Resources

Development Tools

• create a jetbrains student account to get the professional jetbrains products for free.
• Jetbrains Toolbox I recommend you use jetbrains toolbox to manage your IDEs
• Get Git you need git to turn in projects for this class., It is likely pre-installed on Linux, and will install with the mac xcode command line tools. You will definitely need to install it yourself on windows though.
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Game Assets

You will need assets for your game. Here are a few places to get those assets from:

• Open Game Art Is a good start since  the art is free. It is a bit more limited though.
• Game Dev Market Is a nice source of game art and sounds, but most of it costs money
• Itch.io also has a nice game asset store. Many of the assets have a 'name your price' approach
• Kenney assets is a "free but please donate" model site with lots of game assets available.
• Humble Bundle Several times a year Humble Bundle has game assets bundles available. It does cost money, but you can get a lot of stuff for a small amount of Money. Most of the assets I use in class were acquired this way.
• A lot of modern statistical Model based AI tools can generate assets, your results may vary.

Game Specific Tools:

You will need tools to make your games.

• Tiled Map editor Later in the semester we will look at tiled maps, the de facto standard for indie and open source games (not Unity or Unreal) is this tiled map editor
• Gimp is a great image editor if you need to modify the art assets
• Large Language Models are currently all the rage.  Let me just point at a tutorial for how the could be applied
  We will have limits on this use - see Syllabus