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A curated list of awesome things related to free game development

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Texture and Material

  • Armor Paint

    ArmorPaint is a stand-alone software designed for physically-based texture painting.

  • CC0

    CC0 Textures is a library of high quality PBR materials for 3D rendering and game design licensed under the Creative Commons CC0 License. This means that you are free to use and even redistribute them in any of your projects - including commercial use!

  • Materialize

    Materialize is a stand alone tool for creating materials for use in games from images.

  • Quixel Megascans

    A Massive scan library of materials. (

  • Quixel Mixer

    Texture and Material Creator Tool

3D Softwares

  • Blender

    Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software toolset used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, motion graphics, interactive 3D applications, virtual reality and computer games.

  • Cascadeur

    3D animation software for physics-based character animation

  • Daz 3D

    3D Models, 3D Animation, 3D Software.

  • FrankMocap

    A Strong and Easy-to-use Single View 3D Hand+Body Pose Estimator.

  • Gaea

    3D terrain generator.

  • Instant Meshes

    This repository contains the interactive meshing software developed as part of the publication.

Audio

  • FMOD Studio

    FMOD is a proprietary sound effects engine and authoring tool for video games and applications developed by Firelight Technologies, that play and mix sounds of diverse formats on many operating systems.

2D Softwares

  • GIMP

    The Free & Open Source Image Editor.

  • Inkscape Project

    Inkscape is professional quality vector graphics software

  • Krita

    Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program.

Game Engines

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