Resources for Jammers

Welcome to the Resources for Jammers subwiki! There's a ton of stuff here from links to game engines to board game tips to online sound synthesizers! So take a look around!

Tools

• Blender - 3D Modeling
• MagicaVoxel
• Openframeworks - C++ toolkit
• Color Scheme Designer

Vector/Scalar Image & 2D Graphics

• GIMP / FOSS Photoshop
• Get Paint / Paint.NET
• 2D Tiled Map Editor
• Texture Packer
• Color Oracle - Color blindness testing
• Inkscape - SVG Vector drawing tool
• Krita
• Aseprite - which SGD at UVA provides
• Pixlr
• Piskel - Online Pixelart & Sprite Editor
• Shoebox
• 2D Sprite Sketchpad - Physical book

Source Control

• Mercurial SCM (software only)
• Git (software only)
• GitHub (software and hosting)
• Bitbucket (mercurial and git, hosting only)
• Sourcetree - nice visual gui software for git and mercurial
• GitExtensions - similar to Sourcetree, but all FOSS
• Perforce

IDEs

• Eclipse
• Visual Studio Community 2015
• Monodevelop
• IntelliJ
• Komodo Edit

Engines

• Unity - be sure to check out our Unity subwiki!
• Unreal Engine 4
• Cry Engine SDK
• GameMaker
• GameSalad
• Godot
• Construct 2
• Stencyl
• Ren’Py
• IRRLicht
• Project Anarchy
• Phaser
• Love2D
• Gamesonomy
• GLBasic
• Scratch
• Twine
• Defold
• Inkle Writer
• Adventure Game Studio
• Marmalade
• Murl Engine (cross platform C++ framework)
• Appcelerator

HTML5 / Javascript

• Game Closure
• Canvas Engine
• List of HTML5 / Javascript engines
• CreateJS - HTML5/Javascript libraries - preloading, audio, canvas, tween
• Box2D - javascript 2d physics library
• Javascript 3D toolkit
• Phaser
• Cocos2D HTML5

Unity Packages

• Fungus - Package which is great for building narrative in Unity3D
• ProBuilder Basic - BSP style level editing tools for Unit3D

Audio

• Irrklang
• A Sound Effect - access to 5000+ sound effects in Soundly
• Audacity - Audio, Recording, Music
• Abundant Music - Procedural Music (Needs a Midi Renderer)
• SynthFont (Midi Renderer)
• GXSCC (Midi Renderer)
• BeepBox - Chip Tune Creator
• Milkytracker
• BFXR Sound Effect Generator
• ChipTone (BFXR’s big brother)
• Audio Tracker - forum post that points to this script
• LMMS - Open-source music making program
• Bosca Ceoil - Easy to use music tool

Frameworks

• XNA (C#)
• MonoGame - Open source version of XNA, actively maintained
• Processing (Java)
• Ogre3D (3D rendering engine)
• OpenFL (Flash-like crossplatform API)
• Box2D (2d physics library)
• HaxeFlixel (Haxe)
• SDL (cross platform API for C/C++)
• Love2D (Lua)
• Raylib

Assets

• Everything - most models in Blender format

3D Models

• TurboSquid
• Blendswap
• Unity Asset Store

Textures / 2D Art

• CGTextures
• Open Footage Textures
• Glitch The Game - 2D sprites and Flash backgrounds
• Lunar 2D Art
• 2D art list

Audio

• Incompetech - Music (and graph paper!!)
• New Grounds
• Free FX
• Sound Bible FX
• Freesound
• The Open Bundle (Music, 2D assets)

Fonts

• 1001 Fonts
• 1001 Free Fonts
• FontRiver
• Font Squirrel
• Iconian Fonts
• Google Fonts
• Da Font

Public Domain

• New York Public Library
• NASA Audio Library

Board games

• RPTools
• FabLab tools

Task Management Tools

Graphical

• Trello - project management, general bucket list, collect screenshots, vote on features
• Murally - pinboard that connects to google drive and evernote
• Realtime - Board pinboard
• Mindmeister - mind mapping
• Lucidchart - Cacoo for diagrams and flowcharts
• Cacoo

Text-based

• Collabedit - text editor / chat hybrid with simple syntax highlighting, easy to share
• Workflowy - collaborative list editor, useful for organizing tasks into lists and prioritize them
• Fargo - nice outliner / notepad
• Overleaf - collaborative LaTeX writing and publishing

Miscellaneous

• Procedural terrain tool for Unity3D
• PixelProspector's gamedev big lists
• GIFCam - Free recorder that outputs optimized GIFs
• EZGif - Online GIF animation editor and maker
• JSFiddle - collaborative tool for web projects
• Github Gists - collection of useful scripts
• Open Broadcaster Software - Cross Platform Streaming/Screen Capture

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