Difference between revisions of "Free Game Resources"

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links to free stuff (Creative Commons-licensed and the like) that can be used in game creation.

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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.

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.

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"

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.
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

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"

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

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+*[http://tommybrunn.com/2011/01/how-to-make-placeholder-art/]
 * [http://wiki.freegamedev.net/index.php/Free_3D_and_2D_art_and_audio_resources FreeGameDev wiki: 2D, 3D and audio resources] (it also has a [http://search.freegamedev.net/ search] section)
 * [http://opengameart.org OpenGameArt]