Free Development Tools

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Here you can find a list of free to download and use tools that can be helpful to your game development in various areas, such as art, story, video editing, and other stuff.

Art Tools
Here you can find various art tools for things such as image editing software and painting software.

Paint.net (image editing software)

FireAlpaca(painting software)

GIMP (image editing software)

Krita (painting software)

Video Tools
Here you can find various tools for video filming and video editing.

Open Broadcaster Software (aka OBS) (video filming software)

Streamlabs OBS (video filming software)

HitFilms Express (video editing software)

OpenShot Video Editor (video editing software)

Lightworks (video editing software)

Story ToolsTools
Here you can find tools for planning your game's story and plot easily.

Twine (story planning)

Other Tools
Other development tools that don't fit the above categories.

TinyPNG A nice image compression website. Why do you want to compress images? Images take up a huge amount of memory space in your game, usually making it look bloated. Compressing images of your project can drastically lower the size by as much as 41% or more.

Character Stat Sheet "Calculator" A nice stat "calculator" spreadsheet made by Luninareph for character classes. To use, go to "File">"Make a copy..." and then fill in your fields on the copy.