magictools

cartoon user interface asset pack. It comes as a layered psd file

Set of 420 RPG icons, free for commercial use

3D models, particle systems/effects

A large collection of textures

a community-driven marketplace that connects indie game developers with talented asset creators

free icons for your games

Another free icons resource for your games

Royalty free assets

Free graphic assets of the Liberated Pixel Cup (LPC) held by the OpenGameArt forums

Matcaps

A Huge library of matcap textures in PNG and ZMT, organized by color

a media repository intended for use with free software game projects

Cheap high quality royalty free sprites

Free high resolution textures, brushes and photos

Image-to-Pixel Art converter

6000+ free low poly models

A blog with free 2D and 3D graphics

Publish & embed interactive 3D models

a collection of static and animated graphic objects (also commonly known as sprites)

Free transparent PNG images

Free textures with additional maps like displacement and bump maps. Also HDRIs

Free material stock textures

Free Vector Art

Cheetah-Texture-Packer

High efficient and fast 2D bin packing tool

EzSpriteSheet

Creates sprite sheets from animated GIFs and more

Libgdx Texture Packer

Texture Packer built into Libgdx

Bitmap font generator

Bitmap font generator

Adobe Air based app with game and ui related tools

Great spritesheet creation editor

Tilesplit

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

— Mac OS X GUI for pngquant and other tools

Smash PNGs for faster sites

Windows GUI for batch conversion

simple PNG image file compression tool

— Mac and Windows. Comparison with "Save for Web"

Advanced lossy compression for PNG images that preserves full alpha transparency

A plugin for Adobe Photoshop that allows you to build your own filters

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

PixPlant is a smart 3D texturing tool that creates high quality normal, displacement, specular maps and seamless textures from photos

Charas is a charset generator for RPG Maker

AutoTileGen is an automatic tileset generator for 2D game terrains

LDtk is an open-source 2D level editor for indie devs, with a strong focus on user-friendliness

A cloud based tile map editor used to create 2D levels directly in the browser

Material Maker

procedural texture creator made in Godot

generic level editor

Overlap2D

a 2D level and UI editor with an engine agnostic philosophy

A free level design tool to craft beautiful 2D tilemaps right in your browser using any tileset

free, easy to use and flexible tile map editor

Powerful physics-based 3D character animation

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

small tool for Clickteam Fusion 2.5 to facilitate the animation of 2D character sprites for developers

🆓 - Powerful tool for spriting and pixel art

tool for auto auto rigging and animation of 3D humanoid models,

Pixel Composer

Powerful node-based VFX editor for pixel art

Spine is dedicated to 2D animation, providing an efficient workflow both for creating amazing animation and for integrating it into your games

Modern tool for sprite animation

Vector graphics editor with a bunch of features which also supports Adobe file formats

Photo and raster graphics editor which works together with Adobe file formats and Affinity Designer

animated sprite editor & pixel art tool

GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring

An open-source vector graphics editor similar to Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, or Xara X

Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone

LibreSprite is an open source fork of Aseprite

Pixel Art Editor for Windows, supposed PSD files in addition to JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF

A cross-platform (Win, Linux, Mac) image editor/painter which covers the color limitations of 8-bit machines (like C64, ZX Spectrum etc.)

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows

Another Pixel art Editor

Free Online Pixel Art and Animated Sprite Tool

Full-featured image editing app for the Mac

Turn any image into fancy pixel-art

Pixen

Pixel Art Editor for OSX

A picture converter and editor for the Commodore 64 covering different graphics mode of this computer. Windows only

Pixel art editor designed to make it fun and easy to make tilesets, levels and animations

a powerful and user-friendly ASCII art editor

a modern & minimalist pixel editor

A quick procedural tile creator designed for pixel-art games

A pixel art editor for the Commodore 64 computer running on Windows

Charas is a charset generator for RPG Maker

Online Editor for Commodore 64 Sprites

SVGcode is a Progressive Web App that lets you convert raster images like JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, AVIF, etc. to vector graphics in SVG format

Free Raster to Vector Graphics Converter

Raster to Vector Graphics Converter built on top of visioncortex

Make a 3d real-time collaboration design and prototype in your VR headset or mobile AR

The free software and open-source 3D grate of the world

Canvascript

:free - A tool for creating HTML canvas graphics without writing code

A 3D software allows you to easily create custom scenes and characters in seconds

A version by Pixologic and the original

A 3d collaborative real-time

A 3D intuitive and easy to use for create right in your browser

The new version of sculptris by MAXON

Create quality, realistic terrain quickly and intuitively

Live 3D textured terrain generation from real data - export height/normal maps, glTF, OBJ, STL

Fractal planet and terrain generator

Procedural terrain and landscape generation on the GPU in real time, simulation of erosion and sediment, beautiful editor. much more

Procedural terrain creation, simulations of nature, and interactive editing

6502 Unit Test executor

A cross-platform unit testing tool for MOS 6502 assembly. (i.e. NES)

Allegro 4 & 5 are cross-platform, open source, game programming libraries, primarily for C and C++ developers

A free Lua-based audio/visual toolkit suitable for small games and experimentation. It runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, HTML5 and iOS

asimov-ts

A type safe (as much as possible) engine for the web written in TypeScript

Astera

2D C99 Cross Platform Game Library / Framework

axys

A fork of Cocos2d-x-4.0, it has Full Support OpenAL for all platforms, single texture multi GPU texture handler and C++ 17

A 3D engine written in Go

Javascript 3D Library

A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust

bgfx

Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library

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

Bladecoder

Classic point and click adventure game engine and editor

A Javascript framework for creating and displaying interactive 3D computer graphics in web browsers

Blitz3D

3D basic-like programming language for fast 3D desktop games

boardgame.io

State management and multiplayer networking for turn-based games

A 2D Physics Engine for Games

Real-time physics simulation

Chipmunk C#

C# implementation of the Chipmunk2D lib

A fast and lightweight 2D game physics library

Cinder is a community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++

Cocos Creator, a free cross-platform game development editor supporting Cocos2d-js, helps developers build 2D and 3D game scenes, edit game UI and other game resources quickly and efficiency

Cocos2D

graphic library for games and multimedia, for python language

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

an HTML5 game maker, meaning you are not actually writing JavaScript. Instead, you use actions, events and conditions to do the heavy lifting

CopperCube is an all-in-one 3D game engine.Very easy to use

A micro framework for JavaScript games. Handles collision detection, the game update loop, canvas rendering, and keyboard and mouse input

— this 2D game engine makes learning programming fun and game development easy by its visual tools, good docs, and flexible, modular library

Dash

A free and open 3D game engine written in D

Dear Imgui

A bloat-free immediate mode GUI for C++ with minimal dependencies

Free 2D Game Engine for Cross-Platform Publishing

DEM Net Elevation API C#

Terrain generation from real data with textures, normal maps, glTF, OBJ, STL support

Diligent Engine

A modern cross-platform low-level graphics library that supports Direct3D11, Direct3D12, OpenGL/GLES, and Vulkan

DotRecast

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

The Eight-Bit Universal Role Playing Engine

ENGi

A multi-platform 2D game library for Go

Engo is an open-source 2D game engine written in Go

A dead simple 2D game library in Go

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

A Fast, Open Source JavaScript, Canvas & Audio Implementation for iOS

EnTT

Gaming meets modern C++, a fast and reliable entity-component system (ECS) and much more

FXGL

A JavaFX/Kotlin game engine for Win/Mac/Linux

Farseer

a collision detection system with realistic physics responses

Flame

a minimalist game engine for Flutter

free ActionScript 3 library designed for developing 2D Flash games

multi-platform 3D game engine

Foster

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

GameMaker accommodates the creation of cross-platform video games using drag and drop or a scripting language known as Game Maker Language, which can be used to develop more advanced games that could not be created just by using the drag and drop features

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

Game Creation Engine for Mac and Windows

A free and easy to use retro adventure game creator for your favourite handheld video game system

An open-source, cross-platform 2D game engine designed for everyone - it's extensible, fast and easy to learn

A Rust library to create Good Games Easily

A Cross-Platform framework to create Mobile Apps and games for iOS, Android using Lua programming language

Glide Engine

Engine for making 2d games on iOS, macOS and tvOS in Swift programming language, with practical examples and tutorials

An advanced, feature-packed, multi-platform 2D and 3D open-source game engine

A 2D rendering API for .NET, written in C#

Grid

A multiplayer-first game engine for Lua

Create cross-platform games easier and free

Cross platform graphics for high performance games

small open source 3D rendering engine

iio.js

A javascript library that speeds the creation and deployment of HTML5 Canvas applications

Impact is a JavaScript Game Engine that allows you to develop stunning HTML5 Games for desktop and mobile browsers

A design system for interactive fiction based on natural language

Scripting language for writing interactive narrative

open source high performance realtime 3D engine written in C++

Jitter

a fast and lightweight physics engine written in C#

a 3D open-source game engine for adventurous Java developers

JNGL

a 2D open-source game engine. Develop on Linux, Windows, OS X. Deploy to Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Linux, Windows, OS X, Web, Android, iOS and more

jPCT is a 3D engine for desktop Java and Google's Android

Juno

Clean and lightweight 2D game framework written in TypeScript

Juno

Framework for making 2D games with chunky pixels in Lua

A 2D game framework for Kivy

Cross platform Python framework for creating apps and games for Linux, Windows, OS X, Android and iOS

Modern Multiplatform Game Engine for Kotlin. Write games for the JVM, JavaScript, Android and iOS in no time using Kotlin

Easy-to-learn game engine for 3D and VR

Powerful (totally free) library for Java, code once and run the game on desktop, Android, Web, and iOS

HTML5 game framework for building fast, native-experience games for all modern touchscreens and

2D Java Game Engine. It provides all the infrastructure to create tile based 2D games with plain java

Amazon Lumberyard is a free AAA game engine deeply integrated

LumixEngine

3D Game engine built on C++

Lums

A 2D / 3D framework written in C++11. Very efficient and modern. Still under heavy development

Lua 2D Game Engine

MINX

Open Source 2D game framework written in C++ (to the style of XNA)

macroquad

The cross-platform game engine in Rust

game engine & graphics toolkit build in zig

a lightweight and modular 2D/3D graphics/game engine written in C++11

a 2D physics engine for the web

open source light-weight HTML5 game engine

Mini Micro is a fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing 2D games and programs written in the modern language

Open Source implementation of the Microsoft XNA 4 Framework

Nakama

Distributed server for social and realtime games and apps

A cross-platform 2D game engine with an emphasis on performance, written in C++11 and optionally scriptable in Lua

a family of Python tools to create generative design

nuklear

A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library

ÖbEngine

2D Game Engine with Lua Scripting made on top of SFML !

ODE is an open source, high performance library for simulating rigid body dynamics

is a scene-oriented, real-time, flexible 3D rendering engine (as opposed to a game engine) written in C++

Open Source Haxe Engine for making multi-platform games

An open source and free C++ toolkit for creative coding

OpenRA is a Libre/Free Real Time Strategy Game Engine

OpenXRay

a community-modified X-Ray engine used in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series

ORX is a 2.5D Data-driven C/C++ open source & multi-platform game development engine

A fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs

JavaScript 2D physics library

a framework for 3D rendering and game development for Python and C++ programs

free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering

a modular open source game engine written in Rust

Pixel Vision 8

Pixel Vision 8's core philosophy is to teach retro game development with streamlined workflows. PV8 is also a platform that standardizes 8-bit fantasy console limitations built on top of the open-source C# game engine based on MonoGame

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

2D JavaScript physics engine for cross-platform HTML5 game development

A WebGL Game Engine

Processing is a programming language, development environment for artists, designers, researchers

open-source HTML5 puzzle game engine

a 2D game engine in Python

Pyxel

a retro game engine for Python

series of programs for the development of role-playing games

Rajawali

Android OpenGL ES 2.0/3.0 Engine

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)

An open-source visual novel engine using the Python language in simplified form. It supports Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android and iOS

RGFW

Lightweight multi-platform single-header library for creating windows, supports many graphics contexts and software rendering

A 2d rpg game engine and editor based on scala and libgdx. Ease of use, with no programming knowledge

Apple proprietary 3D game engine (available on macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS and watchOS)

Screen 13

An easy-to-use Vulkan rendering engine. Provides a render graph for Rust

SDL is a cross-platform library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D

Simple and Fast Multimedia Library

A Lua based game engine with focus on ease of iterations and usage

Cross-platform 2D Action/Adventure C++ game engine with Lua API and game editor

A powerful free cross-platform RTS engine

Apple proprietary 2D game engine (available on macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS and watchOS)

Lightweight and fast 2D HTML5 rendering and layout engine for cross-platform game development

The GPU powered 2D Flash API

a game creation platform that allows users to create 2D video games for computers, mobile devices, and the web

Open Source C# Game Engine

Cross-platform game engine for 2D and 3D projects with entity component system (ECS) and data-oriented design in C++ and Lua

HTML5 Collaborative 2D/3D Game Maker

TIC-80 is a fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games

TPE is a small, completely public domain fixed point physically inaccurate pure C header-only 3D physics engine built to run on tiny computers such as embedded and even bare metal

Javascript 3D Library

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

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

A development engine for the creation of 2D and 3D games and interactive content

the new game engine technology developed by Epic Games

Cross-platform rendering and game engine

A game engine powered by python and panda3d

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

voxel.js is a collection of projects that make it easier than ever to create 3D voxel games like Minecraft all in the browser

Cross-platform engine written in C#

open source editor for RPG Maker style gamesl

WhiteStorm.js

3d javacript framework for building apps and games

Fluent Behaviour Tree

C# behaviour tree library with a fluent API released under MIT

SimpleAI

C++11 behaviour tree based library with a QT5 based remote debugger (and with optional LUA bindings) released under MIT

Archive of all kinds of royalty-free game sounds

collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds

Royalty free music

free library of UI sounds

royalty free sounds collection

Royalty-free, searchable archive of sound effects under various licenses

open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds

transforms your web browser into a fast and flexible music production studio with built in synthesizers and live effects

Online music producer

A tool to make sound effects for computer games

Online (and also desktop) music producer made by Terry Cavanagh. Simple, intuitive, has a distinctive retro-ish sound

Online sound effect generator

Famistudio

FamiStudio NES Music Editor

FamiTracker

free windows tracker for producing music for the NES/Famicom-systems

A JavaScript port of the Bfxr sound effect generator

Cross-platform music production software

a powerful and efficient approach to making music. Versatility and compatibility are guaranteed due to full VST™, ASIO™ and ReWire™ support

MilkyTracker

open source tracker for Mac/Linux/Windows platforms

open source, fairly large and sophisticated music editor and synthesizer

Resemble's voice cloning engine within Unity

Open Source MIDI sequencer

Online Professional music studio

a small, fast and powerful modular synthesizer with pattern-based sequencer (tracker)

Board Game Design Tool

a brand of open-source programs designed to enhance traditional pen-and-paper role playing games

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"

awesome-gametalks

A curated list of game talks (GDC, youtube, etc)

Twitch GameDev Streams

Listing of itch.io game jams

GitHub's game jam

Popular yearly game jam

Listing of game jams

very popular game jam

Weekly 1 hour game jam

Visual Project Management

Project Management Tool inspired by Collectible Card Games

Project management for game developers

Project management platform for agile developers & designers

Organize and prioritize projects

Google's Ads and monetization service for mobile

Mobile video Ads service

A programmatic ad mediation solution for mobile apps

Monetization, analytics platform

Unity3D Official Ads SDK

Video Ads service

miloyip/game-programmer

A Study Path for Game Programmer