Resources

* Last Update: Apr 2020

This is my own game dev resources directory. My goal is to create a huge list of links with high quality assets ready to use for your projects. If you think there is another link I should include, don’t hesitate to ping me in any social network.

Happy hacking!

Licenses Please remember to always look at the license before using something in your project.

🆓 100% free - Free to use, may have paid premium features
🚩 Limited free - Contains a subset of features free to use under certain conditions
💵 Paid - Requires a license with a cost
💙 Open source - You can access to the source code, it might be free to use

Assets

Assets 2D

Kenny Assets 🚩 - Royalty free assets
DevAssets 🆓 - Pay what you want or grab it for free
Game Dev Market 🚩 - Assets Marketplace with 2D & 3D resources.

Assets 3D

Yobi3D 🆓 - Free 3D model search engine.
CGTrader 💵 - 3D model market place.

Multiple Graphic Collections

Reiner’s Tilesets 🆓 - Free to use assets

Code

2D Engines and Frameworks

Phaser 💙 - Framework for Canvas and WebGL powered browser games
Stencyl 🚩 - Game framework with Drag&Drop interface
PixiJS 💙 - HTML5 creation engine, a 2D WebGL Renderer
RPG Maker 🚩 - Easy to use RPG game engine
GameMaker Studio 🚩 - Game development environment with Drag&Drop interface

3D Engines and Frameworks

Banshee3D 💙 - Game engine with intuitive tools and a modern codebase
Unity3D 🚩 - Cross-platform game engine
Unreal Engine 🚩 - Suite of integrated tools for game developers
LumberYard 🆓 - Free AAA game engine deeply integrated with AWS and Twitch
CryEngine 🆓 - Game development platform

Editors

SublimeText 🚩 - Sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose
Notepad++ 🆓 - Free source code editor that supports several languages
VisualStudio 🆓 - Integrated development environment from Microsoft
Atom 🆓 - A hackable text editor
Rider 💵 - Jetbrains’ dot net editor with Unity integration and debugger.
Visual Studio Code 💙 - Lightweight code editor, powerful and highly extensible.

Code Versioning

Sourceforge 🆓 - Projects hosting provider
Gitlab 🆓 - Web-based Git repository manager with wiki and issue tracking features
Github 🆓 - Web-based Git version control repository hosting service
Bitbucket 🆓 - Distributed version control system

Tools

Communication

Gitter 🆓 - Chat and networking platform with messaging, content and discovery features
Discord 🆓 - All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers that’s free, secure, and works on both your desktop and phone
Slack 🚩 - Cloud-based set of team collaboration tools and services

Planning

TargetProcess 🚩 - Kanban & Scrum board manager
Jira 💵 - Agile teams manager
Kanban Flow 🆓 - Simplified project management tool
Trello 🆓 - Collaborative boards, lists, and cards board tool

Screen Recording

Fraps 🚩 - Universal Windows application that can be used with games using DirectX or OpenGL graphic technology
LICEcap 🆓 - Tool to capture an area of your desktop and save it directly to .GIF
ScreenToGif 🆓 - Screen, webcam and sketchboard recorder with an integrated editor
GIPHY Capture 🆓 - The GIF Maker on Mac

Inspiration

Browser based

InfiniTown 🆓 - A procedurally generated city with buildings and cars
Game Logos 🆓 - Tumblr with a great collection of game logos for inspiration