Going through the Jam?
We got some Useful nuggets for you

Don’t get stuck during the game jam, Check out these amazing resources that we have kept all in one place for you.

Game Engines

Game Engines are basically the first thing you would like to start with, choosing the right engine for your game is as simple, just go through the list below and choose the best one that fits with your game.

The Unreal Engine

The Unreal Engine is a Free powerful tool that will help you get started with creating your game without the need to code.

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CONSTRUCT3

Construct is an HTML5-based 2D game editor, developed by Scirra Ltd. It is aimed primarily at non-programmers, allowing quick creation of games in a drag-and-drop fashion using a visual editor and a behavior-based logic system.

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GDEVELOP

GDevelop is an open-source, cross-platform game engine designed for everyone – it’s extensible, fast and easy to learn.

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GODOT GAME ENGINE

Godot is a free and open-source game engine released under the MIT license. It was initially developed for several companies in Latin America before its public release. The development environment runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It can create games for PCs, mobile devices and the Web platform.

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Lumberyard

Amazon Lumberyard is a free cross-platform game engine developed by Amazon and based on CryEngine, which was licensed from Crytek in 2015. The engine features integration with Amazon Web Services to allow developers to build or host their games on Amazon’s servers, as well as support for livestreaming via Twitch.

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COCOS2D

Cocos2d is an open source software framework. It can be used to build games, apps and other cross platform GUI based interactive programs. Cocos2d contains many branches with the best known being Cocos2d-objc, Cocos2d-x, Cocos2d-html5 and Cocos2d-XNA.

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UNITY GAME ENGINE

Unity is a cross-platform game engine developed by Unity Technologies, first announced and released in June 2005 at Apple Inc.’s Worldwide Developers Conference as a Mac OS X-exclusive game engine. As of 2018, the engine had been extended to support more than 25 platforms.

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CORONA GAME ENGINE

Corona is a software development kit developed by Corona Labs Inc. in mid 2009, which allows software programmers to build 2D mobile applications for iOS, Android, and Kindle, desktop applications for Windows and OS X, and connected TV applications for Apple TV, Fire TV and Android TV.

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Find some Great Tutorials

We have collected a bunch of tutorials that we belive will be perfect for you to start learning game development.

Learn The Basics of Unreal Engine

Construct 3 Tutorial for Beginners

How to Make Your First Game From Scratch in GDEVELOP

Make Your First 2D Game with Godot: Player and Enemy (beginner tutorial part 1)

How to make a Video Game in Unity – BASICS

Need Graphics, and models, checkout these resources

The Itch.io Asset Store

Itch.io has long been a stable for indie game developers and game jams, its store offers more than games, you can also get assets that are free or you buy them at a premium.

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kenney.nl

We’ve created over 40,000 images, audio files and 3D models for you to use in your projects. Thanks to our public domain license you’re even allowed to use them in commercial projects!

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GAMEART2D

GameArt2D.com is a one stop 2D game assets store to buy various royalty free 2D game art assets. It contains more than 100 game assets, from platformer & top down tileset, side scrolling & top down character sprite sheets, game GUI packs, space shooter assets, game backgrounds, and many more.

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Don’t forget your Audio

No game is complete without some decent audio files, we have looked far and wide to put the best of what we found here.

The Itch.io Asset Store

Itch.io has long been a stable for indie game developers and game jams, its store offers more than games, you can also get assets that are free or you buy them at a premium.

Find the link here

OpenGameArt.org

Open Game Art is a media repository intended for use with free and open source software game projects, offering open content assets. Its purpose is to allow developers to easily replace programmer art with high-quality, appropriately licensed artwork.

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Soundimage.org

This site contains over 1900 tracks of my original music and sound effects, over 4000 images, as well as original game art and video footage that you are welcome to freely use in your films, games and projects (commercial and non-commercial) with proper attribution.

Find the link here