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Tools

I did not use all these tools here but some of them ..and the rest might feel cool to you too. I saved them over the years so I want to share them with you

Here is my selection:

Small Game Engines

• Bitsy ~ a little engine for little games, worlds, and stories ~
• Bitsy 3D - bitsy but in 3D :O
• Bipsi - a bitsy like
• Decker interactive multimedia

Best Quality of Life Tools

• Materialize open source for making PBR materials out of a single texture
• BackPakcer A channel packing application for 3D material image files
• MagickUtils A ImageMagick a graphic way (GUI) of editing multiple images (also convert .heic format to .jpg so your pc can work with the images from an iphone.
• ShoeBox Texture Ripper
• PureRef easy all you want referance software
• cutsy clip and covert videos

Dithering

• dither me this
• ordered dither maker
• didder An extensive, fast, and accurate command-line image dithering tool.
• Ultra Effects | Part 9 - Obra Dithering An article about shaders
• Ditherpunk a article about monochrome image dithering
• Ditherpunk a dev-log article about real-time 3D dithering
• Hypnospace productivity lesson #1 Make your graphics look like crusty old web graphics by Jay Tholen (can also be done in aseprite now under Sprite-Color Mode-More Options-and then there is dithering selection like this
• How to paint with dithering in aseprite
• Ditherpunk a dev-log article about real-time 3D dithering
• Dither in 3D another approach and good explanation of Lukes Method about real-time 3D dithering

Hypertext langues and interactive fiction

• Yarn Spinner for books make choose your own adventure books with it
• Adventureon Classroom Create TEXT ADVENTURE games in your browser.
• Inform 7
• Calibo
• ink
• binksi bipsi + ink
• BITSY + TWINE a article about combining bitsy and twine
• PowerQuest a unity adventure framework with great dev posts

Pixel Art Tools

• Pixel Unwrapper UV unwrapping for pixel art. Add-on for Blender
• Pribambase Blender works with Aseprite now. Add-on for Blender
• cleanEdge a pixel art upscaling algorithm for clean rotations
• Sprite Stack or
• Stacked Sprite Viewer for Aseprite
• Aseprite Extensions by ThKasparr

3D Tools / Blender Addons

• ReSprytile Blender add-on for building tile based worlds 3D Pixel Art or Crocotile3D
• Magica Voxel - best Voxel art programm
• Pixel Unwrapper - UV unwrapping for pixel art. Add-on for Blender
• DreamUV Blender add-on reusable textures like tiling textures, trimsheets, hotspot and texture atlases
• fSpy for matching perspective
• complify compostion and lighting made with Ian Hubert
• MinionsArt 3D stylized Tutorials espieccally the lazy unwrappings one

Pico 8 Tools

• Wobblepaint
• PicoCAD
• picoSynth
• PicoShop Pro
• SCUMM 8
• Music Theory for making music in pico 8 with the build in tools
• Picotron cant wait what this fantatsy workstation will do

Webmistress

• Sheet Sites by Chia Amisola on how to use google sheets as an easiy collaborative database
• Use Google Sheets for phone friendly webapps (using a third party service) but its just a hobby
• CSS for CSS Baby 1-5 by eev.ee
• How to Build a Low-Tech Website
• XOXO Festival Talk by Molly white Web3 is a dumpster fire
• HTML is for people (I like Markdown more ;))
• A guide for Eleventy as a static site generator so the blog posts can be written in markdown
• CSS Flexbox Froggy learn CSS

Further

• Electric Zine Maker
• Hammer++ updated Source Level Editor
• TrenchBroom Level Editor
• Quad64 a open source Super Mario 64 level editor
• Spout for realtime usage of video in for example godot
• Shade for IOS Visual Shader black magic app just like unity, unreal or godot
• sumatra pdf reader a reader that does not sell you anything and its lightweigt
• Kopia Open Source File Backup with UI an active open source file incremental and full file backup client. Here is a Bonus Tip
• GB Studio

Collections

• Engines Database
• Game UI Databse
• Textures for VFX - Database
• Game Making Tools Wiki
• Cool (and fun) Tools curated by alienmelon
• lets get creative in a hobbiest way
• low tech tools by 100rabbits
• Cool Tools curated by alienmelon
• Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup curated by everestpipkin
• Godot Shaders
• GIF Cities
• Comprehensive Games with Level Editors - Google Drive
• Kenney art assets for prototyping