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Tools

2D Art

Krita

Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone. krita's website

Photoshop

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Gimp

Gimp Free & open source image editor.

Article related to this to make it so that you can use it as replacement for PhotoShop Gimp as Photoshop

Aseprite

Aseprite is an animated sprite editor & pixel art tool.

Cosmigo Pro Motion

Pro motion Pixel drawing and animation software, ideal for artists working on detailed and pixel precise graphics.

3D Modelling

3ds Max

3ds Max is a 3D modeling and rendering software by Autodesk for making 3D animations, models, games and images (formerly 3D Studio and 3D Studio Max)

Blender

Blender is a free and open-source 3D graphics software used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, interactive 3D applications and video games. By Blender Foundation.

Make Human

MakeHuman a free and open source software to create realistic 3d humans, very useful when you don't have much time or you don't have experience modeling, easy and intuitive. You can also export the models and customize using other software.

Plugin to Export/Import MH models & rigs into Blender.

Zbrush

Zbrush Official website Price as of 2021: $895 Zbrush is a great program for advanced users to add detail to their existing models, or to prototype models quickly by sculpting them out. It is not a good idea to get into Zbrush when you're not very familiar with general 3D concepts.

3D Animation

Source FilmMaker

SFM on Steam Movie-making tool built and used by Valve to make movies inside the Source game engine. Because the SFM uses the same assets as the game, anything that exists in the game can be used in the movie, and vice versa.

Game Engines

ADRIFT

ADRIFT is an application that allows you to create complex interactive fiction games.

GameMake

GameMaker is best suited for 2D games, it can be quite powerful and it has less steep learning curve compared to Unity.

Inform7

Inform7 is an open-source tool for interactive stories. It has a narrative-styled development language.

Quest

Quest is an open-source engine for creating Interactive fiction games.

RPG Maker

RPG Maker is an commercial tool for creating top-down 2D role-playing games.

TADS

TADS is a free authoring system for writing your own interactive fiction.

Texture

Texture is another authoring system for interactive fiction.

Twine

Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.

Unity

Unity can be used to make both 2D and 3D games alike, previous experience with programming is recommended.

Assets

Graphics

SFMLab Models, textures, maps, guides and NSFW resources for SFM.

loli/shota models for SFM

SFX

freesound.org

Learning

Tutorials, articles, books, that sort of stuff.

Modding

Scripting TES / Fallout

Creation Kit Wiki for Skyrim & Fallout 4.

Cipscis Scripting tutorials for Fallout 3/NV & Skyrim.

Misc

Creating a Loading Screen for Skyrim

How to make your own Skyrim patches

Game design

Gamasutra "The Art & Business of Making Games"