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Awesome Game Jam
This is a curated list that contains helpful links and resources for game jams and game development.
Contents
Development
Engine
Unity - Robust and beginner-friendly.
Unreal - Powerful engine with a steep learning curve.
Godot - Completely free and open-source.
PICO-8 - Encourages small, but expressive designs.
Heaps - Mature cross platform graphics engine designed for high performance games.
Game Maker Studio - GameMaker Studio 2 is the latest and greatest incarnation of GameMaker.
Pixelbox.js - Lightweight Javascript engine for browser games.
Clickteam Fustion - Easy to use game engine for beginners.
Construct 3D - Powerful Javascript based engine with visual coding editor and more!
gbdk-2020 - A C compiler, assembler, linker and set of libraries for the Z80 like Nintendo Gameboy.
Framework
Phaser - Fast, free and open-source framework for Canvas and WebGL powered browser games.
CraftyJS - Free and lightweight JavaScript framework for 2D games.
PyGame - Free set of python modules designed for writing video games.
libGDX - Cross-platform Java game development framework based on OpenGL.
LÖVE - Open-source framework to make 2D games in Lua.
Online Services
Dreamlo - Add leaderboards and promocodes to your game.
Map & World Editor
Tiled - Free, easy to use and flexible level editor.
Audio
DAW
Audacity - Free, open source, cross-platform audio software.
LMMS - Free cross-platform alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio
Tracktion Waveform Free - Free, cross-platform and intuitive audio workstation
Music
Bosca Ceoil - Free, easy to use tool for creating music.
Famistudio - Very simple music editor for the SNES.
Tonnoform - Easy to use open-source 8 bit music making tool.
cgMusic - Generate music with a certain level of quality.
MuseScore - Create, play and print beautiful sheet music.
BeepBox - Online tool for sketching and sharing instrumental melodies.
Sound
bfxr - Flash + AIR sound effects generator.
sfxr - Dead easy game sound effects generator.
ZzFX - Sound effect generator similar to to BFXR/SFXR but reworked from the ground up.
Graphics
3D-Modelling
Blender - Open source 3D creation. Free to use for any purpose, forever.
Magicavoxel - A free lightweight 8-bit voxel editor and interactive path tracing renderer.
ZBrush - Industry standard for digital sculpting and painting.
Image Editor
GIMP - Free and Open Source Image Editor
Paint.NET - Free image and photo editing software
Krita - Krita is a professional free and open source painting program.
FireAlpaca - Free digital painting software, on Mac and Windows.
Pixel Editor
Pyxel Edit - Pixel art drawing application especially designed for working with tiles.
Lospec Pixel Editor - Free pixel art program that you can use right here in your web browser.
Aseprite - Animated sprite editor and pixel art tool
PiskelApp - Free online editor for animated sprites & pixel art
Vector Editor
Inkscape - Free and open source vector graphics editor.
Figma - (Free) vector graphics editor that supports collaborative editing.
Color
Misc
Autodraw - Online tool to predict the placeholder images you need.
Gaugan - Skybox generator (kind of)
Smart upscaler - Enlarge and enhance images automatically using AI.
ZzSprite - Procedurally generate tiny pixel art sprites with options for mutation and animation frames.
ZzArt - Evolve HD textures for use in your games.
Removebg - Free Online Site Which Remove backgrounds 100% automatically in 5 seconds with zero clicks.
Easy Releasy - A downloadable template pack to create itch.io pages.
Management
Tasks
Trello - Kanban Boards, lists, and cards to enable teams to organize and prioritize project.
Kanban.org - Free, self-hosted Kanban project managment software
MeisterTask - (Free) online task management tool for teams.
Google Docs - Share text files and spreadsheets with your team.
Design
Machinations - (Free) online tool to prototype the internal economy of your game using Machinations language.
Miro - (Free) online tool with infinite canvas to sketch and design prototypes.
Time
TomatoTimer - A pomodoro timer that is dead easy to use.
Pomofocus - Combines tasks with a pomodoro timer to estimate when you should be done and to track progress.
Toggl Track - (Free) time tracking for any workflow. Online, offline, or on-the-go.
Release
Hosting
itch.io - Simple way share indie games online for free.
Dropbox - 2 GB of storage to share photos, documents, and other files from any device.
Google Drive - 15 GB of storage to share photos, documents, and other files from any device.
Marketing
Screen2Gif - Screen, webcam and sketchboard recorder with an integrated editor that exports to gif.
Chronolapse - Easily create your own timelapse videos.
All image editors - Improve your marketing material by modifying it with image editors
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