jorgemcgomes/awesome-ai-tools-for-game-dev

A curated list of awesome AI tools for game developers

Awesome AI Tools for Game Developers

This is a curated collection of powerful AI tools that accelerate and enhance game development. From asset and texture generation to voice and speech recognition, these tools streamline the creation process.

By integrating them into your workflow, you can save time, automate tasks, and unlock creative possibilities.

Whether you're an indie developer or part of a studio, this list provides cutting-edge AI tools to speed up your development, enabling you to create immersive games. Discover the potential of AI in game development for greater efficiency and creativity.

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Contents

• Asset Generation
• Texture Generation
• Image Generation
• Code Generation/Assistant
• Animation video Mocap
• Voice Generation
• Speech Recognition
• Conversational Models

Asset Generation 🪄

➡️ When you want to create a 2D or 3D asset for your game.

• Scenario.com (Proprietary, Sign Up, Free): Generate assets such as textures, concept art, and background assets.

Texture Generation 🖼️🖌️

➡️ When you want to generate textures for your assets

• DreamTextures (Open Source, Free): Create different types of textures with a simple text prompt.

• Stable Diffusion (Open Source, Free)

Image Generation 🖼️🪄

➡️ When you want to creating pictures of suspects in a detective game.

• Midjourney (Proprietary, Sign Up, Free, Paid)

• Stable Diffusion (Open Source, Free)

Code Generation/Assistant 👩‍💻

➡️ When you want help in coding a function or there’s a bug in your code and you want to know why.

• StarCoder (Open Source, Free, Sign Up)

• ChatGPT (Proprietary, Free, Paid, Sign Up)

• Copilot (Proprietary, Paid, Sign Up)

Animation Video Mocap 💃📹

➡️ You want to generate 3D animations from a video you’ve made without a motion capture suit.

• Plask (Proprietary, Free, Paid, Sign Up) : AI-powered Mocap Animation Tool.

• RadicalMotion.com (Proprietary, Free, Paid, Sign Up)

Voice Generation 🗣️

➡️ You want to create voice dialogues in my game using AI actors. ➡️ How does it work

• Coqui Studio (Sign Up, Proprietary, Free): realistic, emotive text-to-speech through generative AI.

• Bark (Open Source): Bark can generate highly realistic, multilingual speech as well as other audio - including music, background noise and simple sound effects.

• Replica Studios (Sign Up, Proprietary, Free): AI voice actors for games

Speech Recognition 💬

➡️ You want the player to be able to give orders using his voice. ➡️ How does it work

• OpenAI Whisper: model for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech translation.

• Facebook Wav2Vec2: another model for multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR).

Conversational models

➡️ You want your NPC to be able to have conversations with the player. ➡️ How does it work

• ChatGPT (Proprietary, Free, Paid, Sign Up): Conversational model for chat-based interactions.

• HuggingChat 🤗: (Open Source, Free, Sign Up): Open-source conversational model for chat-based interactions.