Game Development Resources Compilation

[NaNoW]

PixelProspector - the indie goldmine and Game Assets by Andre Antonio Schmitz | ZEEF​

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Both these links have nearly Everything you will / might want.​

From free asset resources to marketing to business to .....basically everything game dev ​

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  .pixelprospector.com/ this is a really complete, all around gatherer of tutorials, and now that they reorganized it it's even more awesome!
• http://ludumdare.com/compo/tools/ this is just a collection of tools by Ludum Dare ;-)
• And here it comes my personal list of websites where you can download assets from:
• • List of free assets shop: https://letsmakegames.org/resources/art-assets-for-game-developers/
  • List of open game art OpenGameArt.org
  • Textures: Textures for 3D, graphic design and Photoshop!
  • Vector:
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      Download Free Vector Art, Stock Photos & Stock Video Footage

      Explore royalty-free vectors, clipart graphics, icons, stock photos, stock videos, backgrounds, patterns, banners, and designs from artists around the world!

      www.vecteezy.com

    • Openclipart - Clipping Culture

      openclipart.org
    • http://it.freepik.com/ It's in Italian, but maybe it has also an English version
  • Sprites: http://www.spriters-resource.com/ ,
    Free Sprites
  • Fonts: http://www.dafont.com/de/
  • Sound: http://www.freesound.org/
  • 3D models:

    • Free 3D Models and Objects Archive. Download: 3ds , obj , gsm , max models

      Download Free 3D Objects

      archive3d.net
    • This is mocap data: http://mocapdata.com/index.cgi?category_id=19053
    • The one you already know by Playing with cinema: http://tf3dm.com/3d-models/characters/2

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Tutorials & Blogs​

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Kenney + pzUH Assets​

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Level Editors​

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Image & Vector Editors​

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Sprite Sheet Creation​

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Pixel Art Tools​

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2D Animation Software​

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Game Development Jobs​

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Audio & Music Editors​

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Video Editors​

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Audio & Music Assets​

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3D Modelling & Sculpting​

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Textures & Misc Tools​

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2D Graphics Assets​

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Names & Text Generators​

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Misc Assets​

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Textures Assets​

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3D Models Assets​

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Fonts Assets​

MUSIC - http://www.chibola.com/crfml - Stephen Lu (over 100 tracks royalty free, various genres, high quality) ​

http://incompetech.com/ - Kevin MacLeod (huge archive of royalty free tracks, various genres, high quality)​

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SOUNDS - http://www.freesound.org - (massive sound effect depository / various levels of licensing)​

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MODELS - http://www.blendswap.com/ - (many good models here, searchable, categorized / various levels of licensing) ​

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- http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/ - (many good models here, but a lot of junk too, searchable, categorized / various levels of licensing) -http://www.turbosquid.com/ - (some models free, most are for sale, searchable/sortable)​

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MISC - http://opengameart.org/ - (has a bit of everything, textures, 2d/3d art, music, searchable, categorized) ​

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http://www.cgtextures.com/ - (tons of good textures, searchable) - http://open.commonly.cc/unlocked - (the 'Open Game Art Bundle' - art & music from several released projects) - http://kenney.nl/assets - (various sprites & tiles) -http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2006-08-08-n51.html - (more 2d sprites, rpg/fanatsy themed)​

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From Reddit:
I'm compiling a list of "pocketknives" for game developers, in that they're tools (not just resources) that:

1. do One Thing Well
2. are portable, as in, permissive license, exports usable data, and fits in any workflow.
3. are free web apps, so there's no cost, no download time, and no cross-platform issues.

After reading the comments, I've loosened the 'web app' criteria, (marked with an asterisk) as long as they're still free & cross-platform. And as great as downloadable tools like Audacity & Blender are, I'd like to keep the spotlight on the lesser-known gems.
[HR][/HR]Here's what we've got so far:
Art

• Spritesheet Cutter: http://spritecutie.com/ (created by /u/Rezoner)
• Turn photos to 8bit: http://superpixeltime.com/ (created by /u/FamousAspect)
• Simple 3D Modeller: http://www.3dtin.com/ (Thanks /u/TannerNetwork!)
• SVG Vector Art: http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/branches/2.6/editor/svg-editor.html
• Photoshop-like Webapp: http://pixlr.com/editor/ (Thanks /u/2Fort!)
• Pixel Art: http://makepixelart.com/free/
• Pixel Art Analyzer: http://hivemind.in/pj/specs/ (Thanks /u/MoarThenFeeling!)
• Pixel Animation*: http://www.pickleeditor.com/ (Thanks /u/LoveDuckie!) *Adobe Air app
• Pixel Tileset*: http://pyxeledit.com/ (created by /u/Danik112, suggested by /u/InlineVoid) *Adobe Air app

Audio

• Make Music #1: http://soundation.com/studio (Feels like GarageBand. Thanks /u/optimality!)
• Make Music #2: http://www.audiotool.com/app (If you like sliders and knobs)
• Make Music #3: http://www.beepbox.co/ (Super-simple chiptune loop creator. Thanks /u/Spajder!)
• Sound FX #1: http://www.superflashbros.net/as3sfxr/
• Sound FX #2: http://www.bfxr.net/ (Newer revision of sfxr. Thanks /u/ethicszen!)
• Sound FX #3: http://www.leshylabs.com/apps/sfMaker/ (An HTML5 version of sfxr by /u/LeshyLabs)
• Convert OGG/MP3/WAV: http://media.io (Thanks /u/Bionsuba!)
• Convert WAV to MP3: http://audioformat.com/wav-to-mp3 (Thanks /u/RyeBread761!)
• Procedural Tunes*: https://github.com/wibblymat/ld24/blob/master/autotracker.py (Thanks /u/Cosmologicon!) *Python script
• Wolfram Tones: http://tones.wolfram.com/generate/ (MATHEMUSICAL. Thanks /u/BluShine!) Turns out Wolfram has a non-permissive license for the tunes it procedurally generates, so you can't use them in your games. Uncool. Thanks to /u/ethicszen for the correction!

Data

• Placeholder Kittens: http://placekitten.com/ (To test loading external images / image manipulation.)
• data:text/html, <html contenteditable> (Paste into your address bar for an instant in-browser notepad)
• JSON Prettifier: http://jsonsh.com/
• JSON Lint: http://jsonlint.com/ (Thanks /u/Skjalg!)

Design

• Tile Maps: http://elias-schuett.de/git/Online-Tile-Map-Editor
• UI Wireframing: https://moqups.com
• Flowcharting game flow: https://www.lucidchart.com (Thanks /u/MX-Chronos!)
• HTML5 Level Editor: http://www.craftyy.com (Full disclosure: /u/CosmicJC & I made this.)
• Game Mechanics: http://www.jorisdormans.nl/machinations/ (Thanks /u/Quantanamo!)
• Grid Map Editor*: http://www.arraypainter.com (Thanks /u/oldsecondhand!) *Standalone Java app
• Tiled Map Editor*: http://www.mapeditor.org (Thanks /u/KillaW0lf04!) *not web app

Production

• Organization: http://corkboard.me/ (Automatically creates your organization "corkboard", no login needed!)
• Collaboration: https://trello.com/ (Thanks /u/MatticusRex & /u/Reaner!)
• Screenrecording*: http://www.screenr.com/ (Screencast without downloading anything) *Warning: It uses the Java web applet, which hasn't had a great track record with security issues.

Programming

• Regex: http://regexpal.com/ (Thanks /u/Noctune!)
• Collaborative Coding: http://collabedit.com/ (Like Google Docs for programming. Thanks /u/BluShine!)
• Gist: https://gist.github.com/ (Good for sharing snippets of code)
• Pastie: http://pastie.org/ (Pastebin with plugins available for Sublime & TextMate. Thanks /u/agmcleod!)
• Making JS+CSS+HTML #1: http://jsfiddle.net/ (Thanks /u/MurderOfCrows!)
• Making JS+CSS+HTML #2: http://codepen.io/ (Thanks /u/Azeirah!)
• Making JS+CSS+HTML #3: http://cssdeck.com/ (Thanks /u/Rezoner!)

Resources (Not really "tools", but they're still quick one-stop websites.)

• Open Game Art: http://opengameart.org/ (of course)
• Pocketknives for Javascript: http://microjs.com/
• Game-specific UI Icons: http://game-icons.net/ (Thanks /u/AutumnGecko!)
• General UI Icons: http://thenounproject.com/
• Fonts #1: http://www.google.com/webfonts (Free, open-source, and you can simply embed them)
• Fonts #2: http://www.dafont.com/ (Licenses vary, mostly free for personal use)
• 3D Textures: http://www.cgtextures.com/ (Thanks /u/Brother_Clovis!)
• Sound effects: http://www.freesound.org/ (Thanks /u/Connerses!)

[HR][/HR]Surely I've missed a few. If you know of a good "gamedev pocketknife", leave it in the comments, and I'll update the list above! (and credit you for the suggestion) Or, if you want to request a type of tool, I'll add it to the list below. Don't worry about being too specific!
Does anyone know of free web apps for:

• Vector graphics (http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/branches/2.6/editor/svg-editor.html)
• 3D Tools (http://www.3dtin.com/ found by /u/TannerNetwork)
• Tween Animations
• Non tile-map level editors
• Character creation
• Dialogue branching
• Story
• Texture Generator
• A tool to make tools because why not

Here you can find and even request assets : https://www.reddit.com/r/gameassets/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/freegameassets/


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[NaNoW]

Excellent Additions from @asemahassan88 "Hey, I have some books PDF for game programmers which I just added on my google drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1n5B7FH-Ue-MVdAYC3Frlld0vAZaop7IR?usp=sharing

I also have more in my laptop. I will try to find them and upload ASAP. But for getting any benefit from these books you should have basics clear. Some books are old but still valuable information"

 

[V3N0M]

[MENTION=4177]NaNoW[/MENTION] Gem Stuff , I've some Game Design ebooks & have bookmarked dozens of Game Design Articles on my laptop .

I'll upload them on GoogleDrive too

 

[iampasha]

Thank you NaNoW. This will be very helpful. I just hope I don't lose motivation like I frequently do with my projects : P

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[geometry01]

Things you share are very helpful to me. Thank you NaNoW

 

[chivikoko]

Helpful article.

 

[tonnyken]

Thanks for your contributions to the community, temple run 3 I am sure my community will always grow

 

[impossiblegame]

Thank you for providing these great materials! When I started learning game programming, I had a lot of trouble choosing images, controlling the interface with js, css, html... and everything becomes easier with what you share! Thanks!
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[vick11]

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[HamishBockOnline]

Thanks! It is very good question. I think that good recourses affects in the most way because quality of the team = quality of the final product. Just look on the game industry - latest example is Cyberpunk 2077 - developers are good guys but because of missunderstanding of PR team and testers game was broken and company almost went bunkrupt. Game industry takes a very big part of IT and they can not only be used for entertainment but also to teach people. Just look on the Minecraft - is is studied in a schools now!

 

[carlopinini]

A software development service should be flexible and adaptable to your needs. You should also consider the size of your project. A good software development service should be able to accommodate your requirements. They should have a good track record for successful project completion. They should have an experienced team with experience in a particular domain. It should be able to communicate well with their clients. If the software does not, they will have problems. They should be able to communicate with you.