Chris Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 Hey,another collection topic of useful stuff This time, I'm collecting useful tools and resources that help you in your game development process.If you have any suggestions, please feel free to add your comment to this thread.I will read through the comments and gather the useful resources up here in this post. Applications Tiled Map Editor WIN, MAC, LIN, $0 [sprites, spritemap, map, editor]A orthogonal and isometric (dimetric) tile map editor. Efficient tile editing tools like stamp, fill and terrainbrushes. Rectangle, ellipse, polygon and image objects can be placed with pixel precision. Supports orthogonal, isometric and staggeredmaps.http://www.mapeditor.org/ Shoebox WIN, MAC, $0 [sprites, tiles, bitmap, converter]ShoeBox is a free Adobe Air based app for Windows and Mac OSX with game and ui related tools.Features:Sprite Packer, convert GIF/SWF animation to sprite sheet, Create bitmap fonts, Setting sprite pivot points, extracting sprites from image, creating 9tiled sprites, extract sprites from screenshots, create layered image compos, convert transparent PNG to jpg+alpha image and more...http://renderhjs.net/shoebox/ Spriter WIN, MAC, LIN, $0, $25 [sprites, animation]Spriter is a intuitive animation tool for sprite based animations.http://www.brashmonkey.com/index.htm Code Tools dat-gui JavaScript Apache LicenseThis javascript library enables you to include a easy to use debugging GUI into your project.You should take a look at the examples.https://code.google.com/p/dat-gui/ stats.js JavaScript MIT LicenseThis class provides a simple info box that will help you monitor your code performance.It draws a DOM element that shows a graph of your current game framerate or frame processing time.https://github.com/mrdoob/stats.js/ LFO, mikedesigner, Radi and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karnage Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 Hi Chris, Here are a few useful tools and resources to add to your list ;- http://www.gimp.org/ a full suite of advanced tools for creating images including support for psd (photoshop) formats. There are also some other smaller free graphics tools available, such as Pickle http://www.pickleeditor.com and PyxelEdit http://pyxeledit.com/, all of which are worth checking out. For 2d bone animation, a very good alternative to Spriter is Spine http://esotericsoftware.com/ I have found this very well documented and is a joy to use. If you need sprites for prototyping - you can't go wrong with Spriters Resource http://spriters-resource.com JessC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rune Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 Increpare's bfxr is almost the end all be all for sound effects. SlamminSam 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowren Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 Not ready yet, but very promising: http://www.pixelpressgame.comIt´s a tool that allows you to draw your own levels on a sheet of paper, then take picture of the sheet with a tablet and the app generates your level instantly in a real game.This could be good for platform games, to test if a level design idea is cool or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.Uri.Tanner Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Music Resources Royalty Free Musichttp://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?feels%5B%5D=Eerie&feels%5B%5D=Somber&feels%5B%5D=Suspenseful&Search=Search+by+Feel Free Music Archive ( Make sure to check licences )http://freemusicarchive.org/ scheffgames 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remvst Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Royalty free music: http://nosoapradio.us/ Hsaka, webGLmmk and P.Uri.Tanner 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rezoner Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 ba dum tss http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/18e38t/pocketknives_for_game_developers/ scheffgames and Red Spark 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evan Burchard Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 Not HTML5 specific, but a really huge list nonetheless:http://www.pixelprospector.com/indie-resources/ Covers these topics:Inspiration, Game Development & Game DesignGraphicsSound & MusicBusinessMarketingVideo Game SitesVideo Recording & EditingWebsite, Blog, Wiki & Forum CreationOtherThis is really good as well: http://html5devstarter.enclavegames.com/ benny!, Radi and PBMCube 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cameron Foale Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Littera is a great replacement for GlyphDesigner, particularly on Linux where GlyphDesigner is buggy as hell (and Flash is slightly less buggy). http://kvazars.com/littera/ 8bitgrit and mikedesigner 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuggeta Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 Nuggeta - Free framework to add social and multiplayer features easy. Online HTML5 simple tutorial http://www.nuggeta.com/home Complete open source 4 in a row multiplayer social game code https://github.com/Nuggeta/nuggeta-games-samples Thanks plicatibu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enigmatist Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Icomoon is a resource for building custom icon fonts, which is useful if you're working mostly with the DOM rather than the Canvas API or a framework. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punterf16 Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Any one willing to learn Basics of Html5 Canvas with live working demos should visit this website http://www.tutorialspark.com/html5/HTML5_Canvas_Reference.php . It has all Canvas properties and methods explained in great detail with live code editor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chupup Games Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Qubicle Constructor - very good voxel graphic editor, has a free version, too http://minddesk.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Spark Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 Spine - 2D animation softwarePickle Editor - pixel art software Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lamine250 Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 here another tool very useful for music, arts even fonts http://opengameart.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsmaaA4G Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 Hi guys, I'd like to let you all know that you can now advertise on your HTML5 games using Ad4Game's new Overlay Pre-Roll Format. The ads are a mixture of Flash, Image, and Text. You can also customize it and set the count-down timer to whichever you want. Here's the link with the tag generator. You can also replace your old Mochi In-Game Ads with these new Ad4Game ones. These also work on Flash Air Android Apps. I'd love to assist any of you to start testing these formats. I hope you found this helpful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatalfluff Posted April 5, 2014 Share Posted April 5, 2014 I personally found http://www.humanbalance.net/gale/us/ to be a useful tool for creating and editing pixel style graphics. The free edition goes a long way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chupup Games Posted April 5, 2014 Share Posted April 5, 2014 PixelShop & VoxelShop very good free Pixel- and Voxeleditor from Blackflux PixelShop: http://blackflux.com/node/10 VoxelShop: http://blackflux.com/node/11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkSpace Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 If you're willing to really dig deviantart.com has a lot of sprites that people have made freely available for commercial and noncommercial use. And Freesound.org is great for music and even fx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haden Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 https://tinypng.com/ It's amazing how much it can compress .png images. Really useful for spritesheets and atlas textures. webcaetano 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daisy90 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Thanks a lot for all these usefull resources ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanTheBoy Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 Two good image optimizers for Mac users. http://imageoptim.com/ http://pngmini.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loveMepls Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 love Shoebox from first post, thanks. Easy to use, no need to set up something. scheffgames 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sergkub Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 free texture packerhttp://www.gamedev.ru/projects/forum/?id=161714 free Generator of bitmap fontshttp://www.gamedev.ru/projects/forum/?id=152527 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Krug Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 Lots of usefull Tipps and Hints on doing games right - updated regularyhttp://www.insidehtml5games.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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