Penpot: a #gamedev #tool_suggestion for UI/UX designers and your (early) prototyping needs.
▶️ Discover it here: penpot.app
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Looking for a free, open-source #gamedev #tool_suggestion for video recording and even live streaming? Try the famous OBS Studio.
▶️ Get the latest release here: obsproject.com
A #gamedev #tool_suggestion for pixel artists and animators; Piskel can handily handle tiles too.
▶️ Draw with it here: www.piskelapp.com
This #gamedev #tool_suggestion is squarely aimed at adventure game creators, and it's none other than the free & online Puzzle Dependency Chart.
▶️ Play with it here: wishiwasalemon.itch.io/puzzle-depen...
▶️ Find out more about puzzle dependency charts here: grumpygamer.com/puzzle_depen...
Mixamo is an incredibly helpful #gamedev #tool_suggestion that will help with your animation needs. The platform provides rigging options, as well as countless animations for 3D characters.
▶️ Explore Mixamo at www.mixamo.com
If you are serious about adaptive audio in your games, then our #gamedev #tool_suggestion has to be fmod.
▶️ Find out more over at www.fmod.com
At D6 we use the online whiteboards of Miro extensively for teaching, wireframing, and development. It is a #gamedev #tool_suggestion we are really experienced with :)
▶️ Find it here: miro.com
Bugzilla is an aptly named #gamedev #tool_suggestion that's great for, well, tracking bugs. Handily, it's free and open source too.
▶️ Find it here: www.bugzilla.org
Here's a #gamedev #tool_suggestion to cover your audio editing, sfx & recording needs: Audacity. Handily, it's free and open source too.
▶️ Get Audacity here: www.audacityteam.org
A #gamedev #tool_suggestion for adventure game creators: PowerQuest by Powerhoof. This free tool sits on top of Unity, and lets you create 2d sprite based point 'n click adventure games; like The Drifter.
▶️ PowerQuest site: powerquest.powerhoof.com
Homer, the story flow editor is a free web-based solution for designing and writing interactive narrative content. It is also our #gamedev #tool_suggestion for today.
▶️ Play with it here: homer.open-lab.com/site/
GIMP may not be a tool exclusively for #gamedev, but remains an excellent, free, and open source image & photo editing #tool_suggestion with countess uses in any gamedev pipeline.
▶️ Try it out here: www.gimp.org
GameMaker is a #gamedev #tool_suggestion perfect both for prototyping and for creating 2D games. Handily, it's easy to learn too!
▶️ Try it out here: gamemaker.io/en
GameAnalytics is a #gamedev #tool_suggestion that allows you to track and model player behaviors in a variety of engines, and even sites.
▶️ Have a look: www.gameanalytics.com
Today's #gamedev #tool_suggestion is the free, open source Krita. It's a powerful, professional, and easy to use painting program.
▶️ Download it here: krita.org/en/
A #gamedev #tool_suggestion for writers and other creatives interested in interactive fiction and text adventures: Inform 7.
Inform 7 is powerful, open source, impressive in its capabilities, and uses natural language syntax.
▶️ Find it here: ganelson.github.io/inform-websi...
A #gamedev #tool_suggestion for the holidays: the GODOT game engine. If you haven't tried this rapidly evolving, free, open source, cross-platform game engine, now's the time to do so.
🕹️ Find out more & download GODOT here: godotengine.org
Here's a #gamedev #tool_suggestion for game designers, system designers and game economy designers: Machinations.
It's a tool that lets you visually design, predict, and optimise complex economic models.
🛠️ Find it here: machinations.io
A Friday #gamedev #tool_suggestion is meant to give you time to experiment over the weekend ;) Having said that, here's Tiled: a flexible, powerful, freeware tile-based level editing tool.
You can download it here: thorbjorn.itch.io/tiled
Blender is well know and often considered an industry standard, but it is also a #gamedev #tool_suggestion that simply needs to made.
Blender is not only open source and free, but also an excellent 3D creation suite.
▶️ Download it here: www.blender.org
With a narrative design course starting today, our #gamedev #tool_suggestion could be none other than @inkle.co's amazing *ink* narrative scripting language.
✒️ It plays great with Unity, Unreal and Godot. Get started here: www.inklestudios.com/ink/
Here's our latest #gamedev #tool_suggestion: Arcweave by @arcweave.com -- a collaborative, powerful game design tool with an emphasis on narrative design.
Find out more here: arcweave.com
Today's #gamedev #tool_suggestion is none other than the excellent LDtk 2D level editor. It's powerful, easy to use, free, and open source.
🔧 Download it here: ldtk.io