UNITY, BLENDER, AUDACITY

I fell like a good tool to add on the sound section would be Bosca Ceoil as it is very easy for beginners!

So very cool to see such a wide variety of tools and engines employed in development. Here's our current list. I am sure I am missing some small utilities. Some of these can be their own topics when talking about a DAW, so broad strokes here.

Godot Engine is the engine we're creating games in now (we used to work in Unity).

For assets and images Blender and Krita are our go to. Though for doing straight pixel work we've been using PikoPixel.

Audio and video production is a pretty heavy topic. Traktion Waveform is our DAW. Kdenlive for creating videos. OBS Studio for recording raw video. We do use straight FFmpeg via command line for automation and fun audio and video tricks.

For testing our games on other platforms we're using VirtualBox (macOS virtualizing mostly) and Wine.

When in need of a text editor, we go between Atom and gedit. Atom has a neat trick for doing collaborative editing.

Last, but perhaps one of the most important tools you can deploy, git for source control. No frills. Straight command line.

Alright...if I forgot anything....well...I'll try to add it if it comes to mind.

~ Skunkie

What about Godot? A shame it’s not on that list. It’s super powerfull and totally free for any kind of project, big or small. I’m baffled.

I'm using the Unity5x engine, I favor MonoDevelop when coding, although I use Visual Studio when I need to create extra devtools and I haven't managed to get Stetic UI designer to work for MD :( 

For asset creation I use Blender and GIMP. 

I previously used Azure Team Services for project management, but I recently began creating my own management tool for the fun of it, and also to remove alot of the stuff that I never had any use of in Azure. Difficult to not see it as my favorite management tool considering I'm able to tailor it completely after my own needs...

I'm using another tool I created for fun (GIFSnapper) to capture and generate GIF animations on screen for content to dev. logs, and to record videos I really like OBS Studio

Started learning Unity a few months ago, having dabbled in modding the Subnautica games. Foolishly (I think) settled on the High Def Render Pipeline for our game, which has been a challenge. Lots of churn going on with Unity builds and the different render pipelines. I do like it though, and as a coder at heart I like working with C#. Totally rely on the Asset Store for visuals and audio - artistic talent of a dead slug, me! 😁

for making the games: Unity engine

for coding: Visual studio code

for designing: Gnu Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)

I have also used Game Maker so I kind of have to put that, but I've also dabbled in RPG Maker and had a lot of fun with it.

I don't really see CSP (Clip Studio Paint) in the painting software list. Maybe I missed it. You could add that one. It's pretty cool.

I wanna recommend Photopea https://www.photopea.com/ for psd recovery though. If a file gets corrupted (usually if your PC shuts down while saving a file) it's GG. Or at least I thought so, having been unable to recover my file until I found this tool. You might lose some layers but generally the .psd will be intact.

This one just caught my eye, a new open source game engine implemented in Rust https://bevyengine.org/

I'm genuinely surprised Godot isn't listed on here (unless someone already mentioned it and I overlooked it.) Godot is a powerful open source engine with loads of built in tools and well written documentation. It also has it's own language, gdscript, which Python programmers well find fairly comfortable. It also allows for making a game in C# with the aid of .NET Core or Mono. 

It's a good engine, and I think the devs around here would get a kick out of it. https://godotengine.org/

EDIT: And I now see that it has been mentioned before. However I'm more than happy to sing it's praises regardless.

I like to use SFXR (https://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html) for sound effects and Figma (figma.com) for graphics. They're both pretty good

i mainly use clickteam fusion 2.5 (with the games factory 1.06) and unity for game development

also learning many cool game engines like construct series and gamemaker 8.1

for sfx stuff i use labchrip

also for drawing graphics i use paint, paint.net, paint 3d and krita (i also use flash if i need to make animated stuff)

i also use piskel for pixel art because i have no money for aseprite and yeah

labchrip, thanks for this app! I try to use it! 

This is a great list! I stumbled upon this thread after just recently starting a list of open source gamedev  tools (for my own reference, and something to do between actual gamedev projects). Edit: now i remember I've posted here before.

https://github.com/technicat/gamedev

Non-functioning links: BDX, Flixel, and Blitz 3D

i usually use  unity, gamemaker, coppercube most of the time

but right now im working on next version of hell engine

a lightweight simple and codeless game engine to create raytracing shooter games created in Python (Core) and GameMaker (Editor)

download it here :  https://mohamadhanijanaty85.itch.io/hell-engine

All my stuff is make in PlayBASIC, but then again I did write it..  so whatever  

As a tabletop game designer, artist, writer, and publisher, I gotta say that Notepad as a digital tool on smartphones and laptops is one of the tools I use a LOT. also physical notepads, too. Libre Office: Libre Office Writer and Libre Officer Calc, are also very often used. 3D Paint is one of those tools that I happen to use regularly, because it is easy to use, available almost everywhere, and you can use it on the net, too. I list these because I use these all regularly among other tools, programs, etc., but I also like these. Simple free tools that are usually already even on library computers. I like to keep my easy, simple and carefree.

And I shall mention these, too.

I have used Rupert Spore’s Fictional Area Creation Tool ( https://rupert-spore.itch.io/fictional-area-creation-tool-fact ) as a writing prompt tool and as an inspiration sparkler.

I've also used Creature Feature All Dice Table by Jesse Galena and Thomas George as an inspiration ignition as part of my creative writing process. You can get yourself the latest copy of it (https://rexiconjesse.itch.io/creature-feature) on their creator page ( https://rexiconjesse.itch.io/ )

Aseperite is worth every penny

GODOT Engine

Affinity Photo/Designer Graphics 

Ableton Live Audio

Is what I use and like the most :)

I personally like tyranobuilder! I like making visual novels with added in RPG elements, being a mix of the two genres, and while it takes a bit of work to squeeze into the engine it works quite nicely

I'm giving it my all to learn SDL2 and I have made quite a good progress if I do say so myself. So far, SDL2 is just downright amazing. It's low-level, difficult, lots of code and all but it's still good.

OOP with SDL2 is incredibly easy and perfect. It's low-level for which you have to write much more code but you get much more control over your game. Writing a lot of code isn't really a problem as long as you abide with OOP for reusable code which is really helpful. You can use OpenGL with SDL2 if you want, SDL2 has been around for decades, SDL2 is under active development, SDL2 has a large community, SDL2 games work on a lot of platforms etc.

Seriously, SDL2 might be difficult and low-level and you have to write lots of code or probably the fact that it's mainly used with C/C++. But it has a lot of pros and is heavenly to me. I only started learning about a week ago and I've made nice progress.

Where is godot?!

I use C++ 99% of the time for everything. I'm currently using SFML but I haven't made any games with it yet. I'm also learning Modern OpenGL on the other hand to do some crazy graphics stuff.

Always been a Gamemaker1 guy. Dabbled a bit in PICO-8 though too.

And recently I came across Flickgame.org. As more of an artist than a programmer I had a blast with it. Most beginner-friendly "engine" ever!

Also: SFXR for simple SFX

pocket platformer, mosi, bitsy 3d color and godot eventually. rest is plain code...

Python Arcade: https://api.arcade.academy/en/latest/

My workflow is Aseprite for Graphics, Tiled for map design, and Phaser.js as the game engine, all of which have been mentioned here :-p

I use Godot engine to making games (im new from using this), Krita to draw sprites, create some banners or animations
LMMS to making some music for my games and Audacity to edit something audio stuff-
 

Favourite tools. Audacity, absynth, unity, blender, seashore, my guitar 

Unity

Mixamo

Rokoku

VisualStudios community

Blender

I need something for create audio.

Pixel studio and GIMP for pixel and digital arts, Godot for game engine. Godot's in-built GDScript editor and visual studio code are my favourite IDEs.

I think Corel Painter would be a good addition to the graphics side of things. I've been using it instead of photoshop for years and at least for me it's much nicer to work with when it comes to actual drawing/ painting. Photoshop is still much better for any sort of photo emitting of course.

I tried to use MagicaVoxel you already have on the list, just to try out the voxel thing. It seemed like a pretty good tool, but damn it, the whole menu layout is unintuitive as hell.

I use Unity as my game engine to create games and write with C# because it's basically all I know. For 3D graphics and design I use blender and for 2D I usually use adobe illustrator for sprites or photoshop. I'm planning on using Adobe Animate for animation but i'm not into the stuff yet. I use Visual Studio as my IDE because it's default for Unity and is just easy for me. I use Garageband for creating soundtracks and plan on upgrading to something more complex like FLStudio or maybe Logic Pro when I become better at it.

I use Scratch 3 and TurboWarp :)

coppercube 3d all the way for me
gimp for image editing
blender3d for modeling and animation
LMMS for tunes
i use game sound generators most often for soundsfx