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Original Post by Scott
Someone asked about where I was getting my assets from for a game I posted from the Unity courses. In case it’s helpful I am Markdown-ifying my bookmarks list and putting it here. If this is useful enough to make it a sticky topic I’ll try to keep it update as long as it’s a resource for free or very cheap assets and tools for game development. Sorry I am only doing the Unity course now so that’s the main framework I’m linking.
Note on License
These sites have a very wide variety of license types for the content. Always check the terms of use on an item before using and make sure you understand the terms. Many “free” licenses carry requirements like attribution, only personal use, only usable in free products and more. I recommend keeping CREDITS.md in your source and think about including a Credits scene in your project. At best it’s an attempt to credit content creators, at worse you have something you can reference if someone challenges your use of an asset.
See also; Creative Commons and Public Domain
Textures & Backgrounds
- Textures for 3D, graphic design and Photoshop!
- Subtle Patterns | Free textures for your next web project.
- Unsplash | High-Resolution Photos
- Pixabay
- Nasa
- NormalMap-Online
- TextureGenerator-Online
- Texture Haven
- Free PBR
Art Assets
- Lost Garden: free game graphics
- OpenGameArt.org
- Kenney Assets
- ShareCG 2D art resources
- Clipart - High Quality, Easy to Use, Free Support
- MillonthVector
- TextCraft.Net | 8bit text and logo generator
Sprites
Graphics Editing
- GIMP
- Piskel - Free online sprite editor
- Inkscape
- DeepArt.io - Online AI tool that transfer the art style of one image to another image
- Krita Anime Painting
Unity Tutorials
Diagram & Story Design Development
- Yarn - Dialog Editor
- Bacon Ipsum - A Meatier Lorem Ipsum Generator
- Celtx
- yEd
- Lorem Ipsum - All the facts - Lipsum generator
- Ink
UI
2D Animation
3D Assets
3D Editing
3D Animation
3D Terrain
Fonts
Sounds
- We Love Indies - Sound and Music for Games
- BBC Sound Effects
- Freesound.org - Sounds browse
- DrPetter’s homepage - sfxr
- Bfxr
- FreeSFX
- Sound Librarian
- SoundImage.org
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Gamemaster Audio <= 20% off with
gamedevtvcoupon (further reading/questions) - Sonniss.Com - Game Developer Conference 2015 - Free Audio - 10GB
- Sonniss.Com - Game Developer Conference 2016 - Free Audio - 15GB
- Sonniss.Com - Game Developer Conference 2017 - Free Audio - 20GB
- Sonniss.Com - Game Developer Conference 2018 - Free Audio - 30GB
- Soundbible.com
- WOW Sound - Royalty Free Music & Sounds For Games
Music
- We Love Indies - Sound and Music for Games
- Free Creative Commons Music - MP3s for Film, TV, Games, and Podcasting
- Newgrounds
- Open Music Archive
- digCCMixer
- SoundCloud
- Free Music Archive
Sound Editing
Game Programming Resources
- Procedural Content Generation in Games
- Game Programming Patterns
- PlaneShift (PlanetShift MMORPG - Database MySQL)
Game Design Discussions
- Gamasutra
- Game Design articles (curated)
- Game Design videos (curated)
- Development and Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games
Game Design Document Templates
Packages & Misc
- Sithjester’s RMXP Resources
- Glitch Public Domain Assets
- Itch.io Top Game Assets
- Reiner`s Tilesets
- RPG Game Assets Collection
- PacktPub - Free eBooks (changes daily, not always game dev related)
Project Management / Planning
Game Hosting & Distribution
Source Control
- Atlassian’s, What is Source Control tutorial (Git)
- GitKraken (Git client)
- GitHub
- SourceTree (Git client)
- https://www.gitignore.io
C# Language Resources
Third Party Lists
Other Educational Resources
- Computer Games and Simulations for Education and Exploration
- Creating Video Games
- MIT Open Courseware - Game Design
- Street-Fighting Mathematics
Game Dev Mentoring
- Game Dev Mentors (1 on 1 personalized mentoring from professional game devs)
All links last checked 23 May 2018
Also, Affinity Designer for vector graphics. It’s not free, but it’s much cheaper than Illustrator and almost as poweful (lacking proprtional tools, warping and power duplication, but other than that, it’s golden.