kosinaz/gamedev-toolbelt

Useful sites for indie game devs.

Gamedev Toolbelt

Useful sites for indie game devs.

Assets

• Art
  • Kenney
  • https://www.reinerstilesets.de/
  • https://game-icons.net/
  • https://craftpix.net/
  • https://www.gameart2d.com/
• Audio
  • https://www.bensound.com/
  • https://incompetech.com/
  • http://soundimage.org/
  • https://indiegamemusic.com/
  • https://freemusicarchive.org/
  • http://mrjoshuamclean.com/royalty-free-music/
  • https://www.looperman.com/
  • https://www.melodyloops.com/music/free/
  • https://freesound.org/
  • https://www.zapsplat.com/
  • https://tabletopaudio.com/

Tools

• Painting
  • http://mypaint.org/
  • https://krita.org/en/
  • https://kleki.com/
• Pixel editor
  • https://www.piskelapp.com/
• Voxel editor
  • https://spritestack.io/
• Texture packer
  • https://www.codeandweb.com/texturepacker
  • http://free-tex-packer.com/
• Bitmap font converter
  • http://www.angelcode.com/products/bmfont/
  • http://www.codehead.co.uk/cbfg/
• Batch image processor
  • http://www.highmotionsoftware.com/products/imbatch
• ASCII art converter
  • https://manytools.org/hacker-tools/convert-images-to-ascii-art/
• Normal map editor
  • https://www.codeandweb.com/spriteilluminator
  • https://azagaya.itch.io/laigter
• Physics body editor
  • https://www.codeandweb.com/physicseditor
• Map editor
  • https://www.mapeditor.org/
  • https://next.inkarnate.com/
• Animator
  • https://brashmonkey.com/
  • https://www.pencil2d.org/
  • https://www.synfig.org/
• GIF editor
  • https://ezgif.com/
• Music editor
  • https://lmms.io/
• Sound editor
  • https://www.audacityteam.org/

Generators

• Names
  • https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/
  • http://chaoticshiny.com/
  • http://unique-names.com/
  • https://ingesanagram.appspot.com/
• Maps
  • https://azgaar.github.io/Fantasy-Map-Generator/

Tutorials

• Art
  • https://2dgameartguru.com/
• Animation
  • https://createcg.net/twelve-principles-of-animation/
• Maps
  • http://www.astrolog.org/labyrnth/algrithm.htm
  • https://www.redblobgames.com/maps/terrain-from-noise/

General/flexible paint programs:

• Quadtastic - A tool to manage sprite sheets and color palettes.

• Heavypaint - A phone app for graphic painting.

• Tuxpaint - A KidPix-like: free computer art software for children.

• Noodle - A minimalist experimental drawing tool (controls in the console.)

• JSPaint - Microsoft Paint for the browser, more or less.

• Krita - A free & open source painting program.

• GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program.

• Glimpse - Open source image editor based on the GNU Image Manipulation Program.

• Paint.net - Image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows.

• Fire Alpaca - Simple and easy, light performance image editor Pixel art:

• pixeldudesmaker - What it sounds like - generates little pixel dudes.

• Pixelorama - Free & open-source 2D sprite editor with layers.

• dpixel - An odd pixel art remastering tool - pixels go in, smoothed images come out.

• Sink's Fun Pack - Mostly a paint tool but also a level editor!

• Nasu - A tool for making NES sprites.

• Piskel - Web-based editor for sprites, spritesheets.

• Aseprite - Animated sprite editor & pixel tool Vector:

• cozyvec - A terminal program for creating plotter art (SVG files) in javascript.

• Dotgrid - A grid-based vector drawing software designed to create logos, icons and type.

• Inkscape - A free, open-source, cross-platform vector graphics editor.

• https://www.nodebox.net/ - a cross-platform tool to create generative vector graphics Sound & music:

Tools for sound effects, music, and general audio.

Sound effects generators:

• Bfxr - Sound effect editor that is based on sfxr.
• rFXGen - Also sound effects, based on sfxr.
• evosfxr - Also sound effects, also based on sfxr, with evolution.
• as3sxfr - S/A.
• sfxr - The original sound generator these are based on.
• GB SFX Generator - A small tool for creating authentic Game Boy sound effects.
• Chiptone - A free tool for generating sound effects in the browser.
• Freesound.org - A collection of CC-licensed sound effects. Sound editors:

Paulstretch - A program for extreme audio stretching. Make choruses and ambient tones.

• Audacity - The free software for recording and editing sounds.
• AudioSculpt - A visual approach to modifying a sound file.
• Reaper - Digital audio workstation
• Cecilia - Audio signal processing environment for mangling sound.