A collection of awesome things related to Indie Game Development.
| Game Engine | Free? | Open Source? | Royalty free? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unity | The Personal Unity plan is free if your revenue or funding is less than $100K in the last 12 months. For more information see the Unity plans | Reference-Only License | Unity is royalty free, but you still need to upgrade your plan depending on your annual revenue |
| Unreal Engine | YES | No, but the source code is available here. Please see the license here | 5% royalties when you monetize your game or other interactive off-the-shelf product and your lifetime gross revenues from that product exceed $1,000,000 USD. Royalty free only under the Creator License. |
| Godot Engine | YES | YES | YES |
| Open 3D Engine (O3DE) | YES | YES | YES |
- Blender - Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software toolset used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, motion graphics, interactive 3D applications, virtual reality and computer games.
- Make Human - MakeHuman is a free and open source 3D computer graphics middleware designed for the prototyping of photorealistic humanoids.
- VRoid Studio - VRoid Studio is an application to create 3D models of humanoid avatars (characters).
- Instant Meshes - This repository contains the interactive meshing software developed as part of the publication.
- Meshroom - Meshroom is a free, open-source 3D Reconstruction Software based on the AliceVision framework.
- Daz 3D - 3D Models, 3D Animation, 3D Software.
- Gaea - 3D terrain generator.
- World Machine - 3D terrain generator (Free for non-comercial use).
- Mixamo - A library of thousands of full-body character animations.
- FrankMocap - A Strong and Easy-to-use Single View 3D Hand+Body Pose Estimator.
- KinectAnimationStudio - KinectAnimationStudio is a simple tool that can be used to export Kinect Skeleton data as Autodesk FBX files.
- Cascadeur - 3D animation software for physics-based character animation
- Quixel Mixer - Texture and Material Creator Tool
- Armor Paint - ArmorPaint is a stand-alone software designed for physically-based texture painting.
- CC0 - CC0 Textures is a library of high quality PBR materials for 3D rendering and game design licensed under the Creative Commons CC0 License. This means that you are free to use and even redistribute them in any of your projects - including commercial use!
- Quixel Megascans - A Massive scan library of materials. (UNLIMITED ACCESS only FOR Unreal Engine 4 Projects)
- Materialize - Materialize is a stand alone tool for creating materials for use in games from images.
- FMOD Studio - FMOD is a proprietary sound effects engine and authoring tool for video games and applications developed by Firelight Technologies, that play and mix sounds of diverse formats on many operating systems.
- GIMP - The Free & Open Source Image Editor.
- Krita - Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program.
- Inkscape Project - Inkscape is professional quality vector graphics software