Game Development Tools Cheat Sheet

Planning

Asana: https://asana.com/
Jira: https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
ClickUp: https://clickup.com/

Communication

Slack: https://slack.com/
Discord: https://discord.com/
Microsoft Teams: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software

Documentation

Notion: https://www.notion.so/
Confluence: https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence
Google Docs: https://www.google.com/docs/about/

Whiteboard

Figma: https://www.figma.com/
Miro: https://miro.com/
Canva: https://www.canva.com/

Game Engine

Unity: https://unity.com/
Unreal Engine: https://www.unrealengine.com/
Godot: https://godotengine.org/

IDEs

JetBrains: https://www.jetbrains.com/
Visual Studio: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/
Eclipse: https://www.eclipse.org/

Networking

Photon: https://www.photonengine.com/
Mirror: https://mirror-networking.com/
Nakama: https://heroiclabs.com/nakama/

CI/CD

TeamCity: https://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/
Jenkins: https://www.jenkins.io/
GitLab CI/CD: https://about.gitlab.com/stages-devops-lifecycle/continuous-integration/

Art

Photoshop: https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop.html
3DS Max: https://www.autodesk.com/products/3ds-max/overview
Substance Painter: https://www.substance3d.com/products/substance-painter/

Animation

Maya: https://www.autodesk.com/products/maya/overview
Cascadeur: https://cascadeur.com/
Mixamo: https://www.mixamo.com/

Sound

Wwise: https://www.audiokinetic.com/
Audacity: https://www.audacityteam.org/
FMOD: https://www.fmod.com/

Text

Articy: Draft: https://www.articy.com/en/
Google Sheets: https://www.google.com/sheets/about/
Lokalise: https://lokalise.com/

Market Research

Sensor Tower: https://sensortower.com/
AppMagic: https://appmagic.rocks/
Playliner: https://www.playliner.com/

Analytics

Game Analytics: https://gameanalytics.com/
Tableau: https://www.tableau.com/
Firebase: https://firebase.google.com/

Playtesting

Antidote: https://www.antidote.gg/
PlaytestCloud: https://www.playtestcloud.com/
Bugsee: https://www.bugsee.com/

Monetization

AppLovin: https://www.applovin.com/
AdMob: https://admob.google.com/home/
Balancy: https://balancy.com/