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[v1.6] SpriteIlluminator – Add dynamic lighting effects to your 2D sprites

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SpriteIlluminator is a powerful and friendly normal map production tool designed for 2D game objects and artworks, developed by CodeAndWeb from Germany. Its biggest function is to make the 2D surface generate a certain degree of detailed lighting direction and reflection effects. That is, create a 3D lighting effect on an ordinary 2D picture.

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LDtk – Modern 2D level editor with strong focus on user friendliness

LDtk (short for Level Designer toolkit, formerly called LEd) is a free and open-source 2D level editor for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms, developed by deepnight (Sébastien Bénard) from France, who are the former director of the well-known indie game Dead Cells, with 20+ years of experience for creating various games.

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[v1.1.1] RPG Maker – Make your own 2D RPGs with ease

RPG Maker (AKA: RPG Tsukūru, RPGツクール, RPG Tkool) is the most popular 2D RPG games development engine developed by Enterbrain company from Japan. It’s both simple enough for a child and powerful enough for a developer. The whole series mainly includes: RPG Maker 2000, RPG Maker 2003, RPG Maker XP, RPG Maker VX, RPG Maker VX Ace, and RPG Maker MV.

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Material Maker – Free and open-source procedural materials/textures authoring tool

Material Maker is a fully-functional, professional and user-friendly procedural PBR material authoring and 3D model texture painting tool for Windows, Mac and Linux, developed by R0dZill4 (Rod Zilla) from France in 2019, based on Godot Engine. It allows users to quickly and easily complete the drawing of various custom materials/textures by connecting nodes.

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Industry & Professional

[v8.3] Substance Painter – Gives you all tools you need to texture your 3D assets

Substance Painter (now called Adobe Substance 3D Painter) is a new-style 3D texture/map painting software, also the latest next-gen game mapping tool, which is mainly used for 3D model and animation making. It includes material drawing tools, particle brushes, rendering materials, material brushes, etc.; integrates the ray tracing renderer in 3D window; can render the most realistic graphic effects for users; and is pretty suitable for rendering synthesis, game making, material mapping, and so on fields.

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[v2020.12.08] GameGuru – Non-technical, fun and easy to use game maker

GameGuru is a foolproof game engine made by The Game Creators from United Kingdom, specially developed for players, programmers or designers/artists who have no programming basis but want to create their own complete 3D games with ease and pleasure.

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[v2021.8] 001 Game Creator – Graphically assisted game engine for all users

001 Game Creator is a graphically assisted scripting game engine for both beginners and advanced users, developed by SoftWeir from Canada. With its help, game developers can quickly prototype ideas, test complex systems, and build single-player or online/local multi-player (up to 4 players) and split-screen games for Windows, Steam, HTML5 web browsers, and Android/iOS, no coding required.

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