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Revision as of 15:17, 10 February 2011
links to free stuff (Creative Commons-licensed and the like) that can be used in game creation.
Contents
Game Design/Ideas
Graphics/Art
- FreeGameDev wiki: 2D, 3D and audio resources (it also has a search section)
- OpenGameArt
- Open ClipArt
- WayOfThePixel forum post with lots of links to utilities, pixel-art tutorials, resources, etc.
- http://reinerstileset.4players.de/englisch.html isometric sprites
- A Bitwise Method For Applying Tilemaps is an interesting technique related with tilemaps and graphics.
Software:
- Freegamedev's list of 2D and 3D software.
- graphicsgale
Sound
- Independent Ljudbank (Swedish)
- Freesound (Requires registration for downloads, but otherwise bullshit-free)
- PDSounds (might be down, check out this in that case)
- Soundsnap (make sure you learn the license, it is not exactly CC)
- Media College's sound effects
- Newground's audio contains free songs and loops.
- http://www.artistx.org/site2/media/free-resources/free-music.html another listing-type page. Licenses vary.
Music:
- Jamendo's free music (Various)
- Musopen
- Binärpilot (Evil chiptunes. Big plus for umlaut. Licensed CC-NC-ND. Use with caution.)
- 8bitcollective (Chiptunes) (Licensed CC-NC-SA. Use with caution.)
- Fanatical Productions
- Creative Commons' own list of music, containing lots of links. Two examples below:
- ccmixer is a "a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want."
- sampleswap is a "100% free AIFF/WAV collection contains 6.4 GB of sounds"
- pxtone] Comes with a composition program (ptCollage), instrument editor (ptVoice), and a sound editor (ptNoise). For an English user interface delete japanese.ico in the root directory :D
Software:
- Freegamedev's list of audio software
- sfxr (Sound effect generator)
- Flash version of the same software (google project page)
- Cocoa version for mac.
- Musagi Is a music editor, windows only.
Fonts
- OpenFontLibrary (this helps you browse it)
- dafont
- acidfonts has both free and non-free fonts.
Physics / Movement
- Sonic the Hedgehog's physics guide is a group of pages explaining in detail how physics are modelled in Sonic the Hedgehog.
- N tutorial A and N tutorial B explain how they did the physics in N: the way of the Ninja.
- Movement mechanics on "The Legend of Zelda"
Other/Miscellaneous
- Tiled map editor. A generic map editor. It seems that the (now depecated) java version was able to export maps in a lua format; current version only exports to XML (boo).
- Procedural Content Generation wiki
