magictools

A curated list of game development resources to make magic happen.

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:free: - Free
:tada: - Open Source
:moneybag: - Paid
:money_with_wings: - Partially Free

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Graphics

Great graphics placeholders and tools to turn that squared game into a picasso painting

Assets/Placeholders

:free: 2D Cartoon Mobile Game UI Pack - cartoon user interface asset pack. It comes as a layered psd file.
:free: 420 Pixel Art Icons for RPGs - Set of 420 RPG icons, free for commercial use.
:free: Blender 3D models - 3D models, particle systems/effects
:money_with_wings: CGTextures - A large collection of textures.
:money_with_wings: GameDev Market - a community-driven marketplace that connects indie game developers with talented asset creators.
:free: Games-Icons Set - free icons for your games.
:free: Iconmonstr - Another free icons resource for your games.
:money_with_wings: Kenney Assets - Royalty free assets
:free: Liberated Pixel Cup assets - Free graphic assets of the Liberated Pixel Cup (LPC) held by the OpenGameArt forums
:free: Matcaps - A Huge library of matcap textures in PNG and ZMT, organized by color.
:free: OpenGameArt - a media repository intended for use with free software game projects.
:moneybag: Oryx Design Lab - Cheap high quality royalty free sprites
:money_with_wings: PlainTextures - Free high resolution textures, brushes and photos
:free: Pixelicious - Image-to-Pixel Art converter.
:free: Poly Pizza - 6000+ free low poly models
:free: Reiner's Tilesets - A blog with free 2D and 3D graphics.
:free: Sketchfab - Publish & embed interactive 3D models.
:free: SpriteLib - a collection of static and animated graphic objects (also commonly known as sprites).
:free: StickyPNG - Free transparent PNG images.
:free: TextureHaven - Free textures with additional maps like displacement and bump maps. Also HDRIs.
:free: TextureKing - Free material stock textures
:money_with_wings: Vecteezy - Free Vector Art.

Spritesheet Tools

:tada: Cheetah-Texture-Packer - High efficient and fast 2D bin packing tool
:tada: EzSpriteSheet - Creates sprite sheets from animated GIFs and more
:tada: Libgdx Texture Packer - Texture Packer built into Libgdx
:free: Littera - Bitmap font generator
:free: ShoeBox - Adobe Air based app with game and ui related tools.
:money_with_wings: TexturePacker - Great spritesheet creation editor.
:tada: Tilesplit - CLI text-based tilesheet splitter and namer. Turn a spritesheet into many separate files with names you pick, or not if you don't care. Support templates and textures that are not all the same size.

Bitmap Compression

:tada: ImageAlpha — Mac OS X GUI for pngquant and other tools
:free: PNGGauntlet - Smash PNGs for faster sites
:free: PNGoo - Windows GUI for batch conversion.
:tada: Pngyu - simple PNG image file compression tool.
:tada: SuperPNG Photoshop plug-in — Mac and Windows. Comparison with "Save for Web"
:money_with_wings: TinyPNG - Advanced lossy compression for PNG images that preserves full alpha transparency.

Texture Tools

:moneybag: FilterForge - A plugin for Adobe Photoshop that allows you to build your own filters.
:free: Live Normal - An Android and iOS app for generating seamless materials on the go. You take a photo, and Live Normal creates a tile-able texture and generates texture maps ready for a PBR engine of your choice.
:moneybag: PixPlant - PixPlant is a smart 3D texturing tool that creates high quality normal, displacement, specular maps and seamless textures from photos.

Character Generators

:free: Charas - Charas is a charset generator for RPG Maker.

Tile/Level Editors

:moneybag: AutoTileGen - AutoTileGen is an automatic tileset generator for 2D game terrains.
:tada: LDtk - LDtk is an open-source 2D level editor for indie devs, with a strong focus on user-friendliness.
:tada: Material Maker - procedural texture creator made in Godot
:tada: OGMO Editor- generic level editor.
:tada: Overlap2D - a 2D level and UI editor with an engine agnostic philosophy.
:free: Sprite Fusion - A free level design tool to craft beautiful 2D tilemaps right in your browser using any tileset.
:tada: Tiled - free, easy to use and flexible tile map editor.

Animation

:money_with_wings: Cascadeur - Powerful physics-based 3D character animation
:tada: LWF - Lightweight SWF. LWF is an animation engine which can play animation data converted from FLASH contents in HTML5, Unity, Cocos2d-x, iOS UIKit, and more.
:moneybag: Fusion Character Animator - small tool for Clickteam Fusion 2.5 to facilitate the animation of 2D character sprites for developers.
🆓 GraphicsDale - Powerful tool for spriting and pixel art.
:moneybag: Mixamo - tool for auto auto rigging and animation of 3D humanoid models,
:tada: Pixel Composer - Powerful node-based VFX editor for pixel art
:moneybag: Spine - Spine is dedicated to 2D animation, providing an efficient workflow both for creating amazing animation and for integrating it into your games.
:moneybag: Spriter Pro - Modern tool for sprite animation.

Vector/Image Editor

:moneybag: Affinity Designer - Vector graphics editor with a bunch of features which also supports Adobe file formats
:moneybag: Affinity Photo - Photo and raster graphics editor which works together with Adobe file formats and Affinity Designer
:money_with_wings: Aseprite - animated sprite editor & pixel art tool.
:tada: Gimp - GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
:tada: Inkscape - An open-source vector graphics editor similar to Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, or Xara X.
:tada: Krita - Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
:tada: LibreSprite - LibreSprite is an open source fork of Aseprite.
:moneybag: Lightcube - Pixel Art Editor for Windows, supposed PSD files in addition to JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF.
:free: Multipaint - A cross-platform (Win, Linux, Mac) image editor/painter which covers the color limitations of 8-bit machines (like C64, ZX Spectrum etc.)
:money_with_wings: Paint.NET - Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows.
:moneybag: Pickle - Another Pixel art Editor.
:tada: PiskelApp - Free Online Pixel Art and Animated Sprite Tool.
:moneybag: Pixelmator - Full-featured image editing app for the Mac
:moneybag: Pixelator - Turn any image into fancy pixel-art
:moneybag: Pixen - Pixel Art Editor for OSX
:free: project one - A picture converter and editor for the Commodore 64 covering different graphics mode of this computer. Windows only
:moneybag: PyxelEdit - Pixel art editor designed to make it fun and easy to make tilesets, levels and animations.
:free: REXPaint - a powerful and user-friendly ASCII art editor.
:tada: rx - a modern & minimalist pixel editor
:free: Tilemancer - A quick procedural tile creator designed for pixel-art games.
:free: Timanthes - A pixel art editor for the Commodore 64 computer running on Windows
:free: Charas - Charas is a charset generator for RPG Maker.
:free: Spritemate - Online Editor for Commodore 64 Sprites
:tada: SVGcode - SVGcode is a Progressive Web App that lets you convert raster images like JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, AVIF, etc. to vector graphics in SVG format.
:money_with_wings: Vector mMgic - Free Raster to Vector Graphics Converter
:tada: VTracer - Raster to Vector Graphics Converter built on top of visioncortex

Modeling

:moneybag: 3ds Max
:money_with_wings: Besel - Make a 3d real-time collaboration design and prototype in your VR headset or mobile AR.
:tada: Blender - The free software and open-source 3D grate of the wolrd
:free: Clara.io
:money_with_wings: Daz 3D - A 3D software allows you to easily create custom scenes and characters in seconds.
:free: MakeHuman
:moneybag: Maya
:moneybag: modo
:free: sculptris - A version by Pixologic and the original 1.01
:money_with_wings: Spline - A 3d colalaborative real-time
:free: Womp - A 3D intuitive and easy to use for create right in your browser
:moneybag: ZBrush
:free: ZBRUSHCOREMINI - The new version of sculpris by MAXON

Terrain Generators

:free: Canyon Terrain Editor - Create quality, realistic terrain quickly and intuitively
:tada: DEM Net Elevation API - Live 3D textured terrain generation from real data - export height/normal maps, glTF, OBJ, STL
:tada: Fracplanet - Fractal planet and terrain generator
:moneybag: World Creator - Procedural terrain and landscape generation on the GPU in real time, simulation of erosion and sediment, beautiful editor. much more
:moneybag: World Machine - Procedural terrain creation, simulations of nature, and interactive editing