Animation and Game Design Collections
Web Resources
Online animation and gaming resources
Art Assets for Game Developers
Links to art assets for game developers.
IGDA Game Accessibility Resources
The IGDA Game Accessibility has an amount of excellent information on gaming accessibility that is readily available online is growing. A suggestion is to put together a list of some of the favorites because navigating it can be difficult.
PixelProspector.com has been providing information on video games and game development since 2009.
FDU LibGuides at FDU Libraries
Tools and Resources - Animation and Video Games Subject Guide
50 Animation Tools and Resources for Digital Learners
Animation Resources is a California non-profit corporation that providing self-study resources and training material to animation professionals, cartoonists, designers, Illustrators, students, and researchers.
Other Game Design Resources
A helpful resource for all aspects of designing board games: game design, prototyping, playtesting, publishing, and much more!
BoardGameGeek | Board Game Design Forum
Forum for board game designers and access to a site database with reviews, articles, and session reports for 59,000 games.
A comprehensive portal for Computer Graphics Professionals, bringing together digital artists with the latest in computer graphics technologies and practices.
Tutorials and training for artists.
A network for supporting Indigenous game developers by providing information about opportunities, sharing resources to enhance development, highlighting Indigenous-made games, and reflecting on exhibitions, conferences, and more.
The Lightship AR Developer Kit brings real-time mapping technology together with shared multiplayer experiences, semantics and depth for more realistic AR experiences. ARDK is made for developing AR experiences for both Android and iOS mobile platforms – and integrates directly within Unity.
Make An Alternate Reality Game!
Jane McGonigal gives tips on designing an alternate reality game in this slide show.
A community of professional and hobbyist artists posting, collaborating, and helping each other like no other 3D art website.
Takes your existing browser-based game and automatically generates a standalone desktop version for both Windows and macOS.
Game Engine Resources
This site was founded to showcase game making tools and selected games that were created with them.
Make your own platformer games, spaceship shooters, or space adventure games. Advanced game maker? Try the physics game maker for creating original minigames! You can even customize it with your own game art using our new free graphics editor! (FREE)
Design your very own games using easy-to-learn drag-and-drop actions – you can create professional-quality games within very little time.
The RPG Maker series gives you access to customize every aspect of your game with an easy-to-use interface, making it perfect for beginners, while being powerful enough for experts.
Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing games. (FREE)
Spring is a versatile 3D RTS game engine. Using extensively Lua for scripting game-specific code to make nearly every aspect of the engine customizable, from GUI to unit AI, to pathfinding. (FREE)
Unity is a feature rich, fully integrated development engine for the creation of interactive 3D content. It provides complete, out-of-the-box functionality to assemble high-quality, high-performing content and publish to multiple platforms.
The AGS Editor is a Windows-based IDE for creating your games as quickly and easily as possible. Everything you need from importing graphics and writing game scripts right through to testing your game, under one roof!
Stencyl isn't your average game creation software; it's a gorgeous, intuitive toolset that accelerates your workflow and then gets out of the way. We take care of the essentials like physics and native APIs so you can focus on what's important - making your game yours.
Ren'Py is a visual novel engine that helps you use words, images, and sounds to tell stories with the computer. These can be both visual novels and life simulation games. The easy to learn script language allows you to efficiently write large visual novels, while its Python scripting is enough for complex simulation games.
A complex game creation environment that allows you to create browser-based games.
The world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D creation platform.
Image Editing Tools
Blender is free and open-source 3D creation tool. The whole 3D pipeline is supported, including modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, and even video editing and game development. The Python scripting API for Blender is used by advanced users to modify the program and create specialized tools, many of which are added to Blender's next releases.
GIMP is a cross-platform image editor that may be used with Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux, and more. Because it is open-source software, you are free to modify it and share your modifications. (FREE)
Autodesk Maya, commonly shortened to just Maya is a 3D computer graphics application that runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. It is used to create assets for interactive 3D applications (including video games), animated films, TV series, and visual effects.
With 3ds Max, you can create 3D places and characters, objects and subjects of any type. You can arrange them in settings and environments to build the scenes for your movie or game or visualization. You can animate the characters, set them in motion, make them speak, sing and dance, or kick and fight. And then you can shoot movies of the whole virtual thing.
An Open Source vector graphics editor with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the
W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
CGTextures strives to be the world's best texture site.
Sound Software
FamiTracker is a free Windows tracker for creating music for the NES/Famicom systems. If you have experience using trackers, the interface, which is based on MadTracker, should be simple to use.
For Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems, Audacity is a simple-to-use multi-track audio editor and recorder. Audacity is freeware and open-source software.
LMMS is a free cross-platform sound studio, which allows you to produce music with your computer.
Ardour: Digital Audio Workstation
A multichannel digital audio workstation.
Scriptwriting
Celtx is the world's first all in one pre-production system. It replaces 'paper & binder' with a digital approach that's more complete, simpler to work with, and easier to share.
Plotbot is a web-based collaborative screenwriting application where you can write a screenplay with as many or as few people as you like. Adopting the wiki approach to screenwriting, each element is editable by any member of a project. You can also comment on, delete, or restore any element.
A novel writing software that helps you to write your novel, in a simple way.
Professional organizations and competition with mentoring
Animation Council of the Philippines (ACPI)
ACPI is a non-stock and non-profit organization whose member companies specialize mainly traditional and digital 2D And 3D Animation. The primary goal is to promote and create the Philippines Animation Industry Identity Worldwide as amongst the most preferred countries that service the Global Animation Industry.
Animation and Games Development Specialist Group
A community of IT professionals and enthusiasts who are passionate about animation and games. The group is made up of industrial and business developers, to academics, teachers, students and users. The group is to bring awareness of the animation and gaming industries to BCS members and organize a
International Games Developer Association
The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) is the world’s largest non-profit membership organization serving all individuals who create games.
The 11 Second Club is a free monthly contest where animators can animate a shot based on a dialogue snippet roughly about 11 seconds. Sponsored by Animation Mentor, the submitted animations get voted by the 11 Second community and the winner wins a free eCritique from one of our mentors who are working professional animators from major studios.
Association for those who share an interest in computer graphics and interactive techniques.
DIGRA (Digital Games Research Association)
The premiere international association for academics and professionals who research digital games and associated phenomena.
Video, moving image and documentary Streaming
Viddsee is a Singapore-based online video service focuses on collecting and disseminating short films from Asia.
Animated movies and shows (Internet Movie Database - IMDb)
IMDb is an online database containing information and statistics about movies, TV shows and video games as well as actors, directors and other film industry professionals. This information can include lists of cast and crew members, movie release dates and box office information, plot summaries, trailers, actor and director biographies and other trivia.
Underated Filipino Animated Movies and TV shows (Nylon Manila)
Here are 8 underrated Filipino animated movies and TV shows that deserve more attention. These animated gems are not only great but were locally made too.
Other Online Collections
Archived films and television programs including open-access free to use content. Some of the major topic areas include: Television archives, The Anime Cascade, Feature Films, Arts & Music, Community Media Archive, Social Media Videos, Videogame Videos, Animation & Cartoon and so much more.
Images
Online image collections
Digital Image Pool (State Library of Victoria)
Historical images with free of copyright restrictions.
Philippine Photographs Digital Archive, Special Collections Research Center (University of Michigan)
Collection of images depict Filipinos, buildings, dwellings, and monuments in and around Manila, Filipino political and military leaders, members of American commissions and military units based in the Philippines, and numerous landscape scenes, particularly on Mindanao and in Lanao Province.
Collection of images available to download for free under Getty's Open Content Program.
The Filipinas Heritage Library is a resource center without walls. Retrato is our way of bringing Philippine images, and the stories they tell, to their true home: the hearts and minds of people all over the world who are eager to know the Philippines. The images are available to be a learning resource for students of Philippine history, arts, and culture.
The Cities and Building Database (University of Washington)
A collection of digitized images of buildings and cities that spans centuries and continents, accessible online to students, researchers, and educators.
Creative Commons and copyright free images
Search Openverse for images with a Creative Commons license. The CC license will tell you how you can use the image and how to attribute it.
Free Icons, Illustrations & Photos. Design freely with instant downloads and commercial licenses. No cost. No attribution. No worries.
Free to use and reuse sets- Library of Congress
Contains freely reusable content from the digital holdings of the Library of Congress. According to the library, this material is either in the public domain, has no recognized copyrights, or has been approved for use by the copyright owner.
The leading source of free stock photos.
Free photo archive. Must credit photographers.
Free of known copyright restrictions.
All collections provide digital scans or photos that can be freely used without any restrictions.
All photos on this web site are public domain.
Music and Audio
Key music and audio databases
A collection of free choral/vocal scores, texts, and translations
Online audio resources
The ability to access and download any song from FMA is free.
YouTube Audio Library - Free Music
The music featured on Audio Library - Free Music is available for FREE download so that you can use it in your own videos.
BeatPick offers music solutions for all creators involved in TV programming, advertising, digital entertainment and branded content. Since 2006.
PacDV Free Sound Effects
You may use these tracks free of charge in your video, film, audio and multimedia productions in return you have credit the "Music by www.pacdv.com/sounds/".
Free Soundtrack Music: where soundtrack music composers post tracks for royalty free licensing to video producers. ALL of the music in this online library can be licensed for royalty free use in films, videos, video games, YouTube videos or other digital multimedia productions. Visitors can download and use up to 6 recordings labeled as "FREE", provided that the applicable terms of use are observed.
Musopen is a non-profit focused on improving access and exposure to music by creating free resources and educational materials. We provide recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions. Put simply, our mission is to set music free.
Media Library PCs
Browser-based Game Development
This list features websites for game production that allow you to build games entirely online without downloading any software.
Create games in your browser. (Account creation required)
With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community.
Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.
Additional Software
The Media Library PCs offer access to various gaming software even though they are primarily used for game creation. Following user registration, several of these programs allow free play. Playing on the Media Library PCs is possible for those who have their own accounts.
Users at these PCs have access to Steam. They must use their own accounts to access and download their purchased games.
GOG.com is a portal for PC games through a digital rights management (DRM) free platform. Users must use your own account for this service.
League of Legends is a fast-paced, competitive online game that blends the speed and intensity of an RTS with RPG elements. Two teams of powerful champions, each with a unique design and playstyle, battle head-to-head across multiple battlefields and game modes.
A massively multiplayer online role-playing game based in the Star Wars universe.
Enjoy console games in your browser using the JSMESS emulator system.
Software Library: MS-DOS Games
MS-DOS entertainment and games playable in your browser using the EM-DOSBOX emulator.
Game-related journals
A selection of online journals related to games and game design.
Game Physics and Mechanics International Conference (GAMEPEC)
Game studies: the international journal of computer game research
IEEE transactions on computational intelligence and AI in games