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.

Freegamedev's list of 2D and 3D software.
graphicsgale
Pixothello
ASEPrite
Texturepacker (has free & paid versions)
A Bitwise Method For Applying Tilemaps is an interesting technique related with tilemaps and graphics.
Tile/Map-Based Game Techniques: Handling Terrain Transitions shows a more ellaborate technique for handling transitions between tiles.

bfxr is an online sound generator.
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:
- ccmixter 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

Google Webfons 320 font families (+ variants) which can be freely used for whatever you want (license)
OpenFontLibrary (this helps you browse it)
dafont
acidfonts has both free and non-free fonts.
40+ Excellent Free Fonts A collection of selected fonts

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"
Iron Coding's Excellent tutorial for tile-based movement (It's flash, but very well explained. The ideas can be used for any language)

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 * [http://www.texturepacker.com/ Texturepacker] (has free & paid versions)
 * [http://www.saltgames.com/?p=184 A Bitwise Method For Applying Tilemaps] is an interesting technique related with tilemaps and graphics.
+* [http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/game-programming/tilemap-based-game-techniques-handling-terrai-r934 Tile/Map-Based Game Techniques: Handling Terrain Transitions] shows a more ellaborate technique for handling transitions between tiles.