ellisonleao / magictools

A curated list of game development resources to make **magic** happen.
### License Legends
- :free: - Free
- :tada: - Open Source
- :moneybag: - Paid
- :money_with_wings: - Partially Free
## Table of Contents
- Graphics
 - Assets/Placeholders
 - Spritesheet Tools
 - Bitmap Compression
 - Texture Tools
 - Character Generators
 - Tile/Level Editors
 - Animation
 - Vector/Image Editor
 - Modeling
 - Terrain Generators
 - Voxel Editors
- Code
 - Engines and Frameworks
 - AI
- Audio
 - Collections
 - Music and Audio Editors
- Board Games
- Must see
 - Blogs and Portals
 - Books
 - Magazines
 - Videos/Podcasts
 - Game Jams
 - Project Management
 - Complete Game Sources
 - Communities
- Ads
- Learn
 - General Game Development
 - Computer Graphics
## 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: Quaternius - Thousands of free CC0 low-poly 3D models and animated characters.
- :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
- :free: AnimGen Free Sprite Sheet Tools - Browser tools that convert GIFs to sprite sheets and back, slice grid sheets or auto-extract sprites from sheets with no grid, export PNG sequences, and remove solid or green-screen GIF backgrounds. Files stay on your device; sheets come with Aseprite-format JSON.
- :tada: Chee