Graphics / Assets/Placeholders
- πΈ GameDev Market - a community-driven marketplace that connects indie game developers with talented asset creators.
- π Iconmonstr - Another free icons resource for your games.
- π Matcaps (β3.4k) - A Huge library of matcap textures in PNG and ZMT, organized by color.
- π OpenGameArt - a media repository intended for use with free software game projects.
- πΈ PlainTextures - Free high resolution textures, brushes and photos
- π Sketchfab - Publish & embed interactive 3D models.
- π SpriteLib - a collection of static and animated graphic objects (also commonly known as sprites).
- π StickyPNG - Free transparent PNG images.
- π TextureHaven - Free textures with additional maps like displacement and bump maps. Also HDRIs.
Graphics / Spritesheet Tools
- π Littera - Bitmap font generator
- π ShoeBox - Adobe Air based app with game and ui related tools.
- π Tilesplit (β3) - CLI text-based tilesheet splitter and namer. Turn a spritesheet into many separate files with names you pick, or not if you don't care. Support templates and textures that are not all the same size.
Graphics / Bitmap Compression
- π ImageAlpha β Mac OS X GUI for pngquant and other tools
- π PNGoo - Windows GUI for batch conversion.
- π Pngyu - simple PNG image file compression tool.
- πΈ TinyPNG - Advanced lossy compression for PNG images that preserves full alpha transparency.
Graphics / Texture Tools
- π° FilterForge - A plugin for Adobe Photoshop that allows you to build your own filters.
- π Live Normal - An Android and iOS app for generating seamless materials on the go. You take a photo, and Live Normal creates a tile-able texture and generates texture maps ready for a PBR engine of your choice.
- π° PixPlant - PixPlant is a smart 3D texturing tool that creates high quality normal, displacement, specular maps and seamless textures from photos.
Graphics / Vector/Image Editor
- π Charas - Charas is a charset generator for RPG Maker.
- π° Affinity Designer - Vector graphics editor with a bunch of features which also supports Adobe file formats
- π° Affinity Photo - Photo and raster graphics editor which works together with Adobe file formats and Affinity Designer
- πΈ Aseprite - animated sprite editor & pixel art tool.
- π Gimp - GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
- π Inkscape - An open-source vector graphics editor similar to Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, or Xara X.
- π Krita - Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
- π LibreSprite - LibreSprite is an open source fork of Aseprite.
- π Multipaint - A cross-platform (Win, Linux, Mac) image editor/painter which covers the color limitations of 8-bit machines (like C64, ZX Spectrum etc.)
- πΈ Paint.NET - Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows.
- π° Pickle - Another Pixel art Editor.
- π PiskelApp - Free Online Pixel Art and Animated Sprite Tool.
- π° Pixelmator - Full-featured image editing app for the Mac
- π° Pixelator - Turn any image into fancy pixel-art
- π project one - A picture converter and editor for the Commodore 64 covering different graphics mode of this computer. Windows only
- π° PyxelEdit - Pixel art editor designed to make it fun and easy to make tilesets, levels and animations.
- π REXPaint - a powerful and user-friendly ASCII art editor.
- π rx - a modern & minimalist pixel editor
- π Spritemate - Online Editor for Commodore 64 Sprites
- π Tilemancer - A quick procedural tile creator designed for pixel-art games.
- π Timanthes - A pixel art editor for the Commodore 64 computer running on Windows
Graphics / Tile/Level Editors
- π° AutoTileGen - AutoTileGen is an automatic tileset generator for 2D game terrains.
- π LDtk - LDtk is an open-source 2D level editor for indie devs, with a strong focus on user-friendliness.
- π Tiled - free, easy to use and flexible tile map editor.
Graphics / Animation
- π 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.
- π° Mixamo - tool for auto auto rigging and animation of 3D humanoid models,
Graphics / Modeling
- π Blender - The free software and open-source 3D grate of the world
Graphics / Terrain Generators
- π DEM Net Elevation API - Live 3D textured terrain generation from real data - export height/normal maps, glTF, OBJ, STL
- π Fracplanet - Fractal planet and terrain generator
- π° World Creator - Procedural terrain and landscape generation on the GPU in real time, simulation of erosion and sediment, beautiful editor. much more
- π° World Machine - Procedural terrain creation, simulations of nature, and interactive editing
Graphics / Voxel Editors
Engines and Frameworks / Voxel Editors
- π Allegro - Allegro 4 & 5 are cross-platform, open source, game programming libraries, primarily for C and C++ developers.
- π amulet - A free Lua-based audio/visual toolkit suitable for small games and experimentation. It runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, HTML5 and iOS.
- π Azul3D - A 3D engine written in Go.
- π Bevy - A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
- π bgfx (β17k) - Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.
- π bitsy - A little editor for little games or worlds. The goal is to make it easy to make games where you can walk around and talk to people and be somewhere.
- πΈ Blend4Web - A Javascript framework for creating and displaying interactive 3D computer graphics in web browsers.
- π Blitz3D (β290) 3D basic-like programming language for fast 3D desktop games.
- π Box2D - A 2D Physics Engine for Games.
- π Bullet - Real-time physics simulation.
- π Chipmunk2D - A fast and lightweight 2D game physics library.
- π Cinder - Cinder is a community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++.
- π Cocos2D (β637) - graphic library for games and multimedia, for python language
- π Cocos2d-x - a C++ OpenGL 2D and 3D game engine. Uses C++ but has JS and Lua bindings. Target all the major mobile platforms and operating systems. Additional tools CocoStudio and Cocos Code IDE.
- π Coquette - A micro framework for JavaScript games. Handles collision detection, the game update loop, canvas rendering, and keyboard and mouse input.
- π Dash (β425) - A free and open 3D game engine written in D.
- π Diligent Engine (β4.4k) - A modern cross-platform low-level graphics library that supports Direct3D11, Direct3D12, OpenGL/GLES, and Vulkan.
- π E.B.U.R.P - The Eight-Bit Universal Role Playing Engine
- π engo - Engo is an open-source 2D game engine written in Go.
- π Ebiten - A dead simple 2D game library in Go.
- π ecs-lib (β215) - 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.
- π Ejecta - A Fast, Open Source JavaScript, Canvas & Audio Implementation for iOS.
- π EnTT (β13k) - Gaming meets modern C++, a fast and reliable entity-component system (ECS) and much more
- π Farseer (β745) - a collision detection system with realistic physics responses.
- π FlashPunk - free ActionScript 3 library designed for developing 2D Flash games.
- π gameplay - A free, open-source, cross-platform, 2D + 3D game framework written in C++. It is aimed towards indie game developers who are creating desktop and mobile games.
- πΈ GameSalad - Game Creation Engine for Mac and Windows.
- π GB Studio - A free and easy to use retro adventure game creator for your favourite handheld video game system.
- π GDevelop - An open-source, cross-platform 2D game engine designed for everyone - it's extensible, fast and easy to learn.
- π ggez - A Rust library to create Good Games Easily.
- π Gideros - A Cross-Platform framework to create Mobile Apps and games for iOS, Android using Lua programming language.
- π Glide Engine (β505) - Engine for making 2d games on iOS, macOS and tvOS in Swift programming language, with practical examples and tutorials.
- π Godot - An advanced, feature-packed, multi-platform 2D and 3D open-source game engine.
- π Gorgon - A 2D rendering API for .NET, written in C#.
- π HaxeFlixel - Create cross-platform games easier and free.
- π Heaps - Cross platform graphics for high performance games.
- π Horde3D - small open source 3D rendering engine.
- π iio.js (β458) - A javascript library that speeds the creation and deployment of HTML5 Canvas applications
- π ImpactJS - Impact is a JavaScript Game Engine that allows you to develop stunning HTML5 Games for desktop and mobile browsers.
- π Inform7 - A design system for interactive fiction based on natural language.
- π Ink - Scripting language for writing interactive narrative.
- π Irrlicht - open source high performance realtime 3D engine written in C++.
- π Jitter (β47) - a fast and lightweight physics engine written in C#.
- π jMonkeyEngine 3 - a 3D open-source game engine for adventurous Java developers.
- π Juno (β25) - Clean and lightweight 2D game framework written in TypeScript
- π Juno (β169) - Framework for making 2D games with chunky pixels in Lua
- π Kivent - A 2D game framework for Kivy.
- π Kivy - Cross platform Python framework for creating apps and games for Linux, Windows, OS X, Android and iOS
- π KogGE - Modern Multiplatform Game Engine for Kotlin. Write games for the JVM, JavaScript, Android and iOS in no time using Kotlin.
- π LibGDX - Powerful (totally free) library for Java, code once and run the game on desktop, Android, Web, and iOS.
- π LimeJS - HTML5 game framework for building fast, native-experience games for all modern touchscreens and
- π LITIengine - 2D Java Game Engine. It provides all the infrastructure to create tile based 2D games with plain java
- π Lums (β28) - A 2D / 3D framework written in C++11. Very efficient and modern. Still under heavy development.
- π LΓVE - Lua 2D Game Engine.
- π MINX (β14) - Open Source 2D game framework written in C++ (to the style of XNA)
- π Magnum - a lightweight and modular 2D/3D graphics/game engine written in C++11
- π Matter.js - a 2D physics engine for the web.
- π MelonJS - open source light-weight HTML5 game engine.
- π Monogame - Open Source implementation of the Microsoft XNA 4 Framework.
- π Nakama (β13k) - Distributed server for social and realtime games and apps.
- π nCine - A cross-platform 2D game engine with an emphasis on performance, written in C++11 and optionally scriptable in Lua.
- π NodeBox - a family of Python tools to create generative design.
- π ODE - ODE is an open source, high performance library for simulating rigid body dynamics.
- π Ogre3D - is a scene-oriented, real-time, flexible 3D rendering engine (as opposed to a game engine) written in C++.
- π OpenFL - Open Source Haxe Engine for making multi-platform games.
- π openFrameworks - An open source and free C++ toolkit for creative coding.
- π OpenRA - OpenRA is a Libre/Free Real Time Strategy Game Engine.
- π° PICO-8 - A fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs.
- π p2.js - JavaScript 2D physics library
- π Panda3D - a framework for 3D rendering and game development for Python and C++ programs.
- π Phaser - free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering.
- π Piston - a modular open source game engine written in Rust.
- π 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.
- π Planck.js - 2D JavaScript physics engine for cross-platform HTML5 game development.
- π Processing - Processing is a programming language, development environment for artists, designers, researchers.
- π° RPGMaker - series of programs for the development of role-playing games.
- π raylib - a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming, hardware accelerated with OpenGL (1.1, 2.1, 3.3 or ES 2.0)
- π Ren'Py - An open-source visual novel engine using the Python language in simplified form. It supports Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android and iOS.
- π Rpgboss - A 2d rpg game engine and editor based on scala and libgdx. Ease of use, with no programming knowledge.
- π 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.
- π SFML - Simple and Fast Multimedia Library.
- π Spring - A powerful free cross-platform RTS engine.
- π Stage.js - Lightweight and fast 2D HTML5 rendering and layout engine for cross-platform game development.
- π Starling - The GPU powered 2D Flash API
- πΈ Stencyl - a game creation platform that allows users to create 2D video games for computers, mobile devices, and the web.
- π Superpowers - HTML5 Collaborative 2D/3D Game Maker
- π TIC-80 - TIC-80 is a fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games.
- π 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.
- π Twine - Downloadable or browser-based game development platform that allows users to create linked story paths. Not just text-based, Twine supports music, images, and sound effects. Very little coding knowledge required for basic text adventure games.
- πΈ Unity 3D - A development engine for the creation of 2D and 3D games and interactive content.
- π Urho3D - Cross-platform rendering and game engine.
- π ursina - A game engine powered by python and panda3d.
- π Vassal - Vassal is a game engine for building and playing online adaptations of board games and card games. Play live on the Internet or by email. Vassal runs on all platforms, and is free, open-source software.
- π 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.
- π Wave - Cross-platform engine written in C#.
AI / Voxel Editors
- π SimpleAI (β177) - C++11 behaviour tree based library with a QT5 based remote debugger (and with optional LUA bindings) released under MIT.
Collections / Voxel Editors
- π Freesound - collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds.
- π Octave - free library of UI sounds.
- π PacDV - royalty free sounds collection.
- π SoundBible.com - Royalty-free, searchable archive of sound effects under various licenses.
Music and Audio Editors / Voxel Editors
- π Audacity - open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.
- π Audiosauna - transforms your web browser into a fast and flexible music production studio with built in synthesizers and live effects.
- π Bosca Ceoil - Online (and also desktop) music producer made by Terry Cavanagh. Simple, intuitive, has a distinctive retro-ish sound.
- π ChipTone - Online sound effect generator
- π jfxr - A JavaScript port of the Bfxr sound effect generator.
- π LMMS - Cross-platform music production software.
- π MadTracker - a powerful and efficient approach to making music. Versatility and compatibility are guaranteed due to full VSTβ’, ASIOβ’ and ReWireβ’ support.
- π musagi - open source, fairly large and sophisticated music editor and synthesizer
- π° Resemble - Resemble's voice cloning engine within Unity
- π Soundation - Online Professional music studio.
- π SunVox - a small, fast and powerful modular synthesizer with pattern-based sequencer (tracker).
Board Games / Voxel Editors
- π RPTools - a brand of open-source programs designed to enhance traditional pen-and-paper role playing games.
Blogs and Portals / Voxel Editors
- Slidedb - On Slide DB we give developers a community they can share their ideas with and showcase the work they are doing, beyond the basic app stores and the highly contested "top charts".
Magazines / Voxel Editors
Videos/Podcasts / Voxel Editors
Game Jams / Voxel Editors
Project Management / Voxel Editors
- π° Casual - Visual Project Management
- πΈ Codecks - Project Management Tool inspired by Collectible Card Games
- πΈ HacknPlan - Project management for game developers
- πΈ Taiga - Project management platform for agile developers & designers
- πΈ Trello - Organize and prioritize projects
Complete Game Sources / Voxel Editors
Ads / Voxel Editors
- Appodeal - A programmatic ad mediation solution for mobile apps.
General Game Development / Voxel Editors
Computer Graphics / Voxel Editors
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