Magic Tools

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Graphics

Great graphics placeholders and tools to turn that squared game into a picasso painting

Assets/Placeholders

Openstock Project - Modern 2D vector style game assets for indie developers, students, hobbyists & professionals – free personal & commercial licences.
Reiner's Tilesets - A blog with free 2D and 3D graphics.
SpriteLib - a collection of static and animated graphic objects (also commonly known as sprites).
OpenGameArt - a media repository intended for use with free software game projects.
Games-Icons Set - free icons for your games.
Iconmonstr - Another free icons resource for your games.
Vecteezy - Free Vector Art.
OpenClipart - Collection of free cliparts.
Tree Generator - An Online tree generator.
CGTextures - A large collection of textures.
TextureKing
PlainTextures
Sketchfab - Publish & embed interactive 3D models.
Gunpoint-3D - specialized resource dedicated to armored military weapons, the modern and used in world wars.
420 Pixel Art Icons for RPGs - Set of 420 RPG icons, free for commercial use.
2D Cartoon Mobile Game UI Pack - cartoon user interface asset pack. It comes as a layered psd file.
GameDev Market - a community-driven marketplace that connects indie game developers with talented asset creators.
Upando - Marketplace with lots of resources for game developers.

2D Tools

Spritesheet Tools

ShoeBox - ShoeBox is a free Adobe Air based app for Windows and Mac OSX with game and ui related tools. Each tool uses a drag and drop - or clipbord interaction for a quick workflow.
TexturePacker - Great spritesheet creation editor.
GraphicsGale - Animation graphic editor easy to use.
Spritesheet Preview - A simple and free tool to preview sprite sheets
Aseprite - animated sprite editor & pixel art tool.
PiskelApp - Free Online Pixel Art and Animated Sprite Tool.

Bitmap Compression

TinyPNG - Advanced lossy compression for PNG images that preserves full alpha transparency.
Kraken.io - robust, ultra-fast image optimizer and compressor with best-in-class algorithms.
PNGoo - Windows GUI for batch conversion.
ImageAlpha — Mac OS X GUI for pngquant and other tools
SuperPNG Photoshop plug-in — Mac and Windows. Comparison with "Save for Web"
Pngyu - simple PNG image file compression tool.
PNGGauntlet - Smash PNGs for faster sites

Texture Tools

FilterForge - A plugin for Adobe Photoshop that allows you to build your own filters.
PixPlant - PixPlant is a smart 3D texturing tool that creates high quality normal, displacement, specular maps and seamless textures from photos.
STG - a tool for creating professional seamlessly-tileable textures from photographs quickly and easily.

Character Generators

Famistu Chibi Maker - A tool to make the famous chibi chars and use in your game.
Loose Leaf
Charas - Charas is a charset generator for RPG Maker.

Tile Editors

Tiled - free, easy to use and flexible tile map editor.
ArrayPainter - Array Painter is the easiest and fastest way to make 2D arrays ready for copy pasting into your own program.
AutoTileGen - AutoTileGen is an automatic tileset generator for 2D game terrains.

Animation

Spriter - Modern tool for sprite animation.
Spine - Spine is dedicated to 2D animation, providing an efficient workflow both for creating amazing animation and for integrating it into your games.
Fusion Character Animator - small tool for Clickteam Fusion 2.5 to facilitate the animation of 2D character sprites for developers.

Vector/Image Editor

Inkscape - An open-source vector graphics editor similar to Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, or Xara X.
Krita - Krita is a KDE program for sketching and painting, offering an end-to-end solution for creating digital painting files from scratch by masters.
Gimp - GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
Ormr - Ormr is a fast, light-weight, cross-platform procedural graphics editor.
Paint.NET - Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows.
PyxelEdit - Pixel art editor designed to make it fun and easy to make tilesets, levels and animations.
Pickle - Another Pixel art Editor.

3D Tools

Modeling

Terrain Generators

Voxel Editors

Code

Set of game frameworks, engines and platforms

Engines and Frameworks

2D

Cocos2d-x - 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.
Construct 2 - an HTML5 game maker, meaning you are not actually writing JavaScript. Instead, you use actions, events and conditions to do the heavy lifting.
ImpactJS - Impact is a JavaScript Game Engine that allows you to develop stunning HTML5 Games for desktop and mobile browsers.
Ejecta - A Fast, Open Source JavaScript, Canvas & Audio Implementation for iOS.
PixiJS - 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.
GameMaker - 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.
Phaser - free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering.
Cocos2D - graphic library for games and multimedia, for python language
Lycheejs - JavaScript Game library that offers a complete solution for prototyping and deployment of HTML5 Canvas, WebGL or native OpenGL(ES) based games inside the Web Browser or native environments.
MelonJS - open source light-weight HTML5 game engine.
LimeJS - HTML5 game framework for building fast, native-experience games for all modern touchscreens and desktop browsers.
EnchantJS - A simple JavaScript framework for creating games and apps.
Stencyl - a game creation platform that allows users to create 2D video games for computers, mobile devices, and the web.
RPGMaker - series of programs for the development of role-playing games.
FlashPunk - free ActionScript 3 library designed for developing 2D Flash games.
Flixel - an open source game-making written in ActionScript3.
Box2D - A 2D Physics Engine for Games.
p2.js - JavaScript 2D physics library
LÖVE - Lua 2D Game Engine.
Duality - C# / OpenGL 2D Game Engine that comes with visual editor.
SpriteKit - iOS/Mac 2D Game Engine.
NodeBox - a family of Python tools to create generative design.
PyGame - a 2D game engine in Python.
Processing - Processing is a programming language, development environment for artists, designers, researchers.
Monkey X - Multi-platform programming language and cross-compiler, aimed at fast game programming.
HaxeFlixel - Create cross-platform games easier and free. All with one codebase.
Bacon2D - A framework to ease 2D game development, providing ready-to-use QML elements representing basic game entities needed by most of games.
LibGDX - Powerful (totally free) library for Java, code once and run the game on desktop, Android, Web, and iOS.
Starling - The GPU powered 2D Flash API
CutJS - Lightweight, fast, interactable 2D HTML5 rendering engine for cross-platform game development.
XNA - Microsoft's game development framework.
Monogame - Open Source implementation of the Microsoft XNA 4 Framework.
Farseer - a collision detection system with realistic physics responses.
Chipmunk2D - A fast and lightweight 2D game physics library.
Chipmunk C# - C# implementation of the Chipmunk2D lib.
Jitter - a fast and lightweight physics engine written in C#.
AndEngine - 2D Android Game Engine
Corona SDK - A Cross-Platform Mobile App Development for iOS and Android.
GameSalad - Game Creation Engine for Mac and Windows.
KiwiJS - a fun and friendly Open Source HTML5 Game Engine. Some people call it the WordPress of HTML5 game engines
PandaJS - Open Source HTML5 Engine.

3D

Unity 3D - A development engine for the creation of 2D and 3D games and interactive content.
UDK - the game engine technology developed by Epic Games.
Havok Vision - a cross-platform game engine that provides a powerful and versatile multi-platform runtime technology.
Ogre3D - is a scene-oriented, real-time, flexible 3D rendering engine (as opposed to a game engine) written in C++.
PlayCanvas - A WebGL Game Engine.
Horde3D - small open source 3D rendering engine.
Panda3D - a framework for 3D rendering and game development for Python and C++ programs.
Godot - Open source game engine with rich API.
Irrlicht - open source high performance realtime 3D engine written in C++.
Three.js - Javascript 3D Library.
Turbulenz - 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.
voxel.js - voxel.js is a collection of projects that make it easier than ever to create 3D voxel games like Minecraft all in the browser.
Bullet - Real-time physics simulation.
ODE - ODE is an open source, high performance library for simulating rigid body dynamics.
Dash - A free and open 3D game engine written in D.
jMonkeyEngine 3 - a 3D open-source game engine for adventurous Java developers.
Polycode - Open-Source Framework for creating games in C++ (with Lua bindings).
Cinder - Cinder is a community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++.
Blitz3D 3D basic-like programming language for fast 3D desktop games.
Haxor - Combine the power of HaXe language and HTML5+WebGL to easily develop powerful applications that can run in any modern browser.
JPCT - jPCT is a 3D engine for desktop Java and Google's Android.
Spring - A powerful free cross-platform RTS engine.
Wave - Cross-platform engine written in C#
Urho3D - Cross-platform rendering and game engine.
Hive3D - Real Time Collaboration 3D engine.

Audio

Audio editors, sounds collections and more.

Collections

Freesound - collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds.
PacDV - royalty free sounds collection.
Musopen - Royalty free music.
Octave - free library of UI sounds.

Music and Audio Editors

Audacity - open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.
Audiotool - Online music producer.
Soundation - Online Professional music studio.
Audiosauna - transforms your web browser into a fast and flexible music production studio with built in synthesizers and live effects.
musagi - open source, fairly large and sophisticated music editor and synthesizer
MadTracker - a powerful and efficient approach to making music. Versatility and compatibility are guaranteed due to full VST™, ASIO™ and ReWire™ support.
MilkyTracker - open source, multi-platform music application for creating .MOD and .XM module files.
FamiTracker - free windows tracker for producing music for the NES/Famicom-systems.
Bfxr - A tool to make make sound effects for computer games.

Board Games

Tools for making board games

RPTools - a brand of open-source programs designed to enhance traditional pen-and-paper role playing games.
Boardgamizer - Board Game Design Idea Generator.

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