Global Game Jam 2012 Game Resources

Can’t wait for the Global Game Jam 2012, this will be my third game jam and should be really great especially considering how the game community in Israel has really grown this year their hosting two sites. I do hope the theme this year is a bit better, last years theme was a bit boring for me but I did finish my game Demise! you can check it out at the Global Game Jam site.

One of the things that always comes up at the event is finding good resources for your game I think every year I spend a couple hours on Google and my bookmarks I thought it would be good to put together list and share that with everyone. It’s not perfect and I’m sure I missed stuff but just add a comment below and I will make sure to add the link to the list also note I haven’t used every site or tool this is pure reference.

Side note if anyone plans on using Scoroeid and needs help just hit me up via Twitter or Email via the Scoroeid support page.

Graphic Resources

• HasGraphics – Free Graphics for Indie Game Developers
• Open Game Art – Free, legal art for open source game projects (includes models, sprites, textures, sounds, music).
• SpriteLib GPL – Static and animated sprites that are free for any use.
• Lost Garden free game graphics – Danc’s miraculously flexible game prototyping graphics for small worlds.
• Graphic River – paid graphic assets

Music & Sound

• as3sfxr – A port of sfxr from C++ to AS3, using the new sound and file capabilities of Flash Player 10.
• DrPetter’s sfxr – Retro sound effects generator.
• The Freesound Project – A collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds.
• pdsounds – Public domain sounds, a free sound library.
• FlashKit SoundFx – An ever growing list of shareware and freeware SoundFX for download.
• Audio Jungle – Paid sounds and music.
• Open Music Archive – A collaborative project to source, digitise and distribute out-of-copyright sound recordings.
• Free Music Archive – Free music archive.

Terrain & Map Editing Tools

• TileStudio – Tilestudio is geared more towards 2D games. It has following features: Level editor, Sprite editor, Map editor, output in multiple programming languages.
• Tiled Map Editor – Tiled is a general purpose tile map editor.
• iTileMaps – iTileMaps is powerfull tile map creation tool.

Models

• Google 3D Warehouse – 3D models for use in Google SketchUp
• The Official Blender Model Repository – Free Blender resources.

HTML5

• ImpactJS – HTML5 Canvas & JavaScript Game Engine.
• HTML5 Game Dev News – The latest HTML5 Game Development News.

Links

• The Ultimate Indie Game Developer Resource List – An amazing list thanks to Florian Hofmann.
• The Big List Of Game Making Tools – A great list of game making tools.
• List of Flash Gaming Engines – A list of Flash game engines via Tom Krcha.