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Game Development Resources v1.72

Last update on: 2025-08-02

Please insert in alphabetical order Please make sure all entries start with "* "

Glossary

  • ➖: Placeholder

Usage

  • 🎮: Used in commercial games

Popularity

  • 🌟: Popular
  • ⚠️: Experimental
  • 💀: Outdated
  • ⛔: Discontinued

Source code

  • ⭕: Open-source Software / Free Software 🔗
  • ℹ️: Source available 🔗
  • 🆑: Closed Source 🔗

Cost

  • 🆓: Free to use 🔗
  • 💣: Freemium 🔗
  • 💰: One time Payment
  • 💸: Subscription 🔗

Other

  • GPL: Game has to be released under GPL 🔗
  • GPL?: Game has to be released under GPL if compiled with optional GPL code

Code

Game Engines + Editor

Requirements: Framework + Scenegraph or ECS + World/Map Editor

Game Engines

Requirements: Framework + Scenegraph or ECS + no World/Map Editor

Game Frameworks

Requirements: Framework + no Scenegraph or ECS + no World/Map Editor

Game Libraries

Requirements: Library + no Framework + no Scenegraph or ECS + no World/Map Editor

  • ➖➖⭕🆓 bgfx
  • ➖➖⭕🆓 kit
  • 🎮➖⭕🆓 OGRE

Fantasy Consoles

Game Programming Languages

Console SDKs

Sega Mega Drive

  • ➖➖⭕🆓 SGDK

Code Editors

Programming Languages

Visual

Pixelart

Image Editing

  • ➖➖⭕🆓 GIMP
  • ➖➖🆑🆓 Microsoft Paint
  • ➖➖🆑🆓 Paint.NET

Drawing

Painting

Vector Editing

Mapping

Voxel

2D skeletal animation

2D Vector animation

2D traditional animation

Aural

DAW

Tracker

Music creation

Modular synthesizer

Audio programming language

Sound Effects

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