Adventure Creator
A paid plugin for Unity which helps you make adventure games without any coding.
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This is a regularly updated list of game design tools, sounds and graphics. Everything on this list is primarily free, or has a free trial period. The best way to get familiar with game design tools, is to start using them - search for which tools suit your skill level and project and have a play.
Adventure Game Studio
A great way to make point and click ‘LucasArts / Monkey Island’ style adventure games all wrapped up in one package.
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Affinity Photo
A cheaper competitor to Adobe Photoshop, this software can be useful for editing your game art.
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Audacity
A multitrack sound program. Record, edit and add effects to your sounds before exporting them for your game.
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BFXR
Online or downloadable tool which allows you to easily (with one button press!) create and edit sound effects for your game.
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BandLab
Powerful free in-browser tool allowing you to create, record, synthesize, mix and share music.
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BeepBox
An online tool in your browser tool to help you easily sketch and share music ideas for your game.
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Bitsy
Free online in-browser game engine, which allows you to create simple games and worlds around exploring and narrative.
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Blender
Powerful 3D modeling tool allowing you to create 3D assets for your games.
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Buildbox
Create and publish 2D or 3D mobile games without the need to write any code.
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Clickteam Fusion
No code required, and very easy to get started. Make a 2D physics based game similar to Angry Birds in under an hour.
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CoDecks
A playful project management/planning tool designed specifically with game development in mind
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Construct
Powerful game engine which runs in a browser with no coding required, using an innovative ‘block-based’ approach for logic.
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Core games
Make multiplayer games harnessing the power of Unreal Engine without having to write a line of code.
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Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a type of copyright license that can help you find free art and audio for your game.
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Cry Engine
Fully featured game engine allowing you to make AAA quality games for any platform.
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Defold
Game engine, allowing you to make 2D and 3D games in the Lua programming language.
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Dreams
A playful space to create games, art, films and music, and play thousands of creations made by others.
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Create an online multiplayer card game that can be played in your browser.
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Dungeonscript
An open source game engine, allowing you to make simple 3D puzzle games in your browser.
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Emotica
A game-maker that allows you to make small games using only emojis.
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Flickgame
A ‘tiny game engine’ which lets you make small web games in the style of MS Paint.
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Freesound.org
A library of various sounds that are free to download and use.
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Fungus
Free plugin for Unity which can help you make games with no coding.
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GB Studio
Create 2D JRPG retro style games without any coding, that can be played on an emulator or console.
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Gamemaker Studio 2
A powerful drag-and-drop game engine for making 2D games.
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Gimp
Free and open source powerful cross platform image editor.
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Godot
A free game engine for making 2D and 3D games, with extra features to support programmers.
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A pixel art tool for making game art and animations that you can easily put in your game.
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HacknPlan
Project management and planning tool made specifically with game design teams in mind.
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Hopscotch
Mobile creative development for younger folks (on iOS devices) (8-14) without writing code.
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INK Script
A powerful natural mark-up language to create interactive fiction.
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Inform
A system to create interactive fiction using natural language syntax
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JSFXR
Jsfxr is a website that generates free sound effects for your game.
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Kenney
A huge free library of game assets, including sounds, effects, and 2D and 3D art.
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Lumberyard
Amazon's 2D and 3D game engine, using Lua and C++.
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LÖVE
A tool for building 2D games in the Lua programming language.
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Monogame
A free C# framework for building games for any platform.
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Notion
A shared workspace to help youi collaborate with teammates while you develop your game together.
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A large library of video game art, including sprites, models and backgrounds.
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Openclipart
A huge library of free clip art images to use in your game.
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Paint.net
A free image and photo editor tool, with many of the same editing functions as Photoshop, but completely free.
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Paradise
A game where you can shape the enviroment you play in, by interacting with the world.
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Pico-8
A cute game engine for making 2D games with visual art and audio editors, and a Lua editor for programming game elements.
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Piskel
A free online editor for pixel art and animated sprites
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PlingPling is a fun in-browser tool for making HTML pinball games.
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PuzzleScript
An open source game engine, allowing you to make simple 2D puzzle games in your browser.
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Quest
Let's you create text adventure games and interactive choose your own adventure game books
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RPG Maker MV
RPG Maker is a program for making role-playing games (RPGs) that requires no coding experience.
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Reaper
Reaper is a multitrack audio production application that you could use to record, edit, process, and mix your game audio.
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Ren'Py
Ren’Py is a free visual novel engine that helps you use words, images, and sounds to tell interactive stories.
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Roblox
An online platform for making a variety of game types and for playing games made by other users.
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SFX Buzz
SFX Buzz is a library of free sound effects including instrumentals.
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Scratch
Scratch is a free online game-making tool primarily aimed at teaching young people how to make games.
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Sketchup
SketchUp is a 3D modeling program that you can use to make objects for your game.
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Solar2D
Open source game engine based on Lua, with foundation on the Corona SDK game engine.
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Stencyl
Stencyl is a game-maker that lets you create Flash games for free or desktop/mobile games with a paid account.
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Substance Painter
Designed with one specific job in mind, to professionally texture your 3D assets.
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Super Game Asset
Super Game Asset is a library of free and paid assets you could download and use in your games.
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Tinychoice
Tinychoice is a simple tool for making small text games in HTML.
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Tracery
Tracery is a simple tool and language to generate text for bots, games, and stories.
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Trello
Trello is a platform for managing tasks in a project, either on your own or in a team.
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Twine
Twine is a free tool for creating interactive stories and branching narratives.
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Unigene
A Russian game engine that can also be used for simulations and data visualisation.
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Unity
Unity is a popular 3D game engine for making PC, VR, console, and mobile games that’s free for personal use.
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Unreal
Unreal is a popular 3D game engine for making PC, VR, console, and mobile games that’s free for personal use.
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Vertex Meadow
Vertex Meadow is a tool that turns 2D images into explorable 3D terrain.
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Wwise
End to end audio solution used by most AAA games studios
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sok-stories
sok-stories is a playful tool for making and exploring small 2D worlds.
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sok-worlds
sok-worlds is a playful tool for making and exploring 3D collage games.
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