Game Development Tools

For Every Beginner Game Developper out there who's struggling to find

"Gamedev" Software & Tools that suits his needs


here's some good tools that might help you :






       --Most Used Game Engines For Indie Game Development--



Unity 3D (Free)

Unreal Engine 4 (Free)

Godot Engine (Free)

BuildBox (Free)

Armory (Free)

Defold (Free)


GameMaker Studio 

Construct 3

AppGameKit

RPG Maker

Cocos 2d-x


Stencyl (Flash Games)




         --Sound Design & Music--



Audacity (Free)

ocenaudio (Free)

AudioTool (Free)

Waveform (Free)

Surge (Free)


Bosca Ceoil (8 bit music) (free)


Logic Pro (Mac) 


Steinberg Cubase 

Steinberg Wavelab 

Magix Music Maker 

Ableton Live 

Adobe Audition 

Fl Studio 






        --Art--



Gimp (Free) (2D)

Inkscape (Free) (2D)

Photoscape X (Free)


PiscelApp (Web) (Pixel Art)

Pixie (Pixel Art) (Free)

Pixlr (Pixel Art) (Free)


Aseprite (Pixel Art)


Adobe Photoshop (2D)

Adobe Illustrator (2d Vector)


CorelPaint (2D)

PaintShop Pro (2D)


Affinity Designer (Mac)

Sketch (Design Toolkit) (Mac)


CorelDraw (2D)


Canva (Mobile)

Snapseed (Mobile)


Blender (Free) (3D Modeling) (3D Animation)

Sketchup (3D Modeling) (Free)


Autodesk Maya (3D Modeling) (3D Animation)


Substance Painter (3D Painting Tool)

Substance Designer (Materials & Textures)

3D-Coat (Texturing Software)

Mixamo (3D Animation) (Web) (Free)


Adobe Animate (2D Animation)

Cartoon Animator (Animation)


Animaker (2D & 2.5D Animation) (Free)





    --Coding Languages--


C#

C++

Java

HTML5

CSS3

JavaScript

SQL




    --Extra Tools--



OBS Studio (Screen Record/Capture)

Share X (Screen Capture)


Adobe Premiere (Video Editing)


Openshot (Video Editing) (Free)

Avidemux (Video Editing) (Free)


Gifted Motion (GIF Maker)

Photoscape (GIF Maker)


Trello (Project Management Software) (Free)

FreeMind (Mind Mapping Software) (Free)


Google Drive (File Sharing)

Dropbox (File Sharing)


Slack (Chat App For Teams)


Evernote (Notes App)


Scrivener (Writing Tool)



--Assets Websites (Free & Paid)--



https://assetstore.unity.com/           (Free & Paid) (2d & 3d) (Unity) 


https://www.turbosquid.com/            (free & paid) (account needed)

          

https://www.kenney.nl/              (Free & Paid)  (2d & 3d)


http://quaternius.com/assets.html         (free)



https://www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-models      (free & paid) 

https://clara.io/                 (free & paid) (account needed)

https://opengameart.org              (free) (3d & 2d)   

http://www.oyonale.com              (free) 

https://mobilegamegraphics.com          (free & paid) (2d & 3d & pixel art)  

https://itch.io                  (Free & Paid)  

https://www.mixamo.com              (Animate Blender Models)

https://www.deviantart.com            (Backgrounds)

https://www.poliigon.com             (3d Models)

https://www.sharecg.com/             (free & paid) (2d & 3D)




Glitch - https://www.glitchthegame.com          (2d) (free)

Crateboy - https://crateboy.itch.io           (2d) 'free)

Gameart2d - https://www.gameart2d.com          (2d) (free & paid)

Dumbmanex - http://www.dumbmanex.com           (2d , sprite animations ) (free) 

Openclipart - https://openclipart.org          (2d) (free)

Craftpix - https://craftpix.net             (2d) (free & paid)

Supergameasset - http://www.supergameasset.com      (2d) (free & paid)

mobilegamegraphics - https://mobilegamegraphics.com   (2d) (free & paid)

freegameassets - http://freegameassets.blogspot.co.il  (2d) (free) 

https://www.spriters-resource.com            (Pixel Art)




http://www.supergameasset.com/               (free & paid) (RPG)  (Icons Specially)

https://gameartpartners.com/                (free & paid) (2d gothicvania pixelart) (sfx)

https://www.clipsafari.com/                (free & paid ) (PNG /SVG / ClipArt)

https://game-icons.net/                  (free) (Icons)

https://www.reddit.com/r/gameassets/            (reddit /free)

https://www.textures.com/                 (free account) (15 Downloads Per Day) (textures)

https://www.toptal.com/designers/subtlepatterns/      (Free)  (Patterns/Textures)

https://unluckystudio.com/                 (Free & Paid)  (Casual Games) (Backgrounds / Icons )

https://www.gamedevmarket.net/               (Some Are Free)  (you can request assets)

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/store    (Free & Paid) (2D & 3d) (Unreal Engine)  

https://sketchfab.com                   (Free & Paid) (3d)





http://www.dmi-3d.net/           (free) (Cars Models)

https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/        (free) (Space Models)

https://www.daz3d.com           (how to download free)

https://www.adobe.com/products/fuse.html  (adobe)

https://www.reallusion.com

https://www.mdcommunity.net/        (cinema 4d tutorials)

https://greyscalegorilla.com        (kinda shit , how to download )

http://pixelgameart.org/web/        (Pixel Art)

https://kronbits.itch.io/         (how to download from itch.io)    

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/     (free) (sketchup specially ) 

http://bimobject.com/           (free) (sketchup/blender/etc..) (account needed)

https://box.pcon-solutions.com/      (free) (office furniture)

https://www.caddetails.com/        (Free) (Furniture/House Models)  (account needed)











Thanks a lot for including Craftpix in your roundup of game development tools! 🙌 We really appreciate it.

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