Climate Jam 2021

Painting: Texas Wind Turbines – Virginia Wright-Frierson

Game Jam Resources

Whether you’re a first time game jammer or an experienced designer, check out these resources we’ve curated to help make sure you have all the tools you need for a successful jam!

Tool Library

Game Design Engines

Unity

For 3D and 2D games

Developer’s Choice

Unreal Engine

For 3D and 2D games

Game Maker Studio 2

For 2D games

Godot Game Engine

For 3D and 2D games

Pico 8

For 2D games

Love2D

For 2d games

Game Assets

KenneyNL

For free game art.

Sonniss

For free-ish game audio.

3D Tools

Blender

For most 3d modeling.

Developer’s Choice

Sketchup

For environmental architecture

Magic Voxel

For voxel art

2D Tools

Aseprite

For pixel art.

Developer’s Choice

Piskel

Animated pixel art.

Marmoset Hexels

For isometric art.

Inkscape

Vector art software

GIMP

Photo Manipulation

Paint.Net

Like MS Paint, but all grown-up (free)

Audio Tools

Audacity

For recording audio

Bosca Ceoil

For 8-bit music.

Beep Box

Digital Audio Workstation/DAW (free open source online)

Cake Walk

Digital Audio Workstation/DAW (free professional)

LMMS

Digital Audio Workstation/DAW (free open source)

BFXR

For 8-bit sound effects

Comms

Discord

Stay on our channel to chat!

Developer’s Choice

OBS

For Screen Recording

Git

For Version Control

Code Editors

Visual Studio Code

Atom

Helpful Tutorials

HOW TO ART GOOD

HOW TO JAM GOOD

HOW TO CODE GOOD

Getting Started with Unity

BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, JUST USE WHAT YOU’RE COMFORTABLE WITH! 💜