The FOSS GameDev Stack

Hate paying for buggy applications? Like cross-platform development? Concerned about privacy and security? Like community-driven development? Poor? Try these Free and Open Source Game Development tools!

Game Engine

• Godot

• https://godotengine.org/

• Amethyst

• https://github.com/amethyst/amethyst

• SFML (lightweight framework)

• https://www.sfml-dev.org/
• sudo apt install libsfml-dev

• RenPy

• https://www.renpy.org/latest.html

• BevyEngine

• https://bevyengine.org/

• RayLib

• https://www.raylib.com/

• FNA

• https://fna-xna.github.io/

• Open 3D Engine

• https://o3de.org/

Art / Image Editing

• Krita

• https://krita.org/en/

• GIMP

• https://www.gimp.org/

• Piskel

• https://www.piskelapp.com/

• Inkscape

• https://inkscape.org/

Modeling

• Blender

• https://www.blender.org/

• ArmorPaint

• https://github.com/armory3d/armorpaint

• Material Maker

• https://www.materialmaker.org/

IDE / Text Editors

• Vim / NeoVim

• https://www.vim.org/
• https://neovim.io/

• GNU Emacs

• https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

• VS Code

• https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode

• QT Creator

• https://www.qt.io/product/development-tools

SCM / Collaboration

• Git

• https://git-scm.com/

• Gitlab

• https://about.gitlab.com/

• Matrix / Riot.im

• https://about.riot.im/

Music / Audio

• LMMS

• https://lmms.io

• Audacity

• https://www.audacityteam.org/

Design

• Tiled Map Editor

• https://www.mapeditor.org/

• Twine (Dialogue / Story Planning)

• https://twinery.org/

Other Programming Libraries

• Flatbuffers (data serialization)

• https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/

Operating System

• Linux

• https://www.ubuntu.com/
• https://www.archlinux.org/
• https://www.kernel.org/