awesome-gamedev

A giant collection of clip art.

A large collection of art intended for game development. Various licenses, including free ones

A collection of various assets of all kinds. Various licenses, all CC or free-er

A collection of open source videogames that are clones of old games

The digital audio workstation. or later

Software for recording and editing sounds. or later

Music composition and modular synthesis software. or later

An advanced drum machine, with a free drum kit included. or later

A digital audio workstation. or later

Multi-platform application for creating .mod and .xm module files. or later

A large and sophisticated music editor.

A music notation program capable of generating engraved scores and audio and MIDI files. or later

rFXGen

A tool to generate sound waves procedurally.

Royalty free music and sounds. Various licenses, including free ones

A collection of music-related everything. Various licenses, all CC

A collection of music.

A site for collaborating with musicians. Various licenses, all CC

Everything on Bandcamp under a CC-license. Various licenses, all CC

A Creative Commons collection on SoundCloud. Various licenses, all CC

An archive of free music. Various licenses, all CC

An artist providing royalty free music of all genres.

A site providing music licensed under the Creatives Commons. Various licenses, all CC

A big collection of stations, with fully-free music. Licenses allow downloads and reuse

A site dedicated to copyright-free (and culturally free) music. Various licenses, all copyright-free (varies by piece)

Digitized out-of-copyright sound recordings. Public domain in the UK

A bunch of musical tracks.

Audioaugust

A collection of sound effects, originally used for a game.

A collection of CC-licensed sound effects. Various licenses, all CC

jsfxr

A tool like sfxr-sdl but in ECMAScript.

A collection of assorted sounds.

A tool to generate sounds.

A collection of CC or public-domain-licensed sounds. Various licenses, all CC or public domain

Part of the Free Culture Reddit Community. A general free-culture-focused community

Part of the Free Culture Reddit Community. Designed specifically for discussion of free culture games

A general free-software-focused community

A community for discussion and support in development with the Godot game engine

A forum community for all things free-game-development-related

A community dedicated to free gaming

The free gaming encyclopedia

AGS

Implemented in C++. Scripted using its own scripting language. Designed for adventure games.

Implemented in C++. Designed for FPS games. or later

Implemented in C++.

Implemented in Java. Includes a multiplayer game framework. only

Implemented in Go.

Backbone

Implemented in ECMAScript.

BananaBread

Implemented in ECMAScript. A port of Sauerbrauten.

Implemented in ObjectPascal. or later

Chili Source

Implemented in C++.

Implemented in Python.

Cocos2d-android

Implemented in Java.

Implemented in C++. Has ECMAScript, Lua and C++ scripting.

Implemented in C. or later

Implemented in C++. Also useful for simulations. or later

Implemented in C++. or later

Implemented in C#.

Implemented in C++. Designed for JRPG-style games. or later

Implemented in C++. Has its own scripting language and . or later

Implemented in C++. Has Python scripting. Designed for isometric games. or later

Implemented in C++. Has an easy graphics API.

Flambe

Implemented in Haxe. Designed for 2D games.

FLARE

Implemented in C++. Designed for action RPGs. or later

Implemented in C++. Designed for livecoding worlds. or later

Free Hero Mesh

Implemented in C. Designed for turn-based grid-based 2D puzzle games. Public domain

gamekit

Implemented in C++. Scripted using C++, Lua or logic blocks.

GamePlay

Implemented in C++.

Implemented in C++. Targeted at non-programmers. (IDE is only.)

Implemented in C++. or later

Implemented in C++. Has .

Implemented in C++. has a Ruby interface.

Implemented in Haskell.

Implemented in ECMAScript. Designed for text adventure games. or later

Implemented in C++.

ioquake3

Implemented in C. A fork of the Quake III Arena engine. or later

Implemented in C++. Has a .

Implemented in Java.

JNGL

Implemented in C++. Designed for 2D games.

kengine

The Koala engine is a type-safe and self-documenting implementation of an Entity-Component-System (ECS), with a focus on runtime extensibility and compile-time type safety and clarity

Implemented in Python.

LambdaHack

Implemented in Haskell, Designed for roguelikes.

litiengine

Implemented in Java, Designed for 2D games

Implemented in ECMAScript. Designed for construction of HTML5 or native SDL games.

Implemented in C++. Has Lua for scripting. or later

Implemented in C++. Has Lua for scripting.

Implemented in C++. Has LuaJIT for scripting. Fork of Sauerbraten.

Implemented in C++. Has a .

Implemented in BASIC. Designed for 8/16-bit-like games like Final Fantasy. Has custom plotscript language for advanced scripts. An oldschool RPG Maker alternative. or later

Implented in C.

Implemented in C++.

Implemented in C++. Has a Python interface.

Implemented in Java.

Implemented in Java. Has its own scripting language. only

Implemented in ECMAScript. Has its own scripting language.

qfusion

Implemented in C++. Designed for FPS games. or later

Implemented in Python. Designed for visual novels. , with some parts under only

Implemented in Python. Designed for 2-D games.

Implemented in C++. Has its own scripting language. only with the GTK Dev Kit or later

Implemented in Guile. Uses functional reactive programming. or later

Implemented in C++. Has a Lua API and game editor. Designed for Action-RPGs. or later

Spearmint

Implemented in C. Designed for FPS games. or later

Implemented in C++. Designed for RTS games. or later

Implemented in C++. Has .

Implemented in C++. Has .

Turbulenz

Implemented in ECMAScript.

Implemented in C++. Scripted using AngelScript or Lua.

voxeliq

Implemented in C#. Designed for voxel world games.

Akihabara

Designed for 8-bit and 16-bit games.

Coffee2D

Implemented in CoffeeScript.

Cube

Designed for voxel games.

ammo.js

Implemented in ECMAScript. A port of Bullet.

Implemented in C++. Designed to simulate rigid body physics.

Implemented in C++. General physics engine.

LiquidFun is a 2D rigid-body and fluid simulation C++ library for games based upon Box2D.

Implemented in ECMAScript. Physics engine for HTML5.

Open Dynamics Engine; implemented in C++. Designed to simulate rigid body dynamics.

Oimo.js

Implemented in ECMAScript.

Physics.js

Implemented in ECMAScript.

Fast 2D and 3D physics engine for the Rust programming language

Hypatia

A pure-C math library for 2D/3D graphics (matrix, vector, quaternion) Seeks to be close to C89/C90 compliant for portability.

A collection of freely-licensed fonts.

A collection of freely licensed fonts.

Three freely-licensed fonts with support for many character sets.

A collection of fonts with high standards.

2048-cli

A CLI version of 2048. (code), no significant assets

2048-in-terminal

A CLI version of 2048. (code), no significant assets

Craft

A 3D voxel world game. (code and assets)

Curse of War

A fast-paced strategy game. or later (code and assets)

The Legend of Edgar

A 2D platform game with a persistent world. or later (code), various free culture licenses (assets)

FallingTime

An arcade game. or later (code), various CC (no NC or ND) (assets)

Taisei

(code and assets), only for one font

Turtle Arena

Third-person action game. or later (code), various free culture licenses (assets)

Wizznic

A puzzle game. or later (code and assets)

Battle for Wesnoth

A turn-based strategy game. or later (code and assets)

Blackvoxel

A voxel exploration and crafting game. or later (code and assets)

Clonepoint

or later (code), various CC (no NC or ND) (assets)

colobot

A robot-based strategy game. or later (code and assets)

Egooboo

A 3D dungeon crawler in the spirit of NetHack. or later(code and assets)

Endless Sky

3D space exploration game. or later (code), various CC (no NC or ND) (assets)

Freeminer

A 3D voxel world game. or later (code), (assets)

MegaGlest

A 3D RTS game. or later (code), (assets)

Minetest

A 3D voxel world game. or later (code), (assets)

Minilens

A cute puzzle platformer starring a cleaning robot on post-Apocalyptic Earth. Made with the Godot engine. or later (code), (assets)

A JRPG-style game. (code and assets)

A JRPG-style game. (code and assets)

A jump'n'run/settlement/combat game. (code), at most but mostly (assets)

OpenDungeons

A version of Dungeon Keeper. or later (code), various free culture licenses (assets)

Return of Dr. Destructo

An adventure game. (code), (assets)

SavageWheels

A car game. (code and assets)

Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries

A strategy game. or later (code and assets)

SuperTux

A platformer. or later (code), various free culture licenses (assets)

SuperTuxKart

A 3D racing game. or later (code), various free licenses (assets). (code), (assets)

The Powder Toy

A sandbox falling sand physics game. or later (code and assets)

A multiplayer, casual FPS game. (code), (assets)

Warzone 2100

An RTS sci-fi game. or later (code), various free culture licenses (assets)

A classical vertical arcade shooter with an abstract theme and matching electronic music. (code), no significant assets

A free-to-win rhythm game. Rhythm is just a click away!

coffee-snake

A version of Snake. or later (code), no significant assets

Zop

A 'connect the dots' game. (code), no significant assets

has created 50 games in 2014. ( ). , no assets

Hauberk

A roguelike. (code), no significant assets

Pop, Pop, Win!

A version of Minesweeper. (code and assets)

2048

The original, classic casual game. (code and assets)

A Dark Room

A text adventure game. (code), no significant assets

Blockrain.js

A version of Tetris. (code and assets)

BrowserQuest

An MMORPG. (code), (assets)

Clumsy Bird

A version of Flappy Bird. (code and assets)

Drunken Viking

A top-down puzzle game. (code), various CC (no NC or ND) (assets)

Freeciv-web

A port of Freeciv. or later and or later (code and assets)

ludum-dare-28

(code and assets)

Masonry-JavaScript-Tetris-Clone

Exactly what it says on the tin. (code and assets)

Parity

(code), no significant assets

Particle Clicker

An incremental game that teaches the history of high-energy particle physics. (code and assets)

Prism

A colour-matching game. (code), no significant assets

Roguish

A roguelike. (code and assets)

Snake

A version of Snake. (code), no significant assets

Sorades 13k

A scrolling shooter. (code and assets)

Space Crusade

A space game. (code), (assets)

Space Shooter

Simple space shooting game. (code)

Squirts

(code and assets)

An indie, side-scrolling RPG. only (code and assets)

A 3D puzzle game. (code), (assets)

A puzzle game. (code), various CC (no NC or ND) (assets)

Mindustry

The automation tower defense RTS

PuzzleGame

A slider puzzle game. Uses Android port of Cocos2D engine. (code and assets)

Terasology

A 3D voxel world game. (code and assets)

Unciv

Open source, moddability-focused Android and Desktop remake of Civ V.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

A roguelike set in a post-apocalyptic world. (code), (assets)

DynaDungeons

A version of Bomberman. Uses Godot engine. or later (code), various CC (no NC or ND) (assets)

FLARE

A dark fantasy 2D RPG. Uses FLARE engine. or later (code), (assets)

Pioneer

A space exploration game. Implemented in C++ and Lua. only (code), (assets)

Source of Tales

An MMORPG. Scripted using Lua (implementation language unclear). or later (code), and (assets)

Tanks of Freedom

Pixed-based turn-based strategy. Uses Godot engine. (code and assets)

Teeworlds

Implemented in C and C++. (code), (assets)

Zero-K

An RTS game. Uses Spring engine. or later (code and assets)

An index of Games written in Haskell. Various licenses

A fun and challenging mouse game where you must dodge bullets. only (code), various CC (no NC or ND) (assets)

Free-roaming Metroid-like. only (code), various CC (no NC or ND) (assets)

Mystic Mine

(code and assets)

A platformer. only (code), various free culture licenses (assets)

A mix of classical roguelike and sandbox game. or later (code), various free culture licenses (assets)

Unknown Horizons

A real-time strategy simulation game. or later (code), (assets)

User-submitted 3D models made with Blender. Various licenses, including free ones

A community of Blender artists and their work. Various licenses, all CC

Free online tree generator. Generates PNG files.

3D Models by of various subjects.

A library of motion capture data. Various licenses, including free ones

Thousands of free low poly 3D models licensed under and

A search engine for 3D models that aims to display license information when possible. Various licenses, including free ones

A collection of various game-related assets. Available in PNG. Public domain

A collection of various clip art. Available in PNG. Public domain

A collection of pixel spreadsheets for a top-down shooter.

A collection of vector art. Various Creative Commons licenses

A collection of various graphical elements. Custom attribution license, free

FatCow

A set of 3900 colour icons in 16x16 and 32x32 pixel format.

Font Awesome

A large set of vector icons.

A constantly-growing collection of black-and-white icons. Available in SVG or PNG.

IconFontCppHeaders

C and C++ headers for icon fonts , and .

Kenney Game Icons

A font pack specifically designed for (browser) games and other gaming related websites/projects.

Material Design Icons

An official icon set from Google following specific guidelines.

An icon set project with a goal to create a consistent user interface. Public domain

UI Prompts for Keyboard and Mouse, and most controllers (PlayStation, Xbox, Steam Deck, Wii, etc...).

A pixel-art RPG-style character spritesheet generator. Arts are dual licensed : and

A big collection of sprites. Available in PNG.

A 2D animation tool. or later

Reference implementation of the Free Lossless Image Format. Comes with additional tools. only

A command-line utility for lossy compression of PNG images. Has various front-ends available.

Trimage

A cross-platform tool for losslessly optimizing PNG and JPG files.

A 3D modelling and rendering editor. or later

Canvascript

A tool for creating HTML canvas graphics without writing code. or later

The GNU Image Manipulation Program. Designed for photo retouching, image composition and similar tasks. or later

A bitmap paint program specialized for 256-color drawing. only

A program for creating, manipulating and viewing height maps. or later

A vector image editing program. only

A digital painting and illustration program. or later

A tool for making 3D characters. or later

A natural materials painting and drawing emulator. or later

A 3D plant modelling software suite. or later

An online normal-mapping tool.

An engine-agnostic game level and UI editor.

2D pixel art editor with animation support.

2D animation software. or later

Easy-to-use and flexible tile map editor. or later and

A portable system for the processing and editing of unstructured 3D triangular meshes. or later

A 3D sculpting application that provides an intuitive workflow using a number of powerful modelling tools. or later

SpaceshipGenerator

A Blender script allowing generation of spaceships from a random seed and some parameters.

Online pixel art and animated sprite creator. or later

AwesomeBump

A program that generates normal, height, specular or ambient occlusion, roughness or metallic textures. Requires a graphics card with support for OpenGL4 or greater. or later

Material Maker

Procedural texture generation tool for use with PBR engines.

An easy-to-use, graph-based, procedural texture editor. No longer maintained. or later

An online tool for texture generation.

A 3D interface for quickly editing and creating voxel-based 3D models.

Graphics debugger that allows quick and easy single-frame capture and detailed introspection of any application using Vulkan, D3D11, OpenGL & OpenGL ES or D3D12 across Windows, Linux, Android, or Nintendo Switch™.

NVTOP

GPU & Accelerator process monitoring for AMD, Apple, Huawei, Intel, NVIDIA and Qualcomm.

RadeonTop

View your GPU utilization, both for the total activity percent and individual blocks.

A collection of learning resources for would-be game designers.

A Wikibook for learning how to make 3D graphics with Blender.

A collection of articles about the use of procedural generation to make stuff in games.

A community-driven online resource for promoting musical creation and composition using free tools.

A collection of computer science courses. Many of these deal with useful concepts for game programming.

Class on making simple mobile games with Gideros and Lua.

Pretty much what it says on the tin.

(video) - A set of tutorials in 2D game programming, illustrated using ECMAScript.

(video) - A collection of basic video tutorials for C++.

A guide to writing good, clean and readable Go code for beginners. (text), (code)

(video) - A series of tutorials about functional programming concepts, illustrated using ECMAScript.

(video) - A set of tutorials for using Java collections properly.

(video) - A collection of basic video tutorials for Java.

A completed Wikibook on programming Lua.

A series of tutorials designed to help people get started programming Haskell.

A collection of code samples using PyGame. or later

ocaml-sdl2-minigames

A collection of code samples using OCamlSDL2.

An introduction to programming in C by the nice GNU people. PDF.

An interesting introductory book for Ruby.

(video) - A tutorial on advanced aspects of C++.

A Python book for experienced programmers.

A very thorough Wikibook on programming Haskell.

An introduction to Haskell for people coming from C-family languages.

(video) - A series of videos about how to use JavaFX to make GUIs.

(video) - A series of videos about how to do multithreading work in Java.

Mostly adequate guide to functional programming (in JavaScript)

A book on the fundamentals of functional programming in ECMAScript.

A classic programming and teaching text. Designed for teaching Scheme, but can be useful to anyone writing in any language.

breakouts

A collection of ECMAScript implementations of Breakout.

A complete wiki of the Haskell programming language.

A collection of posts, many of which are about Haskell use.

(podcast) - Listen to a video game composer discuss soundtracks of iconic games such as Mass Effect, Duke Nukem II, Doom, and System Shock with their composers, often while playing the game

(podcast) - A series of online radio shows devoted to entertaining and educating whoever is interested in game development.

(video) - A collection of talks about various aspects of game development.

ActionKid

A simple video game framework. Implemented in Haskell.

A cross-platform library for low-level tasks, like creating windows, accepting user input and so forth. Implemented in C and C++.

A framework to ease 2D game development, providing QML elements representing basic game entities. Implemented in C++.

bgfx

A 'build-your-own-engine' rendering library.

A fast and lightweight 2D game physics library. Implemented in C.

ChipmunkSharp

Advanced physics engine library based on Chipmunk. Implemented in C#.

A community-developed library for creative coding. Implemented in C++.

A cross-platform toolkit with a primary focus on game creation. Implemented in C++. ( ).

A lightweight and fast 2D HTML5 rendering engine for cross-platform game development. Implemented in ECMAScript.

Dear ImGui

An Immediate Mode Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies.

DotRecast

A port of Recast & Detour, navigation mesh toolset for games, Unity3D, servers, C#.

A framework for developing simple HTML5 + ECMAScript games. Implemented in ECMAScript.

A framework for building HTML5 games. Implemented in TypeScript.

Epoxy

A library for handling OpenGL function pointer management. Implemented in C.

Friflo.Engine.ECS

High-performance C# ECS with simple API. Supports .NET, WASM/WebAssembly, Native AOT, Unity, Godot, MonoGame,

A reimplementation of the Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh libraries. Implemented in C#

Foster

A small cross-platform 2D game framework. Implemented in C#.

GameJs

A thin library on top of the Canvas API, including some helpful game development modules.

A cross-platform game development framework in Lua. Various licenses, all free

Gladiator3D

A raycasting engine. Implemented in ECMAScript.

A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES and Vulkan development on the desktop.

A cross-platform development framework, supporting many targets. Implemented in Haxe.

A development framework designed to let you build games on any platform.

ImGuizmo

An immediate mode 3D gizmo for scene editing and other controls based on .

Kcp

A fast and reliable ARQ protocol that helps fast-action games reduct network latency.

Rapid-development library for multi-touch and visual apps on many platforms. Implemented in Python.

A cross-platform development library, designed for mobile devices. Implemented in C++ and Lua.

Cross-platform game development framework. Implemented in Java.

libRocket

An HTML/CSS-based UI library. Implemented in C++.

libSDL2pp

A set of C++11 bindings for SDL2. Implemented in C++.

A framework for building fast HTML5 games. Implemented in ECMAScript.

A very large and powerful framework for cross-platform 2D game development. Implemented in C++.

A framework for making 2D games. Implemented in Lua.

A cross-platform framework/development tool for making 2D/3D games. Lua/LuaJIT programming language based.

MINX Is Not XNA; a framework resembling XNA. Implemented in C++.

2D physics library. Implemented in ECMAScript.

pixi.js

A 2D rendering engine. Implemented in ECMAScript.

Framework for games and interactive applications. Implemented in C++. Has Lua bindings.

putils

Phisko's C++ utilities. Large collection of helper classes and functions. [MIT]

putils_meta

Phisko's metaprogramming utilities. Collection of type traits and compile-time helpers. [MIT]

putils_reflection

A simple, stand-alone, header-only and easily pluggable reflection system. [MIT]

PyDark

Game framework on top of PyGame; designed to be easy to pick up. Implemented in Python.

A set of modules designed for writing games. Implemented in Python. or later

Quasi-Engine

A set of Qt-based tools for game development. Implemented in C++. or later

Low-level library designed to learn videogames programming. Implemented in C, but has Lua and Go bindings

Another cross-platform library for low-level tasks, like creating windows, accepting user input, and so forth. Implemented in C.

Simple and Fast Multimedia Library; a multi-platform, multi-language, multimedia interface to various computer hardware. Implemented in C++. Has a .

A set of tools to make 2D game development easier. Implemented in Java.

A library that makes WebGL easy to use. Implemented in ECMAScript.

Tracy

C++ frame profiler.

A multi-component framework for bulding voxel games for modern browsers. Implemented in ECMAScript.

A cross-platform game development library designed to provide necessary functionality for rendering 2D-graphics, handling input, sound output, etc. Implemented in Pascal.

Open Asset Import Library; a portable way to import various well-known 3D model formats in a uniform manner. Implemented in C++, with a range of bindings.

Easel.js

Provides a range of tools to make working with the HTML5 Canvas API easier. Implemented in ECMAScript.

A crowd-sourced database website of Game Engines and free (as in freedom) games for each engine

A 3D finite-element grid generator with a built-in CAD engine and post-processor. or later

libcaca

An ASCII graphics rendering library for terminal-based interfaces.

A portable coherent noise-generation library. Implemented in C++. or later

A library to provide abstract access to various archives.

A program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. or later

Torsion

A TorqueScript IDE.

A cross-platform level editor for Quake-engine-based games. Currently supports Quake, Quake 2 and Hexen 2 engine-based games. or later

Provides everything needed to create your own free software MMORPG. or later (or a compatible license)