Resources
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.
Miku Miku Dance
https://learnmmd.com/StartHere/
Voice Synth /// AI Generated speech
VA Synth
Skyrim:SE / Fallout 4 / Obvlivion / Fallout:New Vegas / Morrowind / Fallout 3 / fallout 76 / Cyberpunk2077 / CivilizationVI / Mass Effect 3 / Witcher 3 / Github
AI tool for high quality voice acting synthesis using in-game voices from video games. No game assets are uses/distributed by this tool. The game assets are only used during training as reference for the algorithm to drive itself towards a point where it can create voices close enough to the reference examples. The question of permissions is at the moment more a question about ethics rather than law, as nothing yet exists for neural speech synthesis.
Read instructions to install.
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.
Godot
Godot Engine Godot is completely free and open-source under the very permissive MIT license. No strings attached, no royalties, nothing. Your game is yours, down to the last line of engine code.
Assets
Graphics
SFMLab Models, textures, maps, guides and NSFW resources for SFM.
Music
SFX
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"