ARCHIVE.md

Archive

These are resources that are archived, outdated, unmaintained, old versions, or sometimes fail link validation. They should still work, but may not. They are kept here because they are excellent resources.

Libraries

Language specific game engine development libraries / frameworks / code.

ActionScript

• ActionScript: Audio
  • 🎉 Bfxr - Flash sound effects generator based on Sfxr, superseded by Bfxr2.

C

• C: Fonts
  • 🎉 msdf-c - Multi-channel signed distance field generator.

C++

• C++: Game Engine w/Editor
  • 🎉 SGEEngine - Game engine with an editor usable as a sandbox.

Zig

• 🌎 Zig Learn - Excellent Zig language resource.

Specialty Topics

Exploring specialty application / game engine / game development topics and features.

Animation Info

• 📚 Skeletons and Inverse Kinematics - Principles for using skeletons with IK for animation.

Geometry

• Algorithms
  • 📚 Practical Geometry Algorithms - Geometries, convex hulls, polyline simplification and more.

Lighting / Shadows

• Lighting 2D
  • 📚 Lighting a 2D Game - Proper 2D lighting with diffuse, self illumination and normal maps.
• Volumetric
  • 📚 Volumetric Light Approximation - Volumetric light approximation (godrays) with Three.js.

Physics

• Platformer
  • 📚 Ledge Grabbing - Tutorial on ledge grabbing in 2D platformer physics.
• Soft Body
  • 📚 Box2D Soft Body Blobs - Step by step creation of a Box2D soft body blob.

Shaders

• Displacement
  • 📚 Basic GLSL Displacement Shader - Basic vertex displacement shader using Three.js.
• Noise
  • 🎉 Direct Computational Noise - GLSL 2D simplex noise function many games use. [Source]
• Wireframe
  • 📚 Easy Wireframe Display - Rendering triangles as wireframe using Barycentric Coordinates.

Tiling

• 📚 Blob Tileset - Tutorial on 2D edge and corner matched tilesets.

Tools / Software

Software to help with game engine / video game development.

2D Game Dev

• 🆓 ShoeBox - Drag & drop tools for sprite sheets, bitmap fonts, texture ripping, tile maps and more.

AI Assistants

• 💸 Coplay - Multi-agent AI Assistant for all aspects of Unity game developement.
• 💸 Rosebud AI - Vibe coding platform for creating 3D games and interactive web apps with AI.
• 💸 Unity Muse - Unity's suite of AI products.

Audio Tools

• Music
  • 🆓 PixiTracker - Quickly create musical sketches, chiptunes and sound experiments.
  • 🆓 SunVox - Powerful modular synthesizer with pattern-based sequencer (tracker).

Generative Art

• Imaging
  • 💸 DALL·E - Create realistic images from natural language.
  • 🆓 Disco Diffusion - Notebooks, models and techniques for AI art and animations.[Source]
  • 💸 Midjourney - Image generation accessed through Discord.
  • 💸 Replicate - Run open source models with a cloud API.
  • 💸 Stable Diffusion - Latent text-to-image diffusion model.
• Modeling
  • 📚 Dream Fusion - Text-to-3D using 2D diffusion.
  • 📚 GET3D - Generative model of 3D shapes from images by NVIDIA. [Source]
  • 📚 Magic3D - High-resolution text-to-3D content creation.
  • 📚 NeRF - View synthesis of scenes as neural radiance fields. [Source]
  • 📚 Shap-e - Generate 3D objects conditioned on text or images.
• Sound
  • 🆓 Dittytoy - Create generative music using a simple JavaScript API.
  • 🆓 Sonic Pi - Kind of musical instrument where you code music.

Materials / Textures

• 🆓 ArmorLab - Generate PBR materials by drag & dropping your photos. [Source]
• 🆓 TexTools for Blender - UV and texturing tools for Blender. [Source]

Video Game Assets

Resources to help bring video games and game engines alive.

Audio Assets

• Music
  • 💸 Royalty Free Music Clips - Huge collection of free and paid royalty free music tracks.

Model Assets

• 🆓 3D Models CC0 - Public domain 3D models.