Awesome AI Tools for Game Developers

This is a curated collection of powerful AI tools that accelerate and enhance game development. From asset and texture generation to voice and speech recognition, these tools streamline the creation process.

By integrating them into your workflow, you can save time, automate tasks, and unlock creative possibilities.

Whether you're an indie developer or part of a studio, this list provides cutting-edge AI tools to speed up your development, enabling you to create immersive games. Discover the potential of AI in game development for greater efficiency and creativity.

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Contents

• Asset Generation
• Texture Generation
• Image Generation
• Code Generation/Assistant
• Animation video Mocap
• Voice Generation
• Speech Recognition
• Conversational Models
• Game Design
• Search Engine
• AI NPC
• Python Libraries
• C# Libraries

Asset Generation 🪄

➡️ When you want to create a 2D or 3D asset for your game.

• Scenario.com (Proprietary, Sign Up, Free): Generate assets such as textures, concept art, and background assets.
• Charmed Tilemap Generator (Open Source, Free): Generate tilemaps for 2D levels.
• Prometheanai (Proprietary, Sign Up, Freemuim): Artificial Intelligence that generates virtual worlds.
• Ready player me (Proprietary, Sign Up, Free): Generate and integrate avatars into games.
• Genie (Proprietary, Sign Up, Free): Generate 3D assets from text prompt.
• Rosebud AI (Proprietary, Sign Up, Free): Generate 2D or 3D assets for free in prompt to game creator.

Texture Generation 🖼️🖌️

➡️ When you want to generate textures for your assets

• Charmed Texture Generator (Proprietary, Sign Up, Free): Generate UV-unwrapped textures for complex 3D objects.
• DreamTextures (Open Source, Free): Create different types of textures with a simple text prompt.
• Stable Diffusion (Open Source, Free)

Image Generation 🖼️🪄

➡️ When you want to creating pictures of suspects in a detective game.

• Midjourney (Proprietary, Sign Up, Free, Paid)

• Stable Diffusion (Open Source, Free)

• Leonardo AI (Proprietary, Sign Up, Paid, Free Limited daily generations)

• ControlNet (Open Source, Apache 2, Free)

Code Generation/Assistant 👩‍💻

➡️ When you want help in coding a function or there’s a bug in your code and you want to know why.

• StarCoder (Open Source, Free, Sign Up)

• ChatGPT (Proprietary, Free, Paid, Sign Up)

• Copilot (Proprietary, Paid, Sign Up)

• Rosebud AI (Proprietary, Sign Up, Free): Prompt to Game. Publish and share 2D or 3D game via url.

Animation Video Mocap 💃📹

➡️ You want to generate 3D animations from a video you’ve made without a motion capture suit.

• Plask (Proprietary, Free, Paid, Sign Up) : AI-powered Mocap Animation Tool.

• RadicalMotion.com (Proprietary, Free, Paid, Sign Up)

Voice Generation 🗣️

➡️ You want to create voice dialogues in my game using AI actors. ➡️ How does it work

• Coqui Studio (Sign Up, Proprietary, Free): realistic, emotive text-to-speech through generative AI.

• Bark (Open Source): Bark can generate highly realistic, multilingual speech as well as other audio - including music, background noise and simple sound effects.

• Replica Studios (Sign Up, Proprietary, Free): AI voice actors for games

Speech Recognition 💬

➡️ You want the player to be able to give orders using his voice. ➡️ How does it work

• OpenAI Whisper: model for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech translation.

• Facebook Wav2Vec2: another model for multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR).

Conversational models

➡️ You want your NPC to be able to have conversations with the player. ➡️ How does it work

• ChatGPT (Proprietary, Free, Paid, Sign Up): Conversational model for chat-based interactions.

• HuggingChat 🤗: (Open Source, Free, Sign Up): Open-source conversational model for chat-based interactions.

Story Telling Models

➡️ Want to make that crazy lore for your world with a lot of text?

• MPT-7B-StoryWriter-65k+ (Open Source, Apache-2.0, Free)

• Claude 100k (Proprietary, Paid, API access, Waitlisted)

• GTP-4 32k (Proprietary, Paid, API access, Waitlisted)

Game Design 🎮

➡️ You want to generate game mechanics, game ideas, or other other components of your game (characters, story, items, etc.).

• Ludo.ai (Proprietary, Sign Up, Free, Paid): Ideation and research tool for game designers and developers, combining text and image generation with AI-powered search and trends tools.
• Rosebud AI (Proprietary, Sign Up, Free): Create via prompt to game. Then publish and share your 2D or 3D game via url (host for free).

Search Engine 🔍

➡️ Want to search scripts generated using advanced LLMs like GPT-4?

• Haddock (Proprietary, Sign Up, Free, Paid): Search AI-Generated Code for free from GPT-4, Copilot, etc. Generate code for gaming platforms such as Roblox, Unity, and Unreal.

AI NPC

• Inworld (Proprietary, Sign Up, Paid, Free Limited daily Interactions): Create a personality for your NPCs
• eastworld (Open Source, Apache 2, Free): Create NPCs with backstories, knowledge about your lore, dialects, etc. that come out-of-the-box with capabilites like taking actions in your world

Python Libraries

• NeMo Guardrails (Open Source, Apache 2, Free): Limit what a NPC could talk about

• Guidance (Open Source, MIT, Free): A library to help your LLM to understand your prompts

C# Libraries

• Hugging Face API Unity Integration(Open Source, Apache 2, Free): Integration for the Hugging Face Inference API and Unity

• UnityMLPySocket (Open Source, Free): Perform local machine learning (ML) inference with Unity using a Python socket server.

• Python.Net (Open Source, MIT): Integrate Python libraries with .Net and .Net Libraries with Python