ellisonleao / magictools

A curated list of game development resources to make **magic** happen. License Legends • :free: - Free • :tada: - Open Source • :moneybag: - Paid • :money_with_wings: - Partially Free Table of Contents • Graphics • Assets/Placeholders • Spritesheet Tools • Bitmap Compression • Texture Tools • Character Generators • Tile/Level Editors • Animation • Vector/Image Editor • Modeling • Terrain Generators • Voxel Editors • Code • Engines and Frameworks • AI • Audio • Collections • Music and Audio Editors • Board Games • Must see • Blogs and Portals • Books • Magazines • Videos/Podcasts • Game Jams • Project Management • Complete Game Sources • Communities • Ads • Learn • General Game Development • Computer Graphics Graphics _Great graphics placeholders and tools to turn that squared game into a picasso painting_ Assets/Placeholders • :free: 2D Cartoon Mobile Game UI Pack - cartoon user interface asset pack. It comes as a layered psd file. • :free: 420 Pixel Art Icons for RPGs - Set of 420 RPG icons, free for commercial use. • :free: Blender 3D models - 3D models, particle systems/effects • :money_with_wings: CGTextures - A large collection of textures. • :money_with_wings: GameDev Market - a community-driven marketplace that connects indie game developers with talented asset creators. • :free: Games-Icons Set - free icons for your games. • :free: Iconmonstr - Another free icons resource for your games. • :money_with_wings: Kenney Assets - Royalty free assets • :free: Liberated Pixel Cup assets - Free graphic assets of the Liberated Pixel Cup (LPC) held by the OpenGameArt forums • :free: Matcaps - A Huge library of matcap textures in PNG and ZMT, organized by color. • :free: OpenGameArt - a media repository intended for use with free software game projects. • :moneybag: Oryx Design Lab - Cheap high quality royalty free sprites • :money_with_wings: PlainTextures - Free high resolution textures, brushes and photos • :free: Pixelicious - Image-to-Pixel Art converter. • :free: Poly Pizza - 6000+ free low poly models • :free: Quaternius - Thousands of free CC0 low-poly 3D models and animated characters. • :free: Reiner's Tilesets - A blog with free 2D and 3D graphics. • :free: Sketchfab - Publish & embed interactive 3D models. • :free: SpriteLib - a collection of static and animated graphic objects (also commonly known as sprites). • :free: StickyPNG - Free transparent PNG images. • :free: TextureHaven - Free textures with additional maps like displacement and bump maps. Also HDRIs. • :free: TextureKing - Free material stock textures • :money_with_wings: Vecteezy - Free Vector Art. Spritesheet Tools • :tada: Cheetah-Texture-Packer - High efficient and fast 2D bin packing tool • :tada: EzSpriteSheet - Creates sprite sheets from animated GIFs and more • :tada: Libgdx Texture Packer - Texture Packer built into Libgdx • :free: Littera - Bitmap font generator • :tada: SnowB Bitmap Font - Bitmap font generator • :free: ShoeBox - Adobe Air based app with game and ui related tools. • :money_with_wings: TexturePacker - Great spritesheet creation editor. • :tada: 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. Bitmap Compression • :tada: ImageAlpha — Mac OS X GUI for pngquant and other tools • :free: Photo Resizer In KB - Resize photos easily and free to use • :free: PNGGauntlet - Smash PNGs for faster sites • :free: PNGoo - Windows GUI for batch conversion. • :tada: Pngyu - simple PNG image file compression tool. • :money_with_wings: TinyPNG - Advanced lossy compression for PNG images that preserves full alpha transparency. Texture Tools • :moneybag: FilterForge - A plugin for Adobe Photoshop that allows you to build your own filters. • :free: Live Normal - 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. • :moneybag: PixPlant - PixPlant is a smart 3D texturing tool that creates high quality normal, displacement, specular maps and seamless textures from photos. Character Generators • :free: Charas - Charas is a charset generator for RPG Maker. Tile/Level Editors • :moneybag: AutoTileGen - AutoTileGen is an automatic tileset generator for 2D game terrains. • :tada: LDtk - LDtk is an open-source 2D level editor for indie devs, with a strong focus on user-friendliness. • :money_with_wings: MapperMate - A cloud based tile map editor used to create 2D levels directly in the browser. • :tada: Material Maker - procedural texture creator made in Godot • :tada: OGMO Editor- generic level editor. • :tada: Overlap2D - a 2D level and UI editor with an engine agnostic philosophy. • :free: Sprite Fusion - A free level design tool to craft beautiful 2D tilemaps right in your browser using any tileset. • :tada: Tiled - free, easy to use and flexible tile map editor. Animation • :money_with_wings: Cascadeur - Powerful physics-based 3D character animation • :tada: LWF - 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. • :moneybag: Fusion Character Animator - small tool for Clickteam Fusion 2.5 to facilitate the animation of 2D character sprites for developers. • 🆓 GraphicsDale - Powerful tool for spriting and pixel art. • :moneybag: Mixamo - tool for auto auto rigging and animation of 3D humanoid models, • :tada: Pixel Composer - Powerful node-based VFX editor for pixel art • :moneybag: Spine - Spine is dedicated to 2D animation, providing an efficient workflow both for creating amazing animation and for integrating it into your games. • :moneybag: Spriter Pro - Modern tool for sprite animation. Vector/Image Editor • :moneybag: Affinity Designer - Vector graphics editor with a bunch of features which also su…