What is the one gamemaking tool you use that you wish more people knew about?

• ScreenToGif

  151 22,701 7.8 C#

  🎬 ScreenToGif allows you to record a selected area of your screen, edit and save it as a gif or video.

Github link. The dev is real cool and responds to reported issues. Can't recommend this enough for easy-to-share gifs. Its very useful.

• spine-runtimes

  65 4,153 9.8 C#

  2D skeletal animation runtimes for Spine.

  

For me it is Spine, a really neat 2d skeletal animation software. The price is a bit steep, but some of the advanced features such as mesh deformation allow for really cool animations. One tool I haven't used yet but looks great is LDTK, which is a slick level editor. What tools do you guys use that you wish more people knew about?

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• UnityFx.Async

  1 186 10.0 C#

  Asynchronous operations (promises) for Unity3d.

Async Await: https://github.com/Arvtesh/UnityFx.Async

• Light-Reflective-Mirror

  1 121 5.0 C#

  Discontinued A relay transport for mirror.

Mirror with P2P NAT Punchthrough: https://github.com/Derek-R-S/Light-Reflective-Mirror

• laigter

  20 786 6.8 C++

  Laigter: automatic normal map generator for sprites!

• aseprite

  329 26,582 9.6 C++

  Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool (Windows, macOS, Linux)

  

I like using Aseprite, it's a 2d editor for pixel art with some nice features.

• flux

  5 356 0.0 Lua

  A fast, lightweight tweening library for Lua (by rxi)

Flux for Lua (visualization)

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com featured

  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

• cs-tween

  4 5 10.0 C#

  Easing functions in C#. And coroutines for using them with Unity.

cs-tween for C#

• easings.net

  111 7,663 4.2 CSS

  Easing Functions Cheat Sheet

easings.net for TypeScript

• tiled

  154 10,631 9.0 C++

  Flexible level editor

  

The Tiled Map Editor - it's great and has a lot of options for exporting. A bunch of engines support it out of the box, like Phaser. Unity, unfortunately doesn't, but it's really not that difficult to roll out your own support if needed.

• F3D

  78 2,358 9.6 C++

  Fast and minimalist 3D viewer.

  

F3D, a minimalist 3d viewer to quickly browse game assets. It event supports thumbnails.

• ParrelSync

  14 4,281 2.9 C#

  (Unity3D) Test multiplayer without building

  

• plantuml

  123 9,641 9.4 Java

  Generate diagrams from textual description

  

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