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Oct 06 - Oct 12, 2025

Libraries / C

• C: Network
  • 🎉 ENet (⭐894) - Simple, lightweight and reliable UDP networking library.
  • 🎉 librg (⭐1.4k) - Middleware between networking / file-streaming libraries and app logic.
  • 🎉 netcode (⭐2.5k) - Secure client/server protocol for multiplayer games built on top of UDP.

Tools / Software / Voxel

• 💰 Qubicle - Popular (Crossy Road, Pacman 256) voxel editor, easy creation of 3D models.

Aug 18 - Aug 24, 2025

Libraries / C

• C: App Framework
  • 🎉 Allegro (⭐2k) - Cross-platform library aimed at video game and multimedia apps.
  • 🎉 glfw (⭐14k) - Cross-platform API for windowing, graphics contexts, input and events.
  • 🎉 MiniFB (⭐1.1k) - Creates a cross-platform frame buffer for drawing pixels.
  • 🎉 SDL (⭐14k) 🔥 - Low-level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware.
  • 🎉 Sokol (⭐8.8k) 🔥 - Single-file libraries for graphics, windowing, file handling, audio and more.

• C: Layout
  • 🎉 Clay (⭐16k) - High performance 2D UI layout library.

Libraries / C#

• C#: Gui
  • 🎉 Apos.Gui (⭐200) - UI library for MonoGame.
  • 🎉 Avalonia (⭐29k) - Cross-platform gui framework for .NET. [Website]
  • 🎉 GeonBit.UI (⭐505) - Gui for MonoGame projects.
  • 🎉 MGUI (⭐86) - UI framework for the MonoGame game framework.
  • 🎉 MonoGame.Forms (⭐301) - MonoGame render window for Windows Forms.
  • 🎉 Myra (⭐811) - Gui library for MonoGame, FNA, and Stride.
  • 🎉 Squid (⭐145) - C# Realtime GUI System.
  • 🎉 Uno (⭐9.6k) - Mobile, desktop and WebAssembly gui library. [Website]

• C#: Layout
  • 🎉 Gum (⭐303) - Flexible layout tool for creating UI on any platform.

Libraries / Java

• Java: Gui
  • 🎉 VisUI (⭐757) - A libGDX UI toolkit.

Open Source Games / Awesome Collections

• 📚 Quake Engines - List of repositories of idTech engines, it's derivatives and sourceports.

Jun 02 - Jun 08, 2025

Game Engines / Specialty

• 💸 Unbound - SDF‑powered game engine. Intuitively sculpt & script 3D games.

Libraries / BASIC

• 📚 Awesome Basic (⭐112) - List of awesome BASIC dialects, IDEs, and tutorials.

Libraries / Dart

• Dart: Game Framework
  • 🎉 Flame (⭐10k) - Minimalist Flutter based 2D game engine. [Awesome (⭐1.2k) | Examples | Website]

Open Source Games / C++

• 🔒 zDoom (⭐2.9k) - Modern, feature centric port for all Doom engine games.

Tools / Software / AI Assistants

• 💸 Coplay - Multi-agent AI Assistant for all aspects of Unity game developement.

• 💸 Unity Muse - Unity's suite of AI products.

Tools / Software / Modeling Tools

• 💸 ZBrush - Simple and easy to use 3D sculpting tool.

Jun 24 - Jun 30, 2024

Libraries / JavaScript

• JavaScript: Graphics - Three.js - Svelte
  • 🎉 Threlte (⭐3k) - 3D framework and ecosystem for Svelte and Three.js. [Website]

May 20 - May 26, 2024

Learning / Engine Development

• Education Portals
  • 📚 3D Game Engine Programming - Articles on graphics, physics, AI, I/O and more.

Apr 08 - Apr 14, 2024

Libraries / F#

• 📚 Awesome F# (⭐1.3k) - Curated list of frameworks, libraries, software and resources.

• 🌎 F# - Functional-first language for .NET, prioritizing expressive code and parallelism.

• F#: Audio
  • 🔒 FSound (⭐51) - Sound processing library.

• F#: Entity Component System
  • 🎉 Garnet (⭐168) - Game composition library with ECS and actor-like messaging features.

• F#: Game Engine w/Editor
  • 🎉 Nu Game Engine (⭐1.3k) - Cross-platform game engine built in the functional style.

• F#: Gui
  • 🎉 Fabulous (⭐1.2k) - Declarative UI framework for cross-platform apps.

Mar 25 - Mar 31, 2024

Game Engines / Commercial

• 💸 PlayCanvas - Popular (Flappy Bird) WebGL game engine. [Awesome (⭐328) | GitHub (⭐11k)]

Game Engines / Specialty

• 💸 DopeFish - Doom / Heretic map loading system for GameMaker.

Learning / Computer Graphics

• Graphics API: Mantle
  • 📚 Mantle - Developed by AMD as an alternative to Direct3D and OpenGL.

• Graphics API: Metal
  • 🌎 Metal - API for developing 3D apps on Apple platforms. [Samples]
  • 📚 Metal Tutorial - Learn how to get started with Metal at RayWenderlich.com.

• Graphics API: WebGPU
  • 🌎 Dawn - Open source, cross-platform implementation of the WebGPU standard, by Google.
  • 🌎 WebGPU (⭐5.2k) - Next generation web 3D graphics API. [GitHub (⭐5.2k)]
  • 🌎 WebGPU Demos - Collection of simple WebGPU examples by Apple.

Learning / Engine Development

• Commercial Studios Research Divisions
  • 🌎 Activision Research - Blog posts, articles and presentations from research within Activision.
  • 🌎 EA Technology - Research on game tech including info on the Frostbite engine.
  • 🌎 tri-Ace Research - Publications from the Research and Development Department at tri-Ace Inc.
  • 🌎 Ubisoft Technology - Learn about in-house tech including the Anvil and Snowdrop engines.

Libraries / C

• C: Graphics - 3D
  • 🎉 Sokol Gfx (⭐8.8k) - Cross-platform, single-file graphics. [Examples]
  • 🎉 Sokol Graphics Painter (⭐539) - 2D graphics painter implemented with Sokol.

• C: Input
  • 🎉 libGamepad (⭐24) - Cross-platform library for gamepad input.
  • 🎉 Sokol Gamepad (⭐8.8k) - Branch with addon support for gamepads in Sokol.

• C: Math
  • 🎉 Cglm (⭐2.7k) - Highly optimized OpenGL math.
  • ⭐ Handmade Math (⭐1.4k) 🔥 - Simple, public domain math library for games and computer graphics.
  • 🎉 Kazmath (⭐533) - Math library targeted at games.
  • 🎉 Raymath (⭐28k) - Math library included in the RayLib game framework.

Libraries / C++

• C++: File System
  • 🎉 Imgui-Filebrowser (⭐782) - Header-only file browser implementation for Dear ImGui in C++17.

• C++: Game Engine w/Editor
  • 🎉 AnKi 3D Engine (⭐1.5k) - Vulkan backend, modern renderer, scripting, physics and more.
  • 🔒 Crown Engine (⭐2.2k) - Data-driven 3D and 2D game engine.
  • 🎉 Crystal Engine (⭐233) - Vulkan backend with PBR and styled GUI (CrystalWidgets).
  • 🎉 Drop Creator (⭐7) - No code, 2.5D game engine built with Qt, OpenGL and Chipmunk Physics.
  • 🔒 Enigma (⭐363) - GameMaker compatible 2D engine.
  • 🎉 Esoterica Engine (⭐1k) - High-performance game engine with editor and AAA quality animation graph.
  • 🎉 Ethereal Engine (⭐712) - Cross-platform game engine and editor.
  • 🎉 ezEngine (⭐1.8k) - Game engine in active development.
  • 🎉 FIFE (⭐567) - Multi-platform isometric game engine.
  • 🎉 Irrlicht - Cross-platform 3D engine worked on for nearly 2 decades. [Website]
  • 🎉 Limon Engine (⭐671) - 3D FPS game engine with full dynamic lighting and shadows.
  • 🎉 Lina Engine (⭐880) - Modular game engine, aimed to develop 3D desktop games.
  • 🎉 Lumos (⭐1.4k) - Cross-platform 2D/3D game engine, supports both OpenGL and Vulkan.
  • 🎉 Lumix Engine (⭐3.7k) - A 3D game engine with Dear ImGui based editor.
  • 🎉 MxEngine (⭐1.2k) - Modern-C++ general-purpose 3D game engine.
  • 🔒 neoGFX (⭐562) - Cross-platform app and game engine.
  • 🎉 ÖbEngine (⭐847) - 2D engine with Lua scripting built with SFML.
  • 🎉 Overload (⭐2.3k) - Well documented 3D game engine inspired by industry standards.
  • 🎉 Razix Engine (⭐494) - High-performance research engine for production pipeline.
  • 🎉 Rootex (⭐229) - Advanced C++ 3D game engine powering an in-production game.
  • 🎉 Skylicht (⭐738) - Upgraded features including audio, physics and particles. Built on Irrlicht.
  • 🎉 Spartan Engine (⭐2.7k) - Emphasis on quality and performance.
  • 🎉 Torque 3D (⭐3.4k) - High-performance 3D engine built on The Forge.
  • 🔒 UPBGE (⭐1.6k) - Blender game engine, originally forked from Blender.

• C++: Graphics - 2D
  • 🎉 Blend2D (⭐1.8k) - High-performance 2D vector graphics engine. [Website]
  • 🎉 C++ Bitmap Library (⭐177) - Featured bitmap loading and manipulation library.
  • 🎉 QNanoPainter (⭐423) - OpenGL accelerated vector drawing library for Qt, powered by NanoVG.
  • 🎉 Skia (⭐10k) - Complete 2D graphics library used in Chrome by Google. [Website]
  • 🎉 vg-renderer (⭐591) - 2D vector graphics renderer for Bgfx, based on ideas from NanoVG.

• C++: Input
  • 🎉 Gainput (⭐877) - Easy to use input library.
  • 🎉 OIS (⭐268) - Object-oriented input system. Compatiable with many operating systems.
  • 🎉 Oryol Input (⭐2k) - Input module from the Oryol game framework.

• C++: Libraries
  • 🎉 Boost Libraries - Wide range of C++ libraries, many end up as part of the STL. [Website]
  • 📚 Gamedev Libraries (⭐1.6k) - Collection of open source C/C++ libraries for game development.
  • 📚 Inqlude - List of libraries for developers of Qt-based apps.
  • 📚 List of Open Source C++ Libraries - Comprehensive list of open source C++ libraries.
  • 📚 NVIDIA GameWorks - NVIDIA technologies for game & app developers.

Libraries / C#

• C#: Cross-Platform
  • 🌎 Blazor (⭐37k) - C# to JavaScript (as WebAssembly) technology by Microsoft. [Website]
  • 🎉 Mono (⭐11k) - Open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework.

• C#: Entity Component System
  • 🎉 Arch (⭐1.4k) - High-performance ECS with optional multithreading.
  • 🎉 DefaultEcs (⭐721) - ECS framework designed for game development.
  • 🔒 Friflo.Engine.ECS (⭐178) - Archetype based ECS with focus on performance, cache locality and DX.
  • 🎉 LeoECS (⭐207) - ECS framework powered by C# with optional integration to Unity.

• C#: Geometry
  • 🎉 DotRecast (⭐772) - A port of Recast & Detour, navigation mesh toolset for games, Unity3D, servers, C#.

Libraries / Go

• 🌎 Go - Statically typed, compiled programming language designed at Google. [GitHub]

Libraries / Haxe

• Haxe: Animation
  • 🎉 Actuate (⭐160) - Flexible, fast tween library.
  • 🎉 DragonBones (⭐42) - Runtime support for DragonBones skeletal animation.
  • 🎉 Spine-Hx (⭐56) - Spine runtime for Haxe.

• Haxe: Game Engine w/Editor
  • 🎉 Armory (⭐3.2k) - 3D game engine with full Blender integration.
  • 🎉 Away3D (⭐214) - Real-time 3D engine for OpenFL. [Website]
  • 🎉 Flixel-Studio (⭐106) - Embeddable, in-game editor for HaxeFlixel.
  • 🎉 Hide (⭐601) - Extensible IDE for the Heaps 3D graphic engine.
  • 🎉 LDtk (⭐3.8k) 🔥 - Modern, lightweight and efficient 2D level editor. [Website]
  • 🎉 Starling (⭐251) - Popular (Angry Birds) 2D game engine built on OpenFL. [Editor | Website]

Libraries / Java

• 📚 OpenGL & GLSL Tutorials (⭐1.9k) - OpenGL / GLSL tutorials for LWJGL and libGDX.

Libraries / JavaScript

• JavaScript: Animation
  • 🎉 Animate.css (⭐82k) - Ready-to-use, pure CSS animations. [Examples]
  • 🎉 D3.js (⭐112k) - Data-Driven Documents. Bring data to life with SVG, canvas and HTML. [Examples | Website]
  • 💸 GreenSock (⭐23k) - Robust animation toolset. [Website]
  • 🎉 Ossos (⭐471) - Web-based character animation system.
  • 🎉 React-Spring (⭐29k) - Spring physics based React animation library.
  • 🎉 Scene.js (⭐2.8k) - JavaScript & CSS timeline-based animation library.
  • 🎉 Theatre (⭐12k) - Motion design editor for the web.
  • 🎉 Tween.js (⭐10k) - Tweening engine for easy animations using Robert Penner's equations.
  • 🎉 TweenJS (⭐3.6k) - Tweening / animation library, part of the CreateJS suite.

• JavaScript: Game Engine w/Editor
  • 🎉 A-Frame (⭐17k) - Web framework for building VR experiences. [Website]
  • 🎉 Cocos Creator (⭐9k) - Cross-Platform 2D/3D game creation. [Website]
  • 🎉 ct.js (⭐192) - Desktop 2D game engine, built on PixiJS.
  • 🎉 Egret (⭐4k) - Mobile game engine. [Editor (⭐151)]
  • 🎉 GDevelop (⭐17k) - Full-featured 2D game development. [Website]
  • 🎉 Impact (⭐2.1k) - Game engine for desktop and mobile browsers. [2D Level Editor]
  • 🎉 Isogenic (⭐559) - Engine with advanced multiplayer, based on Valve's multiplayer system.
  • 🎉 melonJS (⭐6.2k) - Modern 2D game engine, level editing with Tiled. [Examples | Website]
  • 🎉 microStudio (⭐1.1k) - Online game engine. Learn and practice programming.
  • 🎉 Pixelbox.js (⭐479) - Sandbox to fast-prototype 2D tile-based games. [Download]
  • 🎉 QICI Engine (⭐891) - Toolset for making games.
  • 🎉 Superpowers - Both 2D & 3D game making for indies. [Website]
  • 🎉 Taro (⭐288) - Multiplayer engine with Box2D physics, aka Moddio. [Website]

Libraries / Kotlin

• Kotlin: Game Framework
  • 🎉 FXGL (⭐4.7k) - Game library for 2D, experimental 3D.
  • 🎉 Kool (⭐422) - Multi-platform 3D Vulkan / OpenGL graphics engine. [Examples]
  • 🎉 KTX (⭐1.4k) - Kotlin extensions for the libGDX game framework.

Libraries / Rust

• Rust: Game Framework
  • 🎉 Ambient (⭐3.9k) - Multiplayer game engine.
  • 🎉 Amethyst (⭐8k) - Data-driven 2D/3D game engine aiming to be fast and configurable.
  • 🎉 Bevy (⭐42k) 🔥 - Refreshingly simple data-driven 2D/3D game engine. [Website]
  • 🎉 Macroquad (⭐4k) - Easy to use game library, heavily inspired by RayLib.

Specialty Topics / Geometry

• Meshes
  • 📚 Geometry, Surfaces, Curves, Polyhedra - Geometry topics including meshes, shapes, textures and more.
  • 📚 Mesh Transforms - Apple's private API for manipulation of UIView meshes. [Source (⭐6)]

Specialty Topics / Network

• 📚 Source Multiplayer Networking - Valve's Source Engine multiplayer system.

Specialty Topics / Particles

• 📚 Particles - Article by LearnOpenGL.

Specialty Topics / Physics

• Ropes / Chains
  • 📚 Draw SVG rope using JavaScript - SVG path vector rope drawing.
  • 📚 Ropes in Contraption Maker - Implementing the physics of ropes in Contraption Maker.
  • 🌎 Matter.js: Chains - Chains demo using Matter.js. [Source (⭐18k)]

• Soft Body
  • 📚 Blob Physics - Using verlet physics to simulate 2D blobs.
  • 🌎 Oryol: Bullet Cloth - Bullet 3D physics cloth using the Oryol game framework. [Source (⭐83)]
  • 🌎 Three.js: Ammo Volume - 3D soft body volumes using Ammo.js and Three.js. [Source (⭐109k)]

Specialty Topics / Shaders

• 🌎 SHADERed (⭐4.6k) - Shader IDE, written in C++.

• Noise
  • 📚 Book of Shaders: Noise - Excellent GLSL noise article by Book of Shaders.
  • 📚 Color Banding - Using noise / dithering to improve drawing gradients.
  • 🎉 Psrdnoise (⭐301) - Tiling simplex flow noise in 2D/3D.
  • 📚 Understanding Perlin Noise - Analysis of Perlin Noise, written in C#. [Source]
  • 🎉 WebGL Noise (⭐552) - Maintained branch of the original Ashima Arts 2D, 3D and 4D noise functions.

• Pixelation
  • 📚 Pixel Art Shaders - Useful GLSL postprocessing shaders for pixel art games.
  • 🌎 Three.js: Pixelation Example - WebGL pixelation postprocessing using Three.js. [Source (⭐109k)]

• Water / Refraction
  • 📚 2D Water Shader - GLSL fragment shader to simulate 2D water surface in libGDX.

Specialty Topics / Transparency

• 📚 Intro to Order-Independent Transparency - Article by LearnOpenGL.

Tools / Software / Level Editors

• 🆓 TrenchBroom - Level editor for Quake-Engine games. [Source (⭐2.3k)]

Tools / Software / Materials / Textures

• 🆓 TexTools for Blender - UV and texturing tools for Blender. [Source]

Tools / Software / Voxel

• 🎉 IsoVoxel (⭐355) - Generates isometric pixel art from MagicaVoxel .vox files.

Video Game Assets / Graphic Assets

• 🆓 Top Free Game Assets - Top free game assets listed on itch.io.

Video Game Assets / Model Assets

• 📚 Retro3DGraphicsCollection (⭐1.8k) - No attribution, retro (PS1 style) 3D graphics assets.

Nov 13 - Nov 19, 2023

Video Game Assets / Material Assets

• 🆓 Pmndrs Materials (⭐20) - Collection of public domain materials.

Video Game Assets / Model Assets

• 🆓 Pmndrs Market (⭐271) - Collection of public domain models.

Nov 06 - Nov 12, 2023

Game Engines / Awesome Collections

• 📚 CoolEngines (⭐91) - List of open source graphic & game engines.

Libraries / C++

• C++: Audio
  • 🎉 Amplitude Audio SDK (⭐60) - Cross-platform audio engine designed for the needs of games.
  • 💰 irrKlang - High level 2D/3D sound engine and audio library.
  • 💰 Juce (⭐7.6k) - The leading framework for multi-platform audio apps.
  • 🔒 OpenAL Soft (⭐2.5k) - Software implementation of the OpenAL 3D audio API.
  • 🎉 PortAudio (⭐1.8k) - Cross-platform audio library.
  • 🎉 Steam Audio (⭐2.6k) - Cross-platform spatial audio SDK for games and VR.

• C++: Physics
  • 🎉 Box2D (⭐9.2k) - Battle tested 2D physics for games. [Docs | Fixed Time-Step | Tutorials]
  • 🎉 Bullet Physics (⭐14k) - Popular 3D physics libary.
  • 🎉 Chrono (⭐2.5k) - High-performance multiphysics and multibody dynamics simulations. [Gallery]
  • 🎉 Edyn (⭐721) - Multi-threaded, networked physics engine. Supports large dynamic worlds. [Testbed (⭐39)]
  • 🎉 Jolt Physics (⭐8.5k) - Multi-core friendly rigid body 3D physics and collision detection.
  • 🎉 Liquid Fun (⭐4.9k) - Extension of Box2D, adds particle-based fluid and soft bodies. [Demos]
  • 🎉 Newton Dynamics (⭐1k) - Real-time simulation of 3D environments.
  • 🎉 ODE - Open Dynamics Engine, 3D rigid body physics.
  • 🎉 Qu3e (⭐968) - Fast 3D physics engine, created to be used in games.
  • 🎉 ReactPhysics3D (⭐1.7k) - 3D physics engine.
  • 🎉 Slingshot (⭐142) - Constraint-based physics engine for 3D rigid body dynamics.

Oct 02 - Oct 08, 2023

Game Engines / Commercial

• 💸 Titan Engine - Cross-platform engine, started in 2000. Formerly Esenthel Engine.

Game Engines / Specialty

• 🎉 Ren'Py (⭐5.9k) - Visual novel engine. [Website]

Libraries / C

• C: Game Engine w/Editor
  • ⭐ AVA (⭐343) - Tiny, minimalistic 3D game engine.
  • 🎉 TIC-80 (⭐5.6k) - Virtual computer for making & sharing tiny games. [Website]

Libraries / Rust

• Rust: Graphics - 3D
  • 🎉 Ash (⭐2.1k) - Vulkan bindgins for Rust.
  • 🎉 Glium (⭐3.6k) - Safe wrapper arount the OpenGL API.
  • 🎉 Kiss3D (⭐1.5k) - Keep it simple, stupid 3D graphics engine.
  • 🎉 Miniquad (⭐1.9k) - Cross platform rendering.
  • 🎉 Vulkano (⭐4.9k) - Safe and rich wrapper around the Vulkan API.

Jul 31 - Aug 06, 2023

Specialty Topics / Shaders

• Dithering
  • 📚 Dithering on the GPU - Ordered dithering in glsl using 8x8 Bayer Dithering.

Tools / Software / Color / Palettes

• 🌎 Lospec - Database of palettes for pixel art.

Jul 24 - Jul 30, 2023

Tools / Software / Pixel Art

• 💰 Ditherdragon - Resample art, sketches and images into pixel-art.

Jul 10 - Jul 16, 2023

Libraries / Haxe

• 📚 Haxe Blog: Game Engine - "How I wrote my own 3D game engine and shipped a game in 20 months".

• 📚 Haxe Blog: OpenFL - "Flash is dead, long live OpenFL".

Tools / Software / Animation Software

• 🆓 DragonBones - Open source 2D game skeletal animation solution. [Source]

May 08 - May 14, 2023

Tools / Software / Generative Art

• Modeling
  • 📚 Dream Fusion - Text-to-3D using 2D diffusion.
  • 📚 GET3D - Generative model of 3D shapes from images by NVIDIA. [Source (⭐4.4k)]
  • 📚 Magic3D - High-resolution text-to-3D content creation.
  • 📚 NeRF - View synthesis of scenes as neural radiance fields. [Source (⭐11k)]
  • 📚 Shap-e (⭐12k) - Generate 3D objects conditioned on text or images.

Mar 20 - Mar 26, 2023

Libraries / Rust

• Rust: Audio
  • 🎉 Kira (⭐967) - Create expressive audio for games.

Mar 06 - Mar 12, 2023

Game Engines / Popular

• 🎉 Godot (⭐102k) 🔥 - Feature-packed, open source engine. Excellent! [Awesome (⭐8.7k) | Website]

Game Engines / AAA

• 🎉 Amazon Lumberyard (⭐2.1k) - AAA engine integrated with AWS and Twitch. Forked from CRYENGINE.

• 💸 CRYENGINE - Powerful real-time game development platform by Crytek.

• 🆓 Evergine - High-quality 3D and 2D solutions. Formerly Wave Engine. [Samples (⭐129)]

• 🎉 O3DE (⭐8.5k) - Multi-platform AAA engine. Cinema-quality 3D. Successor to Lumberyard.

Game Engines / Commercial

• 💰 AppGameKit - Easy and quick game making by TheGameCreators.

• 💰 Corgi Engine - 2D/2.5D platformer engine built on top of Unity.

• 🎉 Defold (⭐5.4k) - Open sourced game engine by King. [Website]

• 💸 Felgo - Build cross-platform 2D games in days, built with Qt.

• 💰 GameGuru - Game builder, 3D, no coding required by TheGameCreators.

• 💸 GameMaker Studio - Popular 2D game development environment by YoYo Games.

• 💰 Phaser Editor 2D - Commercial, web-based editor for Phaser. [GitHub (⭐475)]

Game Engines / Specialty

• 💰 3dSen - Emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D. [Website]

• 🎉 GB Studio (⭐9k) - Retro adventure game creator for Game Boy.

• 💰 Platforming Engine - Everything you need to create your own platformer in GameMaker.

• 💰 RPG in a Box - Turn your stories and ideas into games, built with Godot.

Learning / Computer Graphics

• Platform: XNA
  • 📚 RB Whitaker's Wiki - Tutorials on C#, MonoGame, XNA, and more.
  • 📚 Riemer's MonoGame Tutorials (⭐783) - Everything you need to start programming with MonoGame.
  • 📚 XNA Game Studio Archive (⭐783) 🔥 - Required visit for MonoGame / FNA / XNA developers.

Libraries / BASIC

• BASIC: App Framework
  • 💰 Basic for Qt - BASIC language and environment built with Qt. Formerly Q7Basic.
  • 🎉 QB64 (⭐690) - Modern BASIC+OpenGL language, retains QBasic / QB4.5 compatibility.
  • 📚 Visual Basic - Object-oriented language for Windows by Microsoft.

Libraries / C

• C: Audio
  • ⭐ Miniaudio (⭐5.3k) - Single-file audio playback and capture library.
  • 🎉 SDL_mixer (⭐591) - Audio mixer that supports various file formats for SDL.
  • 🎉 SoLoud (⭐2k) 🔥 - Free, easy, portable audio engine for games.

• C: Game Framework
  • 🎉 CGL (⭐446) - Single-header file, lots of graphics & utility functions.
  • 🎉 DOME (⭐479) - Melds SDL2 and the Wren scripting language. [Website]
  • 🎉 Entrypoint (⭐72) - Lightweight entry point for games.
  • ⭐ FWK (⭐520) - 3D game framework.
  • 🎉 Gunslinger (⭐1.4k) - Header-only C99 framework for multimedia apps.
  • 🎉 RayLib (⭐28k) 🔥 - Simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy 2D/3D videogame programming.

• C: Libraries
  • ⭐ Cute Headers (⭐4.8k) - Single-file libraries primarily used for games, by Randy Gaul.
  • ⭐ Libs (⭐2.1k) - Single-file public domain libraries for C/C++, by Mattias Gustavsson.
  • ⭐ Pico Headers (⭐420) - Single-file, cross-platform libraries for game development.
  • 📚 Single-file Libs (⭐9.6k) - Amazing collection of single-file C/C++ libraries compiled from many authors.
  • ⭐ stb (⭐30k) 🔥 - Single-file public domain libraries for C/C++, by Sean Barrett.

Libraries / C++

• 📚 Learn C++ 🔥 - Walks you through all the steps to write, compile, and debug C++.

• C++: App Framework
  • 🎉 Cinder (⭐5.5k) - App / graphics library for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS. [Website]
  • 🎉 Cross Window (⭐681) - Platform library for managing windows and other OS tasks.
  • 🎉 SFML (⭐11k) 🔥 - Cross-platform access to windowing, graphics, audio and networking.

• C++: Layout
  • 🎉 Yoga (⭐18k) - Cross-platform flexbox layout engine by Facebook. [Website]

• C++: Scripting
  • 🎉 AngelScript - Cross-platform scripting library, follows the widely known syntax of C/C++.
  • 🔒 ArkScript (⭐665) - Small, fast, functional and scripting language.
  • 🎉 ChaiScript (⭐3.1k) - Embedded scripting language designed from to directly target C++17.
  • 🎉 GameMonkey Script (⭐157) - Embedded scripting language for apps, tools and games.
  • 🎉 v8 (⭐24k) - High-performance JavaScript and WebAssembly engine by Google.

Libraries / C#

• C#: Game Framework
  • 🎉 FNA (⭐2.8k) - Reimplementation of the Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0 libraries.
  • 🎉 Monofoxe (⭐436) - Game engine designed to simplify working with MonoGame.
  • 🎉 MonoGame (⭐13k) 🔥 - Framework for creating cross-platform games. [Website]
  • 🎉 Nez (⭐2k) - Feature-rich 2D framework built on MonoGame.
  • 🎉 Protogame (⭐180) - Cross-platform 2D/3D game engine built on MonoGame.

• C#: Physics
  • 🎉 Aether Physics (⭐379) - 2D physics library with continuous collision detection.
  • 🎉 Box2D.NET (⭐83) - A port of Box2D. 2D physics engine for games, .NET C#, Unity3D, servers.
  • 🎉 Velcro Physics (⭐711) - C# port of Box2D. Formerly Farseer Physics.

Libraries / Dart

• Dart: App Framework
  • 🎉 Flutter - Open source app framework by Google. [Awesome (⭐57k) | GitHub]

Libraries / Haxe

• Haxe: Gui
  • 🎉 HaxeUI (⭐367) - Cross-platform set of styleable gui components.
  • 🎉 Zui (⭐317) - Immediate mode user interface, used in ArmorPaint.

Libraries / JavaScript

• JavaScript: Game Framework
  • 🎉 Crafty (⭐3.5k) - Create 2D games in a structured way.
  • 🎉 Excalibur (⭐2.1k) - Friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web.
  • 🎉 Galacean (⭐5.3k) - Web/Mobile-first engine built on WebGL and glTF.
  • 🎉 Kaboom (⭐2.7k) - Simple 2D framework.
  • 🎉 LittleJS (⭐3.7k) - Lightweight 2D framework with WebGL rendering.
  • 🎉 Meep (⭐277) - ECS game framework.
  • 🎉 Oasis (⭐5.3k) - WebGL framework by AntGroup. 2D/3D, animation, physics.
  • 🎉 Phaser (⭐38k) - Fast 2D game framework. [Website]
  • 🎉 Turbulenz (⭐4.8k) - Modular 2D/3D game framework for browsers, desktops and mobile.
  • 🎉 WhitestormJS (⭐6.2k) - Framework for 3D apps / games, built on Three.js.

Libraries / Ruby

• Ruby: Graphics - 3D
  • 🎉 Mittsu (⭐534) - 3D graphics library based heavily on Three.js.

Libraries / Rust

• Rust: Game Engine w/Editor
  • 🎉 Fyrox (⭐8.5k) - 2D/3D game engine with editor. Formerly Rg3d. [Website]

• Rust: Gui
  • 🔒 Azul (⭐6k) - Desktop gui framework.
  • 🎉 Dioxus (⭐31k) - Cross-platform, React-like gui library.
  • 🎉 Druid (⭐9.7k) - Data-first gui design toolkit.
  • 🎉 egui (⭐26k) - Easy to use immediate mode gui. Runs on web and native. [Demo]
  • 🔒 Slint (⭐20k) - Gui toolkit for embedded / desktop. Formerly SixtyFPS. [Website]

Open Source Games / C

• 🔒 Doom (⭐17k) - The original 1993 3D masterpiece by id Software.

Open Source Games / C++

• 🎉 Etheral Legends (⭐244) - Indie Action RPG built with Unreal Engine 4. [Steam]

Specialty Topics / Lighting / Shadows

• Lighting 3D
  • 📚 Basic Lighting - 3D lighting article by LearnOpenGL.
  • 📚 Forward Rendering vs. Deferred Rendering - Techniques for handling many lights.
  • 📚 Forward+ Rendering / Tiled Forward Shading - Forward rendering with tiled light culling.

Specialty Topics / Physics

• 📚 Fix Your Timestep! 🔥 - How to keep physics stable with variable fps.

Specialty Topics / Shaders

• 📚 3D Game Shaders For Beginners 🔥 - Shaders to improve your games. [Source (⭐19k)]

• 📚 Book of Shaders 🔥 - Step-by-step guide through Fragment Shaders. [Source (⭐6.6k)]

Tools / Software / Animation Software

• 💸 Mixamo - Animate 3D characters for games, films and more. By Adobe.

Tools / Software / Modeling Tools

• 🆓 Blender 🔥 - Standard for open source 3D modeling. [Source (⭐16k)]

Video Game Assets / Graphic Assets

• 🆓 Kenny 🔥 - 2D/3D CC0 1.0 game graphics and other assets.

Feb 06 - Feb 12, 2023

Libraries / Haxe

• 🌎 Haxe - Produce cross-platform native code. [GitHub (⭐6.6k)]

Libraries / JavaScript

• JavaScript: Gui
  • 🎉 Bootstrap (⭐173k) - Popular. Develop responsive, mobile first projects. [Website]
  • 🎉 dat.GUI (⭐7.7k) - Lightweight gui for changing variables in JavaScript.
  • 🎉 Dojo (⭐90) - Gui widgets for web apps.
  • 🎉 Guify (⭐294) - Simple gui for changing JavaScript variables. [Demo]
  • 🎉 GuiGui (⭐73) - Gui for tweaking stuff in JavaScript. [Demo]
  • 🎉 Inferno (⭐16k) - React-like library for building high-performance user interfaces.
  • 🎉 jQuery UI (⭐11k) - The official gui library for jQuery.
  • 🎉 Leva (⭐5.5k) - React-first components gui.
  • 🎉 Magic Circle (⭐45) - Multi-functional gui. Inspired by dat.GUI, Unity and Framer.
  • 🎉 PCUI (⭐720) - UI component library for the web by PlayCanvas.
  • 🎉 Tweakpane (⭐4.2k) - Compact gui for fine-tuning values.
  • 🎉 uil (⭐578) - Simple JavaScript gui.
  • 🎉 w2ui (⭐2.7k) - Gui widgets for modern web apps.
  • 🎉 Zebkit (⭐933) - Canvas rendered UI component libary.

Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2023

Game Engines / Popular

• 💸 Unity - Biggest name in game engines, industry standard. [Awesome (⭐7k)]

• 💸 Unreal Engine - AAA quality, insane feature set, photoreal visuals. [Awesome (⭐1.5k)]

Game Engines / AAA

• 💸 Flax Engine (⭐6.4k) - Modern 3D game engine written in C++ and C#.

Game Engines / Commercial

• 💸 Construct - Drag and drop game builder. [Awesome (⭐84)]

• 💸 Luxe - 2D first engine, with a 2D/3D renderer.

• 💸 NeoAxis (⭐228) - Versatile real-time platform for making games and apps. [Website]

• 💸 Stencyl - Quick and easy game making with visual scripting. [GitHub (⭐205)]

Game Engines / Specialty

• 🔒 Twine (⭐2.5k) - Tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.

Learning / Computer Graphics

• Awesome Collections
  • 📚 Awesome Demoscene (⭐403) - Underground computer art culture exploring computer graphics and sound.
  • 📚 Awesome Graphics Libraries (⭐504) - Curated list of 3D graphics libraries and resources.

• Books
  • 📚 GPU Gems - Programming techniques, tips, and tricks for real-time graphics.
  • 📚 GPU Gems 2 - Programming techniques for high-performance graphics.
  • 📚 GPU Gems 3 - Collection of state-of-the-art GPU programming examples hosted by NVIDIA.
  • 📚 Interactive Computer Graphics - Top down approach to computer graphics.
  • 📚 Physically-Based Rendering - From the Academy Award winning authority on PBR.

• Education Portals
  • 📚 Game Art Tricks - Articles exploring different graphics techniques.
  • 📚 Lighthouse3d.com - Collection of tutorials on OpenGL, GLSL and other graphics topics.
  • 📚 Paper Bug - Indexed compendium of graphics programming papers.
  • 📚 Scratchapixel - In depth coverage of computer graphics topics.

• Graphics API: Glide
  • 📚 Glide - Developed by 3dfx Interactive for their Voodoo Graphics in the 1990's.
  • 🌎 Glide Open Source Project - Glide open source project.

• Pipeline: GPGPU
  • 🌎 CUDA - Developed by NVIDIA for parallel computing and programming.
  • 📚 DirectCompute - Developed by Microsoft for using compute shaders with DirectX 10 & 11.
  • 🌎 OpenCL - For writing programs that execute across CPUs, GPUs, and other processors.

Learning / Graphical User Interface

• 📚 List of Widget Toolkits - Gui frameworks across all platforms and languages.

Learning / Programming

• 📚 TIOBE Index - Popularity of programming languages, updated monthly.

Libraries / BASIC

• BASIC: Game Framework
  • 🎉 Dark Basic (⭐501) - BASIC programming language for creating apps and games. [Website]

Libraries / C

• 📚 Learn C Programming - Excellent tutorials that will guide you to learn C programming.

• C: Geometry
  • 🎉 Blob (⭐56) - Single-header implementation of a contour tracing algorithm.
  • 🎉 Marching Squares (⭐922) - Convert images into triangles. [Info]
  • 🎉 Octasphere (⭐922) - Generates triangle meshes for spheres, boxes, and capsules. [Info]
  • 🎉 Par_Shapes (⭐922) - Triangle meshes including solids, spheres and more. [Info]
  • 🎉 Par_Streamlines (⭐922) - Triangulating thick lines, béziers, streamlines. [Demo (⭐32) | Info]

• C: Graphics - 2D
  • 🎉 NanoVG (⭐5.5k) - OpenGL-based 2D vector drawing library for UI and visualizations.
  • 🎉 Tilengine (⭐962) - 2D graphics with raster effects for retro style game development.

• C: Gui
  • 🎉 cImgui (⭐1.7k) - Thin C wrapper generated for Dear ImGui.
  • 🎉 lvgl (⭐21k) 🔥 - Embedded gui library, many widgets and advanced visual effects.
  • 🎉 NAppGUI (⭐613) - Professional, well documented SDK to build desktop apps.
  • 🎉 Native File Dialog (⭐1.9k) - Portably invoke native file open / save dialogs.
  • 🎉 Nuklear (⭐10k) - Single-header immediate mode cross-platform gui library.

• C: Physics
  • 🎉 Chipmunk (⭐2.3k) - Fast, lightweight 2D game physics library. [Docs]

• C: Scripting
  • 🎉 Duktape (⭐6.1k) - Embeddable JavaScript engine with a focus on portability and compact footprint.
  • 🎉 JerryScript (⭐7.3k) - Ultra-lightweight JavaScript engine for the Internet of Things.
  • 🎉 Lua (⭐9.4k) - Powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.
  • 🎉 QuickJS (⭐9.6k) - Small and embeddable JavaScript engine.

Libraries / C++

• 📚 Awesome C++ (⭐66k) - List of awesome C++ frameworks, libraries, and resources.

• 📚 Awesome C++ Game Dev (⭐1.9k) - List of awesome C++ things for Game Development.

• 📚 Awesome Hpp (⭐3.9k) - List of awesome header-only C++ libraries.

• 🌎 C++ Papyrus - Basic to advanced topics with modern C++ examples.

• 🌎 cppreference.com - Online reference for C, C++, and the STL.

• 📚 Modern Cpp Features (⭐21k) - Cheatsheet of modern C++ language and library features.

• C++: Animation
  • 🎉 Ozz-Animation (⭐2.7k) - Skeletal animation library and toolset.
  • 🎉 Tweeny (⭐797) - Inbetweening library for complex animations for games / apps.

• C++: Cross-Platform
  • 🌎 emscripten (⭐27k) - The C/C++ to JavaScript (as WebAssembly) compiler. [Website]

• C++: Fonts
  • 🎉 HarfBuzz (⭐5k) - Text shaping library. Formatted and positioned glyph output.
  • 🎉 msdfgen (⭐4.5k) - Multi-channel signed distance field generator.
  • 💰 Slug - High-quality, resolution-independent text and vector graphics for 3D apps.

• C++: File Formats
  • ⭐ Jpeg-Compressor (⭐235) - Single-file library that writes baseline JPEG compressed images.
  • 🎉 TinyDNG (⭐174) - Header-only DNG / TIFF loader and writer.
  • 🎉 TinyEXR (⭐775) - Tiny OpenEXR image loader / saver library.
  • 🎉 TinyGLTF (⭐2.3k) - Header-only C++11 tiny glTF 2.0 library.
  • 🎉 TinyOBJLoader (⭐3.6k) - Tiny but powerful single-file wavefront obj loader.

• C++: Game Framework
  • 🎉 Acid (⭐1.9k) - Modern C++17 and structured to be fast, simple, and modular.
  • 🎉 blah (⭐601) - Small 2D game framework.
  • 🎉 Cocos2d-x (⭐19k) - Widely used in indie game dev community.
  • 🎉 Cute Framework (⭐692) - Simple and consise framework for making 2D games.
  • 🔒 Fireworks Engine (⭐41) - Lightweight OpenGL framework for quick prototyping.
  • 🎉 Halley (⭐3.8k) - Modern C++17. Used for Wargroove, a strategy game on desktop and consoles.
  • 🎉 is::Engine (⭐222) - 2D framework built on SDL2 and SFML.
  • 🎉 JNGL (⭐303) - 2D framework. Develop anywhere, deploy everywhere.
  • 🔒 KlayGE (⭐2.2k) - Cross-platform game framework with plugin-based architecture.
  • 🎉 Koala Engine (⭐617) - Framework with an ECS architecture, aka Kengine.
  • 🎉 Lumino (⭐215) - Framework for building real-time graphics apps.
  • 🎉 Nazara Engine (⭐782) - Custom shaders, ECS, 2D/3D, networking and more.
  • 🎉 nCine (⭐1.2k) - Cross-platform 2D game framework.
  • 🎉 Octave (⭐322) - 3D game engine for GameCube, Wii, 3DS, and more.
  • 🎉 ORX (⭐1.6k) - 2.5D data-driven game development framework.
  • 🎉 Oryol (⭐2k) - Small, 3D, portable and extensible coding framework.
  • ⭐ Ouzel (⭐981) - Public domain, targeted for development of 2D games.
  • 🎉 Polycode (⭐2.4k) - Cross-platform engine for creative code.
  • 🎉 Solar2D (⭐2.7k) - Focus on ease of iterations and usage. Formerly Corona.
  • 🎉 Supernova (⭐368) - Cross-platform for 2D/3D projects.
  • 🎉 Thunder (⭐606) - Cross-platform 2D/3D with module architecture.
  • 🎉 Two (⭐1.7k) - Toolkit for rapid development of live graphical apps and games.
  • 🎉 Urho3D (⭐4.7k) - Cross-platform 2D/3D game framework.
  • 💸 Valve Source SDK (⭐9.3k) - The 2013 edition of the Source SDK by Valve Software. [Info | Wiki]

• C++: Graphics - 3D
  • 🎉 Bgfx (⭐16k) - Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, rendering library.
  • 🎉 Diligent Engine (⭐4k) - Modern cross-platform graphics API abstraction library.
  • 🎉 Ember (⭐3) - Graphics framework using SDL2 and OpenGL.
  • 🎉 Filament (⭐19k) - Mobile-first, real-time physically-based renderer by Google.
  • 🎉 Forge (⭐5.3k) 🔥 - Cross-platform rendering framework supporting all major platforms and consoles.
  • 🎉 Horde3D (⭐1.6k) - 3D rendering and animation engine.
  • 🎉 Intermediate Graphics Library (IGL) (⭐3.1k) - Cross-platform abstraction layer by Facebook.
  • 🎉 LLGL (⭐2.4k) - Thin abstraction layer for OpenGL, Direct3D, Vulkan, and Metal.
  • 🎉 Magnum Engine (⭐5k) - Modular C++11 graphics middleware for games and apps.
  • 🎉 NVRHI (⭐1.4k) - NVIDIA abstraction layer over multiple graphics APIs.
  • 🎉 Ogre (⭐4.4k) - Scene-oriented, flexible 3D engine.
  • 🎉 OSRE (⭐198) - Just another "Open Source Render Engine".
  • 🔒 StratusGFX (⭐781) - Realtime 3D rendering engine implementing modern graphics techniques.
  • 🎉 Threepp (⭐707) - Cross-platform C++17 port of the popular 3D JavaScript library Three.js (r129).
  • 🎉 Tungsten (⭐1.8k) - High-performance physically-based renderer in C++11.
  • 🎉 Wicked Engine (⭐6.5k) - Engine focusing on performance & modern rendering techniques.

• C++: Gui
  • 🎉 Crazy Eddie's GUI (⭐531) - Versatile, multi-platform gui library.
  • 🎉 Dear ImGui (⭐68k) 🔥 - Bloat-free immediate mode gui library. Ported to many other languages.
  • 🔒 FLTK (⭐2k) - Fast Light Toolkit, cross-platform gui. [Website]
  • 🔒 GTK - GIMP Toolkit, a multi-platform toolkit for creating guis.
  • 🎉 GuiLite (⭐7.6k) - Header-only, cross-platform gui library.
  • 📚 List of C++ UI Libraries - List of C++ gui libraries, with pictures and descriptions.
  • 🎉 Litehtml (⭐2.1k) - Lightweight HTML / CSS rendering engine.
  • 🎉 Nana (⭐2.4k) - Cross-platform gui library in modern C++.
  • ⭐ Portable File Dialogs (⭐1.1k) - Single-header C++11 native dialogs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
  • 🔒 Qt - Industry standard gui library. [Awesome (⭐124) | Website]
  • ⭐ RmlUi (⭐3.5k) - Turns HTML / CSS source files into vertices and draw commands. [Docs]
  • ⭐ Turbo Badger (⭐589) - Gui library for hardware accelerated apps & games. [Oryol Example]
  • 🔒 Wt (⭐1.8k) - Web gui library in modern C++. [Website]
  • 🔒 wxWidgets (⭐6.8k) - Cross-platform gui using native controls. [Website]

• C++: Math
  • 🎉 OpenGL Mathematics (⭐10k) - Header-only math library for graphics software.

• C++: Network
  • 🎉 Cpp-HttpLib (⭐15k) - Single-header file HTTP server and client library in C++11.
  • 🎉 GameNetworkingSockets (⭐8.9k) - Messages over UDP, message fragmentation & reassembly, P2P networking, encryption.
  • 🎉 yojimbo (⭐2.6k) - Network library for client/server games.

• C++: Reflection
  • 🎉 Boost.PFR (⭐1.4k) - Basic reflection C++14 library, part of the Boost Libraries.
  • 🎉 Magic Enum (⭐5.7k) - Header-only C++17, provides static reflection for enums.
  • 🎉 Meta (⭐648) - Header-only, non-intrusive and macro-free runtime reflection system in C++17.
  • 🎉 Nameof (⭐2.2k) - Header-only C++17, provides nameof macros to obtain name of a variable.
  • 🎉 Ponder (⭐664) - Expose C++17 classes and objects so they can used as data.
  • 🎉 Reflect (⭐5) - Small, flexible, single-header library for runtime reflection and meta data in C++11.
  • 🎉 RTTR (⭐3.4k) - Reflection for C++11.

• C++: Serialization
  • 🎉 Cap'n Proto (⭐13k) - Fast data interchange format and capability-based RPC system.
  • 🎉 Cereal (⭐4.5k) - Header-only C++11 serialization library.
  • 🎉 Cista++ (⭐2.1k) - Simple, high-performance serialization & reflection library.
  • 🎉 FlatBuffers (⭐25k) - Efficient cross-platform serialization library by Google.
  • 🎉 JSON for Modern C++ (⭐47k) - JSON support for Modern C++.
  • 🎉 Protobuf (⭐69k) - Protocol Buffers, for platform-neutral serialized data by Google.
  • 🎉 RapidJSON (⭐15k) - Fast JSON parser / generator.

• C++: Terrain
  • 🎉 Terra Forge 3D (⭐1.1k) - Procedural 3D terrain generation and texturing tool.

Libraries / C#

• 📚 Dot Net Perls - Reference for the C# language.

• C#: Graphics - 3D
  • 🎉 OpenTK (⭐3.4k) - Open Toolkit, C# bindings for OpenGL. [LearnOpenTK (⭐488)]
  • 🎉 Veldrid (⭐2.6k) - Cross-platform, graphics API-agnostic rendering and compute library for .NET.

• C#: Utility
  • 🎉 Facepunch.Steamworks (⭐3.3k) - Steamworks implementation.
  • 🎉 Monogame.Extended (⭐1.6k) - Extensions to make MonoGame more awesome.

Libraries / Dart

• 📚 Awesome Dart (⭐2.4k) - Curated list of awesome Dart frameworks, libraries, and software.

• 🌎 Dart - Client-optimized language for fast apps on any platform. [GitHub]

• Dart: File Formats
  • 🎉 image (⭐1.2k) - Library for decoding / encoding image formats and image processing.

Libraries / Go

• 📚 Awesome Go (⭐154k) - Awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software.

• Go: Audio
  • 🎉 Beep (⭐2.2k) - Playback and audio-processing.

• Go: Game Engine w/Editor
  • 🎉 G3N (⭐3k) - OpenGL 3D game engine.

• Go: Game Framework
  • 🎉 Ebitengine (⭐12k) - Dead simple 2D game library.
  • 🎉 Engo (⭐1.8k) - A 2D game framework.
  • 🎉 Pixel (⭐4.5k) - Hand-crafted 2D game library. [Examples (⭐121)]

• Go: Geometry
  • 🎉 3D Mesh Simplification (⭐263) - 3D mesh simplification.

• Go: Graphics
  • 🎉 ln (⭐3.3k) - The 3D Line Art Engine, a vector-based 3D renderer. [Docs]

Libraries / Haxe

• 📚 Awesome Haxe (⭐86) - Awesome curated list of useful Haxe links.

• 📚 Awesome Haxe Game Dev (⭐404) - Awesome list of game dev resources for Haxe.

• Haxe: Cross-Platform
  • 🎉 HashLink (⭐840) - Virtual machine for Haxe.

• Haxe: Entity Component System
  • 🎉 Ecx (⭐52) - Entity component system framework for Haxe.
  • 🎉 GASM (⭐20) - Framework agnostic entity component system for Haxe.

• Haxe: Game Framework
  • 🎉 Ceramic (⭐319) - Cross-platform 2D framework. [Examples]
  • 🎉 Citrus (⭐552) - ActionScript 3 based 2D/3D framework. [Website]
  • 🎉 Clay (⭐39) - Cross-platform 2D game framework.
  • 🎉 gameBase (⭐661) - Base structure for Haxe games, using Heaps graphics framework. [Tutorial]
  • 🎉 HaxeFlixel (⭐2.1k) - Cross-platform 2D game framework powered by OpenFL. [Website]
  • 🎉 OpenFL (⭐2k) - Open source implementation of the Adobe Flash API. [Website]

• Haxe: Graphics
  • 🎉 Heaps (⭐3.4k) 🔥 - Cross-platform 2D/3D engine (by creators of Haxe). [Website]
  • 🎉 Kha (⭐1.6k) - Ultra-portable, high-performance multimedia framework.
  • 🎉 Sparkler (⭐17) - Modular macro-powered particle system.

• Haxe: Libraries
  • 📚 HaxeLibs - List of every library uploaded to the Haxe website.
  • 📚 HaxeTink - Various addon libraries for Haxe.
  • 🌎 Snowkit - Collective of Haxe developers.

• Haxe: Physics
  • 🎉 Haxe Bullet (⭐93) - Bullet 3D physics bindings for Haxe.
  • 🎉 HeapsIO/bullet (⭐30) - Bullet 3D physics for Heaps (Haxe's native low-level game framework).
  • 🎉 Jelly Physics (⭐19) - Soft body 2D physics engine.
  • 🎉 Nape (⭐51) - Fast, friendly 2D rigid body physics engine. [Demos]

Libraries / Lua

• 📚 Awesome Lua (⭐4.3k) - Awesome Lua packages and resources.

• Lua: Game Framework
  • 🎉 3DreamEngine (⭐450) - 3D engine on top of LÖVE.
  • 🎉 Gideros (⭐596) - 2D/3D cross-platform games with Lua. [Website]
  • 🎉 INSTEAD (⭐245) - Simple Text Adventure Interpreter.
  • 🎉 LÖVE (⭐7.2k) - 2D framework for writing game code with Lua. [Awesome (⭐4k) | Website]

Libraries / Java

• 📚 Awesome Java (⭐45k) - Awesome frameworks, libraries and software for Java.

• 🌎 Java - General-purpose language, runs on Java virtual machines. [GitHub]

• 📚 Learn Java - Official docs and tutorials.

• Java: Game Framework
  • 🎉 jMonkeyEngine (⭐4k) - Modern 3D game development suite.
  • 🎉 libGDX (⭐24k) - Game framework built on, and adds to LWJGL. [Awesome (⭐1.2k) | Website]
  • 🎉 LWJGL (⭐5.1k) - Graphics, audio, parallel computing, XR and more. [Website]

Libraries / JavaScript

• 📚 Eloquent JavaScript - Modern JavaScript programming, with examples.

• 🌎 MDN - Mozilla Developer Network, excellent learning resource.

• 🌎 W3 Schools - Learn to code with the world's largest web developer site.

• JavaScript: Audio
  • 🎉 Howler.js (⭐25k) - Audio made easy and reliable across all platforms.
  • 🎉 PixiJS Sound (⭐443) - Audio library with filters, built on PixiJS. [Examples]
  • 🎉 SoundJS (⭐4.5k) - Simple API and powerful features, part of the CreateJS suite.
  • 🎉 Sonant-X (⭐239) - Small JavaScript synthesizer library. [Online Composer]
  • 🎉 SpessaSynth (⭐238) - MIDI player and synthesizer.
  • 🎉 Tone.js (⭐14k) - WebAudio framework for creating interactive music in the browser.
  • 🎉 tuna (⭐1.8k) - Audio effects library for the WebAudio API.
  • 🎉 Waveform Playlist (⭐1.5k) - Multitrack web audio editor and player with canvas waveform preview.

• JavaScript: Color
  • 🎉 Chroma.js (⭐10k) - Library for all kinds of color manipulations.

• JavaScript: Cross-Platform
  • 🎉 Apache Cordova - Mobile apps (iOS / Android) with with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
  • 🎉 Capacitor (⭐14k) - Run web apps natively on iOS, Android, Web, and more. [Website]
  • 🎉 Electron (⭐118k) - Cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. [Website]
  • 📚 Electron Alternatives (⭐2k) - Cross-platform gui app development options.
  • 🎉 Ejecta (⭐2.8k) - JavaScript canvas & audio implementation for iOS. App store compatible.
  • 🎉 NW.js (⭐41k) - Desktop apps with JavaScript. Formerly Node-Webkit. [Website]
  • 🎉 nx.js (⭐220) - JavaScript runtime for Nintendo Switch homebrew applications.
  • 📚 Progressive Web Apps - Using web tech in a way that feels like platform-specific apps.
  • 🎉 React Native (⭐124k) - Framework for building native apps using React. [Website]
  • 🎉 Tauri (⭐97k) - Smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications. [Website]
  • 💸 Ultralight - Supports modern HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. Based on WebKit.
  • 🎉 WebView2 - Microsoft Edge control allows you to embed web in native apps. [Docs]
  • 🎉 Window.js (⭐2.3k) - JavaScript runtime for desktop graphics programming. [Docs]

• JavaScript: Docking
  • 🎉 Dock Spawn TS (⭐140) - Maintained, TypeScript version of Dock Spawn (⭐259), a JavaScript docking framework.
  • 🎉 FlexLayout (⭐1.2k) - Multi-tab layout manager.
  • 🎉 Golden Layout (⭐6.5k) - Multi-window layout manager for web apps.
  • 🎉 PhosphorJS (⭐1k) - High-performance, pluggable, desktop-style web apps.
  • 🎉 React Mosaic (⭐4.6k) - React tiling window manager.
  • 🎉 RC-Dock (⭐766) - Dock layout component for React.
  • 🎉 wcDocker (⭐147) - Window layout system with a responsive and interactive design.

• JavaScript: Framework
  • 🎉 Alpine (⭐30k) - Rugged, minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup.
  • 🎉 Angular (⭐99k) - The modern web developer's platform.
  • 🎉 Aurelia (⭐12k) - Modern, front-end framework for browser, mobile, and desktop apps.
  • 🎉 Ember (⭐23k) - Framework for ambitious web developers.
  • 🎉 Preact (⭐38k) - Fast 3kB React alternative with the same modern API.
  • 🎉 React (⭐239k) - Declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
  • 🎉 Svelte (⭐84k) - Takes your declarative components and converts them into efficient JavaScript.
  • 🎉 Vue (⭐209k) - Progressive JavaScript framework for building UI on the web.

• JavaScript: Game Engines
  • 📚 JavaScript Game Engines - GitHub Collection of JavaScript / HTML5 game engines.
  • 📚 JavaScript Wiki: Game Engines (⭐3.9k) - JavaScript / HTML5 game engines and frameworks.

• JavaScript: Geometry
  • 🎉 Convexhull.js (⭐27) - High-performance JavaScript 2D convex hull library.
  • 🎉 Delaunator (⭐2.5k) - Incredibly fast JavaScript library for Delaunay triangulation of 2D points.
  • 🎉 Earcut (⭐2.4k) - The fastest and smallest JavaScript polygon triangulation library for your WebGL apps.
  • 🎉 Poly-Decomp.js (⭐453) - Decompose 2D polygons into convex pieces.

• JavaScript: Graphics - 2D
  • 🎉 CanvasKit (⭐10k) - WebAssembly build of Google's 2D graphics library, Skia. [Samples]
  • 🎉 EaselJS (⭐8.2k) - Makes working with the canvas element easy, part of CreateJS.
  • 🎉 Escher.js (⭐21) - Interactive 2D graphics canvas framework.
  • 🎉 Fabric.js (⭐30k) - Powerful and simple JavaScript canvas library.
  • 🎉 Konva (⭐14k) - Canvas interactivity framework for desktop and mobile apps.
  • 🎉 p5.js (⭐23k) - Library for creative coding. [Website]
  • 🎉 Paper.js (⭐15k) - The swiss army knife of vector graphics. [Examples]
  • 🎉 Pencil.js (⭐285) - Modular interactive 2D drawing library. [Examples]
  • 🎉 PixiJS (⭐46k) 🔥 - Fast, lightweight 2D library. [Awesome (⭐760) | Editor (⭐385) | Essentials (⭐302) | Website]
  • 🎉 Pts (⭐5.3k) - Library for visualization and creative coding. [Examples]
  • 🎉 Scrawl-canvas (⭐355) - Library for working with the canvas element.
  • 🎉 Stage.js (⭐2.5k) - 2D rendering engine for game development. [Examples]
  • 🎉 Two.js (⭐8.5k) - Renderer agnostic 2D drawing API for the web.
  • 🎉 ZIM (⭐557) - Creative canvas framework. [Website]

• JavaScript: Graphics - Three.js
  • 📚 Discover Three.js - Create stunning 3D web apps using Three.js.
  • 🌎 SBcode Three.js Tutorials - Fantastic examples with code and explanations of topics.
  • 🎉 Sketch Three.js (⭐2.5k) - Interactive sketches made with Three.js.
  • 🎉 Sketchbook (⭐1.7k) - 3D playground built on Three.js and Cannon.js.
  • 🌎 Stemkoski Three.js Examples - Excellent set of instructive examples.
  • 📚 Three.js Bookshelf - Nice collection of resources.
  • 📚 Three.js Discourse Examples - Yearly collection of all examples posted on the Three.js forum.
  • 💰 Three.js Journey - Course teaching WebGL from beginner to advanced.
  • 📚 Three.js Manual - Fantastic articles and explanations. Formerly ThreeJsFundamentals.
  • 📚 THREEx (⭐335) - Nice collection of open source game extensions.

• JavaScript: Graphics - Three.js - Addon
  • 🎉 Custom Shader Material (⭐1.2k) - Extend Three.js materials with your own shaders.
  • 🎉 irregular-grid (⭐49) - Examples of generating and using irregular grids. [Demos]
  • 🎉 Lamina (⭐1.1k) - Extensible, layered shader material for Three.js.
  • ❓ screen-space-reflections (⭐576) - Screen space reflections in Three.js.
  • 🎉 three-billboard-reflection (⭐116) - Performant plane reflections in Three.js.
  • 🎉 three-mesh-bvh (⭐3k) - Speed up raycasting and enable spatial queries on Meshes.
  • 🎉 three-mesh-ui (⭐1.4k) - VR user interfaces for Three.js.
  • 🎉 three-nebula (⭐1.1k) - WebGL particle system for Three.js. [Examples]
  • 🎉 three-projected-material (⭐700) - Texture projection in Three.js.
  • 🎉 three.ik (⭐534) - Inverse kinematics for Three.js.
  • 🎉 Troika JS - Derived Material (⭐1.8k) - Extend existing Three.js materials. [Docs]
  • 🎉 voxelizer (⭐58) - Voxelization of 3D models.

• JavaScript: Graphics - Three.js - React
  • 🎉 drei (⭐9.2k) - Useful helpers for react-three-fiber.
  • 🎉 gltfjsx (⭐5.5k) - Turns GLTFs into JSX components.
  • 🎉 react-three-fiber (⭐30k) - React renderer for Three.js.

• JavaScript: Input
  • 🎉 Joycon.js (⭐90) - JavaScript controller functionality.
  • ❓ Mesekai (⭐85) - Real-time motion tracking.
  • 🎉 use-gesture (⭐9.5k) - Utility for mouse / touch gestures in React and JavaScript.
  • 🔒 WebAR.rocks.faceDepth (⭐40) - Insert your face from your camera into a 3D scene.

• JavaScript: Physics
  • 🎉 Ammo.js (⭐4.4k) - Bullet 3D Physics engine ported as WebAssembly.
  • 🎉 Box2d.js (⭐1.4k) - Box2D to ported as WebAssembly.
  • 🎉 Cannon-es (⭐2k) - Maintained fork of Cannon.js (⭐4.9k) 3D physics engine. [Demos]
  • 🎉 Goblin Physics (⭐148) - 3D physics engine written from the ground up in JavaScript. [Demos]
  • 🎉 JoltPhysics.js (⭐397) - Port of Jolt Physics to JavaScript (as WebAssembly). [Demos]
  • 🎉 Matter.js (⭐18k) - Featured 2D physics engine for the web. [Demos]
  • 🎉 Oimo.js (⭐3.1k) - Lightweight 3D physics engine. [Demos]
  • 🎉 p2.js (⭐2.7k) - 2D rigid body physics, by the creator of Cannon.js.
  • 🎉 Particulate.js (⭐344) - Particle physics library designed to be simple, fast and stable.
  • 🎉 Planck.js (⭐5.1k) - JavaScript rewrite of the Box2D physics engine. [Demos]
  • 🎉 Physijs (⭐2.8k) - Physics plugin for Three.js
  • 🎉 Rapier - Rust 2D/3D physics libary focused on performance, ported as WebAssembly.
  • 🎉 Verly.js (⭐695) - Easy to integrate verlet physics engine. [Demos]

• JavaScript: Timeline
  • 🎉 Frame.js (⭐1.1k) - JavaScript sequence editor.
  • 🎉 Neo (⭐296) - Timeline for JavaScript. [Demo]

• JavaScript: Video
  • 💸 Remotion (⭐24k) - Create videos programmatically in React. [Website]

• JavaScript: Visual Programming / Nodes
  • 🎉 Butterfly (⭐4.6k) - Diagramming library concentrated on flow and field layout by Alibaba.
  • 🎉 Drawflow (⭐5.5k) - Simple JavaScript flow library. [Demo]
  • 🎉 Flow (⭐103) - Node-graph library.
  • 🎉 Litegraph.js (⭐7.6k) - Create graphs in the browser similar to Unreal Blueprints. [Demo]
  • 🎉 Node-RED (⭐22k) - Low-code programming for event-driven applications.
  • 🎉 Nodl (⭐1.7k) - Framework for computational node graphs.
  • 🎉 Rete.js (⭐11k) - Framework for visual programming and node editors. [Demo]

Libraries / Kotlin

• 📚 Awesome Kotlin (⭐11k) - List of awesome Kotlin related stuff.

• 🌎 Kotlin - General-purpose language, interoperates with Java. [GitHub (⭐51k)]

• Kotlin: Game Engine w/Editor
  • 🎉 KorGE (⭐2.9k) - Multi-platform 2D game engine for Kotlin. [Website]

Libraries / Pascal

• 📚 Awesome Pascal (⭐2k) - Curated list of Delphi / Pascal resources.

• 📚 Delphi - Pascal dialect and popular IDE with cross-platform support.

• 🌎 Free Pascal - Mature, open source Pascal compiler.

• 📚 Pascal Tutorials - Simple and easy Pascal tutorials.

• Pascal: Game Engine w/Editor
  • 🎉 Castle (⭐1.1k) - Cross-platform 2D/3D game engine and editor. [Website]

Libraries / Python

• 📚 Awesome Python (⭐262k) - List of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, software and more.

• 🌎 Python.org - Programming language that lets you work quickly. [Docs]

• Python: App Framework
  • 🎉 Pyglet (⭐2.1k) - Windowing and multimedia library intended for game development.

• Python: Game Framework
  • 🎉 Arcade (⭐1.9k) - Easy to use library for creating 2D arcade games.
  • 🎉 Panda3D (⭐4.9k) - Powerful, mature game engine, developed by Disney and CMU. [Website]
  • 🔒 Pygame (⭐8.3k) - Game & multimedia app framework, built on SDL.
  • 🎉 Pygcurse (⭐2) - Curses-like library for text adventures / roguelikes. [Website]

• Python: Gui
  • 🎉 Kivy (⭐19k) - Cross-platform gui framework. [Website]

Libraries / Ruby

• 📚 Awesome Ruby (⭐14k) - Collection of awesome Ruby libraries, tools, frameworks and software.

• 🌎 Ruby - Dynamic programming language, focused on simplicity / productivity. [GitHub (⭐23k)]

• Ruby: Framework
  • 🎉 Ruby on Rails (⭐58k) - Web app framework. [Website]

• Ruby: Game Framework
  • 🎉 Ruby 2D (⭐670) - Make cross-platform 2D apps.

• Ruby: Gui
  • 🎉 Glimmer (⭐793) - Gui library and DSL (domain specific language) framework.
  • 🎉 Shoes (⭐1.6k) - Cross-platform gui library. [Website]

Libraries / Rust

• 📚 Awesome Rust (⭐53k) - Curated list of Rust code and resources.

• 🌎 Rust - Empowering everyone to build quality software. [Docs | GitHub]

• Rust: App Framework
  • 🎉 Makepad (⭐5.9k) - Software development platform and native-rendering gui framework. [Editor]
  • 🎉 Tao (⭐1.9k) - Cross-platform windowing. [Docs]

• Rust: Physics
  • 🎉 Rapier (⭐4.8k) - 2D/3D physics engines focused on performance. [Docs]

Libraries / Zig

• 📚 Awesome Zig (⭐1.3k) - Curated list of Zig code and resources.

• 🌎 Zig - General-purpose language and toolchain. [Docs | GitHub (⭐0)]

• 📚 Ziglings (⭐4.5k) - Learn the Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs.

• Zig: App Framework
  • 🎉 Upaya (⭐133) - Framework for creating game tools and helper apps.

• Zig: Game Engine w/Editor
  • 🎉 Mach (⭐4.2k) - Game engine & graphics toolkit. [Examples]

• Zig: Game Framework
  • 🎉 Zig-Gamedev Project (⭐2.7k) - Sample apps and libraries using DirectX 12.

• Zig: Graphics - 2D
  • 🎉 Mini Pixel (⭐192) - Tiny pixel art editor. [Download]
  • 🔒 Pixi (⭐1.1k) - Pixel art editor.

• Zig: Scripting
  • 🎉 Cyber (⭐1.3k) - Fast, efficient, and concurrent scripting language.

Open Source Games / C

• 🔒 Gish (⭐340) - Open Source version of the award-winning physics platformer. [Steam]

Open Source Games / C++

• 🔒 Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup (⭐2.6k) - Classic roguelike adventure. [Play]

• 🎉 OpenLara (⭐4.9k) - Classic Tomb Raider open source engine. [Play]

• 🎉 TeeWorlds (⭐2.5k) - Retro multiplayer shooter. [Website]

Specialty Topics / AI / Pathfinding

• 📚 Intro to AI - Intro to AI Programming for Games at RayWenderlich.com.

Specialty Topics / Color Manipulation

• 📚 Red, Yellow, and Blue - Convert colors from the paint color wheel to RGB space. [Source (⭐77)]

Specialty Topics / Entity Component Systems

• 📚 A Simple Entity Component System - Basis for an ECS in C++.

• 📚 Evolve Your Hierarchy - Overview of ECSs and why to use them, at Cowboy Programming.

• 📚 Intro to Component-Based Architecture in Games - Component-based architecture.

• 📚 Nomad Game Engine - Articles building an ECS from the ground up in C++. [Source (⭐200)]

• 📚 What's an Entity System - Overview of ECSs, how they are used in game development.

Specialty Topics / Fluid / Smoke

• 🔒 Fluids-2D - Real-time fluid dynamics on the GPU with the help of WebGL and Three.js. [Source (⭐453)]

• 🔒 GPU Fluid Experiments - Cross-platform GPU fluid simulation. [Source (⭐3k)]

• 🎉 WebGL Fluid Simulation - Play with fluids in your browser (even on mobile). [Source (⭐16k)]

Specialty Topics / Geometry

• CSG (Constructive Solid Geometry)
  • 📚 Constructive Solid Geometry - Technique using boolean operations to combine primitive objects.
  • 🎉 csg.js (⭐1.8k) - JavaScript library implementing CSG. [Examples]
  • 🎉 three-bvh-csg (⭐791) - Fast and dynamic CSG on top of three-mesh-bvh.
  • 🎉 three-csgmesh (⭐489) - Conversion of the csg.js library for use with Three.js.

• Smoothing
  • 📚 Laplacian Smoothing - Draft notes with C++ code for laplacian smoothing of meshes.
  • 📚 Subdivision at Matt's Webcorner - Smoothing with subdivision surfaces.
  • 📚 Subdivision Surfaces - Explanations of different schemes used in subdivision surfaces.

Specialty Topics / Hair

• 📚 Fuzzy Meshes - Simulating fur with cones and gravity. [Source (⭐40)]

Specialty Topics / Lighting / Shadows

• Lighting 2D
  • 📚 Gleaner Heights: 2D Lighting - Simple intro to 2D lighting in a game with GLSL.

• Volumetric
  • 🌎 Threex Volumetric Spotlight - Great example of volumetric lighting with Three.js. [Source (⭐133)]

Specialty Topics / Particles

• 📚 Soft Particles - Implementing soft particles in WebGL.

Specialty Topics / Physics

• 📚 Game Physics from Scratch - Starting resource for game physics.

• 📚 Intro to Physics - Part I: Intro to Rigid Body Dynamics.

• 📚 Open Source Physics Engines - List of open source physics engines.

• Verlet Physics
  • 📚 Making a Verlet Physics Engine - Under the hood of a 2D physics engine in JavaScript.

Specialty Topics / Shaders

• 🎉 CrossShader (⭐300) - Cross-compiling shaders between GLSL, HLSL, Metal, and more. [Online Tool]

• 🌎 Geeks3D Shader Library - Postprocessing, lighting, utlities and many more.

• 📚 Review of Shader Languages - Differences between HLSL, GLSL, MSL, and WGSL.

• 📚 Ronja Tutorials - Tutorials covering many shader techniques.

• 🌎 Shader Park (⭐799) - Shader programming in JavaScript.

• 🌎 Shadertoy - Build and share shaders online.

• Bloom
  • 📚 LearnOpenGL Tutorial - Techniques used for bloom lighting, presented in OpenGL.
  • 🌎 Three.js: Bloom Example - WebGL bloom postprocessing using Three.js. [Source (⭐109k)]
  • 📚 Unity Tutorial - How to add support for a bloom effect.

• Lines
  • 📚 Drawing Lines - Techniques for 2D/3D line rendering.

• Outlines
  • 🌎 Fast Solid 2D Outline - Drawing an outline on the alpha channel of a 2D image.
  • 📚 Let it glow! - Article with shader code on dynamically adding outlines to characters.
  • 🎉 Outline Shader - Nice outline shader. [Source (⭐91)]
  • 📚 Outlines w/Surface IDs - Technique combining depth, normals and surface IDs. [Source (⭐403)]
  • 📚 Sketchy Outling - Article on producing a sketchy outline look.

• Postprocessing
  • 📚 Image Editor Effects - WebGL image filters / effects shaders. [Source (⭐100)]

Specialty Topics / Signed Distance Fields

• 📚 2D SDFs - Signed distance functions for basic 2D primitives.

• 📚 3D SDFs - Signed distance functions for basic 3D primitives.

• 📚 CSG w/SDFs - Using circular SDFs to build 3D objects with CSG. [Source (⭐90)]

Specialty Topics / Tiling

• 📚 Auto-Tile - How to use tile bitmasking to auto-tile your level layouts.

• 📚 Space-Filling Polyhedron - Polyhedra, 3D polygons that fill space. [5 Space-Filling Polyhedra]

Specialty Topics / Transparency

• 📚 Depth Peeling - Method for order-independent transparency.

• 📚 Weighted, Blended - Method for order-independent transparency.

Tools / Software / 2D Game Dev

• 🆓 ShoeBox - Drag & drop tools for sprite sheets, bitmap fonts, texture ripping, tile maps and more.

• 🆓 Tiled - General-purpose tile map editor for all tile-based games. [Source (⭐12k)]

Tools / Software / Audio Tools

• Music
  • 🆓 Ardour - Record, edit, and mix. [Source (⭐4.5k)]
  • 🆓 Audacity - Multi-track audio editor and recorder. [Source (⭐14k)]
  • 🆓 Bosca Ceoil - Easy to use tool for creating music.
  • 🆓 Cakewalk - Complete music production package.
  • 🆓 FamiStudio - Music editor targeted at chiptune artists and NES homebrewers. [Source (⭐1.8k)]
  • 💸 fmod - Popular (Hades, Celeste, Untitled Goose Game) audio software for games.
  • 🆓 LMMS 🔥 - Cross-platform music production software. [Source (⭐9.1k)]
  • 🆓 Sound Box - Compose synthetic music in your browser, good for small demos. [Source (⭐435)]
  • 🆓 ZzFXM - Music generator for use in tiny JavaScript apps. [Source (⭐457)]

• Sound Effects
  • 🆓 Bfxr - Classic. For making simple sound effects for games. [Source (⭐1k)]
  • 🆓 ChipTone - Tool for generating sound effects.
  • 💸 sfxia - Tiny sound generator.
  • 🆓 ZzFX - Tiny JavaScript sound FX system / Zuper Zmall Zound Zynth. [Source (⭐655)]

Tools / Software / Color / Palettes

• 🌎 Coolors - Fast color palette generator.

Tools / Software / Generative Art

• Imaging
  • 💸 DALL·E - Create realistic images from natural language.
  • 🆓 Disco Diffusion - Notebooks, models and techniques for AI art and animations.[Source (⭐7.5k)]
  • 💸 Midjourney - Image generation accessed through Discord.
  • 💸 Replicate - Run open source models with a cloud API.
  • 💸 Stable Diffusion (⭐72k) - Latent text-to-image diffusion model.

Tools / Software / Image Editors

• 🆓 GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program, open source image editor. [Source (⭐5.7k)]

• 🆓 Photopea - Capable online photo editor.

Tools / Software / Level Editors

• 🆓 Radiant - Cross-platform level editor for idTech games. [Source (⭐625)]

Tools / Software / Materials / Textures

• 🆓 ArmorLab - Generate PBR materials by drag & dropping your photos. [Source (⭐171)]

• 💰 Filter Forge - Photo effects, realistic textures, and visual editor.

• 🆓 JSplacement - Cross-platform pseudo-random displacement map generator.

• 🆓 Material Maker - Procedural physically-based rendering material maker. [Source (⭐4.5k)]

• 🆓 Materialize - Tool for creating materials from images to be used in games. [Source (⭐1.6k)]

• 🆓 TexaTool - Online tool to generate tileable textures by moving sliders.

• 🆓 Texgen.js - JavaScript texture generator tool. [Source (⭐1.8k)]

Tools / Software / Modeling Tools

• 💰 3DS Max - Classic software for 3D modeling and rendering.

• 🆓 ArmorPaint - Physically-based texture painting, drop in your 3D models and paint. [Source (⭐3.7k)]

• 💰 Asset Forge - Create 3D models and 2D sprites using building blocks.

• 🆓 Meshroom - 3D reconstruction, built with the AliceVision (⭐3.3k) framework. [Source (⭐12k)]

Tools / Software / Particle Tools

• 💸 Particle Designer - Powerful particle effects editor designed for macOS.

• 💸 TimelineFX - Create amazing particle effects for your games, apps and webpages.

Tools / Software / Pixel Art

• 💸 Aseprite - Animated sprite editor and pixel art tool. [Source (⭐34k)]

• 🆓 Piskel - Online editor for animated sprites & pixel art. [Source (⭐12k)]

• 💰 Pixel FX - Create pixel art particle effects and render them to sprite sheets.

• 💰 Smear FX - Make your 2D animations juicy by adding some smearing to them.

Tools / Software / Vector Editors

• 🆓 Inkscape - Cross-platform, open source vector graphics editor. [Source (⭐2.8k)]

• 🆓 Krita - Professional quality, open source painting. [Source (⭐8.7k)]

Tools / Software / Voxel

• 🆓 MagicaVoxel - Lightweight voxel art editor.

Video Game Assets / Audio Assets

• Sound Effects
  • 🆓 Freesound - Community-based archive of free sound effects.
  • 💸 Free Sound Effects - Large collection of sound effects.
  • 💰 Soundsnap - Subscription-based professional sound effects library.

Video Game Assets / Graphic Assets

• 💸 Flaticon - Quality vector icons and stickers.

• 💸 Freepik - Illustrations, photos, icons and presentation templates.

• 🆓 Open Game Art - Portal for free / public domain game art online.

Video Game Assets / Material Assets

• 🆓 AmbientCG - Public domain materials for physically-based rendering.

Video Game Assets / Model Assets

• 🆓 Quaternius - Collection of CC0 1.0 3D models.

Legend / Model Assets

• Open Source Software
  • ⭐ - Public Domain License (CC0, BOLA, WTFPL, Unlicense, etc.)
  • 🎉 - Permissive License (MIT/Expat, BSD, ZLIB/LIBPNG, ISC, Apache, Boost etc.)
  • 🔒 - Copyleft License (CC, GPL, LGPL, MPL, etc.)
  • ❓ - Unknown License

• Asset / Service / Tool
  • 🆓 - Free
  • 💰 - Paid
  • 💸 - Partially Free

• Other
  • 📚 - Article, Blog, Collection, List, Tutorial(s)
  • 🔥 - Hot! Amazing Resource!
  • 🌎 - Website

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Game Engines / Awesome Collections

• 📚 Wikipedia: List of Game Engines - Game engines along with their platforms and licenses.

Game Engines / AAA

• 💰 C4 Engine - Modern console engine.

• 💰 Gamebryo - Complete toolset, flexible workflow, rapid prototyping.

• 💸 Unigine - Real-time 3D engine. Photorealistic graphics, large virtual worlds, C++ and C# API.

Game Engines / Commercial

• 💸 Buildbox - Create 3D & 2D video games without coding.

• 💸 GameSalad - Sophisticated visual programming interface.

• 💸 MANU - Unique animation system helps you create games without coding.

• 💸 Roblox - Create immersive 3D experiences with Lua scripting.

• 💸 Simulation Starter Kit - Create interactive 3D apps across a range of platforms.

Game Engines / Specialty

• 🔒 HARFANG 3D (⭐625) - 3D visualization library for industry professionals, usable in C++, Python, Lua, Go.

• 💰 RPG Maker - Create an original role-playing game without any specialized knowledge.

Learning / Computer Graphics

• Blog Articles
  • 📚 Comparison of Modern Graphics APIs - Modern graphics APIs vs older APIs.
  • 📚 GPU Performance for Game Artists - Common art-related performance issues.

• Graphics API: DirectX
  • 🌎 DirectX - Microsoft API used to create 2D/3D games and apps. [Blog | Samples (⭐6.5k)]
  • 📚 DirectXTutorial.com - Older resource with lots of tutorials on DirectX versions 9 & 11.

• Graphics API: OpenGL
  • 📚 LearnOpenGL 🔥 - Incredible! In depth tutorials for modern graphics programming.
  • 🌎 Mesa 3D - Open source implementations of OpenGL.
  • 🌎 OpenGL - The industry's foundation for high-performance graphics.
  • 📚 OpenGL Tutorial - Collection of OpenGL tutorials with source code examples.

• Graphics API: Vulkan
  • 🌎 Vulkan - Modern cross-platform graphics API. [Samples (⭐4.9k)]
  • 📚 Vulkan Tutorial (⭐3.5k) - Teaches the basics of using Vulkan graphics and compute API.

• Graphics API: WebGL
  • 🌎 WebGL - Open web standard 3D graphics API. [GitHub (⭐2.8k)]
  • 📚 WebGL Fundamentals 🔥 - Full understanding of what WebGL really is and how it works.
  • 📚 WebGL 2 Fundamentals - Updated to use the WebGL2 standard.
  • 📚 WebGL 2 Samples (⭐1k) - Short and easy to understand samples demonstrating WebGL 2 features.
  • 📚 WebGL Tutorial - How to use the canvas element to draw WebGL graphics.

Learning / Engine Development

• Blog Articles
  • 📚 How to Become a Game Engine Developer - Starting point on game engine development.

• Books
  • 📚 Game Engine Architecture - Theory and practice of game engine development.

Learning / Game Development

• Awesome Collections
  • 📚 Awesome Gamedev (⭐2.8k) - Collection of free resources for making games.
  • 📚 GameDev-Resources (⭐4.4k) - Wonderful list of game development resources.
  • 📚 Magictools (⭐15k) - List of game development resources to make magic happen.
  • 🌎 Web Game Dev - Resources on techniques and tools around JavaScript game development.

• Books
  • 📚 Art of Game Design - Teaches game design in an accessible manner.
  • 📚 Game Programming Patterns - Patterns found in games that make code easier to understand.

• Developer Portals
  • 🌎 Game Developer - Industry blogs, events, jobs, updates and more. Formerly Gamasutra.
  • 🌎 GameDev.net - Game dev forums, tutorials, blogs, projects, portfolios, and news.
  • 🌎 GameFromScratch.com - Game dev news, tutorials and much more.
  • 🌎 itch.io - Game dev resources and platform to showcase / promote / buy & sell games.

• Education Portals
  • 🌎 Lazy Foo' Tutorials - Beginning game programming with SDL.

Learning / Programming

• 📚 Big-O Cheat Sheet - Big-O complexities of algorithms used in computer science.

• 🌎 Deadlock Empire - Interactive tutorial to master threads and concurrency.

• 📚 Every Programmer Should Know (⭐93k) - Technical things every developer should know.

• 📚 Games of Coding (⭐2k) - Games that teach you a programming language.

• 🌎 Geeks for Geeks - Tutorials, articles, courses, coding competitions, jobs and more.

• 📚 Learn to Program (⭐4.5k) - Educational resources to learn to program.

Libraries / C

• C: Cross-Platform
  • 🎉 Cosmopolitan (⭐20k) - Build-once run-anywhere C library.

• C: Entity Component System
  • 🎉 Flecs (⭐7.5k) - Fast and lightweight entity component system in C99.

• C: File Formats
  • 🎉 Assimp (⭐12k) - Open Asset Importer Library. Loads 40+ 3D file formats.
  • 🎉 cgltf (⭐1.7k) - Single-file glTF 2.0 loader and writer in C99.
  • ⭐ dr_libs (⭐1.5k) - Single-file audio decoding libraries.
  • 🎉 Libspng (⭐794) - Simple, modern libpng alternative.
  • 🎉 Miniz (⭐2.5k) - Single-file drop-in replacement for zlib's most used APIs (libpng and libzip).
  • 🎉 OBJ GL Loader v2 (⭐12) - Quite fast wavefront OBJ loader for OpenGL.
  • 🎉 PL_MPEG (⭐878) - Single-file library for decoding MPEG1 Video and MP2 Audio.
  • 🎉 QOI (⭐7.3k) - The “Quite OK Image Format” for fast, lossless image compression.
  • ⭐ stb_vorbis (⭐30k) - Ogg Vorbis audio decoder.

• C: File System
  • 🎉 HexEmbed (⭐50) - Small utility to help embed files in C/C++ programs in an easy, cross-platform way.
  • ⭐ Incbin (⭐1.1k) - Include binary and text files in your C/C++ apps with ease.
  • 🎉 PhysicsFS (⭐676) - Portable, flexible file I/O abstraction. Provides access to various archives.
  • ⭐ Where Am I (⭐502) - Locates the current path on the local file system.

• C: Fonts
  • 🎉 Font Stash (⭐733) - Lightweight library that uses stb_truetype to render fonts to a texture atlas.
  • 🎉 IconFontCppHeaders (⭐1.4k) - C/C++ headers and C# classes for icon fonts.
  • ⭐ stb_truetype (⭐30k) - Single-header file library that processes TrueType font files.
  • 🎉 Vertext (⭐30) - Generates vertices for rendering text, requires stb_truetype.

• C: Lighting
  • ⭐ Light Mapper (⭐1.5k) - Single-file library for lightmap baking by using your existing OpenGL renderer.

Libraries / C++

• C++: Entity Component System
  • 🎉 EntityX (⭐2.3k) - Fast, type-safe C++ entity component system.
  • 🎉 Entt (⭐12k) - Gaming meets modern C++, a fast and reliable entity component system.

• C++: Geometry
  • 🎉 CinoLib (⭐1k) - Header-only library for processing polygonal and polyhedral meshes.
  • 🎉 Delabella (⭐243) - Super stable 2D delaunay triangulation.
  • 🎉 Delaunator-Cpp (⭐0) - Really fast library for Delaunay triangulation of 2D points.
  • 🔒 Easy3D (⭐1.6k) - Easy-to-use library for 3D modeling, geometry processing, and rendering.
  • 🎉 Extrude (⭐22) - Converts 2D images into 3D extruded meshes.
  • 🔒 Generator (⭐229) - Procedural geometry generation library for C++11.
  • 🎉 Geometric Tools - Mathematics, geometry, graphics, image analysis and physics in C++14.
  • 🎉 GeometronLib (⭐97) - Meshes for 3D shapes (cube, sphere, etc.) and ray / geometry intersection.
  • 🔒 Libigl (⭐4.9k) - Simple geometry processing library.
  • 🎉 MeshOptimizer (⭐6.8k) - Mesh optimization library that makes meshes smaller and faster to render.
  • 🎉 Polygon Mesh Processing Library (⭐1.4k) - Processing / visualizing polygon surface meshes.
  • 🎉 PolyPartition (⭐685) - 2D polygon partitioning and triangulation.
  • ⭐ RamerDouglasPeucker - Reduces number of points along a 2D line.
  • 🎉 Recast & Detour (⭐7.3k) - Navigation-mesh toolset for games.
  • 🎉 Seam-aware Decimater (⭐518) - Simplifies mesh while preserving UVs.
  • 🎉 Spheres (⭐267) - Four methods to create a sphere mesh.
  • 🔒 Trimesh2 - Utilities for input, output, and manipulation of 3D triangle meshes.
  • 🎉 V-HACD (⭐1.5k) - Decomposes a 3D surface into a set of "near" convex parts.

• C++: Lighting
  • 🎉 Thekla Atlas (⭐483) - Atlas generation tool.
  • 🎉 UVAtlas (⭐895) - DirectX library for creating and packing texture atlases.

• C++: Utility
  • 🎉 Any-Lite (⭐148) - Header-only 'any' type for C++98 and above.
  • 🎉 EASTL (⭐9k) - Electronic Arts STL replacement, emphasis on performance.
  • 🎉 faker-cxx (⭐386) - C++20 Faker library for generating fake (but realistic) data for testing and development.
  • 🎉 Parallel Hashmap (⭐3.1k) - Header-only, fast and memory-friendly hashmap and binary tree containers.
  • 🎉 Spdlog (⭐27k) - Fast logging library.
  • 🎉 Tiny-Process-Library - Making it simple to create and stop new processes.
  • 🎉 TinyXML-2 (⭐5.5k) - XML parser that can be easily integrated into other programs.

• C++: Visual Programming / Nodes
  • 🎉 NodeEditor (⭐3.5k) - Graph-controlled data processing, built with Qt.
  • 🎉 QuickQanava (⭐1.3k) - Display graphs and relational content in a QtQuick-based app, in C++14.
  • 🎉 Visual Script Engine (⭐207) - Visual scripting engine designed for embedding.

Libraries / C#

• C#: App Framework
  • 🎉 ATF (⭐1.9k) - Components for making tools on Windows, started in 2005.

• C#: Audio
  • 🎉 NAudio (⭐5.9k) - Audio and MIDI library for .NET.

• C#: Game Engine w/Editor
  • 🎉 Duality (⭐1.4k) - Modular 2D engine, editor built with OpenTK.
  • 🎉 Flat Red Ball (⭐512) - 2D game engine & design tools, built with MonoGame. [Website]
  • 🎉 Murder (⭐3k) - Pixel-art, ECS game engine built on MonoGame. [Docs]
  • 🎉 Stride (⭐7.2k) - Game engine for realistic rendering and VR. Formerly Xenko. [Website]
  • 💸 Unity - Biggest name in game engines, industry standard.

Libraries / Haxe

• Haxe: App Framework
  • 🎉 Lime (⭐0) - Flexible, lightweight layer for Haxe cross-platform developers.
  • 🎉 nme (⭐492) - Cross-platform native backend for Haxe projects.

• Haxe: Serialization / Storage
  • 🎉 CastleDB (⭐590) - Structured database with a local web service to edit it.
  • 🎉 Format (⭐136) - Various files formats support for Haxe.
  • 🎉 HxBit (⭐160) - Binary serialization and network synchronization library.

• Haxe: Utility
  • 🎉 hexMachina (⭐6) - Powerful modular MVC framework. [Website]
  • 🎉 HxColorToolkit (⭐45) - Library for color conversion and color scheme generation.
  • 🎉 HxMath (⭐91) - Game-oriented math library for the Haxe language.
  • 🎉 SteamWrap (⭐115) - Haxe native extension for the Steam API.

• Haxe: Visual Programming / Nodes
  • 🎉 Haxe-Blockly (⭐5) - Haxe wrapper for Blockly

Libraries / JavaScript

• JavaScript: Entity Component System
  • 🎉 Becsy (⭐263) - Multithreaded ECS for TypeScript and JavaScript.
  • 🔒 bitECS (⭐1.1k) - Functional, minimal, data-oriented, ultra-high performance ECS library.
  • 🎉 Ecsy (⭐1.1k) - Experimental ECS aiming to be lightweight, easy to use.
  • 🎉 Miniplex (⭐938) - Entity management system for games.

• JavaScript: File Formats
  • 🎉 JSMpeg (⭐6.5k) - MPEG1 Video Decoder in JavaScript.

• JavaScript: Graphics - 3D
  • 🎉 Babylon.js (⭐25k) 🔥 - Powerful web rendering engine. [Extensions (⭐182) | Website]
  • 🎉 ClayGL (⭐2.8k) - WebGL library for scalable Web3D applications.
  • 🎉 CopperLicht - A 3D library for WebGL. [CopperCube Editor]
  • 🎉 Filament for Web (⭐19k) - WebAssembly build of Google's 3D graphics library, Filament.
  • 🎉 Four (⭐344) - Minimal three.js alternative.
  • 🎉 Hilo3d (⭐660) - WebGL 3D rendering engine by Alibaba.
  • 🎉 Litescene.js (⭐376) - WebGL 3D engine library, used by WebGLStudio.
  • 🎉 LUME (⭐1.5k) - Simplifies the creation of interactive 2D/3D experiences.
  • ⭐ OGL (⭐4.3k) 🔥 - Fast, powerful, minimal WebGL library. [Examples]
  • 🎉 PicoGL.js (⭐796) - Minimal WebGL 2 rendering library. [Examples]
  • 🎉 Pixi3D (⭐803) - 3D renderer for PixiJS, seamless integration with 2D apps. [Examples]
  • 🎉 RedGL (⭐157) - JavaScript 3D WebGL library.
  • 🎉 Regl (⭐5.5k) - Fast functional WebGL.
  • 🎉 SwissGL (⭐1.2k) - Minimalistic wrapper on top of WebGL2.
  • 🎉 ThingJS (⭐205) - Lightweight, extendable 3D library, aka t3d.
  • 🎉 Three.js (⭐109k) 🔥 - General-purpose 3D library. [Awesome (⭐786) | Docs | Editor | Examples]
  • 🎉 TWGL (⭐2.9k) - Tiny WebGL helper Library. [Examples]
  • 📚 WebGL Frameworks - List of WebGL frameworks on Wikipedia.
  • 📚 WebGL / WebGPU Frameworks - List of WebGL and WebGPU frameworks and libraries.
  • 🎉 x3dom (⭐845) - Integrate 3D content seamlessly into your webpage.

• JavaScript: Layout
  • 📚 Complete Guide to Flexbox - Comprehensive guide to CSS flexbox layout.
  • 📚 Complete Guide to Grid - Comprehensive guide to CSS grid.

• JavaScript: Networking
  • 🎉 Socket.io (⭐62k) - Enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication.
  • 🎉 WebRTC - Supports video, voice, and generic data to be sent between peers.

• JavaScript: Utility
  • 🎉 Clipboard.js (⭐34k) - Small, modern copy to clipboard.
  • 🎉 Day.js (⭐48k) - Fast 2kB alternative to Moment.js (⭐48k) with the same modern API.
  • 🎉 i18next (⭐8.3k) - Popular internationalization framework.
  • 🎉 jQuery (⭐60k) - Fast and feature-rich JavaScript library. [Website]
  • 🎉 PreloadJS (⭐2.9k) - Preloading assets w/progress events.
  • 🎉 Struct Vec (⭐27) - JavaScript array-like containers for multithreading.

Libraries / Pascal

• Pascal: Game Framework
  • 🎉 Apus (⭐179) - Cross-platform library for making 2D games.

• Pascal: Physics
  • 🎉 Kraft (⭐119) - Object Pascal 3D physics engine.

Libraries / Python

• Python: Cross-Platform
  • 💸 Anvil - Full stack web apps with nothing but Python.
  • 🎉 Brython (⭐6.5k) - Python 3 running in the browser.

Libraries / Zig

• Zig: File System
  • 🎉 Known Folders (⭐273) - Provides access to well-known folders across several operating systems.

Open Source Games / C

• 💸 Handmade Hero - Videos on making a game from start to finish, source code for $15.

Open Source Games / C++

• 🔒 Doom 3 (⭐3.4k) - Doom 3 GPL source release.

Open Source Games / Java

• 🔒 Pixel Dungeon (⭐3.8k) - Traditional roguelike game with pixel-art graphics and simple interface.

Specialty Topics / AI / Pathfinding

• 📚 Beginner's Guide to Game AI - Intro to concepts used in AI for games.

Specialty Topics / Color Manipulation

• 📚 How to Choose Colors Procedurally - Procedural palettes and how to generate them.

Specialty Topics / Fluid / Smoke

• 📚 Fluid Simulation on the GPU - GPU Gems Chapter 38 - Fast, stable fluid simulation on the GPU.

Specialty Topics / Lighting / Shadows

• Gamma
  • 📚 What Every Coder Should Know About Gamma - Light emission vs perceptual brightness.

• Shadows 2D
  • 📚 2D Pixel Perfect Shadows (⭐1.9k) - An approach to 2D pixel-perfect lights / shadows using shaders.
  • 📚 2D Visibility - Excellent interactive tutorial on 2D visibility.
  • 📚 Fast 2D shadows in Unity - Adapting 3D rendering techniques to achieve fast 2D shadows.
  • 📚 Sight & Light - How to create 2D visibility / shadow effects for your game. [Source (⭐1.1k)]
  • 📚 Symmetric Shadowcasting - Common technique for calculating field of view.

• Shadows 3D
  • 📚 Efficient Soft-Edged Shadows - GPU Gems 2 Chapter 17.
  • 📚 Screen Space Shadows - Great exploration of screen space shadows.
  • 📚 Shadow Mapping - Shadow mapping and the techniques used to acheive it.

Specialty Topics / Physics

• Platformer
  • 📚 2D Physics Games - Using Box2D for water, ropes, gravity, lines, vehicles, etc.
  • 📚 Basic 2D Platformer Physics - How to create a physics system for a platformer.

• Water / Buoyancy
  • 📚 2D Water - Modeling 2D water with springs.

Specialty Topics / Rendering

• 📚 GPU Driven Rendering - Calculating rendering on the GPU in compute shaders.

• 📚 Model Batching - Drawing many different models in a single draw call.

Specialty Topics / Scripting

• 📚 Adding Languages to Game Engines - Story of adding scripting to a game.

• 📚 Implementing a Scripting Engine - Writting a scripting engine from scratch.

• 📚 Embedded Scripting Languages - Scripting languages and engines available as libraries.

• 📚 List of Embedded Scripting Languages (⭐1.4k) - Scripting languages to use in your app / game.

• 📚 Scriptorium (⭐513) - Game scripting languages benchmarked.

Specialty Topics / Shaders

• Fire
  • 📚 Fire Shader in GLSL - Fire intro shader using noise textures and masking.
  • 🌎 Simplex 3D Noise - Simplex noise fire simulation shader at ShaderToy.

• Upscaling
  • 📚 How do I perform an xBR or hqx filter in XNA? - Upscaling shader code.
  • 📚 hqx - Wikipedia article about the hqx pixel art upscaling algorithm developed by Maxim Stepin.

• Wireframe
  • 📚 Flat and Wireframe Shading - Flat shading / wireframes using Barycentric Coordinates.

Specialty Topics / Signed Distance Fields

• 📚 Basic 2D SDFs - Basics of rendering 2D shapes with SDFs in shaders.

• 📚 Bezier Strokes - Blog post on rendering bezier strokes with SDFs.

• 📚 Signed Distance Field Resources (⭐725) - Tutorials, papers, software, demos, discussions, etc.

• 🎉 SDF Mesh Generation (⭐1.7k) - Python API to generate 3D meshes with SDFs.

Specialty Topics / Tiling

• 📚 List of Eucliden Uniform Tilings - Wikipedia article on uniform tiling, space-filling polygons.

Tools / Software / 2D Game Dev

• 💰 Sprite Illuminator - Create stunning light effects with 2D sprites in your game engine.

• 💰 Texture Packer - Create sprite sheets and optimize your game graphics.

Tools / Software / Animation Software

• 💸 Cascadeur - 3D animation software for physics-based character animation.

• 💸 Spine - 2D animation for games.

Tools / Software / Color / Palettes

• 🌎 Colormind - Color scheme generator, can learn color styles from photographs, art, etc.

• 🌎 COLOURlovers - Share colors, palettes and patterns.

• 🌎 Huemint - Uses machine learning to generate colors for graphic design.

• 🌎 Paletton - Explore complementary colors on the color wheel.

Tools / Software / Generative Art

• Sound
  • 🆓 Dittytoy - Create generative music using a simple JavaScript API.
  • 🆓 Sonic Pi (⭐11k) - Kind of musical instrument where you code music.

Tools / Software / Materials / Textures

• 💸 PixPlant - Tool to allow simple creation of tiling 3D materials.

Tools / Software / Pixel Art

• 💰 Fluid FX - Uses fluid simulation to achieve animations like explosions, blood, smoke, etc.

• 💰 Juice FX - Add style to your sprites and animations with ease.

• 💰 PixaTool - Create pixel art by converting your images, sprites or videos.

Tools / Software / Vector Editors

• 💰 Vec Maker - Easy to use vector design.

Tools / Software / Voxel

• 💰 Ken Shape - Draw in 2D, set the depth for each pixel and generate 3D models!

Video Game Assets / Audio Assets

• Music
  • 🆓 BandLab Sounds - High-quality loops and packs used for music creation.
  • 💸 Bensound - Original music tracks, free with attribution. Perfect for games.
  • 💸 Incompetech - Nice collection of game tracks. Buy or attribution required.
  • 💸 Melody Loops - Nice mix of free and affordable music loops.
  • 💸 Soundimage - Looping music tracks for videogames. Buy or attribution required.

Video Game Assets / Model Assets

• 🆓 Poly Pizza - Build something beautiful with thousands of free low poly models.

• 💸 Sketchfab - Huge library of 3D assets.