I figured it would be a good idea to have a list of free resources for the community
If you have something to add to the list, leave a comment!

Game Engines

• Godot is free and open source
• Unity is free unless you make over $100k but is not open source
• Unreal engine is free unless you make over $1 Million but is also not open source

Asset Creation

• Blender is a powerful free and open source 3d modelling program
• Krita is a free and open source art program
• Gimp is a free and open source image editing program
• Laigter a free program for creating normal maps
• Tiled is an open-source 2D level editor.@[email protected]
• LMMS a Digital Audio Workstation similar to FLStudio - @[email protected]
• Inkscape a vector graphics editor (.svg and other) - @[email protected]
• Paint.net a simple image editor - @[email protected]
• Pixelorama a pixelart editor, fully FOSS, unlike Aseprite - @[email protected]
• Material Maker as the name implies, a tool for creating materials for 3d graphics - @[email protected]
• LibreSprite is a fork of the last FOSS version off Aseprite - @[email protected]

Free Assets

• OpenGameArt has a huge selection of free game assets, from audio to 3d models
• Assets · Kenney Great source of prototyping assets - @[email protected]
• Tiled is an open-source 2D level editor. - @[email protected]
• Musical Artifacts a large selections of various soundfonts, uploaded by users - @[email protected]
• FreePats a collection of specific instruments as soundfonts - @[email protected]

Misc

• Freya Holmér on YouTube has several playlists of explanations of vectors, shaders, normal maps, and other useful mathematics. - @[email protected]
• TinyTools Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup - @[email protected]
• VSCodium a very popular code editor, with Microsoft telemetry ripped out - @[email protected]
• Notepad++ a lightweight code editor for Windows - @[email protected]
• Audacity a very useful tool for sound recording and editing - @[email protected]
• MuseScore an app for music sheet notation - @[email protected]
• OBS a program for screen recording - @[email protected]