The Best FREE Software for Game Development! (In my Opinion)
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ART SOFTWARE
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Pixel Art:
● MS Paint - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microso...
● Piskel - www.piskelapp.com/
● Aseprite - github.com/aseprite/aseprite/
● Libresprite - www.libresprite.org/
● Graphics Gale - graphicsgale.com/us/
Raster:
● Paint.NET - www.getpaint.net/
● Gimp - www.gimp.org/
● Krita - krita.org/en/
3D:
● Blender- www.blender.org/
● MagicaVoxel - ephtracy.github.io/
Vector:
● Affinity Designer - affinity.serif.com/en-us/desi...
● Inkscape - inkscape.org/
● Vectr - vectr.com/
GAME SOFTWARE
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● Godot Engine - godotengine.org/
● GDevelop - gdevelop-app.com/
● Love2d - love2d.org/
AUDIO SOFTWARE
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Music:
● GarageBand - www.apple.com/mac/garageband/
● Bosca Ceoil - terrycavanagh.itch.io/bosca-c...
● Sunvox - warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/
● FamiStudio - famistudio.org/
● FamiTracker - www.famitracker.com/
● LMMS - lmms.io/
● BeepBox - www.beepbox.co
Sounds:
● LabChirp - labbed.itch.io/labchirp
● Chiptone - sfbgames.itch.io/chiptone
OTHER SOFTWARE
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● DaVinci Resolve - www.blackmagicdesign.com/prod...
● Kdenlive - kdenlive.org/en/
● OBS - obsproject.com/
● Standard Notes - standardnotes.org/
● VLC Player - www.videolan.org/vlc/
● Brave Browser - brave.com/
● Tiled - www.mapeditor.org/
┈ Who is Goodgis? ┈
I’m a full time Graphic Designer, Game Dev, & CZcamsr. I specialize in making cute, colorful games in Godot and telling my story through my videos. I also run my own little game studio called Firith. My dream is to hire my friends and make Firith a full-time job. I’m known for games such as The Keeyp, Wizbirds, Snomes, and Dewdrop Dynasty.
┈ Ways to Support ┈
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┈ Timestamps ┈
0:00 Introduction
2:07 FOSS
3:41 Art Software
6:46 Game Software
7:50 Audio Software
9:02 Lightning Round
10:01 Conclusion
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#gamedev #free #software - Hry
I've listed the links to all the free software mentioned in the video. I'll be updating it frequently with your recommendations as well. Make sure the check out the description for the full list.
Thanks!
Instant praise for your hatred of BFXR.
nominating Reaper for DAW and Pixelorama for pixel art
I use graphicsgale for pixelart, it is free now. do check it out :D
unity is foss btw lol
Everything's free when your a pirate
same bro
Even jail is FREE 😂
@@kewa_designain't catching
Bro you can get also get the fine of 50,000 dollar dlc
Most countries dont care
Adding this to my Learn how to GameDev playlist
Awesome!
Same here it's going in my Game Dev playlist.
@@Pridetoons lol
...that keeps getting bigger everyday...but I'll never actually use.
@@vector6077 same lol
The one thing I think you really missed here in the raster editing section is Krita which is especially useful for creating tiling textures as well as having a really powerful painting workflow.
I added it in the description! :D Thanks!
@@Goodgis ahh great. I'm sure it's also been suggested but I really like making music in LMMS too.
It also has some basic animation features that are pretty easy to pick up
Yes!!! Krita is so useful
Krita sucks
Other alts:
Raster: Krita. It also kind of supports vector
Music: LMMS
Boom, added it to the list! Thanks for sharing!
Another pixel art tool : pixelorama
@@fathurbadar4490 I use that one.
I would actually suggest Reaper over LMMS due to its better compatibility with 3rd party audio plugins and is also free!
@@zyrk7627 that free is meant for personal use
2:47 Actually, all unity tools are available in the free version, you only need to pay when you exceed 100,000 dollars per year, there are no limits
Yeah true
That's a good point, but they can change that rate whenever they want. That's why FOSS is great. :D
Same could be said about Unreal Engine. It's free and even has the source available (not technically open source). All of this could change though if Epic decided to start charging. I started my Unreal Engine subscription the month before they went free with it.
@@lyrebird712 But they did announce about UE5, so I guess they could either increase tye UE4 fees so people go to UE5, or decrease it while promoting to UE5
@@xdiatia4197 I kinda doubt that. The UE3 based UDK just became unsupported going forward when UE4 released and we'll likely see something similar now. It's probably acting as more of a major version update than anything from what I'm seeing. Major UE4 modules have been carried over almost in their entirety.
Only time will tell though. Ultimately you get to sidestep any uncertainty going open source though 🤷♀️
"The Best FREE Software for Game Development!" *Raises pitchfork*
"(In my Opinion)" *Lowers pitchfork*
;)
lol
no
why was i looking in the commengts to find this
LOL
One thing worth mention, Blender can also work as a Video Editor, VFX and 2d animation software. You only have to go to files, new, and there you can see them. The Video Editor built in Blender has been consider by many as one of best among the open-source software out there, the only difficult part being the learning curve, but one passed you pretty much can do a lot, specially if you implement the 3d and 2d capabilities Blender has.
Thanks for sharing! :D
I'm personally really thankful for Aseprite. I thought it was a game when I bought it on steam (I literally didn't even check the description of it.) I thought about returning it a couple times but It also gave me some nostalgia of MS paint when I was 8. I spent 8 hours animating a little cave scene and fell in love with the program and then started really getting into game development. I'm currently taking a course for unity visual scripting and I have a bunch of ideas for games I wanna make.
what sort of game did u think it was?
For 2d art i personally use krita. Its free and pretty neat, its good with animation too!
Great recommendation! I added it to the description!
Also im using spriter 2d animator by brashmonkey.
I love 2d art I found the best platform for it there Animashion is super easy and it is really good for makeing games....
And I *FORGOT* what its CALLED
She works in windows with some speed cramp on shitty hardware in my experience. But natively in Linux, ever since I made the jump she fucking _sings_
@@-Fluffy- Did you find out what its called?
I would just like to say that Audio software wise you have saved me so much research. Thank you for making this video and keep up the great work!
Glad it helped! :D
Really well put together video, loved the editing as always and I feel that the topic you picked up on today, is one that not many people do touch upon, but is incredibly essential, I know, I've been developing games for over 3 years now, and over one year with Unity.
Really important topic and you grabbed it and gave a *perfect* video as always!
Good Job!
PS. _Almost to 30k!!_
Thanks so much! I really appreciate that.
Me: is hours before the premiere and starts getting free skillshare: oooooh
Me when I realize I need a credit card: why are we still here, just to suffer!
;(
big sad
yeah same I was running to get it then it says you need a credit card I said bruh
we got trapped by skillshare
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I know that you can't get into it in a short video, but the political philosophy behind FOSS is fascinating. In many ways, FOSS, or at least its driving philosophies, predate proprietary software!
It's definitely an interesting topic!
i wanted to get into game development and really focused, but now this video has inspired me to get into modelling, art and animation and i think it suits me more. so now i'll just be a graphic designer for games and stuff. good thing you uploaded this.
For Pixel Art, Pixelorama is underrated. It is a FOSS software from what I can remember made by Orama Interactive and It is so easy to learn and use yet powerful enough to compete with other pixel art software mentioned. Also, the community is so super welcoming and friendly. Lastly, Krita is great at pixel art as well though I haven't used it yet. That's all I want to say :)
Pixelorama is really cool and it's also made in godot, which makes it even better ! :)
Thanks for sharing! :D
thank you for sharing!! i'll try these out :D
My personal choice of Photoshop alternative is Photopea. It's free, browser based, and works in basically the same way as Photoshop. It was AMAZING to have coming straight out of high school where I had access to Photoshop in one of my classes, but now have to use the free alternative. If you're using a lower end computer or laptop, you may struggle a bit with slowness, but even just a standard PC seems to do just fine.
Thanks for sharing!
For music on windows I really recomend cakewalk, it's an awesome DAW to fit your music needs
Thanks for recommending! :D
Also on the music side is Cakewalk and Tracktion Waveform. The latter comes in a free, full and a "lite" version that comes with buying certain Behringer products but you can use the free version to make music just as much as the full version
Thanks for sharing!
Krita is currently one of the best competitor among other great FOSS software alternative. Has great capabilities, clean UI/UX, performance, and constantly getting better.
_For those who wonder, Krita is developed by individual contributers under the umbrella of_ *KDE*
:D
This is amazing! Definitely going to use some of the stuff you mentioned :)
Super glad to hear it! :D
I've been wanting to jump into affinity, the one thing I wish they had was Illustrator's kerning tool. I know affinity has tools to alter line weight but Illustrator's tool made it stupid easy (and kind of fun).
What? I do have kerning. Just use ctrl + arrow keys to kern your font.
@@Goodgis I didn't say it doesn't have kerning, I'm saying Illustrator's tool is different, it functions more like a brush tool.
For music, there's also LMMS (Linux Multimedia Sutdio). It's similar to Fruity Loops Studio. And despite the name, it's available on Windows and MacOS too.
Pixilart is a decent free pixel art alternative! I don’t think it’s quite as good as Piskel but I use it sometimes to make lil gifs.
It doesn’t have an online save system which kinda sucks (you have to save and load pieces by downloading the save file), but it has a nice lil community system where you can scroll through other people’s pixel art and do challenges and stuff :)
Thanks for recommending! :D
Woah! Thanks a lot for the detailed list in the description.
It was nice to see kdenlive there.
I love Kdenlive. I'm so sad that I forgot to include it in the video.
as a linux user, i natually googled "foss video editor" and got kden live,
but i have no idea how to use it
for now im just using ffmpeg in the command line lol
I have tried game developing like a year ago pr something, but got demotivated and left. I think I found my motivation through your videos, thanks a lot! Hell, maybe I will practice drawing again who knows!
Thanks so much! Never give up on it, I believe in you! :D
Krita is another Photoshop alternative that prioritizes drawing/painting. It also has animation.
Shotcut is a pretty good simple video editor, and Olive looks promising.
MPV is a light weight media player that is better to use than VLC in most tasks (MPV doesn't support DVD menues).
Firefox is actually really good. But as "Only supports Internet Explorer" disappears, "Only supports Google Chrome" (chromium) is taking over.
Firefox is definitely great as well! I've even used Palemoon XD
I'm a beginner game developer and I'm making a actual game for the first time so I didn't really know where to begin, this video has help me so much so thank you :)
Super glad to here it!
I think this is a great video for people who is just starting game development. Keep up the good work! :)
Thanks a ton!
@@Goodgis no problem I've been subscribed to you for a little while and you make really good content!
Pinta (Pinta-project) is a good one to add too, it's basically an open source cross platform MS Paint but with more features and a very strong history and layers system
Thanks for sharing!
Not related to the video in the least but you have inspired me to start working on my passion project again. This will be the fourth attempt over a couple years but now I know how to make decent art and kind of know how to code. Thank you so much for the inspiration :) I probably shelf it again but who knows? I may finish it.
That's awesome! :D best of luck to you!
Great list! A couple more free software are:
- Gravit Designer (Vector, used to be 100% free but I think now has pricing for premium features or something)
- Cakewalk (DAW, used to be expensive but now is free and quite good)
- Unreal Engine (Game Engine, it's free and its source code is available. Not open source but close to it and for most projects the royalties don't matter at all)
- HitFilm (Video Editor, has a free version that's very powerful)
- JPixel (Pixel Art, not open source but free and very simple to use)
- Vital (VST, might as well mention this as it's a very powerful free wavetable synthesiser that isn't hard to use and can created SFX, music, even has TTS)
Labchirp sounds really useful. With my current project I'm using pixel game maker mv as the engine, gimp for sprites, renoise for music, and I'm planning on using blender for backgrounds and tilesets.
Go for it! :D
I'm super late to the party but just in the event you make another edition of this video-- REAPER is an excellent DAW that I would highly recommend for anyone who wants to use top-tier audio software for soundtracks and sound design. While it's not *technically* free it has an "unlimited" free trial so it's definitely worth including in my opinion -- perhaps as an honorable mention due to the technicality. It will require additional plugins (synthesizers etc) to get going with it, but there are loads of tutorials and resources out there, including free ones -- you can have a REAPER setup rivalling premium software for completely free.
(This comment was not sponsored by Reaper, I just really like the software)
Thanks for sharing! :D
This video was super helpful!
thanks a lot
Great video! I hope this helps the people that felt like they couldn't reach their goals due to the lack of software
I hope so too! :D
For DAWs, Cakewalk went free recently.
For Raster, I use Krita mostly when I need to use my Huion tablet since support in GIMP is kind of garbage.
For video you also have HitFilm Express (I use Pro), Shotcut, Olive ...
To manage my sound effects and music files, sfx, loops, samples ... for games, music production (I suck at that) and video, I use ADSR sample manager
Thanks for sharing! :D
Omg dude I love piskel it’s so simple and works so well
:D
same
You deserve more recognition! Your vids are so inspiring!
Thank you so much!
Great video, and amazing production quality.
Much appreciated!
New dev here. I only have about 2 weeks of experience with Unity; that’s it. From what I’m hearing, it seems like I should switch over to Godot for the community and open-source aspect, but I’ve heard that it’s best to stick with one software to start with. I’d love to hear what people in these comments think!
Godot is as of now the 3rd project on Github to be getting the most contributions in the list. With Godot for there will be a massive change in the engine's 3D capabilities with the implementation of Bulunan APIs. It is definitely a solid choice.
It is hard jumping from engine to engine. I would choose the engine that you want to learn and not the one people are telling you to use.
For me I'm unity Team, I really don't need every tools (people complaining about licenses and being open source)
Well, that's totally useless to reply on a software because it's beinf open source, but low capabilities
6:12 For vector art there's also Gravit Designer, it's free but its not FOSS
Oh, thanks for recommending! :D
Something I use for drawing is Medibang! it's free and works on mac, windows, mobile(wouldnt reccomend it) and linux. been using it for basically my entire art carreer and its never let me down. it does have a paid feature which removes ads on the mobile versions and unlocks more brushes/materials on all versions, but it doesnt restrict any tools and allows you to upload/make brushes from a canvas.
Imo a lot of it does require a lot of tuning when it comes to the brushes but it has a TON of constant and free updates for more tools, and i pretty much use it for everything.
Thanks for editing all if the apps to description
11:30 PM?!?! Well it looks like im gonna stay awake tonight
Yeah same,
@GoGoHappDev for me it says 1:30 am tomorrow
I think we are in the same timezone (11:30 PM)
for me it's 17:30 (5:30pm)
for me it’s 11:30 AM lol
Hey, active the automatic subtitles, i am brazilian and the english subtitles help me very much for understand what is said in the video
Awesome! :D
Idk what you are talking about your English is relatively decent
Amazing video! This will help a ton on my game development adventure. Thanks!
Glad to hear it!
No bs. Straight to the point. Very good video
Thanks!
I use LMMS for my music needs, it has a steep learning curve but it's free and very powerful
There are actually more powerful ones however LMMS is a solid contender even if musicians tend to make a big joke of it. Pretty bad at handling VSTs tho due to the fact it can't actually support them native. I'd also say it's actually not got a seep learning curve since it basically works like FL Studio which is the easiest software to learn.
check out ardour
foss daw
Added it to the list!
I got an ad talking about how they made games and made enough money to make indie games full time. I legitimately thought it was the video.
LOL
I needed this video. Thanks :)
Glad it could help!
Keep up the good work the video is amazing from the art to the explaining!
Thanks so much! :D
lets be honest, all you need is vim
Truer words have never been said...
What I absolutely love about this is simply the fact, that he bothered to add (In my opinion). More 'content' creators' need to do this so people are not suckered in by their clickbait titles.
I tried to be as straight forward and clear as possible. :D
nice list! i also use this for my project :
- Gravit Designer (Vector - web base)
- Cakewalk by Bandlab (DAW)
- Armorpaint (substance painter alternative)
Thanks for sharing!
LMMS for music, it can do chiptunes AND sound fonts, its a tracker, and you can even use midi instruments to play into the track (or your keyboard if you can memorize the layout).
Thanks for sharing! :D
I'm also using godot but I'm thinking to move to Unity because Godot does not offer a much customisable environment. Everything we need to do we need a sprite. Even a square
Good luck! The learning curve is very annoying
Wut? Yes it does. :D
"spending money especially for software"
Me who always use cracked software : understandable have a great day
You will most likely get a computer virus in your PC
@@MACFiFth lol thats true
@@MACFiFth but hey, It's free!
copyright
@@MACFiFth it's usally easier for me to get rid of a virus from my pc then 300 dollors from my wallet
Thanks man, nice work, nice voice, nice animation!
Thanks so much!
This is an amazing video! I might just have to look into a bunch of these programs…
:D
Free alternatives to skillshare?
CZcams
@@shreetejjadhav3031 real
2:18 it’s all by Linus Torvalds lol. Didn’t he make git because he discovered a back door in the pre-git software he was using that let the software devs see the kernel code?
ah yes, the religion of penguins
AFAIK he wrote it because the other tools sucked, and they do. Git absolutely dominates the industry now.
He wrote it for kernel development; Linux is open source, there's no problem with anybody seeing the kernel code, but maintaining it while accepting patches from outside was a hassle. Git makes it easy.
@@MadsterV I've heard something like 4 different stories. The one I heard most was about there being a back door that he was told by the devs didn't exist, so he rage coded the first version of git in less than a day.
Indeed. haha
@@skywz just read an article where he explains:
- he had been thinking about it for a long time
- they had issues with their current version control system (licensing I think?)
- He wrote the backbone in a couple of days, but it was ROUGH
Thanks a lot... i am trying to start my game dev journey and this video helped a lot
Glad I could help!
This is probably the best and most informative video I've watched
Glad to hear it! :D
My free alternative to Adobe Illustrator: Scratch Editor 😂😂😂
XD
inkscape
"You can use it on a Basic level", "To really access most of the features or at least the important ones you have to pay".
Bro, do you even know Unity? What about UE4?
@BFG Division 30% is so wrong. It is 5% for products that exceed $1000000 (1 million) in revenue. The 30% is the cut on Steam and others.
Godot takes no amount. :p
@@Goodgis Yeah and Godot is awesome, but that doesn’t deny the fact that your statement about limiting the features under a pay-wall is wrong.
This video is absurdly informative. Good job.
Thanks so much!
Wow, super useful video, ive been thinking of trying vector too, Thanks! :D
Glad it was helpful! :D
If this video wasn’t good enough, there a whole other point that you added all the links in desc. This is so helpful you have no idea THANK YOU
Glad I could help! :D
Another great free software I strongly recommend is Krita, it's primarily an art program, but it supports animation with onion skinning, you can switch to seamless tile mode by pressing the W key, you can rotate the canvas to any degree, and because it has a numerous supply of brushes it's great for any kind of game graphics, even if your working without a drawing tablet, it also has a pixel brush and color palette options so drawing fully animated 2D sprites is completely possible.
Thanks for sharing!
Really well put together video
Thanks so much!
This is actually very helpful. You sir have saved me a lot of time! Thank youuu!
Glad it helped!
6:20 Inkscape, I don't know when I started using it, but now it is my goto tool for almost anything graphics related. I do it fast and efficiently.
Performance is an issue, no matter what hardware you throw at it it can be laggy when you deal with fairly complex scenes.
4:44 I use that stock yell in my game, I recognized it immediately lol
I put this in my watch later a year ago and now with a uni deadline coming up and a game full of placeholder art sitting here, I've decided to watch it to get a starting point on what to do.
While i might be a biiit late to the party, ive always had this great idea for a game but i havent been sure what software to use. This is really helpful! Im definitely saving this video just in case.
Your thumbnails are absolutely beautiful, what font are you using?
Thanks so much, it's called Rubik!
A lot of the software you listed are the ones that I've been using for years. They're great choices, especially when saving money!
Thanks for the great and helpful info!!!
Glad it was helpful!
I haven't actually made any games yet, but I have been working on one for a while, and I have mainly been doing Pixel art, and I can confirm that Piskel is a great tool! It's what I've been using up to this point, but my friends actually surprised me with Aseprite not too long ago, I am still learning how to use it, but yeah, Piskel is still just a really great tool for pixel art, and I highly recommend it!
Thanks for sharing!
I missed the premier again! But thanks for the recommendations. I didn't know labchirp.
Also, the lore has been added
XD I love it
Thank you so much man, this video helps me a lot
Glad to hear it! :D
Irish translation, bosca is box and ceoil is music, so it would translate to music box, so yeah I think you're right with accordion
Glad you mentioned an alt to sfxr cause it really didn’t create the sfx I was hoping for
:D
Thanks for mentioning LabChirp!
No problem!
Here's the software I use for my gamedev endeavours, not all of it is free, but some is, and I'll specify which ones:
- For Pixel Art I use MS Paint and Piskel, I've been using MS Paint for pixel art since I was a child, and at this point I'm just faster and better at drawing in there than literally any other program, but a few years ago I started using piskel to test out my animations, making any tweaks I see fit in there, then re-importing my tweaked sprites into MS Paint to keep my art updated and organised.
- For Raster Art I use Paint Tool SAI and Clip Studio Paint, unfortunately both are paid but I just rely on them too much to change to anything else, and they provide me with everything I need... A free alternative I hear good things about is Krita, I've never managed to get used to it, but maybe you will!
- For Music and Sound Effects I use Deflemask and occasionally OpenMPT, both are free tracker programs, they look more complex to use than they actually are, so don't be intimidated! Another famous tracker I'd also recommend though I don't really use it myself is Famitracker. The cool thing about these programs is that they can make music that will play in real retro gaming hardware! (It is worth noting that there's a paid version of Deflemask coming, but the latest free version will remain free, and frankly, it's plenty good enough)
- For actual gamedev, well, I'm not a coder, and I tried a bunch of different engines over the years, but the only one I really vibe with is Construct 2... Now, SOME people like to dismiss tools like Construct, where you don't really have to do any proper coding, like, yeah, that's bull$#!t, any tool will only ever be as good as the developer using it, and I wouldn't have been able to get *ANYTHING* done were it not for C2, so I'm glad I have it...
Thanks for recommending! :D
Guy, MY GUY i can write here for HOURS about how you inspire me to make more and more projects, using a bunch of engines!,you are the first channel that i Really want to like! Thank you soo much, i love your videos, bye!
Thanks so much! :D
Nice video! I'm defenetly gonna use some of the softwares mentioned.
Glad to hear it! :D Which ones caught your attention?
@@Goodgis Godot and Brave seemed interesting.
Thanks man, you really helped me
Glad I could help :D
Capturing audio to Audacity from a mono mic avoids only recording to the left channel of a video which is one good use for it. I use software called SimpleScreenRecorder for screen capture, it just lacks panning and zoom. For music composition, LMMS is very good. I like Kden Live for video editing since it is easy to use and super fast to edit with since it's light weight.
Thanks for sharing! :D
Great video!
btw Rive seems to be pretty good for vector art
Thanks for sharing!
Great video! You always bring good content, don't stop! :D
Thanks so much! :D
This is super helpful I am a beginner to game developing and this was really helpful
Glad to hear it!
kinda wish i came across this years ago, luckily i already have experience doing pixel art and 3D so i should have a hard time jumping on these.
Thank you for the information.
No problem! :D
Damn this is helpful you just got a new sub man 😊
Super glad to hear!
Now this!, This is awesome!
Thanks! :D
Also free for vector is icons8 Lunacy. Its similar to Sketch (mac) but is free and open, used for UI design, web design, logos,etc. And opens sketch files.
That's awesome!
already had piskel, godot, unity as well, blender, so all that was left was labchirp. My journey starts here. Thanks mate
Nice! haha
Construct 3 is alright for people that want to get into gamedev but there's a limit and a 30 dollar paywall to bypass the limit, but you can still make some really good stuff with the limit if you get creative, cut a lot of corners, and scrap most for your idea
Omg thx i love this video 😊