awesome-gamedev

I just made this list to arrange different gamedev resources. I just get tired of looking through different Google Spreadsheets, reddit topics and repositories. So I just decided to create my own awesome list based on differnt sources.

Based on

• My own research and data
• Reddit topic about gamedev tools
• 69 Tools We Use To Make Our Game Satisfactory - Coffee Stain
• Open source is democratizing video game development

"Still supported" Explanation

Remeber to check commit date!

Symbol	Description
✅	News or/and repo changes in six months
❔	Hard to tell...
❌	No news or/and repo changes in six months
〰️	Not applicable

Tools

• AI
• Animations
• Audio
• Assets
• Graphics
• Engines
• Game Design
• Feedback from Players and QA
• Localization
• Marketing and Bizdev
• Project Managment
• Programming and scripting
• UI/UX

Learning Resources

• Level Design
• Programming

Tools

AI

Name	Descriotion	Still supported?	Licence
Coplay	Get more done faster with Coplay's multi-agent AI Assistant for Unity	✅	Commercial
Unity Muse	Unity's suite of AI products	✅	Commercial

Animations

Name	Descriotion	Still supported?	Licence
AnimBot	animBot is the coolest and most powerful toolset for Maya animators, used by more than 90% of the greatest full feature and AAA game studios.	❔	Commercial
Autodesk Maya	Maya: Create expansive worlds, complex characters, and dazzling effects	✅	Commercial
Cascadeur	3D animation software for physics-based character animation	✅	Free for revenue less than 100 000 USD/year
Spine 2D	Spine is an animation tool that focuses specifically on 2D animation for games.	✅	Free trial (different commercial licences based on annual revenue)

Assets

Name	Type of assets or description form website/repository	Licence
Artvee	Browse and download high-resolution, public domain artworks.	Free
Blender Materials	Free Blender material downloads since 2007	Free
Dimensions	Dimensions.com is an ongoing reference database of dimensioned drawings documenting the standard measurements and sizes of the everyday objects and spaces that make up our world.	Freemium
Freesound	Find any sound you like	Free
Game Icons	Free icons for your games	CC BY 3.0
Mixamo	3D animations	Check under assets!
OpenGameArt	Plenty of different assets!	Check on assets page! Most of them are distributed under CC
Polly.pizza	Low poly models sometime with animations	Creative Commons licences
R/gameassets	Share free game assets including sprites, audio and 3D models!	Free
Textures	Take your art to the next level with our industry leading digital materials and objects.	Freemium
UE5 Editor Blueprint CS	Unreal Engine 5 Editor Blueprint Cheat Sheet	Free
UE5 Editor C++ CS	Unreal Engine 5 Editor C++ Cheat Sheet	Free
UE5 Editor Hotkeys CS	Unreal Engine 5 Editor HotKeys Cheat Sheet	Free

Audio

Name	Description (from website or repository)	Stil supported?	Licence
Audacity	Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.	✅	Free
BFXR	Bfxr is an elaboration of the glorious Sfxr, the program of choice for many people looking to make sound effects for computer games.	❔	Free
Cakewalk	Unlock your creative potential with next-level tools for desktop	✅	Free
Famistudio	FamiStudio is a simple music editor for the Nintendo Entertainment System or Famicom. It is targeted at both chiptune artists and NES homebrewers.	✅	Free
MuGen	A downloadable music generator	✅	Commercial (14.99 USD)
OcenAudio	Easy, fast and powerful audio editor	✅	Free
REAPER	REAPER is a complete digital audio production application for computers, offering a full multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering toolset.	✅	Commercial with free trial
Resonic Player	Resonic Player is a fast audio and music player, directory player, and sample browser, built around a big waveform view, a frequency analyzer, and a musical spectrum.	✅	Free for personal and non-profit use
Steam Audio	Steam Audio delivers a full-featured audio solution that integrates environment and listener simulation.	✅	Free
StudioOne	Your all-in-one production powerhouse with everything you need to record, produce, mix, master, and perform.	✅	Commercial
Tenacity	An easy-to-use, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder	✅	Free
Wwise	Wwise, the most advanced, feature-rich interactive audio solution.	✅	Free for production budget less than 250K USD
Youlean Loudness Meter	Youlean Loudness Meter helps you find the true perceived loudness of your audio and prepares it for TV or streaming services release.	❌	Free with pro option

Graphics

Name	Description (from website or repository)	Still supported?	Licence
3DCoat	Make it easy in 3D : Sculpting, Voxels, Modeling, Retopo, Painting, Texturing with PBR, UV and Rendering.	✅	Commercial
Affinity	Award-winning photo editing, graphic design and page layout software for Mac, Windows & iPad.	✅	Commercial
Aseprite	Aseprite lets you create 2D animations for videogames. From sprites, to pixel-art, retro style graphics, and whatever you like about the 8-bit and 16-bit era.	✅	Commercial (19.99 USD)
Asset Forge	Asset Forge allows anyone to create 3D models and 2D sprites using building blocks. Models are compatible with most available game engines.	❔	Commercial
Birdfont	Birdfont is a free font editor which lets you create vector graphics and export TTF, OTF and SVG fonts.	✅	Commercial
Blender	Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation	✅	Free
ClipStudioPaint	More powerful drawing.	✅	Commercial
Crocotile3D	Create 3d models and environments with tiles. Typically tiles are used from 2d tilemaps to construct flat scenes, but Crocotile 3d adds another dimension. Watch the example videos to see what is possible.	✅	Commercial (30.00 USD)
DaVinci Resolve	DaVinci Resolve is the world’s only solution that combines editing, color correction, visual effects, motion graphics and audio post production all in one software tool!	✅	Free / Commercial
Easy Sprite Swap for spritesheets	With this sprite library asset generator for spritesheets, you can select all your sprites in one shot and instantly create a new sprite library asset, completely skipping the repetitive drag-drop process!	✅	Free
F3D	Fast and minimalist 3D viewer.	✅	Free
Freemocap	Free Motion Capture for Everyone	✅	Free
Godot Autotile Texture Templater	Godot Autotile Texture Templater (GATT) generates templates for use in autotiles.	✅	Free
Houdini	Houdini is built from the ground up to be a procedural system that empowers artists to work freely, create multiple iterations and rapidly share workflows with colleagues.	✅	Free with revenue thresholds
Image Splitter	A small tool to split images into square tiles, like large Discord emojis.	❔	Free
ImageMagick	Use ImageMagick® to create, edit, compose, or convert digital images.	✅	Free
Infinite Studio	Where passion meets creativity	✅	Commercial
KenShape	Draw in 2D, set the depth for each pixel and generate 3D models!	❌	Commercial (3.99 USD)
Krita	Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.	✅	Free
Laigter	Automatic normal map generator for sprites!	❌	Free
LibreSprite	LIBRESPRITE IS A FREE AND OPEN SOURCE PROGRAM FOR CREATING AND ANIMATING YOUR SPRITES.	✅	Free
Magic Poser	Easy 3D Characters for Creators	✅	Free
MagicaVoxel	A free lightweight GPU-based voxel art editor and interactive path tracing renderer.	❌	Free
Marmoset Toolbag	Unified baking, texturing, and rendering tools make Toolbag the cornerstone of every 3D artist’s workflow.	✅	Commercial
Milanote	Milanote is an easy-to-use tool to organize your ideas and projects into visual boards.	✅	Free (up to 100 notes, images or links)
ON1	Everything a Photographer Needs in 1 App!	✅	Commercial
Penpot	Penpot is the web-based open-source design tool that bridges the gap between designers and developers.	✅	Commercial (but can be selfhosted)
PixelSwap	Quickly swap pixel art color palettes	✅	Free
Pixelc	An opensource tile/sprite editor in C, using SDL2 and OpenGL, also running on Android and in the web	✅	Open Source
PixeloRama	Unleash your creativity with Pixelorama, a powerful and accessible open-source pixel art multitool.	✅	Free
PixiEditor	A beautiful, fast pixel-art editor packed in an eye-friendly dark theme.	✅	Free
Pribambase	Pribambase is a small tool that connects Aseprite and Blender, to allow painting with instant viewport feedback and all functionality of external editor at the same time. It also adds a few shortcuts like displaying the UV map in Aseprite or setting up a grid-scaled pixelart reference in the viewport.	✅	Free
Procreate	The complete art studio you can take anywhere	✅	Commercial
PureRef	All your reference images in one place	✅	Commercial
Pyxel	Pyxel Edit is a pixel art editor designed to make it fun and easy to make tilesets, levels and animations.	✅	Commercial (9 USD)
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	❔	Free
Tiger	Tiger is a visual tool to author game spritesheets and their metadata.	✅	Free
XNormal	xNormal™ is a free app to bake texture maps ( like normal maps and ambient occlusion ).	✅	Free
ZBrush	ZBrush sets the industry standard for digital sculpting and painting. Its features enable you to use customizable brushes to shape, texture and paint virtual clay in a real-time environment that provides instant feedback.	✅	Commercial

Engines & Frameworks

Name	Programming language	Still supported?
Amalgam Engine	C++	✅
Babylon.js	Javascript	✅
Bevy	Rust	✅
Castle Game Engine	Modern Pascal	✅
Cocos2d-x	C++, JavaScript, Lua	✅
Construct	JavaScript	✅
Defold	Lua	✅
Flax	C++, C#	✅
Godot	GDScript, C#	✅
Heaps	Haxe	✅
JNGL	C++.	✅
LibGDX	Java	✅
LÖVE	Lua	✅
Monogame	C#	✅
NeoAxis	C#, Visual Scripting	✅
Phaser	Javascript	✅
PixiJS	Javascript	✅
PyGame	Python	✅
Raylib	C++	✅
Ren'Py	Python	✅
Stride	C#	✅
The Mirror	GDScript, Visual	✅
Three.js	Javascript	✅
Unity (aka Unity3D)	C#	✅
Unreal Engine	C++, Blueprint	✅

FeedbackAndQA

Name	Description	Still supported	Licence
Decky	Collect feature requests, ideas and bug reports directly from your Discord community.	✅	Free
Input Overlay	Input Overlay is a small plugin for obs studio that shows keyboard, mouse and gamepad inputs on stream. It adds a new source for visualizing inputs.	❌	Free
OBS	Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.	✅	Free
Upvoty	Know what to build next and inform your customers when you ship!	✅	Commercial (from 15USD/month)

GameDesign

Title	Description	Still supported?	Licence
Arcweave	Create, collaborate and prototype your interactive narratives from start to finish, in your browser.	✅	Free (limited to 2 editor and viewers; 100 items per project)
Articy	The solution for interactive storytelling and game content management.	✅	Free trial
Bitsy	Make tiny games, worlds, and stories	✅	Free
Bloed	BLOED is a (more or less) simple block-based level editor for Unity.	✅	Commercial
Desmos	Desmos wants to build a world where every student learns math and loves learning math, where a student’s access to the power and beauty of math doesn't depend on their place of birth, race, ethnicity, gender, or any other aspect of their identity.	✅	Free
DungeonsCrawl	Old-School Dungeon Maps Made Easy	✅	Free
GBStudio	A quick and easy to use drag and drop retro game creator for your favourite handheld video game system.	✅	Free
Game design template	Template for initial stage of game development	✅	Free
GoNorth	GoNorth is a story and content planning tool for RPGs and other open world games.	✅	Free
Inky	A narrative scripting language for games.	❌	Free
LDTK	A modern 2D level editor from the director of Dead Cells.	✅	Free
Loopy	In a world filled with ever-more-complex technological, sociological, ecological, political & economic systems... a tool to make interactive simulations may not be that much help.	❌	Free
LoreForge	The app for writers & worldbuilders	✅	Free
LoreHub	Create interactive stories and worlds for your games.	✅	Free limited to 3 users
Machinations	Predict Game Economies & Systems	✅	Free limited to 1 user and 3 days version history
Mock Mechanics	Mechanical/visual programming language	✅
PlantUML	PlantUML is used to draw UML diagrams, using a simple and human readable text description.	✅	Free
Sankeymatic	Graph visualization	✅	Free
Tiled	Tiled is a 2D level editor that helps you develop the content of your game.	✅	Free
Twine	Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.	✅	Free
Yarn	Yarn Spinner helps you build branching narrative and dialogue in games. It's easy for writers to use, and has powerful features for integrating your content straight into your game.	✅	Free

Localization

Name	Description (from website or repository)	Still supported?	Licence
Crowdin	Crowdin is a cloud-based solution that streamlines localization management for your team.	✅	Free with Pro plans
Polyglot	Start localizing your game, using this human translated resource for the basics.	❌	〰️

MarketingAndBizDev

Name	Description (from website or repository)	Still supported?	Licence
Alan's Gamedev Resources Sheet	Database of publishers and investors	✅	Free
AppMagic	Mobile Market Intelligence Tool	✅	Some free features
Company Pitch Template	The Game Company Pitch Deck by The Games Fund	〰️	Free
Data.Ai	The 1st Unified Data AI Company to combine consumer and market data with the power of artificial intelligence to fuel insights.	✅	Commercial
Fellow Traveller Forecasting Template	Forecasting model where Steam is the primary platform	〰️	Free
GameDiscoverCo - BASIC net revenue predictions	Net revenue predictions for Steam platform	〰️	Free
GameDiscoverCo Pitch Decks	This page is a collection of PC and console video game pitch decks.	〰️	Free
GameStats	Steam Marketing Tool	✅	Some free features
Games Popularity	Check popularity of any game	〰️	Free
Gaming Outlets	List of gaming outlets. This is not a press conctact list!	〰️
GamingAnalytics	Video Game BI Analytics portal	✅	Some free features
Global Games Industry Guide	The Global Games Industry Guide is hand-curated with 1000+ listings across the world including funding, publishers, industry bodies, awards and more.	✅	Free
IMPRESS	Your toolkit for indie game promotion!	〰️	Free
Layer	Collaboration and crossover tracker	✅	Free
Pitch Template from Rami Ismail	You want to pitch a video-game. This template pitch-deck is here to help.	〰️	Free
PostHog	The single platform to analyze, test, observe, and deploy new features.	✅	Free (with additional payments after reaching limit)
Presskit()	Developers & press both have the same goal: to bring great games to as many people as possible - after all, a good game is worth nothing if no-one plays it.	❌	Free
Presskit.html	Re-implementation of presskit() as a static site generator	❌	Free
Ren’Py Visual Novels on Steam: A Step-by-Step Guide	This is a step-by-step guide with screenshots for getting your Ren’Py based game onto Steam. Created by Bob Conway	〰️
Restream	Set up high-quality live streams right in your browser and broadcast to multiple channels at once.	✅	Free for 2 channles
ScreenToGif	ScreenToGif allows you to record a selected area of your screen, edit and save it as a gif or video.	✅	Free
Sensor Tower	Navigate the digital landscape with Sensor Tower’s next-generation, market-leading digital analytics platform	✅	Commercial
Seyed's Publisher Database	Database of publishers and investors	✅	Free
Steam Assets for Export, Explained	These are graphical assets for Steamworks project. Prepared for export with correct dimensions and names, explained with examples from real world, linked to documentation	〰️	Free
Steam Market Study by Altshift	Google Sheet document with plenty of data. Helpful in market study.	〰️	Free
Steam Market Study	Market Study is a Google Sheets document which allows you to get a rough estimate of sales and revenues of any released title on Steam.	〰️	Free
Steam Revenue Calculator	This Chrome plugin shows the game's revenue inside the Steam store page.It uses the Boxleiter method to calculate estimated app owners then calculates cuts, refunds etc.	✅	Free
Steam Trends	This data can help you better understand the current situation on the PC platform, you can look up some popular or unpopular trends on the market and maybe even make decisions about which genre to choose for your future game!	✅	Free
SteamDB	This third-party website gives you better insight into the Steam platform and everything in its database.	✅	Free
SteamPeek	Indie friendly game discovery	〰️	Free
SteamPoacher	Make better Steam capsules. A simple tool for viewing and downloading the store and library image assets for any Steam game.	〰️	Free
Storemaven	Get more installs with highly converting app store product pages	✅	Commercial
StreamElements	Different elements for improving engagement during streams.	✅	Free
Tagsfinder	Hashtag generator and search engine. Don't know which hashtag to use? You can use our hashtag generator which will help you find top 30 hashtags based on keyword selection.	〰️	Free
Video Game Insights	Bringing you market insights and analysis	✅	Some free features

Programming

Name	Description (from website or repository)	Still supported?	Licence
2Sync	2Sync specializes in creating innovative and immersive XR experiences that synchronize real and virtual worlds.	✅	Commercial
Atom	A hackable text editor for the 21st Century	❌	Free
Bitbucket	Bitbucket is more than just Git code management. Bitbucket gives teams one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test, and deploy.	✅	Free up to 5 users
CD Projekt RED Open Source Repo	The collection of open source plugins for UE from CDPR.	✅	Free
CGL (C Game Library)	CGL (C Game Library) is a multipurpose library mainly for recreational coding / demo scenes / prototyping / small games / experimentation.	✅	Free
Depot	DEPOT is a data editor built inside of Visual Studio Code that allows you to edit JSON data like a spreadsheet	❌	Free
DnSpy	.NET debugger and assembly editor	❌	Free
Flow Graph	Design-agnostic node system for scripting game’s flow in Unreal Engine	✅	Free
GitHub	...	✅	Free
GitLab	Deliver software faster with better security and collaboration in a single platform.	✅	Free
Incredibuild	We deliver powerful distributed processing and unique build caching acceleration for C++ code compilation and analysis.	✅	Commercial with free trial
Jenkins	The leading open source automation server, Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project.	✅	Free
JetBrainsIDE	Make it happen. With code.	✅	Non-Commercial / Commercial
Json Online Editor	Just JSON online editor!	〰️	Free
Ollama	Get up and running with large language models.	✅	Free
ParrelSync	Test multiplayer without building for Unity3D	❌	Free
Perforce	Perforce version control — Helix Core tracks and manages changes to all your digital assets — code, video, large binary files, IPs, and more. But that is just the beginning…	✅	Commercial
Plastic SCM	Plastic SCM is a version control to help teams focus on delivering work, one task at a time.	✅	Free
Rider	JetBrains Rider is a cross-platform .NET IDE based on the IntelliJ platform and ReSharper.	✅	Commercial
SumblimeText	Text Editing, Done Right.	✅	Free
TeamCity	Powerful continuous integration for DevOps-centric teams	✅	Free
UniMod	Adds modding support to your Unity project	✅	Free
Unity Decision Tree	A Unity Package for creating and editing decision trees	✅	Free
UnityDataTools	Experimental tools and libraries for reading and analyzing Unity data files.	✅	Free
Visual Studio Code	A standalone source code editor that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.	✅	Free
Visual Studio	The best comprehensive IDE for .NET and C++ developers on Windows.	✅	Free

ProjectManagment

Name	Description (from website or repository)	Still supported?	Licence
Cashflow Template	Cashflow Template	〰️	Free
Codecks	Project & Community Management in one. Made for Game Development.	✅	Free up to 5 projects and 3 users (unlimited Pro 5 EUR/month)
HacknPlan	We bring game design documentation and project management together in a unique SaaS game production tool that provides a semantic way of organizing, planning and tracking the progress of your game.	❌	Free with file size limits
IMS Creators	Game Design-Driven Project Management Tool: define your game content (characters, enemies, items, and etc), describe game mechanics, prototype levels and link tasks to them	✅	Free up to 5 users. Has special free license for indie developers
Jira	Project and issue tracking	✅	Free trial
Monday.com	The Work OS that lets you shape workflows, your way	✅	Free up to 2 users
Notion	One workspace. Every team. We’re more than a doc. Or a table. Customize Notion to work the way you do.	✅	Free up to 5 guests (unlimited guest in Pro 5 USD / month)
Obsidian	Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.	✅	Free for presonal use
Plane	Meet Plane. An open-source software development tool to manage issues, sprints, and product roadmaps with peace of mind.	✅	Open source with commercial option.
Redmine	Redmine is a flexible project management web application. Written using the Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database.	✅	Free
Untools	Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.	✅	Free beta of a app, free tools but all worksheet are behind paywall
WrokFlowy	WorkFlowy offers a simpler way to stay organized. If you have a crazy job or an ambitious project, we will be your trusty sidekick.	✅	Free (with Pro 4.99 USD/month)

UiUx

Name	Description	Still Supported?	Licence
Adobe XD	Let Adobe XD be your guide in the evolving world of digital. Create realistic prototypes that tell your story and bring the big ideas to life, faster.	✅	Free trial (commercial 12.29 EUR/month)
Game UI Database	The Game UI Database was created as a free resource for UI/UX Designers in the games industry.	✅	Free
Figma	Figma connects everyone in the design process so teams can deliver better products, faster.	✅	Free (up to 3 Figma files, unlimited personal files, unlimited collaborators)
InterfaceInGame	Explore a collection of video games interfaces and find inspiration for your designs.	❔	Free
Game Input Database	All game controls in one place	❔	Free

LearningResources

Animations

Title	Author	Type
Godot Tween Comparisons	popcar2	Github Repo

Marketing

Title	Author	Type
2023 Data-Driven Indie dev survival guide	PaniCer	Notion Article

LevelDesign

Title	Author	Type
Level Design. In Pursuit of Better Levels	Alex K.	Text

Programming

Title	Author	Type
Game Asset Storage, Loading, Compression and Caching	Peter 'Durante' Thoman	Text
Game Programming Patterns	Robert Nystorm	Text
Into the Breach AI	Matthew Davis	Text
Unreal Engine Guide	Michael Royal	Github repo with plenty of resources