Kavex/GameDev-Resources: :video_game: :game_die: A wonderful list of Game...

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Assets
- 2D Asset
- 3D Asset
- Audio
- Multiple Graphic Collections
Code
- Ads and Monetization
- 2D Engines and Frameworks
- 3D Engines and Frameworks
- Game Source Code
- Modules and Additional API
Design
- Idea Generators
- Marketing
- Mechanics
- Project Management
Meta
- Blogs and Portals
- Books
- Game Jams
- Magazines
- Videos/Podcasts
Tools
- Animation
- Audio
- Bitmap Compression
- Character Generators
- Design
- Modeling
- Pixel Editor
- Spritesheet
- Story Design
- Terrain Generators
- Texturing
- Tile/Level Editors
- Vector/Image Editor
- Voxel Editors
- Bug Reporting
Tutorials
- Game Development
- Graphics/Modeling
- Music
- Programming

Assets

2D Assets

2D Cartoon Mobile Game UI Pack - cartoon user interface asset pack. It comes as a layered psd file. :free:
420 Pixel Art Icons for RPGs - Set of 420 RPG icons, free for commercial use. :free:
GameartGuppy - Cheap 2D Assets :heavy_dollar_sign:
Games-Icons Set - free icons for your games. :free:
Iconmonstr - Another free icons resource for your games. :free:
Kenny Assets - Royalty free assets :triangular_flag_on_post:
OpenClipart - Collection of free cliparts. :free:
Oryx Design Lab - Cheap high quality royalty free sprites :heavy_dollar_sign:
SpriteLib - a collection of static and animated graphic objects (also commonly known as sprites). :free:
Time Fantasy - Lovely SNES-Looking RPG Assets

3D Assets

Blender 3D models - 3D models, particle systems/effects :free:
Matcaps - A Huge library of matcap textures in PNG and ZMT, organized by color. :free:
Poly Pizza - Searchable library of low poly creative commons 3D models :free:
Reiner's Tilesets - A blog with free 2D and 3D graphics. :free:
3DModelsCC0 - Public domain 3D models :free:

Audio Assets

GameSounds - Archive of all kinds of royalty-free game sounds. :free:
FreePD - Public Domain Music :free:
FreeSFX - free sound effects :free:
Freesound - collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds :free:
Kavex's GameSounds - Free sounds for any use :free:
Musopen - Royalty free music. :free:
Nameless: the Hackers RPG Soundtrack - high-quality by BoxCat Games :heavy_dollar_sign:
Octave - free library of UI sounds, handmade for iOS. :free1:
PacDV - royalty free sounds collection. :free:
SoundBible.com - Royalty-free of sound effects under various licenses. :free:

Multiple Graphic Collections

CGTextures - A large collection of textures. :triangular_flag_on_post:
GameDev Market - a community-driven marketplace that connects indie game developers with talented asset creators. :heavy_dollar_sign:
OpenGameArt - a media repository intended for use with free software game projects. :free:
PlainTextures - Free high resolution textures, brushes and photos :free:
Sketchfab - Publish & embed interactive 3D models. :triangular_flag_on_post:
Vecteezy - Free Vector Art. :free:

Code

Ads and Monetization

AdMob by Google - Google's Ads and monetization service for mobile.
Appodeal - A programmatic ad mediation solution for mobile apps.
Unity Ads - Unity3D Official Ads SDK.

2D Engines and Frameworks

Allegro - Allegro 4 & 5 are cross-platform, open source, game programming libraries, primarily for C and C++ developers. :o2:
Bladecoder - Classic point and click adventure game engine and editor. :o2:
Box2D - A 2D Physics Engine for Games. :o2:
Chipmunk C# - C# implementation of the Chipmunk2D lib. :o2:
Chipmunk2D - A fast and lightweight 2D game physics library.
Cocos2D - graphic library for games and multimedia, for python language :o2:
Cocos2d-x - a C++ OpenGL 2D and 3D game engine. Uses C++ but has JS and Lua bindings. :free:
Construct 2 - an HTML5 game maker, meaning you are not actually writing JavaScript. Instead, you use actions, events and conditions to do the heavy lifting. :triangular_flag_on_post:
Coquette - A micro framework for JavaScript games. Handles collision detection, the game update loop, canvas rendering, and keyboard and mouse input.
Corona SDK - A Cross-Platform Mobile App Development for iOS and Android.
Defold 2D game engine by King :free:
EasyRPG - role playing game creation tool compatible with RPG Maker 2000/2003 games :free:
ENGi - A multi-platform 2D game library for Go. :o2:
Ejecta - A Fast, Open Source JavaScript, Canvas & Audio Implementation for iOS. :o2:
EnchantJS - A simple JavaScript framework for creating games and apps.
FlashPunk - free ActionScript 3 library designed for developing 2D Flash games.
Flixel - an open source game-making written in ActionScript3. :o2:
GameMaker - 2D Game Engine :triangular_flag_on_post:
GameSalad - Game Creation Engine for Mac and Windows.
Gideros - Mobile Cross-Platform framework using Lua programming language. :o2:
Glide Engine - Game engine for making 2d games on iOS, macOS and tvOS, with practical examples. :o2:
Gosu - 2D game development library for Ruby and C++ :o2:
HaxeFlixel - Create cross-platform games easier and free in Haxe.
HEAPS.io - A mature cross-platform graphics engine for high performance games written in Haxe.
iio.js - A javascript library that speeds the creation and deployment of HTML5 Canvas applications :o2:
Jitter - a fast and lightweight physics engine written in C#.
Juno TypeScript - Clean and lightweight 2D game framework written in TypeScript
Kivent - A 2D game framework for Kivy.
Kivy - Cross platform Python framework for creating apps and games for Linux, Windows, OS X, Android and iOS
LibGDX - Powerful (totally free) library for Java, code once and run the game on desktop, Android, Web, and iOS. :o2:
LimeJS - HTML5 game framework for building fast, native-experience games for all modern touchscreens and
Lums - A 2D / 3D framework written in C++11. Very efficient and modern. Still under heavy development. :o2:
LÖVE - Lua 2D Game Engine. :o2:
MINX - Open Source 2D game framework written in C++ (to the style of XNA) :o2:
Matter.js - a 2D physics engine for the web.
MelonJS - open source light-weight HTML5 game engine. :o2:
Monogame - Open Source implementation of the Microsoft XNA 4 Framework. :o2:
NodeBox - a family of Python tools to create generative design.
Open Mega Engine
OpenFL - Open Source Haxe Engine for making multi-platform games. :o2:
OpenRA - OpenRA is a Libre/Free Real Time Strategy Game Engine.
PICO-8 - A fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs.
PandaJS - Open Source HTML5 Engine. :o2:
Phaser - free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering.
PixiJS - is a newcomer HTML5 game renderer - first released in early 2013. A main appeal of the engine is its use of WebGL for faster performance. If WebGL isn't supported, the engine falls back to standard canvas.
Processing - Processing is a programming language, development environment for artists, designers, researchers.
PuzzleScript - open-source HTML5 puzzle game engine.
PyGame - a 2D game engine in Python. :free:
RPGMaker - series of programs for the development of role-playing games. :heavy_dollar_sign:
Ren'Py - visual novel engine using the Python language in simplified form. It supports Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android and iOS :o2:
SDL - SDL is a cross-platform library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D. :free:
SFML - Simple and Fast Multimedia Library. :free:
Solarus a free and open-source Action-RPG (Zelda) game engine :free:
SpriteBuilder - Open Source Game Development Suite for MacOS :o2:
SpriteKit - iOS/Mac 2D Game Engine.
Stage.js - Lightweight and fast 2D HTML5 rendering and layout engine for cross-platform game development.
Starling - The GPU powered 2D Flash API
Stencyl - a game creation platform that allows users to create 2D video games for computers, mobile devices, and the web.
Tilengine - C Engine with wrappers for C#, Python and Java :o2:
Tiny Computer - a tiny computer where you can make, play and share tiny games.
vlc-unity - LibVLC plugin for Unity by VideoLAN to integrate multimedia playback inside your Unity apps and games.

3D Engines and Frameworks

Azul3D - A 3D engine written in Go.
bgfx - Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library. :o2:
Bullet - Real-time physics simulation.
CRYENGINE - A pay what you want next gen 3D game engine written in C++. :o2:
Cinder - Cinder is a community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++. :o2:
Dash - A free and open 3D game engine written in D. :o2:
Diligent Engine - A modern cross-platform low-level graphics library that supports Direct3D11, Direct3D12, OpenGL/GLES, and Vulkan. :o2:
gameplay3d - 2D + 3D game framework written in C++ :o2:
Godot - An advanced, feature-packed, multi-platform 2D and 3D open-source game engine. :o2:
Horde3D - small open source 3D rendering engine. :o2:
Irrlicht - open source high performance realtime 3D engine written in C++. :o2:
jMonkeyEngine 3 - a 3D open-source game engine for adventurous Java developers.
JPCT - jPCT is a 3D engine for desktop Java and Google's Android.
Lumberyard - Amazon Lumberyard is a free AAA game engine deeply integrated
ODE - ODE is an open source, high performance library for simulating rigid body dynamics. :o2:
Ogre3D - is a scene-oriented, real-time, flexible 3D rendering engine (as opposed to a game engine) written in C++.
OpenXRay - a community-modified X-Ray engine used in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series. :triangular_flag_on_post:
Panda3D - a framework for 3D rendering and game development for Python and C++ programs.
Piston - a modular open source game engine written in Rust. :o2:
PlayCanvas - A WebGL Game Engine.
Polycode - Open-Source Framework for creating games in C++ (with Lua bindings).
Rajawali - Android OpenGL ES 2.0/3.0 Engine :o2:
Source Valve's Flagship engine :free:
Spring - A powerful free cross-platform RTS engine.
Stingray - 3D game engine and real-time rendering software :heavy_dollar_sign:
Superpowers - HTML5 Collaborative 2D/3D Game Maker
Three.js - Javascript 3D Library.
Turbulenz - Turbulenz offers the ability to build, publish, iterate and monetise high-quality games that react like no others, with immersive 3D effects and real-time physics that open up a whole new world of unprecedented and extraordinary web content.
Unity 3D - A development engine for the creation of 2D and 3D games and interactive content.
Unreal Engine 4 - the new game engine technology developed by Epic Games.
Urho3D - Cross-platform rendering and game engine. :o2:
Wave - Cross-platform engine written in C#
WhiteStorm.js - 3d javacript framework for building apps and games :o2:
voxel.js - voxel.js is a collection of projects that make it easier than ever to create 3D voxel games like Minecraft all in the browser.
Xenko Game Engine - open-source C# game engine designed for the future of gaming :o2:

Game Source Code

BrowserQuest :o2:
Diablo :o2:
Doom 3 :o2:
Doom :o2:
Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition :free:
HandmadeHero: making 2D game from scratch :heavy_dollar_sign:
Prince of Persia :o2:
Quake 2 :o2:
Quake III Arena :o2:
Quake :o2:
SimCity :o2:
Wolfenstein 3D :o2:
Delver :o2:

Modules and Additional API

AirConsole- Add controller support using broswer :free:
ecs-lib - ecs-lib is a tiny and easy to use ECS (Entity Component System) library for game programming. It's written in Typescript but you can use on node.js and web browser too. :o2:
kitlang - Kit is a programming language designed for creating concise, high performance cross-platform applications. :o2:
p2.js - JavaScript 2D physics library :o2:
SimpleAI - C++ AI behaviour tree based library with a QT5 based remote debugger :o2:

Design

Idea Generators

Boardgamizer - Board Game Design Idea Generator. :free:
Gigster Randomized Game Idea Generator :free:
RPTools - a brand of open-source programs designed to enhance traditional pen-and-paper role playing games. :free:
Video Game Name Generator Randomized video games names :free:

Marketing and PR

Yunoia - Online Publishers/Marketing :free:

Mechanics

Board Game Mechanics Set of different board game mechanics :free:

Project Management

Asana - Free cloud project Management :triangular_flag_on_post:
Casual - Visual Project Management :heavy_dollar_sign:
ClickUp - One app to replace them all. :triangular_flag_on_post:
Codecks - Project Management Tool inspired by Collectible Card Games :heavy_dollar_sign:
HacknPlan - Project management for game developers :triangular_flag_on_post:
Taiga - Project management platform for agile developers & designers :triangular_flag_on_post:
Trello - Organize and prioritize projects :triangular_flag_on_post:

Tools

Animation

Fusion Character Animator - small tool for Clickteam Fusion 2.5 to facilitate the animation of 2D character sprites for developers. :heavy_dollar_sign:
ScreenToGif - record a selected area of your screen and save it as a Gif :o2:
Spine - Spine is dedicated to 2D animation, providing an efficient workflow both for creating amazing animation and for integrating it into your games. :heavy_dollar_sign:
DragonBones - The Open Source 2D skeleton animation solution for Flash :o2:
LWF - Lightweight SWF. LWF is an animation engine which can play animation data converted from FLASH contents in HTML5, Unity, Cocos2d-x, iOS UIKit, and more. :o2:

Audio Tools

Ardour - A multichannel digital audio workstation :o2:
Audacity - cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds. :o2:
Audiosauna - transforms your web browser into a fast and flexible music production studio with built in synthesizers and live effects.
Audiotool - Online music producer.
BeepBox - online tool for sketching and sharing chiptune melodies :free:
Bfxr - A tool to make sound effects for computer games.
Bosca Ceoil - Online (and also desktop) music producer made by Terry Cavanagh. Simple, intuitive, has a distinctive retro-ish sound. :free:
ChipTone - Online sound effect generator :free:
FamiTracker - Produce music for the NES/Famicom-systems :free:
jfxr - A JavaScript port of the Bfxr sound effect generator.
LMMS - digital audio workstation software :o2:
MadTracker - a powerful and efficient approach to making music. Versatility and compatibility are guaranteed due to full VST™, ASIO™ and ReWire™ support.
Musagi - fairly large and sophisticated music editor and synthesizer :o2:
PulseBoy web-based musical sequencer which only uses 8bit sounds and samples :free:
Rosegarden - music composition and editing environmen :o2:
Sekaiju - Open Source MIDI sequencer. :o2:
Soundation - Online Professional music studio.
SunVox - a small, fast and powerful modular synthesizer with pattern-based sequencer (tracker).

Bitmap Compression

ImageAlpha — Mac OS X GUI for pngquant and other tools :free:
Image Asset Generation Photoshop plug-in — Easy export layers to files. :o2:
Kraken.io - robust, ultra-fast image optimizer and compressor with best-in-class algorithms. :heavy_dollar_sign:
PNGGauntlet - Smash PNGs for faster sites :free:
PNGoo - Windows GUI for batch conversion. :free:
Pngyu - simple PNG image file compression tool. :o2:
SuperPNG Photoshop plug-in — Mac and Windows. Comparison with "Save for Web" :free:
TinyPNG - Advanced lossy compression for PNG images that preserves full alpha transparency. :free:

Character Generators

Charas - Charas is a charset generator for RPG Maker. :free:

Design Tools

articy:draft visual environment for the creation and organization of game content. :heavy_dollar_sign:
Dundoc Game Design starter Template :free:
Scrivener Helps concentrate on composing and structuring long and difficult documents :heavy_dollar_sign:
Tiny Game Design Tool small, portable booklet created in order to help game designers. :free:
Twine - Open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories. :o2:

IDE and Editors

Atom Highly customizable open source text editor :o2:
Eclipse - integrated development environment mainly used for Java :free:
Notepad++ Notepad replacement that supports several languages. :o2:
Sublime Text Sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. :heavy_dollar_sign:
Visual Studio Code Free. Built on open source. Runs everywhere. :free:
Visual Studio Community Edition A fully-featured, extensible, free IDE :free:

Modeling

Blender - free and open source 3D creation suite :o2:
ZBrush Mini digital sculpting software :free:
SketchUp - 3D modeling computer program for a wide range of drawing application :heavy_dollar_sign:
Maya Industry animation software :heavy_dollar_sign:
3ds Max Industry modeling software :heavy_dollar_sign:
Clara.io - Start creating, rendering and sharing 3D :triangular_flag_on_post:

Pixel Editor

Aseprite - Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool :heavy_dollar_sign:
Hexels - intuitive 2D, grid-based painting tool :heavy_dollar_sign:
Pickle - Another Pixel art Editor. :heavy_dollar_sign:
PiskelApp - Free Online Pixel Art and Animated Sprite Tool. :o2:
Pixa.Pics - Load any image on the web app as a pixel art. Then, draw, and eventually vectorize art. :free:
Pixi Paint Desktop version of Pixie Engine :free:
Pixie Engine - Free online pixel editor :free:
Pixen - Pixel Art Editor for OSX (Warning: Pixen previously did not support custom gif palettes before becoming paid, and may still have this limiation.) :heavy_dollar_sign:
PyxelEdit - Pixel art editor designed to make it fun and easy to make tilesets, levels and animations. :heavy_dollar_sign:

Spritesheet

Cheetah-Texture-Packer - High efficient and fast 2D bin packing tool :o2:
GlueIT Free Simple Spritesheet Tool :free:
Leshy SpriteSheet Tool - HTML5 tool for creating, packing, and modifying sprite sheets and texture atlases :free:
Libgdx Texture Packer - Texture Packer built into Libgdx :o2:
MakeAtlas - Simple tool to pack a texture atlas :free:
ShoeBox - Adobe Air based app with game and ui related tools. :free:
SpriteUV2 - tool for creating optimal meshes for textures/sprites and packing them into an atlas. :triangular_flag_on_post:
Stitches An HTML5 sprite sheet generator :o2:
TexturePacker - Great spritesheet creation editor. :heavy_dollar_sign:

Story Design

RapidQuest Free Branching Quest design tool :free:

Terrain Generators

Canyon Terrain Editor - Create quality, realistic terrain quickly and intuitively :free:
Fracplanet - Fractal planet and terrain generator
World Machine - Procedural terrain creation, simulations of nature, and interactive editing :heavy_dollar_sign

Texturing

FilterForge - A plugin for Adobe Photoshop that allows you to build your own filters. :heavy_dollar_sign:
PixPlant - Smart 3D texturing tool that creates high quality normal, displacement, specular maps and seamless textures from photos. :heavy_dollar_sign:

Tile/Level Editors

OGMO Editor - generic level editor. :o2:
Mappy - Free tilemap editor. :free:
Tiled - free, easy to use and flexible tile map editor. :free:

Vector/Image Editor

Gimp - GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. :o2:
Krita - Sketching and painting, offering an end-to-end solution for creating digital painting files from scratch by masters. :o2:
Paint.NET - Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows. :free:
Pixelmator - Full-featured image editing app for the Mac
Affinity Designer - Professional graphic design software, easy to use and fast :heavy_dollar_sign:
Affinity Photo - Professional photo editing software :heavy_dollar_sign:

Voxel Editors

goxel - Open source 3D voxel editor :o2:
VoxelShop- Open source for modify and create voxel objects :o2:

Bug Reporting

Instabug - Bug Reporting tool for Unity that enables beta users to send feedback in-app. :triangular_flag_on_post:

Tutorials

Game Development Tutorials

3D Game Shaders For Beginners - Step-by-step guide to real-time shading techniques. :free:
Simple HTML5 Canvas Game - Simple HTML canvas RPG looking game :free:
Udacity: HTML5 Game Development - HTML5 Game Development by Google :free: