A curated list of game development resources to make magic happen.

License Legends

• - Free
• - Open Source
• - Paid
• - Partially Free

Table of Contents

• Graphics
  • Assets/Placeholders
  • Spritesheet Tools
  • Bitmap Compression
  • Texture Tools
  • Character Generators
  • Tile/Level Editors
  • Animation
  • Vector/Image Editor
  • Modeling
  • Terrain Generators
  • Voxel Editors
• Code
  • Engines and Frameworks
  • AI
• Audio
  • Collections
  • Music and Audio Editors
• Board Games
• Must see
  • Blogs and Portals
  • Books
  • Magazines
  • Videos/Podcasts
  • Game Jams
  • Project Management
  • Complete Game Sources
• Ads
• Learn
  • General Game Development
  • Computer Graphics

Graphics

Great graphics placeholders and tools to turn that squared game into a picasso painting

Assets/Placeholders

• 2D Cartoon Mobile Game UI Pack - cartoon user interface asset pack. It comes as a layered psd file.
• 420 Pixel Art Icons for RPGs - Set of 420 RPG icons, free for commercial use.
• Blender 3D models - 3D models, particle systems/effects
• CGTextures - A large collection of textures.
• GameDev Market - a community-driven marketplace that connects indie game developers with talented asset creators.
• Games-Icons Set - free icons for your games.
• Iconmonstr - Another free icons resource for your games.
• Kenney Assets - Royalty free assets
• Liberated Pixel Cup assets - Free graphic assets of the Liberated Pixel Cup (LPC) held by the OpenGameArt forums
• Matcapsstars1.1k - A Huge library of matcap textures in PNG and ZMT, organized by color.
• OpenClipart - Collection of free cliparts.
• OpenGameArt - a media repository intended for use with free software game projects.
• Oryx Design Lab - Cheap high quality royalty free sprites
• PlainTextures - Free high resolution textures, brushes and photos
• Poly Pizza - 6000+ free low poly models
• Reiner's Tilesets - A blog with free 2D and 3D graphics.
• Sketchfab - Publish & embed interactive 3D models.
• SpriteLib - a collection of static and animated graphic objects (also commonly known as sprites).
• StickyPNG - Free transparent PNG images.
• TextureHaven - Free textures with additional maps like displacement and bump maps. Also HDRIs.
• TextureKing - Free material stock textures
• Vecteezy - Free Vector Art.

Spritesheet Tools

• Cheetah-Texture-Packerstars215 - High efficient and fast 2D bin packing tool
• EzSpriteSheetstars4 - Creates sprite sheets from animated GIFs and more