Guide:Assets

Free resources to help you put games together!

Kinds

3-D Models

• 123dapp - Models from 3-D scanners and simple modelling tools.
• "Kawaii" Tank (Tiger-I) - Tank model with flexible tracks on the Unity asset store. Not actually v kawaii ;)

Fonts

• Font Library - Libre fonts.
• free-fonts - Libre fonts.
• Font Squirrel
• The League of Moveable Type - Libre fonts, pretentios website ;3
• VTF - Libre fonts.

General Images

• Image*After
• PUB•DOM•OR•DIE
• 50,000 Ultimate Web Graphics on archive.org

Music

• Archive Team: The Geocities MIDI Collection - A large collection of MIDI filces recused from Geocities.
• Royalty-Free Music by Kevin MacLeod. Licence: CC BY 3.0

Palettes

• gamemaking.tools/downloads/assets/Palettes/

RPG Maker Related

• GrandmaDebsLittleBits
• Crum: Asset Pack for Marek & Co. - Big pile of different things.

Shaders

HLSL

High-Level Shading Language, used in Unity.

• Unity 5.x Shaders and Effects Cookbook, authors both have free tutes:
  • Alan Zucconi
  • Kenneth Lammers
• UCLA Wireframe Shader
• Advanced Wireframe Shader
• Screen Space Fluids
• Star Nest Skybox
• Free shaders on the Unity Asset Store
• Retro3D - PlayStation-like shader. 'Basically, it's a kind of unlit shader, but also reduces the precision of geometric operations, and cancels the perspective correction for texture mapping.'
  • Versions with lighting: github.com/GuiglParty/Stage-Fright/tree/master/Assets/Retro3D
  • Flashback '94 - Another PSX-y shader set ($20).
  • psx_retroshader - Another one.

GLSL

OpenGL Shading Language, used in Godot (kinda). Godot 2 had a visual shader editor, and I believe this is in development for Godot 3.1 :)

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Converters

Tools for converting shaders between languages

• HLSL to GLSL Converter
• HLSL to GLSL Source Converter
• Unity Shadertoys (a.k.a Converting GLSL shaders to Cg/HLSL) - info

See Also

• shadertoy.com - Browse free shaders. Pretty demanding website D:

Sound Effects

• BBC Sound Effects
• Free music samples: download loops, hits and multis - Music Radar.

Sprites

• SpriteLib
• Pixel Monster Bot - Great little mons.

Textures / Tiles

• 1078 Weird Textures (there's a ZIP of all the textures in the subfolder there too)
• lsdtexs Rip of textures from LSD Dream Emulator. Can't remember where I found them :(
• Decorative Papers, found by the community from the Mechanical Curator Collection
• Genetica Texture Packs They're in an odd format (.GTX), but can be converted with a program on the site (I should convert and upload these). You can also just download versions of them, one-by-one as .JPG files.
• Textures.com. You can limit your search to textures that tile seemlessly, but not everything seems to be filed correctly. Has a nice preview feature too. You'll have to either use 'view page info' or an adblocker to bypass their little download protection ;)

See Also

• The Asset Creation section of the wiki, for tools to help you make your own.
• search.creativecommons.org
• Unity's Asset Store
• Free and not-free assets on itch.io
• opengameart.org
• Has Graphics
• GifCities - Internet Archives Geocities archive GIF search
• Soundimage.org - Music, sounds, textures. Attribution licence.
• Faces for your RPG Characters
• post.lurk.org/@wendy/100734030623295814 - Mastodon thread with CC resources.