2023-05-11

Tools and Info

All the gamedev-related links I stumbled upon and found pretty cool.

Planning

• Codecks – cool for game developers.
• Mindmaps – a free mindmap creation tool.
• Excalidraw – a small tool for drawing diagrams and schemes.

Graphics

• Pixel art editor, palette list and a whole lotta tutorials!
• Voxel graphics description language.
• MagicaVoxel.
• Imagemagick scripts.
• Palette generator.
• Realtime colors for palette testing.
• JSPaint. They say paint is the best tool for pixel art. :)
• Explosion Generator.

Free Assets

• Vector icons.
• Lucide icons.
• Public Domain textures.
• Low-poly 3D models.

Sounds and Music

• Modular DAW: bespoke.
• Music programming language: Alda.
• Simple music editor: beepbox.
• Its more customizable fork: modbox.
• Jummbox: jummbox.
• The ultimate beepbox: ultrabox
• More complex online tool: AudioTool (login required).
• Not so online tool: DefleMask.
• A JS audio library: Howler.
• SunVox.
• ZzFX for sfx.
• ZzFXM - tiny music tracker.
• One-line music with Bytebeat.
• MusicLab Song Maker.
• FamiStudio is an attempt to make FamiTracker more accessable.
• Online music tracker: BassoonTracker.
• Sfx generator: sfxia.
• Online synth: Uhhyou.
• Generate music with code: Wavepot.
• List of VST plugins available for Linux.

Game Design

• Deepnight’s great tutorials about tile-based games.
• How to come up with ideas for small games.

Physics

• Planck.js.
• Matter.js.

Engines

• Good old SDL 2.0. Here’s a tutorial.
• Haxe with OpenFL.
• Finally, a Haxe engine I was looking for: Heaps (game base).
• Panda3D.
• Playground.js.
• Kontra.
• 8 Bit Workshop.
• raylib - pure and simple C library for way too many platforms.
• DragonRuby - pure and simple Ruby library.
• W - micro framework for WebGL2.

Animation

• Wick Editor.

Misc

• JSON visualizer.
• Extreme JavaScript minifier.
• Regex testing tool: regexr.
• JavaScript GUI library for tinkering with parameters: dat.gui.
• Very in-depth book about PostgreSQL.
• D3 Graph Gallery.
• xterm colors.
• Car size comparison.

Learning resources

Music

• Learn music production with Abelton.
• Guitar chords.
• Classical music tabs.
• Musical key characteristics and emotions.
• Chord maps.

Drawing

• A couple of tutorials on colors and pixels (NSFW content nearby).
• Moar tutorials on pixeling.
• GIF pixel tutorials.

Articles

• Joys of Small Game Development.