Games like Sprite Atlas for GameMaker

Are you a fan of computer graphics from the olden days of video games, before artists had the full gamut of 16,777,215 colors to play with and were instead constrained to palettes of up to 256 colors to choose from? Do you wish you could achieve fancy artistic effects by simply replacing colors in the palette of a single sprite? Do you wish this effect could be performed blazingly fast, and easy t…

Do you want to do batch operations on 3D objects for use in GameMaker (or for other purposes)? Here's a tool which does just that! Features Import 3D models: D3D / GMMOD (GameMaker) or OBJExport 3D models: D3D / GMMOD, OBJ or a raw vertex buffer for fast loading (use buffer_load in GameMaker), or a collection of vertex buffers that can be loaded with the provided import scriptsBulk operations: app…

I've made a few terrain editors over the years. Circa 2016 there was this thing, which isn't very impressive but it does the job - or a job, anyway - and in 2017 I made a new version which could do a bit more but still wasn't anything to write home about. I've wanted to give it another go for a while, and recently it was requested that I add some things, so this week I finally sat down and made so…

80%Game Brain Score

graphics, humor

optimization, stability

80% User Score Based on 334 reviews

Discover Black Ink, the GPU-based painting application that redefines artistic creativity. Leave behind pens, papers, and traditional techniques to embrace an entirely computer-based, generative approach to creation. Whether you're an experienced artist or a first-time digital painter, Black Ink offers a world of possibilities. Black Ink empowers you to transform your brushes into extensions of …

97%Game Brain Score

graphics, monetization

gameplay, optimization

97% User Score Based on 1,253 reviews

Model your Satisfactory builds. Set up your machines however you like, adding optional limits to the number of any of those machines and the tool will calculate how the parts will flow and how many of each machine type are getting used. This does advanced calculations that no other Satisfactory planning tool can do, including figuring out how splitters and mergers will split and merge and even …

87%Game Brain Score

graphics, optimization

87% User Score Based on 76 reviews

PixageFX Studio is the flagship of the PixageFX family. With PixageFX Studio you can turn photos, videos and animated GIFs into pixel art, oil paints, abstract paintings, cartoons, comics, sketches and more. In addition, thanks to its parametric structure, you can perform transform operations and much more that you may need every day. PixageFX Studio has hundreds of modules. Each module is co…

73%Game Brain Score

graphics, stability

73% User Score Based on 73 reviews

RealityCapture (a.k.a. RC) is the world's fastest and the most accurate software for creating 3D content from photos and/or laser scans to be used in games or virtual reality experiences. Take your digital camera or phone, it does not have to be expensive professional camera, take some pictures and create 3D content in just few minutes. RC is easy to use with intuitive UI and online tutorials. E…

65%Game Brain Score

gameplay, humor

optimization, graphics

65% User Score Based on 348 reviews

Dimmdrive is a RAM-based hard drive software built by gamers, specifically for gamers. With Dimmdrive, you will be able to turn your PC’s RAM into an incredibly fast hard drive. This incredibly fast hard drive can be hundreds if not thousands of times faster than a conventional hard drive. By playing your game on a faster hard drive: Take full advantage of up to (and over) 10,000+ MB/s …

If you've spent a long enough time in game dev, you've probably been interested in generating Perlin noise at least a few times. It's useful for quite a number of things: Anything to do with procedural generationTerrain generationTexture generationActual cloudsProbably a ton of things I haven't thought of yet Here's a nice little system I wrote for doing exactly that! Features Generate noiseContro…

GameMaker has some really nice built-in pathfinding in the form of mp_grids; in fact, I often go as far as saying they're my favorite built-in system of GameMaker.  They're great if you want to be able to navigate through a grid-based structure like a maze, but sometimes they're not quite the right tool for the job. Did you ever want to implement Google Maps in GameMaker? Probably not, but bear wi…