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Useful Free Game Dev Tools

a collection by razziefox · last updated 2023-11-10 03:05:39
ICOGen
Lightweight .ico creator with fine-grained control over source images, filtering & resizing.
Digital Faction
Oxide Tracker
A chiptune music tracker featuring an envelope-based instrument editor for making your own 8-bit sounds.
Paranoid Cactus
GMXR2
An Audio Generator
Wubs
microStudio
microStudio game engine, easy to learn, packed with features
microStudio
DOME
The comfortable framework for making games in Wren!
Aviv
GIF
Seika
​A work in progress game engine and editor combo
Chukobyte
butler
Your friendly little itch.io helper
itch.io
razziefox says

If you're publishing to Itch.io, its HIGHLY recommend that you use this tool! It'll help your game play nicely with Itch.io's own launcher.

GIF
Sprytile
A Blender add-on for building tile based low-poly scenes with paint/map editor like tools
Jeiel Aranal
Superpowers
The HTML5 2D+3D game maker. Open source and collaborative.
Sparklin Labs
LIKO-12
A lua fantasy computer
Rami Sabbagh
PicoView
A Small PicoCad 3d Viewer
AdamStrange
GIF
bitsybox
a bitsy emulator
adam le doux
Gameflow Designer
A tool to help with the storytelling and event-based games like visual novels.
D'Andrëw Box
2D Map Editor
A minimalist 2D map editor.
Mathurin
GIF
Controller Display by Fred Wood
A small, stylish app to show your controller inputs while you stream!
Fred Wood
razziefox says

Helpful for checking if a controller works, supports both xinput and dinput!

Directory
Directory is a small utility to help set up project templates and stay organised.
Joeb Rogers
Môsi
A tiny game editor you can use on your phone or in your browser
sg
Run in browser
picoCAD
$5.95
A tiny modeller for tiny models
Johan Peitz
NekoPresence
A free and opensource alternative to rousr's Dissonance extension.
nkrapivindev
razziefox says

The only extension around that doesn't include too much, just the basic discord presence functionality. My go-to choice for rich presence on Game Maker!

Pata Tracker
Chiptune tracker (NES/FM/sampler)
Cedric Stoquer
Pixelbox
Create 2D games in JavaScript, made easier
Cedric Stoquer
Pixel Vision 8
All the tools you need to design, code, and play Pixel Vision 8 games.
Pixel Vision 8
GMEdit
A high-end code editor for all things GameMaker
YellowAfterlife
Ren'Edit
The editor & beta tester's tool for Ren'Py!
Theo
GIF
Ct.js game engine
Create cool 2D games with a free game maker!
Cosmo Myzrail Gorynych
Aries
Media player with review tools.
luismi
Bitsy Color +
Like the bitsy game editor but wish you could just use all the colors, well...
AurySystem
Run in browser
LDtk level editor
2D level editor for indies from an industry veteran
Deepnight Games
Bosca Ceoil
A free, easy to use tool for creating music!
Terry Cavanagh
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