A helpful resource for all aspects of designing board games: game design, prototyping, playtesting, publishing, and much much more!

Forum for board game designers and access to a site database with reviews, articles, and session reports for 59,000 games.

A comprehensive portal for Computer Graphics Professionals, bringing together digital artists with the latest in computer graphics technologies and practices.

Tutorials and training for artists.

A collection of resources, articles, papers, and guidelines to help guide developers and researchers.

a network for supporting Indigenous game developers by providing information about opportunities, sharing resources to enhance development, highlighting Indigenous-made games, and reflecting on exhibitions, conferences, and more.

The Lightship AR Developer Kit brings real-time mapping technology together with shared multiplayer experiences, semantics and depth for more realistic AR experiences. ARDK is made for developing AR experiences for both Android and iOS mobile platforms – and integrates directly within Unity.

Jane McGonigal gives tips on designing an alternate reality game in this slide show.

A community of professional and hobbyist artists posting, collaborating, and helping each other like no other 3D art website.

Takes your existing browser-based game and automatically generates a standalone desktop version for both Windows and macOS.

This site was founded to showcase game making tools and selected games that were created with them.

Make your own platformer games, spaceship shooters, or space adventure games. Advanced game maker? Try the physics game maker for creating original minigames! You can even customize it with your own game art using our new free graphics editor!
(FREE)

Design your very own games using easy-to-learn drag-and-drop actions – you can create professional-quality games within very little time.

The RPG Maker series gives you access to customize every aspect of your game with an easy to use interface, making it perfect for beginners, while being powerful enough for experts.

Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing games. (FREE)

Spring is a versatile 3D RTS game engine. Using extensively Lua for scripting game-specific code to make nearly every aspect of the engine customizable, from GUI, to unit AI, to pathfinding.
(FREE)

Unity is a feature rich, fully integrated development engine for the creation of interactive 3D content. It provides complete, out-of-the-box functionality to assemble high-quality, high-performing content and publish to multiple platforms.

The AGS Editor is a Windows-based IDE for creating your games as quickly and easily as possible. Everything you need from importing graphics and writing game scripts right through to testing your game, under one roof!

Stencyl isn't your average game creation software; it's a gorgeous, intuitive toolset that accelerates your workflow and then gets out of the way. We take care of the essentials like physics and native APIs so you can focus on what's important—making your game yours.

Ren'Py is a visual novel engine that helps you use words, images, and sounds to tell stories with the computer. These can be both visual novels and life simulation games. The easy to learn script language allows you to efficiently write large visual novels, while its Python scripting is enough for complex simulation games.

A complex game creation environment that allows you to create browser based games.

The world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D creation platform.

Celtx is the world's first all in one pre-production system. It replaces 'paper & binder' with a digital approach that's more complete, simpler to work with, and easier to share.

Plotbot is a web-based collaborative screenwriting application where you can write a screenplay with as many or as few people as you like. Adopting the wiki approach to screenwriting, each element is editable by any member of a project. You can also comment on, delete or restore any element.

A novel writing software that helps you to write your novel, in a simple way.

A free and open source software image retouching and editing tool that is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.

An Open Source vector graphics editor with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Blender is the open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation.

CGTextures strives to be the world's best texture site.

FamiTracker is a free windows tracker for producing music for the NES/Famicom-systems. The interface is based on MadTracker.

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.

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

A multichannel digital audio workstation.