Game developer resources

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Budding game developers, get your free graphics, sound effects, and music here.

Also includes quality blogs aimed at game developers.

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Sound effects resources

Tags Categories Star ratings Approx number of sound effects
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Large collection of audio with a nice interface. Decent prices.

Yes No Yes 20000
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Open source, huge database. Good community feel.

Yes No Yes 151574
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Moderate size, good quality

No Yes No 5510
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An open community database of sfx, mfx and gfx. Aimed at the indie devs. Quality varies.

Yes No No 360
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Large collection of purchasable sound effects. Prices are fairly reasonable.

Yes Yes No 120000
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Medium sized set of sounds presented with a moderately usable interface

Yes No Yes 1500

Music for licensing resources

Tags Categories Star ratings Approx number of music tracks
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Good commercial music, good price. Fairly large rap beats focus - but most suit any purpose. Typically high tempo.

No Yes No 750
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Great interface for good quality music. Large database.

Yes Yes No 123646
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An open community database of sfx, mfx and gfx. Aimed at the indie devs. Quality varies.

Yes No No 528
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Dated interface, but decent selection.

Yes Yes No 120
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A huge collection of music and loops, including creative commons licensed

Yes Yes Yes 300000
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A decent collection of creative commons licensed music for podcasts, videos, games and so on.

Yes No No 6000
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A great modern site for a large collection of music tracks at fairly low prices

Yes Yes Yes 88000
Yes No No 150

Graphics resources

Tags Categories Star ratings Approx number of graphics 3D 2D
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Some great graphics here, including the tileset for Tyrian, freely available.

No No No 250 No Yes
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An open community database of sfx, mfx and gfx. Aimed at the indie devs. Quality varies.

Yes No No 2496 Yes Yes
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A large, modern marketplace for Blender files. Many are creative commons licensed.

Yes Yes No 6600 Yes No
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A large commercial collection of 3D models

Yes Yes No 8000 Yes No
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Excellent 3D model packs, A couple of packs is typically enough for a pro 3D game.

No Yes No 1000 Yes No
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Cheap packs of Unity-compatible 3D models

Yes No No 300 Yes No
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A large collection of textures for use in 3D graphics

No Yes No 5000 No Yes
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A simple png of 420 pixel art icons for use in an RPG

No No No 420 No Yes
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A decent selection of mainly isometric, categorised, 2D and 3D royalty free graphics assets

No Yes No 250 Yes Yes
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Vector graphics for game developers. Assets, backgrounds, sprites for mobile games, pc or xna games…

Yes Yes Yes 175 No Yes
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A great collection of vector graphics ideal for indie computer game design and development

No Yes No 100 No Yes

Game development blogs

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Personal site for Matthew S. Burns. Worked on games large franchise games like Call of Duty and Halo, now independent.

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Comprehensive collection of detailed articles on game design theory and art

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Detailed posts with a focus on game writing and story

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Game design, reviews, and "other random stuff" by an MIT graduate professional game developer

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Daily blog posts from a group of game developers

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Detailed game design articles by Soren Johnson, many from Game Developer magazine. Worked on games like Civ 4 and Spore

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Miscellaneous game development posts from an industry veteran

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Video game thoughts from the creative lead of a small development studio

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"Analysis of the state of game design from high upon my Ivory Tower"

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Game notes, reviews, and design articles from an HTML5 game developer

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Articles about game sound from British sound designer, composer and writer, Kenneth Young

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Game design and art posts

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