Game Development Tools

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Graphics Editors

Gimp

An advanced bitmap based image editor that has many capabilities similar to commercial software. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

Paint.NET

With an easy-to-learn but powerful set of tools, Paint.NET can be used for photo retouching, tilemap editing, pixel art editing, and so on. It contains advanced features such as levels and curves editing, noise addition and reduction, fractal and Perlin noise generation and more, but can also be used as a simple image editor.

Inkscape

An advanced vector image editor with an advanced editing toolset. Inkscape has capabilities similar to commercial software such as Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X. Inkscape leverages the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more.

Krita

Krita is a free digital painting and illustration application. Krita offers CMYK support, HDR painting, perspective grids, dockers, filters, painting assistants, and many other features you would expect.

Sound Editors

Audacity

Audacity is free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing.

LMMS

LMMS is a free cross-platform software which allows you to produce music with your computer.

SFXR

SFXR is a sound generator, widely used for creating sound effects for Ludum Dare games.

BFXR

BFXR is an improved ActionScript 3 port of SFXR with more features. It has moved in the direction of increased complexity and range of expression.

LabChirp

LabChirp is a program for creating sound effects.

Map Editors

Tiled Map Editor

Tiled is a general purpose tile map editor. It is meant to be used for editing maps of any tile-based game, be it an RPG, a platformer or a Breakout clone. This demo shows how to load a Tiled map.

Ogmo Editor

Ogmo Editor is a generic level editor for indie game developers who use Windows. It also happens to be free and open source. The editor is built to be reconfigurable, so you can set it up to work well for your game project. This HaxeFlixel tutorial demonstrates how to create a simple top-down level with Ogmo.

Asset Utilities

ShoeBox

ShoeBox is a free Adobe Air based app for Windows and Mac OS X with game and UI related tools. It has many utilities that make asset management easier, such as sprite packing, sprite extraction, texture ripping, bitmap font creation, and more.

Texture Packer

Texture Packer does one thing very well - it packs several sprites into one large image to help reduce load times for your game. It's easy to use and easy to integrate with HaxeFlixel. This demo shows how to use a TexturePackerAtlas.

Getting Started

Tutorial

HaxeFlixel Handbook

Resources

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