other apps

[Rich]

Hi
Im just wondering what other apps you use for game development?
I use the following

GFX
Paintshop Pro 4.12 (its the version I just get on with)
Pixelformer - for bitmap file converisons

Audio
Audacity

What do others use to draw and edit sounds?

 

[MikeHart]

Ok, here it goes. And yes, I use them!

Art
Clipstudio Paint (my main 2D tool)
InkScape
Blender (my main 3D tool)

Fonts
Glyph Designer

Tools
TexturePacker
Physicseditor

Audio
FLStudio
Audacity

 

[Rich]

very interested in other gfx packages.. without showing my age, I think Deluxe Paint IV was nearly perfect (no layers) so interested in tools like that.

thanks for the list, already investigating alternatives to my dated collection ;-)

 

[muruba]

Audacity
Adobe Audition

 

[dawlane]

A few I have used in the past, but not all.

Font
Code heads Bitmap Font generator http://www.codehead.co.uk/cbfg/

Texture
Texture maker http://www.texturemaker.com/download.php (caution: doesn't look like there's been any activity for over 10 years)
Neo Texture Edit http://neotextureedit.sourceforge.net/

Sprite atlas maker
ShoeBox https://renderhjs.net/shoebox/
Texure Packer https://www.codeandweb.com/texturepacker

Map editor
Dangerous Alien Map Editor http://dambots.com/dame-editor/
Tile Mapper http://www.mapeditor.org/
Tilestudio http://tilestudio.sourceforge.net/
TuDee http://www.diorgo.com/v1/?p=366
OFMO http://www.ogmoeditor.com/
Tile Map Editor https://sourceforge.net/projects/tilemapeditor2d/
TEdit https://github.com/TEdit/Terraria-Map-Editor/wiki

Sprites & Animation
Spriter https://brashmonkey.com/spriter-features/
TimelineFx Editor https://www.rigzsoft.co.uk/

Music
FL Studio https://www.image-line.com/flstudio/
LMMS https://lmms.io/

Libraries & Game Kits
Fixel http://flixel.org/
Scrolling Game Development Kit http://sgdk2.sourceforge.net/

 

[Holzchopf]

Graphics
Adobe Photoshop
Inkscape

Sound / Music
FL Studio (mainly)
Audacity

That's basically all. Of course there are other tools and scripts* e.g. one to pack multiple icon files into one resource file.

* The good thing about being programmer is that you can simply write the tools you miss yourself like the water texture generator - that one even found its way into the big wild world

 

[Rob Hewitt]

I probably use others on occasion but these are what I use mainly

Music and sfx
ProTracker and OctaMED (under WinUAE Amiga emulator)
OpenMPT on Windows (can convert MOD/XM/etc to ogg)
sfxr
Audacity

2D Graphics
DPaint IV and PPaint (under WinUAE)
ArtBoard on mobile
GIMP
Paint (!)

Maps
Mappy

3D Graphics (although so far I've only made 2d sprites using it)
Anim8or

Coding
Cerberus-X
Blitzplus
Blitz Basic 2.1 (under WinUAE)

 

[Martin]

Woah an Octamed user!

 

[Wingnut]

OctaMED is great but nowadays I don't do much tracking except occasionally OpenMPT on MacOS, using win emulation.
Garageband

TVPaint
Krita

Blender
Fusion 360