Gamedev tool list

[Sirocco]

Feel free to post links to useful gamedev tools (of any sort), and I'll add them to a running list.


Coding:

All-in-One Libraries:
Raylib
SDL
SFML


Ready-Made Engines:
Godot
Unity


Testing/Debugging:
Valgrind
Renderdoc - Graphics debugging
Godbolt - Interactive compilation explorer
Memory/Thread sanitizes from Google
LibFuzzer
LibAFL - Another fuzzer
Cppcheck - Static C/CPP analyzer
CToy - Interactive C prototyping environment


Prototyping:
Processing


Audio Creation:
SFXR - FM synthesis sound generator
BFXR - Upgraded version of SFXR


Audio Editing:
FamiStudio - NES-style music tracker
Audacity - Free audio recorder and editor
MilkyTracker
LMMS


Audio Resources:
SONNISS - Royalty-free Sound Effects Collections


Texture Creation:


Texture Editing:
Aseprite
Grafx2
Moai
Pro Motion
Graphics Gale
Krita


Mesh Editing:
Blender
Blockbench


Shaders:
Kodelife - Realtime shader editing (offline)
Shadertoy - Realtime shader editing (online only)


Screen Capture/Recording:
Streamlabs - Streaming and screen capture. Based off OBS
OBS - Open Broadcaster Software
Licecap - Capture screen/desktop to GIF


Editors / IDEs:
Helix (Editor)
Sublime
Code::Blocks


Libraries:
STB
sokol
Large single-header library list
JSON Parser


Misc:
git bisect - Let git show you where you introduced an error

[BadMrBox]

Textures: Aseprite https://www.aseprite.org/
Mesh Editing: Blockbench https://www.blockbench.net/


Moderator note: Added!

[Sonrisu]

Editor: Helix https://helix-editor.com/
Prototyping: Processing https://processing.org/
Audio Editing: Milky Tracker https://milkytracker.org/


Mod note: Added!

[deleter]

Textures: Krita

Editor: Sublime Text

All-in-one Libraries: SFML

Purpose Specific Libraries:
- stb https://github.com/nothings/stb
- sokol https://github.com/floooh/sokol
- whole list of single header file libraries: https://github.com/nothings/single_file_libs
- more cpp-ish than the rest of these, but json parser I use - https://github.com/nlohmann/json

Debugging
- Valgrind
- Renderdoc - graphics debugging https://renderdoc.org/
- Godbolt - interactive compiler explorer, show assembly of various compilers and languages https://godbolt.org/
- Memory / Thread sanitizers by google https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki
- libFuzzer - fuzz testing https://llvm.org/docs/LibFuzzer.html
- libAFL - another fuzz testing lib https://github.com/AFLplusplus/LibAFL

Techniques
- git bisect - let git figure out where you introduced a bug https://git-scm.com/docs/git-bisect


Mod note: Added!