult aspects of creating a game is finding the graphics and sound resources needed to bring a game to life. If you can't pay someone to produce resources for you, you'll have to either find someone willing to work with you
  • Startup Stash - StartupStash is a curated directory of tools and resources to build your startup. All the startup resources you need to build a killer product.
  • Lospec - Free online tools for people creating pixel art and other low-spec art.
  • Resources for game development on haxe - A curated list of haxe game development resources.
  • Game developer resources at unlike kinds - It’s tough sometimes to find graphics, music, and sound effects for your games. This list of websites is teeming with them.

Great Articles & Talks

From Zero to Game Designer: how to start building video games even if you don’t have any experience 2 years ago I was just 17 year old high school student who knew nothing about coding. But I pushed forward anyway, and within a few months I

  • 🎮 3D Game Shaders For Beginners - 🎮 A step-by-step guide on how to implement SSAO, depth of field, lighting, normal mapping, and more for your 3D game. - lettier/3d-game-shaders-for-beginners

HTML to mobile

  • Tabris.js - Tabris.js - mobile app development in JavaScript
  • Nativescript - Build truly native iOS, Android and Windows Phone apps with Javascript and CSS. Try NativeScript open-source framework for cross-platform development.
  • WinJS - Windows Library for JavaScript (WinJS) takes its first step to becoming cross-platform: release under the Apache 2.0 license as an Open Source project.
  • React Native - React Native | A framework for building native apps using React
  • Apache Cordova - Platform for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript
  • NW.js - Writing applications with all Web technologies
  • Ludei - Deploy HTML5 apps and games to every mobile market with no code changes and with native performance and features.
  • AngularJS - AngularJS is what HTML would have been, had it been designed for building web-apps. Declarative templates with data-binding, MVW, MVVM, MVC, dependency injection and great testability story all implemented with pure clien
  • Joren - Instantly turn your website into a native app. We provide a platform to create both iOS and Android apps. Learn more how you can engage your site visitors.

Fun Tools

  • Alchemy - Alchemy is an open drawing project aimed at exploring how we can sketch, draw, and create on computers in new ways.
  • Super Pixel Time - Pixelate your life
  • Crocotile 3D - Create 3d maps and models with 2d tilesets
  • 64yourself(beta) - send your images back to 1982
  • Caligraft - …crafting new calligraphies…
  • Psykopaint - Paint unique pieces of art from photos. Psykopaint is a new kind of online painting application which select the colors from an image and apply it to your brush automatically. It's really fun, easy, and totally unique!
  • Low Poly Pattern Generator - Trianglify.io is a tool for generating low poly triangle patterns that can be used as wallpapers and website assets.
  • Image Triangulator App - Working in the Processing development environment, we recently developed our own little application for abstracting images, using the controlP5...
  • DMesh, Triangulation Image Generator - DMesh, designed by Dofl Yun, is a custom creative application that turns images into techy artwork. It works by analyzing an image and generating a triangulation pattern for a beautiful finished product.
  • Marmoset Hexels - Marmoset Hexels is a grid-based painting tool for creating complex pixel and vector designs with the stroke of a brush. Try the 14 day free trial today!
  • SpriteStack.io - 3D pixelart editor based on sprite stacking technique.
  • waifu2x - Single-Image Super-Resolution for Anime-Style Art using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. And it supports photo.
  • Lapin-bleu - lapin-bleu.net
  • Ascgen 2 - Image to Ascii Art Conversion
  • Apophysis - Ultra Fractal, fractal, flame fractals, Apophysis, fractal art, digital art, algorithmic art, gnarl, gnarly
  • Chaoscope - Home of Chaoscope, a 3D strange attractors rendering software
  • Easy Mosaic - Easy Mosaic – Best mosaic software help you create photomosaic, tile mosaic, and other mosaic projects easily
  • Microsoft Research Blink - The Computational Photography group uses AI and computer vision to push the limits of what's possible in photography with innovative apps and services.
  • Rasterbator -
  • Automated video looping with progressive… - An application to extract a 5-second looping video from a non-looping input video. Last published: December 10, 2013.
  • CodinGame - CodinGame is a challenge-based training platform for programmers where you can play with the hottest programming topics. Solve games, code AI bots, learn from your peers, have fun.
  • Pulseboy -
  • PlanetMaker - PlanetMaker - Create your own planet, real or imaginary
  • Image Glitch Tool - Image Glitch Tool
  • Paint of Persia by dunin - Paint of Persia is a rotoscoping pixel-art tool
  • Rendering animated GIFs on a Commodore64 - If you’ve always thought the one thing the world needed was rendering animated GIFs on a Commodore64, then you’ve come to the right place! I’ve written a to...
  • Tyro Procedural Space Generator -
  • Tyro Space 3D Generator -
  • Fragmentarium - Fragmentarium is a tool for creating 3D structures from a set of user specified rules.
  • Tilemancer by Led - Procedural pixel-art tile creator
  • Geometrize Haxe - Recreating images with geometric primitives.
  • Weavesilk - Create beautiful flowing art with Silk.
  • Online Image Vectorizer - Online Vectorizer: Online raster to vector converter. Convert your images (jpeg, jpg or png) into scalable and clear vector art (svg).
  • Bitsy Game Maker by Adam Le Doux - Make little games, worlds, and stories!
  • Playscii by JP LeBreton - An open source ASCII-based art, animation, and game creation tool.
  • Dither Machine by Lunar Labs - Generate dithering for pixel art!
  • FontSprite by AdamStrange - Simple fontsprite editing with lots of functions
  • Deform by Keenan Woodall - A fully-featured deformer system for Unity.

AI Resources

Great itch.io pages

Game Design & UI References

  • GamesWatch - Games, curated. Game references for fans and game creators alike.

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