I figured it would be a good idea to have a list of free resources for the community
If you have something to add to the list, leave a comment!

Game Engines

  • Godot is free and open source
  • Unity is free unless you make over $100k but is not open source
  • Unreal engine is free unless you make over $1 Million but is also not open source

Asset Creation

Free Assets

Misc

  • ForkedStill [none/use any]
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    1 year ago

    Some Free and Open Source software I use:

    • VSCodium -- a very popular code editor, with Microsoft telemetry ripped out
    • Notepad++ -- a lightweight code editor for Windows
    • Audacity -- a very useful tool for sound recording and editing
    • LMMS -- a Digital Audio Workstation similar to FLStudio
    • MuseScore -- an app for music sheet notation
    • Inkscape -- a vector graphics editor (.svg and other)
    • Paint.net -- a simple image editor
    • Pixelorama -- a pixelart editor, fully FOSS, unlike Aseprite
    • Material Maker -- as the name implies, a tool for creating materials for 3d graphics
    • OBS -- a program for screen recording
    • 7zip -- an archiver, much better than WinRAR

    Some useful FOSS resources for music:

    • Musical Artifacts -- a large selections of various soundfonts, uploaded by users.
      • Specifically, Touhou Soundfont is an imitation of instruments used in Touhou games. It is popular for a good reason
    • FreePats -- a collection of specific instruments as soundfonts