Game development resources

Today I have created for you a list of resources of all kinds, which may be very useful for game development. I myself have only a few of them looked at in more detail, but most looks very good. There are graphics from sprites, backgrounds or illustrations over audio files for sound effects and background music, up to useful tools for various applications.

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> Sprites / Graphics

• Spriters Resource
• Unsplash
• Unity Asset Store
• Font Squirrel
• CGGraphics
• Graphic River
• GameDeveloperStudio
• GameArt2D
• Pixabay
• Scirra
• Graphics4Games
• Dreamstime
• Dollar Photo Club
• Fotolia
• Graphic Buffet
• Game Art Guppy
• Super Game Asset
• Gamedev Market
• Game Art Partners
• New Grounds
• OpenGameArt.org
• pvgames
• Open Art Game Bundle
• Game Icons
• Free Vectors
• Toon Characters
• Vector Lady
• Glitch (open source game)
• Reiner's Tilesets 
• Openclipart

> Sound / Music

• Incompetech
• New Grounds
• Audio Jungle
• Dig CC Mixer
• Jewel beat
• Sample Swap
• Jamendo
• Sound MATTER
• Free SFX
• Free Sound
• SoundJay

> Game Development Tools

   >> Level design, user interfaces, animations

• Spline – Brilliant 2D animation editor (Good for GameMaker)
• Goji Editor – Game editor and integrated development environment
• Booty5 – HTML5 game maker
• Texture Packer - Create sprite sheets / atlases easily
• Glee2D - Generic 2D editor
• Tiled – 2D tile based map editor

   >> Graphics and modeling software

• GIMP - Free 2D pixel art editor (I can recommend!)
• Blender - Free 3D art editor
• Inkscape - Free 2D vector art editor
• Serif DrawPlus - Paid 2D vector art editor
• Autodesk Maya – Paid 3D art editor
• Clara.io - Online 3D art editor
• 123dapp - Free 3D art creation tools from Autodesk
• Paint.NET - Free image and photo editing

   >> Code editors and IDEs

• GameMaker: Studio - (Absolute recommendation!)
• Unity3D - (Very good)
• Unreal Engine
• RPG Maker
• Construct 2

       -> Also se my post about game development IDEs

• IntelliJ IDEA - Enterprise, mobile, web with Java, Scala, Groovy (Absolute recommendation!)
• Notepad++ - Free code editor for Windows (supports a range of languages)
• Eclipse - Free cross platform Java IDE
• Visual Studio Express - Free IDE for Windows (C/C++, C#, HTML5, Visual Basic)
• Xcode - Free IDE for Apple Mac OS (Objective-C, C/C++)
• Netbeans - Free cross platform IDE (C/C++, PHP, HTML5, Java and more)
• TextWrangler - Free code editor for Mac OS (supports a range of languages)
• Aptana Studio - Powerful open source web development IDE

   >> Other tools

• Tridiv – Create 3D models in CSS3!

> Other

• GMLscripts http://www.gmlscripts.com
  Many small useful GameMaker Scripts
• GMtoolbox http://www.gmtoolbox.com
  DLLs and Extensions for older versions of GameMaker
• Free programming books collection
  English learning books for many languages

Make sure that you read the license of any and all artwork that you use in any of your products, marketing materials and web sites. Different licenses grant you different usage rights, make sure that you are clear on them. If in doubt contact the artwork provider to find out.


With all these resources, you should be able to create the greatest results. However, nothing is better than making stuff oneself as much as possible, right? ;)

Most useful source:
http://www.drmop.com