The Ultimate Indie Game Developer Resource List

[petertos]

Hi all,

my name is Pedro Alonso Pablos and I just stumbled upon this great videogame resources page (if you look for something like 'videogames resources' on Google, it's the first entry; congrats!). I'm a game developer who knows how to program, paint and make music. I usually make indie games on my own. But I have surplus music production. I'm a music lover and I love to create my own themes, especially classical.

That's why I've opened the page I'm pointing to below. It's a free music resource with 10+ original songs for you to use on your games for free, this means I grant you a commercial license of this music for your project. Currently I'm not planning to shut down free licenses until 2015...

If you would like to upload the list with this resource it would be great for me, and I hope useful for you. I'm planning to update that list with new songs in a few months, songs are already made but I'm waiting a littlebit until indie developers use these listed songs. So far there are, I think, more than 10 indie videogames which have featured my music and I hope many more come in the future. You don't have to credit me if you don't want to, but if you would like to do it, please use this name: 'Pedro Alonso Pablos' (my name).

I hope you find this resource useful.
http://www.pedroalonsopablos.com/en/free-music/

Best regards,

Pedro

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This is a list of SERVICES, free and not, that will help you on your path to STARTING and FINISHING a game and SELLING it. Articles are NOT included. If you would like to read articles, check out The Big List of Indie Marketing and Business Tips, 100+ Resources for Video Game Professionals or The Game Programming Wiki.


I. STARTING A BUSINESS

Legal Matters
Answers on Startups
Better Business Bureau (US)
Game Attorney - Thomas Buscaglia; indie game developer lawyer
IRS.gov EIN Online Application - apply for an Employee Identification Number (US only); for those living in other countries - call them and they will walk you through the application
LegalZoom - file for a business
Score - US non-profit educating entrepreneurs and helping small businesses start, grow, and succeed nationwide; mentor small businesses
Small Business Administration (SBA) - providing support to small businesses and small-business owners across the nation (US only)
U.S. Copyright
U.S. Department of Labor


Funding
8-bit Funding - indie developer run funding for indie developers
Indie Fund - Indie developers helping indie developers get funding
Indie Go Go - A larger Indie funding site for Indie's of any field not just video games
Insert Coins - funding for indie games
Kickstarter - Receive funds from folks who believe in your idea but you must give prizes in return
Kiva.org - Get loans from supporters around the world
Mochi Game Developer Fund - help promising Flash game developers support their games through sponsorship, licensing and publishing deals
Pledgie.com - Raise money from donations
US Grants
Y Combinator - startup funding

Other Services
99 Designs - logo design, web design and more; post your design contest, designers compete, you select your favorite and award the winner money
The Logo Company - creates logos, stationary, and websites
Crowd Spring - custom logo design, web design, and writing services. Services start at $200 and up.
Game Licenses - auction site to buy or sell video game licenses across all major platforms

Associations
IGDA Casual
Casual Games Association
Freelancers Union - FREE membership for freelancers and the self-employed
House Committee on Small Business
Main Street Alliance (MSA)
National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)
National Small Business Association (NSBA)
SCORE
Small Business Development Centers Network (SBDCNET)
Small Business and Self-Employed Tax Center
U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship

POP & IMAP Email
Gmail - FREE
Opera Mail - FREE add-on to Opera browser
Outlook Express - comes with Windows OS
Postbox Inc - $39.95 USD and up; sale price $29.95+
Thunderbird - FREE
Tiggit Mail - for Blackberry; $30 with free trial available
Zendio - track emails that you've sent; 30 day trial else $9.95/month

File/HDD Protection (Wipes)
Blancco File Shredder - spot shredding in your HDD; $38.51sUSD
CyberScrub cyberCide - full drive wipe; $29.95USD
Darik's Boot - wipe your hard drive clean; FREE
Paragon Disk Wiper - full drive wipe; $29.95USD Personal & $149.95USD Professional
Killdisk Professional - full drive wipe; $49.95USD (Win) or $59.95USD Suite

To-Do Lists and Note Pads
EverNote - digital notepad tool; FREE and Premium version ($45USD/yr or $5/mo) available
Google Tasks - free tools to keep track of your schedule and to-do lists; Gmail, Mobile, Calendar and iGoogle
gQueues - FREE to-do list tool; Premium version available at $25USD/yr
Spring Pad - digital notepad tool; FREE
Tada List - FREE to-do list tool
Toodledo - FREE to-do list tool

Office Suite Software
Kingsoft Office Free - FREE
Libre Office - FREE
Open Office - FREE

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II. GAME BUILDING - STARTING OFF


Engines (Free - .NET)
Agate Lib
Axiom 3D
Brume Engine
FlatRedBall 2.5D
Irrlicht
NemoX 3D Engine - last update was 2004
NeoAxis Engine - FREE for non-commercial, otherwise you must pay for commercial use (see $$$ for rates)
Visual Studio Express - make apps for Windows phones; uses .NET or DirectX/C++; FREE but you have to register after 30 days

Engines (Free - Basic, VB, VB6, VB.NET)
Darkbasic Pro
DxIce
NemoX 3D Engine - last update was 2004
TNT Basic - Mac OSX
vbGORE - online RPG engine; no longer under development - they recommend you use NetGORE instead
Xtremeworlds - 2D MMORPG Engine/Maker

Engines (Free - C, C++, C#)
Adventure Game Studio
Baja Engine
Cocos2D iPhone - FREE 2D iPhone game engine
Cocos2D X - FREE multi-platform engine
CRM32Pro
Crystal Space
Delta 3D
DizzyAGE - FREE; PC only; adventure-style game maker
Edge2D Engine
Epee Engine
Esenthel Engine - prices range from FREE to $4000+
Ethanon Engine - FREE 2D game development tool
The Flexible Isometric Free Engine (FIFE)
G3D
Game Core - FREE for Indie version or $1499 for GameCore Pro
Game Start - FREE while in BETA version
Glint 3D Engine - donation-based licensing but FREE version is available
Grail Adventure Game Engine
Haaf's Game Engine (HGE) - 2D
iPTK Engine
Irmo - client-server multiplayer gaming engine; Linux
Irrlicht
Jad Engine
Lavgine - FREE for non-commercial but 15% of profit if commercial
Lightfeather 3D Engine
Nebula Device
NeoAxis Engine - FREE for non-commercial, otherwise you must pay for commercial use (see $$$ for rates)
NetGore - cross-platform online RPG (MMORPG) engine
Ogre
Open Game Engine, The (OGE) - FREE but Commercial support is available
ORX Portable Game Engine
PixelKLight
Pixie University - FREE 2D engine using C++
Playground SDK (Playfirst) - must register (Don't know if this is free or not so I am listing it on both lists)
Plib
PTk Game Engine - 2D engine with 3D capabilities. Licenses: FREEWARE, $199 Multiple License, $4000 Professional (paid license includes full support); Ksound library available for $29.95
Raydium
RetinaX
Saq2D
SDL Game Engine (aka sge2d) - 2D framework for C/C++ programmers; FREE (Sourceforge page)
Sparrow - open source framework for iOS game development
Spring RTS Engine
Thousand Parsec
Visual Studio Express - make apps for Windows phones; uses .NET or DirectX/C++; FREE but you have to register after 30 days
Weaver
Wild Pockets
Yake Engine
Xcode - Apple's FREE IDE for making apps; uses Objective-C

Engines (Free - Delphi)
Asphyre - several versions: Sphinx, Casual, eXtreme, 4.1 and 1.5.2
Game Maker - Lite FREE but Pro $28 or less; develop for Windows
NemoX 3D Engine - last update was 2004

Engines (Free - Java, Javascript)
Cocos Builder - FREE game and app developing software
Eclipse - create Android apps; Java; FREE
Espresso 3D
JGame
jMonkey Engine - Java OpenGL engine; FREE open source
Joge
Jogre
JS-ViNE - javascipt VN engine; FREE
Sphere RPG Engine

Engines (Free - Lua)
AGEN - 2D engine
Baja Engine
Glint 3D Engine - donation-based licensing but FREE version is available
Grail Adventure Game Engine
Novashell Game Creation - FREE 2D game maker for adventure and RPG creation; ports to Win, Mac and Linux
Playground SDK (Playfirst) - must register (Don't know if this is free or not so I am listing it on both lists)
Spring RTS Engine
Verge RPG

Engines (Free - Miscellaneous or None)
Adobe AIR - create Actionscript and Flash-based apps for iOS; FREE
Construct - FREE open source 2D game creator; HTML5
Flash Develop - FREE open source source code editor; ActionScript
Flixel - FREE game-making library for personal or commercial use; make web games using ActionScript
Game Salad Creator - Mac, iPhone Only; FREE or Professional version ($499/yr); browser based
Haxe - FREE; multi-platform, open-source programming language
Monkey Coder - FREE for non-commercial or $99USD for full version; can compile Monkey code to C++, C#, Java, Javascript, and Actionscript
neabEngine - PHP; NEABExplorer version FREE, others are $50 or $200
NME - FREE; Using Haxe, NME can deploy source code to C++, Javascript, and SWF
Quantum Editor - FREE 2D MMORPG maker
Reality Factory - FREE for use as long as Genesis3D logo is kept and release any changes to the source code otherwise contact for license fee.
Unity 3D - Unity is FREE but Pro edition is $1500USD and add-ons cost from $400-$1500 each

Engines (Free - Python)
The Flexible Isometric Free Engine (FIFE)
PyGame - FREE; develop for Linux/UNIX
PySoy - 3D cloud game engine
Ren'Py - FREE; develop for Windows, Mac, Linux/UNIX, and Android (specializes in visual novels but may be used for other genres)
Thousand Parsec

Engines (Free - Ruby)
Chingu
G3D Ruby

Engines ($$$$ - .NET)
NeoAxis Engine - Individual License (Team license) in USD: Indie $95 ($295), Commercial $395 ($995), Source $9800+
Truevision3D - FREE for learning, $150USD for commercial purposes
Visual3D Engine - Prices range from Indie $185, Professional $495, Studio Source $1495 and Enterprise Source $9950 (USD prices)

Engines ($$$$ - Basic, VB, VB6, VB.NET)
Blitz3D - $100 digital version; uses BASIC
BlitzMax - $80 digital version; uses BASIC
BlitzPlus - $60 digital version; 2D utilising BASIC/C hybrid language
PureBasic - 79 EUROS
Truevision3D - FREE for learning, $150USD for commercial purposes

Engines ($$$$ - C, C++, C#)
A6 Game Engine - C-script like language and C++; editions include Extra $99USD; Commercial $199USD; Pro $899USD
AGen - C++; FREE for non-commercial purposes otherwise $200 one-time fee - must contact for purchase
BigWorld Engine - middleware platform for MMOG and Virtual Worlds; Prices are: Indie $299/yr; Indie Source $2999/yr; and up for Commercial
BlitzPlus - $60 digital version; 2D utilising BASIC/C hybrid language
C4 Engine - prices range from $100 Basic to $1200 Professional; compare rates here
Cipher Engine - $100USD
Esenthel Engine - prices range from FREE, $150, $750, $4000+, $250/yr or negotiable
Game Core - FREE for Indie version or $1499 for GameCore Pro
Glint 3D Engine - donation-based licensing but FREE version is available
iTorque 2D - $99; for iPhone development
Lavgine - FREE for non-commercial but 15% of profit if commercial
Leadwerks Engine 2 - $199.95 for single-user license; C, C++ and Lua
NeoAxis Engine - Individual License (Team license) in USD: Indie $95 ($295), Commercial $395 ($995), Source $9800+
OnScripter - FREE; Visual Novel engine based on NScripter (Japanese)
Open Game Engine, The - FREE but Commercial support is available
Panda 3D - FREE 3D game engine
Playground SDK (Playfirst) - must register (Don't know if this is free or not so I am listing it on both lists)
PTk Game Engine - 2D engine with 3D capabilities. Licenses: FREEWARE, $199 Multiple License, $4000 Professional (paid license includes full support); Ksound library available for $29.95
SIO2 Engine - 2D/3D mobile dev engine; FREE Trial, $179.99 MacOS, $349.99 iOS
Source Engine (Valve) - must contact for price under NDA
Sunburn Game Engine - royalty-free XNA engine; price range from $150 USD for indies up to $1000 USD for Studio Edition
Torque 2D - $99, full source, no royalties; develop for PC, Mac, Wii, Xbox 360 and if you buy seperate license, the iPhone
Torque 3D - $99, full source, no royalties; develop for PC, Mac, Xbox 360, Wii, iPhone, and the web
Truevision3D - FREE for learning, $150USD for commercial purposes
Unigine - Prices range per platform: $4950 Android + Mobile; $9980 or $24950 Windows + Linux; $40000 PS3, Windows + Linux
Unreal Engine - must contact for price
Vision Game Engine - must contact for quote/price
Visual3D Engine - Prices range from Indie $185, Professional $495, Studio Source $1495 and Enterprise Source $9950 (USD prices)

Engines ($$$$ - Delphi)
A6 Game Engine - editions include Extra $99USD; Commercial $199USD; Pro $899USD
Cobra - £30 Indie license or £90 for Pro
Cobra 3D - £40 Indie license or £120 for Pro
Game Maker - Lite FREE but Pro $28 or less; develop for Windows
Truevision3D - FREE for learning, $150USD for commercial purposes

Engines ($$$$ - Lua)
Glint 3D Engine - donation-based licensing but FREE version is available
Leadwerks Engine 2 - $199.95 for single-user license; C, C++ and Lua
Love 2D - FREE, open source framework using Lua; works on Windows, Mac OS and Linux
Playground SDK (Playfirst) - must register (Don't know if this is free or not so I am listing it on both lists)
Slot Constructor - casino and arcade game dev engine; prices listed here

Engines ($$$$ - Miscellaneous or None)
App Game Kit - $59.99; compile your game to Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android
Flash - $699 alone; may be cheaper if getting bundled editions; also check out Flash Platform Runtimes
The Games Factory (Click Team) - $59 USD; similar to Game Maker - an engine for non-programmers
Game Salad Creator - Mac, iPhone Only; FREE or Professional version ($499/yr)
IG Maker - $59.99; create action games for Windows, xbox 360 and Flash
Monkey Coder - FREE for non-commercial or $99USD for full version; can compile Monkey code to C++, C#, Java, Javascript, and Actionscript
Multimedia Fusion 2 (Click Team) - Regular and Dev version available for $119 or $369USD respectively
neabEngine - PHP; NEABExplorer version FREE, others are $50 (microNEAB) or $200 (miniNEAB)
Reality Factory - FREE for use as long as Genesis3D logo is kept and release any changes to the source code otherwise contact for license fee.
RPG Maker VX - $59.99; develop for Windows
RPG Maker XP - $29.99 (older version of RPG Maker VX); develop for Windows
Stencyl - create for iOS, Android, and Flash; $79/yr and up; can test for FREE
UDK - $99USD up-front license for commercial use; royalty-free up to $50,000USD of earnings and thereafter, 25% of earnings above $50,000USD. See licensing for full details (and examples!)
Unity 3D - Unity is FREE but Pro edition is $1500USD and add-ons cost from $400-$1500 each
YAGE

Engines ($$$$ - Pascal)
Cobra - £30 Indie license or £90 for Pro
Cobra 3D - £40 Indie license or £120 for Pro

Engines ($$$$ - Python)
BigWorld Engine - middleware platform for MMOG and Virtual Worlds; Prices are: Indie $299/yr; Indie Source $2999/yr; and up for Commercial
Panda 3D - FREE 3D game engine

Game Libraries
Allegro.cc - Allegro game library; cross platform; common low level routines for game programming; game reviews too!
Box 2D - open source physics engine; 2D
Bullet Physics Library - FREE 3D game multiphysics library
ClanLib - FREE C++ toolkit library
FlashPunk - FREE ActionScript 3 library for 2D Flash games
Flixel - open source game-making library
Free Game Development Libraries
Golden T Game Engine (GTGE) - advanced cross-platform game programming library written in Java language
Gosu - 2D game dev library; C++ and Ruby
Lightweight Java Game Library - FREE and open source
Open Dynamics Engine (ODE) - open source library for stimulating rigid body dynamics
Playn - open source cross-platform game abstraction library; can compile to Java, HTML5, Android, iOS, and Flash
Script.aculo.us - easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries; FREE
Slick 2D - FREE and open source; based on LJGL

Time Management
Concentrate - Mac ONLY; $29 USD
Epiforge GrindStone2 - FREE; will install on Windows XP, 7, and Vista only
Manic Time - FREE and Professional ($67USD); auto track computer usage
Pivotal Tracker - project management tool; $7USD/mo with three collaborators up to $175/mo for 50 collaborators. FREE for public projects, individuals, non-profits and academic institutions.
Pomodoro Technique - FREE books and time management sheets
Procrastitracker - FREEWARE time tracking tool that tracks what applications and documents you use and for how long
Rescue Time - FREE for Lite edition otherwiese Pro is $6-$9/mo and Team Edition is priced per user/month
Tiny Time Tracker - FREE; view stats in Excel or OpenOffice
Trello - FREE task organizer/project management tool; can be used singly or with a group

Writing & Coding Software (mind-mapping, story flow, editors, etc)
FreeMind - FREE mind-mapping software
Labyrinth - FREE story flow software
Notepad++ - FREE source code editor
Scrivener - content-generation tool for writers (text editor); $45 for Mac (Windows version in development)
XMind - FREE or $49/year for Pro; mind-mapping software
yWriter - FREE text editor breaking text into scenes and chapters

Updaters
Auto Update Plus - integrate an update management system to your application; $119USD individual or $399 for corporation
wyBuild - automatic updating and patch maker, $249 USD but sale is $69.99 if you see it; comes with FREE wyUpdate - an open source updater program for Windows
wyUpdate - FREE open source updater program for Windows

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III. ART


Art (Stock)
3D Foin - 3D models from $11 and up
Anime Face Maker - FREE for non-commercial use
Anime Face Maker 2 - FREE for non-commercial use
BEIZ Graphics - FREE photos for commercial and non-commercial use
Character Designs: An Artist's Resource - FREE photos and textures; Can be used for commercial purposes with some caveats. See homepage for more info.
CG Textures - FREE textures for commercial use; see license for full details.
Content Pack - royalty free game stock art from 17-67EUR; freebies also available
Dosch Designs - stock 3D models, textures, animation, and sounds. Also offers royalty free stock media.
Evolver Pro - create custom avatars in minutes! FREE version here.
First Seed Material (Maps|Faces|Sprites)- FREE for commercial use as long as you give credit; License
GIMP Savvy Photo Archive - public domain images from NASA, NOAA, and FWS. Be sure to read each of the sites conditions for use.
Google 3D Warehouse - 3D models; licensing is unknown
Hand Painted Textures - textures and 3D assets from $3 and up
Havana Street - Retro clipart & stock illustration; $7/image
Hypermotion Packs - located at the bottom below Alexander (under HR); preview tiles here
iClipArt - must subscribe to download images; range from $12.95 - $295.00; photos, clipart, fonts, sounds, animation, videos, and web graphics
Image*After - FREE images and textures for commercial and personal use
iStockPhoto - COMMERCIAL; Uses Points system 1 credit and up; Has photos, illustrations, video, audio, and flash
Garage Games Art Packs - 2D and 3D art ranging from $20 and up
Karen Whimsy - Public domain images
Lost Garden - FREE; must credit Daniel (License)
MorgueFile - FREE photos for commercial or noncommercial use. Morgue File License
Open Game Art - FREE/open source 2D, 3D art and music; check each license for details just in case, breakdown found here.
Patterns - FREE Japanese patterns
Rusty Axe - 2D art, textures, tiles, and more; priced from FREE to $29.99; must get extended license to use for commercial purposes
Shutter Stock - royalty-free photos; must subscribe $249-$709 by month OR $49-$229 by image quantity
Smashing Magazine Freebies - FREE icons, brushes, and other items (site/wordpress templates, etc)
Squidfingers Patterns - FREE patterns for use on your website
Stock.xchng - FREE photos; check license for usage rights
Turbo Squid
WP ClipArt - Public domain clip art search engine

Art (Services)
Army of Trolls - pixel art
CG Hub - Can post in the Job Board; must be registered
CG Society - need to register to post job or to look for one
ConceptArt.org - Job listing in forum here; must be registered to post
Dot.Invasion
eBoy
Fantasy cartography - makes great maps, also has a DeviantArt account
Flash Game Art
Game Artist
Havana Street - Retro clipart & stock illustration
Hire An Illustrator
IndieGamer Forum: Art Portfolios
The Logo Company - creates logos, stationary, and websites
Lost Garden: List of Game Artists
Mixamo - 3D character animation in seconds; royalty-free, online service; can be used once (single animation) of a price range of $10-$150USD or under a subscription service from $29.99/mo up to $299.99/mo.
Pixel Joint - pixel art
Polycount
Retro Style Games
Sprite Attack - DayDream in Indie Gamer forums
Way of the Pixel

Art (Software - 3D Modeling & Animation)
3D-Coat - $349 and up Professional
3D Crafter - FREE; $34.95 Plus; $69.95 Pro
3ds Max (Autodesk) - $3495
3D World Studio - 3D modeling program; $49.99 Standard
AC3D - $89.95
Alice - FREE
Anim*tor - FREE
Animation: Master - $299.99
Art of Illusion - FREE
AutoQ3D - $19.97
Blender - FREE
Bryce - specializes in landscapes; $29.95 Standard OR $99.95 Pro; FREE for non-commercial use
Carrara - $149.99 Standard & $549.95 Pro
Cheetah 3D - $99
DAZ 3D - FREE
DX Studio - £500.00
EIAS 3D (Electric Image Animation System - $895
FaceGEn - FREE; face modeling software
Google SketchUp - FREE 3D modeling software; must sign up OR get Pro version for $495USD
G-Pure - FREE
K-3D - FREE
Lightwave 3D - $895
Make Human - FREE
Maplet - FREE 3D modeling tool
Maya (Autodesk) - $3495
Meshlab - FREE
Metasequoia - polygon modeler; MetasequoiaLE is freeware, otherwise, Metasequoia itself is $45USD
Milkshape 3D - shareware; EUR 25
Moment of Inspiration - $295
OpenFX - FREE
Poser - $49.99 Debut, $249.99 Standard OR $499.99 Pro
Realsoft 3D - $700
Sculptris - FREE
Seamless 3D - FREE
Silo - $99 Core OR $159 Professional
Strata 3D - $795USD and up; several versions available
Softimage (Autodesk) - $2995
Swift 3D - $249
True Space - FREE
Vue - $599 Complete; $399 Studio; $199 Esprit
Wings 3D - FREE
ZBrush - $699 Commercial license

Art (Software - 3D Renderers)
3Delight - Pricing is FREE and up
Aqsis - FREE
Brazil - $895 and up; works with 3ds Max & Rhino
finalRender - $895 and up
Horde3D - FREE
LuxRender - FREE
Maxwell Render - $995 and up
Pixie - FREE
YafaRay - FREE

Art (Software - Animation & Spriting)
Dungeon Demon (Rusty Axe) - map editor; $29.99 with free upgrades forever or FREE using TrialPay
Easy Toon - FREE
GrafX2 - FREE bmp program; used for pixel art
Graphics Gale - sprite software; 1,995 JPY
Pencil - FREE
Pivot - FREE; Stick figure animation
Plastic Animation Paper - FREE
Pro Fantasy - create maps and tiled floors, character creation
Pro Motion - $78+; used for pixel art
Sprite Master - $9.99USD
Synfig Studio - FREE open source 2D animation software
tIDE map editor - .NET-based tile editor; licensed under Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) open source agreement
Tiled Map Editor - create tilable maps easily

Art (Software - Graphic)
Alchemy - FREE open drawing project to be used for sketches and the initial creation process rather than finished art works (i.e. for concept art creation)
Art Rage
Artweaver - FREE or Plus 29 EURO
Bibble - Pro $199.95; Lite $99.95
Clip Studio - Japanese; 5,000Y and up depending on version; more details here
Color It! - $59.95; Macs ONLY
CorelDRAW
Corel Painter
Crayola Art Studio - $24.99
Flash - makes vector graphics and great for animation
Fotographix - FREE
GIMP - FREE graphic software; Mac version here
GrafX2 - FREE
Illustrator - vector graphics
ImageMagick - FREE
Inkscape - open source vector graphics software
IrfanView - FREE but needs license for commercial use; light photo editing software
MS Paint - FREE; comes with every Windows OS
MyPaint - open source painting program
NeoPaint - $45
Open Canvas - 5,800 JPY
Paint.NET - FREE
PaintTool SAI - 5,250 JPY
Paint Shop Pro - $39.99
Photoshop
Photoshop Elements - weaker and cheaper version of Photoshop
Pickle Editor - FREE cross-platform pixel editor specifically for game animation, tiles and sprite sheets; can save to JPG, PNG and GIF
Picnik - online, photo-editing; FREE
Pixelmator - $59.99; Mac ONLY
Pixia - FREE
Sketchbook Pro

Miscellaneous
Photoshop Animation to Sprite Sheet - FREE
Runtime World - FREE open source, engine agnostic, brush-oriented 3D world editor for games
xNormal - generate normal/ ambient occlusion/ displacement maps among other things; FREE for commercial or non-commercial use

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IV. MUSIC, SOUND EFFECTS & VOICE TRACKS

Music (Stock)
Audiobank - stock, royalty free music; prices range from $14.95 USD and up
Blast My Music
Garage Games Art Pack - ranges from ambient sounds to full soundtracks $20 and up
Imphenzia Soundtrack - royalty free sound effects (FREE and up) and music tracks ($4USD and up) and custom music; Indie and Commercial license rate available
Lucky Lion Studios - get custom music or buy royalty-free tracks for $5 USD
IndieSFX - Royalty free music $40 (£20) per track. Exclusive tracks available for £100 ($200 US, 150 Euro) each.
Royalty Free Music - can purchase by track, disc, or subscription
Shockwave Sound - royalty-free music, stock music, sound effects
Sound Dogs - stock music and sound effects
Sound Rangers - stock music and sound effects

Music (Services)
Blast My Music
IndieGamer Forum: Music & Sound portfolios
Indie Loop Garden - commission original music pieces from a multitude of composers
Lucky Lion Studios - get custom music or buy royalty-free tracks for $5 USD
Walz Music

Music Sheets
International Music Score Library Project - public domain music sheets for US & CAN (EU residents must check); MP3 audio, parts, and full score may be included
Mutopia - FREE classical music sheets that are in public domain

Music Softwares
ACID (Sony) - 2 editions: Pro $299.95 USD & Music Studio $64.95USD
Anvil Studio - FREE; compose, record, sequence and play music; mainly works with MIDI
FL Studio (aka FruityLoops) - Editions include: Express $49USD, Fruity $99, Producer $199 and Signature $299
Hyper Score - music composing software; $79
Logic Pro - Mac ONLY; $499USD; compose, record, and edit your music
Melody Assisttan - shareware; $25 or 20EURO for license
Musagi - FREE music editor and synthesizer
Reason - digital music synth; $349USD
Tune Toys - sound generating softwares

Sound Effects (Stock)
as3sfxr - open source, in-browser sound effect generator for games; based on sfxr
bfxr - in-browser sound effect generator; based on sfxr
Garage Games Art Pack - ranges from ambient sounds to full soundtracks $20 and up
IndieSFX - $120 or £60 for a compilation of 180 sound effects
Kreativ Sounds - sounds and patches for €4.99 and up
Partners in Rhyme - royalty-free sound effects may be used for commercial purposes
sfxr - FREE sound effect generating software
Shockwave Sound - royalty-free music, stock music, sound effects
Sound Dogs - stock music and sound effects
Sound Rangers - stock music and sound effects

Sound Effects (Services)
IndieGamer Forum: Music & Sound Portfolios
IndieSFX - $6 per sound for up to 25 sounds, and $4 per sound after that, with a minimum total charge of $50

Loops, Libraries & Refills
Nine Volt Audio - instrumental looped libraries; prices start from $14.99 USD and up
Nucleus Sound Lab - sells ReFills, Patchsets, custom bundles and also have freebies
Propellerhead - FREE ReFills
Sony ACID Loop Library - collections $29.95USD and up
VST Patches - sounds for your VST / Audio Unit plugins, Reason Refills and Sample banks; £2.99 and up

Voice Tracks
Topleka Voice Pack - FREE voice tracks for commercial projects as long as you credit toplekaNET and link back to site.

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V. FONTS


Font (Free)
Agrafa Hairline - FREE for commercial use; must register
Anivers - FREE for commerical use
Audimat - FREE for commercial use
Bienetresocial - FREE for commercial use
Cantarell - FREE for commercial use
Cardo Font - FREE for commercial use
DaFont - Freeware, shareware, demo versions or public domain fonts; please check each font's license before use
DejaVu Fonts - FREE
Delicious - FREE for commercial use
Diavlo - FREE for commercial use
Dieter Steffmann - collection of fonts; not sure if it's free or not but if you speak German please visit his site and let me know!
Digitica - FREE for commercial use
Dustismo Roman - Public domain font
eljbris - FREE fonts for commercial use but extended license needed for embedding or distributing in software apps or hardware devices
Exus Pilot - FREE for commercial use
Fell Types - FREE for commercial use; medievel fonts
Fertigo Pro - FREE for commercial use
Fontin Sans - FREE for commercial use
FontShop Free Fonts - FREE fonts for commercial use; 5 difrerent fonts listed
Font Squirrel - FREE fonts for commercial use; must register
Franchise Bold - FREE for commercial use
Gentium - FREE for commercial use
Google Font Directory - directory of open source fonts
Impallari - FREE fonts for commercial use; all fonts under Open Font License
Inconsolata - FREE open font licensed; great for programming
Justus - Public domain font
KalleGraphics Freebie - FREE for commercial use; Alpha Ruler and Kilogram
Keeparty - FREE for commercial use
Liberation Serif - Public domain font
LOT - FREE for commercial use
Luxi-Sans - FREE just as long as license notice is included
Megalopolis Extra - FREE for commercial use
Merge - FREE for commercial use
MgOpen Typeface - FREE for commercial use; 4 types - Canonica, Cosmetica, Modata & Moderna
Mr Jones Book - FREE for commercial use; must register; Mr Jones Book and Mr Jones Book Italic only
Museo - FREE for commercial use
OpenFontLibrary - FREE for commercial and noncommercial use
Orbitron - FREE for commercial use
Oxford - FREE for commercial use
Portland LDO - FREE for commercial use
PT Sans - FREE for commercial use
Quicksand - FREE for commercial use
Ripe - FREE for commercial use
Roadgeek Fonts - FREE for HOBBYIST and EDUCATIONAL use only
Sensation - FREEWARE
Silkscreen - FREE for commercial use; pixel font
Surface - FREE for commercial use; Medium weight only
Tallys - FREE for commercial use
Triskweline - FREE font suited for text editors and programming environments
Type Latin Serif - FREE for commercial use
Vera Fonts - FREE for commercial use as long as it is NOT sold by itself or bundled with other fonts only

Font (Services)
Blambot - must contact for quote
Typodermic Fonts (aka Larabie Font) - must contact for quote

Font (Software)
FontLab - $649.99+

Fonts (Stock)
Blambot - $20 per font
My Fonts - over 62,000 fonts from 800 foundries; prices range from $15 and up; FREE fonts require registration
Ultimate Font Download - 10,000 fonts for commercial use; only $19.99 (Larabie Fonts) !!NOTE: some fonts I recognize from Blambot (Nate Piekos)!!

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VI. GAME BUILDING - FINISHING


Proofreading Services
IndieProofing - $1 per 100 words (or part thereof) for basic proofreading and $2 per 100 words (or part thereof) for descriptive work (which may require rewriting)

DRM
DRM Connect - Mac DRM, must contact for price
EXECryptor
SoftwarePassport (Armadillo) - $399

Encryptors/Obfuscators
SOB: The SWF Obfuscator - FREE
SWF Encrypt - $145USD and up depending on edition

Installers
Astrum Install Wizard - Standard $49 or Professional $89
NSIS - FREE opensource Windows installer

Compiler
Emscripten - compile LLVM bitcode, C, C++ to Javascript; FREE

Softwares
XAMPP - install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl
gDEBugger - OpenGL and OpenCL debugger, profiler, and memory analyzer; available for Windows, Mac and Linux

Desktop Recording
BB Flashback Express - FREE
Cam Studio - FREE
Debut Video Capture - $60USD
HyperCam - FREE
ZDsoft - $39

Backup Your Work!
Acronis Backup & Recovery - auto-backup software $74 and up
Assembla - online storage ranging in price from $9/mo - $100/mo
Bit Bucket - price range from FREE unlimited private repository for up to 5 users up to $80/mo for unlimited users; DVCS for Mercurial
Back Blaze - $5/mo with unlimited storage
Crash Plan - range from FREE for personal use to PRO edition for business use ($349.95 and up)
Drop Box - FREE for 2GB of online storage space OR $9.99/mo for 50GB OR $19.99/mo for 100GB
DVDisaster - FREE; stores data on CD/DVD/BD media's that is fully recoverable even after some read errors have developed
GitHub - FREE for open source with unlimited space OR pay monthly ranging from $7/mo - $200/mo
iDrive - FREE online storage for 5GB space OR for more space, subscribe monthly starting at $4.95/mo and up
Mozy PRO - Desktop License is $3.95/mo + $0.50/GB per month OR Server License at $6.95/mo + $0.50/GB per month
SyncBackPro - auto-backup software ranging from FREEWARE to SE ($34.95) and PRO ($54.95) editions
Syncplicity - prices range from FREE to $45/mo Business Edition

Miscellaneous
YouSentIt - file sharing service; prices range from FREE to $14.99/mo Pro Plus (Corporate available but runs in $1000's)
Video Game Name Generator

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VII. WEBSITES

Domain Registrars*
DirectNIC
Domain.com
Dotster
DynaDot
eNOM
Fabulous
GoDaddy
Misk (formerly RegisterSite.com)
Moniker
My Domain
Name.com
Name Cheap
NetFirms
* You may also register with your web hosting company but it is not recommended. If you wish to later change your web hosting provider, they may give you problems by holding or not transfering your domain.

Web Hosting Companies
Blue Host
IndieGamer Forum: Web Host Recommendations
Liquid Web
Storm On Demand

Website Designs (Templates & Software)
Artisteer - automatically create templates for your the most popular CMS sites; $129.95 standard edition
Code Igniter - a toolkit for people who build web sites using PHP; open source
Divine - turn your PSD to a Wordpress theme; FREE (beta testing going on now)
DIY Themes (aka Thesis Theme) - template designer; $87USD one site license OR $164USD for unlimited site license
Smashing Magazine Freebies - FREE site/Wordpress templates and art graphics (icons, brushes, etc)
Theme Forest - ready-made themes for Wordpress, eCommerce, and other CMS-type sites

Website Designers for Hire
Crowd Spring - custom logo design, web design, and writing services. Web design starts at $600.
Fully Illustrated - contact for quote
The Logo Company - creates logos, stationary, and websites

CMS Websites
Buddy Press - FREE social networking plug-in
Disqus - FREE; great for tracking comments across social media platforms
Drupral - FREE open source CMS
DZOIC - social and video sharing site; $249 + $49 for branding free option
e107 - FREE
Expression Engine - $99.95 Freelancer, $149.95 Non-Commercial, $299.95 Commercial license
Frog - FREE
Habari - open source blog using Apache license
Invision Power - $149.99 for board + extras for addons (gallery, blog, download, content, nexus)
Joomla - FREE open source CMS
Light CMS - Price depends on amount of users; range from 1 Free to unlimited at $99/mo
PHP-Nuke - FREE
Pligg - FREE
Serendipity - FREE php-powered blog/CMS using BSD license
Social Engine - $250 for 1 license; plugins range from $30-40. More licenses = less money.
Wikipedia List of CMS Sites
Wolf CMS - FREE
Wordpress - FREE blogging CMS
Xoops - FREE

Statistics
Google Analytics - FREE; need to sign up
Playtomic - keep track of your casual games; 1 game FREE but more games $30 $400 flat fee for set amount of games or $30$400 per month by volume.
App Annie - keep track of whatever you want 24/7; Currently in BETA and FREE to use

Storage Options for Demo
Amazon Cloudfront - On-demand pricing per country
Amazon S3 - tiered pricing depending on TB used per month
Download.com - Need to be a member; last I heard, it was $79/year to upload software
Filekicker - $14.95/mo and up
File Transit - FREE listing
Shareware Upload - will be listed in 12 sites run by owners of Shareware Upload

Web Forums
Forum Community - Free forums; addriven
FreeForums.org - Free forums; addriven
IP Board - $149.99 Standard or $349.99 Business; no branding removal
Lefora Free Forum - addriven; 2GB storage free but you pay for more.
MiniBB - FREE open source forum
phpBB - FREE open source forum
ProBoards - FREE, addriven
punBB - FREE php driven forum
Simple Machines Forum (SMF) - FREE
Tal.ki - Embeddable forum; FREE for 5 forums but Pro ($5+/mo) and Platinum ($59+/mo) also available
Vanilla Forums - Free (addriven) to $19/mo Basic, $49/mo Plus, and up plans
VBulletin - $285/board and optional $170 branding removal
Woltlab Burning Board - Lite FREE or 49.99 EUR for Regular
XenForo - socialdriven forum; $140 per board and optional $250 branding removal
Zeta Boards - free forum hosting (addriven)

Link Validators/Checkers
Broken Link Checker - FREE; plugin for Wordpress; I personally use this and it works well for me
HTML Link Validator - shareware; $35 to register
Link Checker Pro - $75 and up depending on license
W3C Link Checker - FREE

Miscellaneous
Gallery (Menalto) - FREE open source photo album organizer
Jan Rain - user management solutions for social login and sharing, single sign-on and social profile storage; ranges from FREE, $10/mo, from $1000/yr and custom plan
IPInfoDB - FREE IP address geolocation database; has neat IP address country block generator and other tools
Print Friendly - make a print friendly button for your site! Can print, make PDF or email.
QuHelp - FREE html-based online help manual generator
Telegraphics ICO - Plugin for Photoshop to save images as ICO files for favicons