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Free GameDev Resources (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I figured it would be a good idea to have a list of free resources for the community
If you have something to add to the list, leave a comment!

Game Engines

Godot is free and open source
Unity is free unless you make over $100k but is not open source
Unreal engine is free unless you make over $1 Million but is also not open source

Asset Creation

Blender is a powerful free and open source 3d modelling program
Krita is a free and open source art program
Gimp is a free and open source image editing program
Laigter a free program for creating normal maps
Tiled is an open-source 2D level editor.@[email protected]
LMMS a Digital Audio Workstation similar to FLStudio - @[email protected]
Inkscape a vector graphics editor (.svg and other) - @[email protected]
Paint.net a simple image editor - @[email protected]
Pixelorama a pixelart editor, fully FOSS, unlike Aseprite - @[email protected]
Material Maker as the name implies, a tool for creating materials for 3d graphics - @[email protected]
LibreSprite is a fork of the last FOSS version off Aseprite - @[email protected]

Free Assets

OpenGameArt has a huge selection of free game assets, from audio to 3d models
Assets · Kenney Great source of prototyping assets - @[email protected]
Tiled is an open-source 2D level editor. - @[email protected]
Musical Artifacts a large selections of various soundfonts, uploaded by users - @[email protected]
FreePats a collection of specific instruments as soundfonts - @[email protected]

Misc

Freya Holmér on YouTube has several playlists of explanations of vectors, shaders, normal maps, and other useful mathematics. - @[email protected]
TinyTools Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup - @[email protected]
VSCodium a very popular code editor, with Microsoft telemetry ripped out - @[email protected]
Notepad++ a lightweight code editor for Windows - @[email protected]
Audacity a very useful tool for sound recording and editing - @[email protected]
MuseScore an app for music sheet notation - @[email protected]
OBS a program for screen recording - @[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

LibreSprite is a fork of the last FOSS version of Aseprite

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Great collection of resources!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm not thrilled Aseprite isn't FOSS but if anyone still wants to use it, I was able to compile it myself using this docker container for Linux: https://github.com/nilsve/docker-aseprite-linux . There are similar tools for other OSes.

I wasn't aware of Libresprite so thanks for that, but I don't think it works with the PixelLab plugin I use.

I used this website, JSFXR, to make 8 bit sound effects: https://sfxr.me/ And GXSCC to convert MIDIs to chiptunes: https://meme.institute/gxscc/ not fully free/FOSS but OK for my purposes. GXSCC works well under WINE on Linux.