Awesome Gamedev Assets
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Since I often spend months between game development being my active hobby, I tend to forget a lot. This is both a set of bookmarks to speed up remembering and also to speed up starting up. It’s not intended to be exhaustive - just enough to get started up again. These are optimized for those assets that can be used easily for experiments (so, free or cheap, clear licensing) and for the blockout or just-past-blockout phase of development.
Meta
Lists
Here’s a list of “awesome” lists related to game development that may be useful:
awesome-cc0: Highlights CC0 assets in particular, which simplifies thinking about implications of using any particular asset.
awesome-game-dev: Another
Retro3DGraphicsCollection: A compilation of game-ready retro style 3d graphic assets (think PS1) that are commercially usable with no attribution, share-alike, or such required.
Related
- awesome-gamedev: Highlights open source game development “good stuff” (not many assets)
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- Finding Public Domain Works Online: Guide intended to assist people who are interested in exploring interesting works which have entered the public domain.
Asset Libraries
- Classic64 Asset Library: An asset library inspired by N64 and PS1/PS2 era games
Multi-media
These collect a number of different asset types. These are repeated below, and collected here to kick-start a search.
Artists
Individual artists or small groups of artists
Collections
Collections of a number of different artists, often open for artist sign-ups (“user-generate content”).
3D models
Artists
Collections
Other
Textures
Artists
Collections
Packs
- Retro Texture Pack: retro, DOOM or Quake-style FPS texture pack
Icons + Clip art
Collections
- Game-icons.net
- openclipart: Public domain clipart collection