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Krischan:
Additional some useful Tools I use/own for game development. Some need to own a license but many are free:

Graphics EditorsAdobe Photoshop CS3Proprietary     All-purpose graphics editing but legacy, use Photoshop CC insteadMicrografx Picture Publisher 10Proprietary     Great for Star Textures (legacy, use Google for possible downloads)InkscapeFreeware     Vector GraphicsGIMPFreeware     Additional tools Photoshop can't do         3D Modeling and TexturingWings3DFreeware     Basic ModellerWings3D MLABFreeware     Basic Modeller (Manifold edition]BlenderFreeware     Advanced Modelling, ConvertingMilkshapeProprietary     Support Animation and old file formatsUltimate Unwrap 3DProprietary     Finishing and UV map creation         Texture Generation ToolsGenetica Standard EditionProprietary     Create / Improve / Age texturesFilter ForgeProprietary     Create / Improve / Age texturesNeoTextureEditFreeware     Create / Improve / Age textures         Sound and MusicRenoiseProprietary     Music creation, Tracker with VST supportAudacityFreeware     Sample editor, OGG export         EditorIDEalFreeware     for Blitz3DBLIde PlusProprietary     for Blitzmax and GLSLNotepad++Freeware     Text files and Radiant MAP editingNETradiantFreeware     Map Editor, BSP compiler         ViewerTotal CommanderSharewareFile ManagementXNviewFreeware     Image viewer and converter         Other StuffFontForgeFreeware     Convert TTF to OTFIrfanViewFreeware     Great for creating sprite animationOpen Hardware MonitorFreeware     Displays GPU Memory usageSQLiteDatabaseBrowserFreeware     Creating and editing Sqlite databasesResource HackerFreeware     change Application IconIcoFXFreeware     create Application Icons (hint: 1.6.4 was free/full version)Virtual DubFreeware     Video cutter for sprite animationWilburFreeware     Create realistic heightmaps from the scratchL3DTProprietary     Terrain render: Heightmaps / Colormap / ShadowmapImage ResizerFreeware     Upscaling Pixelart         Online Tools / ResourcesNormalMap-OnlineTool     Creates Normalmaps from a DiffusemapFontstructTool     free online Font creatorYobi3DResource     Many free 3D Models with viewer and filterTextures.comResource     up to 15 free Textures per dayCADNAVResource     Many free 3D ModelsArchive3DResource     Many free 3D ModelsOpen Game ArtResource     Many free Resources and 3D Models
What other tools do you use or would recommend?

Goodlookinguy:
I replied to your other post about making this exact type of thread.

Photo Editing
GraphicsGale
Affinity Photo

Audio
GoldWave
FL Studios

Technical
010 Editor

Editors
Visual Studio

Height/Normal Map Generation
Crazybump

Video Converting/Muxing
Handbrake (h.264 & h.265)
MKVToolNix
MP4Box

Screen Recording (for trailers)
OBS Studio (cross-platform)
FFSplit (Windows)

Network analysis
Wireshark (for making sure your game's packets are correct)

Version Tracker GUIs
TortoiseGit (Git)
TortoiseHg (Mercurial)

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)

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/

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

Matty:
Video editing and conversion ffmpeg

Drawing paint.net

Audio audacity

Ide eclipse

Rooster:
LMMS for music and sound creation.

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