What Are Game Assets?

Game assets are resources used in the development of 2D and 3D games, these resources include sprites, models, audio, music and gui's. Assets form everything about a game that is not codes or the logic expressing the game; backgrounds, onscreen controls, sounds and hud's add up to what game assets are.

2D and 3D Game Assets

Visuals

2D and 3D game assets differ in their make up, taking a look at the visuals for these two platforms; 2D visuals usually sprites, HUD and backgrounds are in vector, png , jpeg or other variations of image formats which best suit their use in 2D game development.

3D visuals on the other hand make use of 3D models with formats DAE, FBX, OBJ among other countless 3D formats on the market for game development in 3D.

These visuals form the environment and characters within a game in development. Knowing the best formats to use within either a 2D or 3D game development to provide the best visuals and not cause lags to a game is crucial to making and exporting a successful game.

Music/Sounds

Music has always played an important role to the success of most games from super mario bros to your favourite games(fortnite, mine craft, league of legends). The super mario theme also known as "Ground Theme" or "Overlord Theme" made a name for itself and the game super mario bros to such an extent that the soundtrack has entire books written on it and has been remixed and revisited since it debuted in 1985.

You know how playing your favourite game with the thrill of the music playing in the background can keep you motivate and into the game for hours, well that is how music can impart a game to success.

2D and 3D game music share similar file formats such as ogg, wav, mp3 for windows aif for mac, and mod, xm which are all usable formats for game development in 2D and 3D.

Game Assets Markets/Artists

3D and 2D game resources/assets are expertly crafted to work well with developers during game development, unprofessional game resources will lead to a bad game with varying issues.

Unless the developer can create his own game resource tailored to his game in development the best is to get game resources from professional game assets artists.

Game assets markets with exceptional 2D and 3D game resources are highlighted below:

Offers 2D and 3D Assets

1. Kenny Assets

2. GameDev Market

3. Craftpix

Offers 3D Models

• Sketch-fab