Aseprite is a pixel art tool that lets you create 2D animations for videogames.
Features
Compose sprites using layers & frames as separated concepts
Create images in RGBA or Indexed color modes Open/Save GIF animations, sequence of PNG files, etc.
A timeline where you can copy/move layers, frames, or specific images
Animation tools: Real-time animation preview, onion skinning, tag frames
Pixel art tools: shading, pixel perfect strokes, RotSprite rotation, tiled mode, filled contour
Export/import sprite sheets
A command line interface to automate conversion and sprite sheets generation Updates for the whole v1.x series up to v1.9.
Design & Illustration
Title
Available on Mac?
Description
Wallpaper Engine on Mac
Wallpaper Engine enables you to use live wallpapers on your Windows desktop. Various types of animated wallpapers are supported, including 3D and 2D animations, websites, videos and even certain applications. Choose an existing wallpaper or create your own and share it on the Steam Workshop!
Bring your desktop alive with realtime graphics, videos, applications or websites.
Personalize animated wallpapers with your favorite colors.
Use interactive wallpapers that can be controlled with your mouse.
Many aspect ratios and native resolutions supported including 16:9, 21:9, 16:10, 4:3.
Multi monitor environments are supported.
Wallpapers will pause while playing games to save performance.
Create your own animated wallpapers in the Wallpaper Engine Editor.
Animate new live wallpapers from basic images or import HTML or video files for the wallpaper.
Steam Workshop to share and download wallpapers.
Wallpaper Engine can be used at the same time as any other Steam game or application.
Supported video formats: mp4, WebM, avi, m4v, mov, wmv (for local files, Workshop only allows mp4).
Support for Razer Chroma and Corsair iCUE.
Wallpaper Engine aims to deliver an entertaining experience while using as few system resources as possible. You can choose to automatically pause or completely stop the wallpaper while using another application or playing fullscreen (including borderless windowed mode) to not distract or hinder you while playing a game or working. Many options to tweak quality and performance allow you to make Wallpaper Engine fit your computer perfectly. As a general rule of thumb, 3D, 2D and video based wallpapers will perform best, while websites and applications will require more resources from your system. Having a dedicated GPU is highly recommended, but not required.
Choose from over 700,000 free wallpapers from the Steam Workshop with new wallpapers being uploaded every day! Can’t find a wallpaper that fits your mood? Let your imagination go wild by using the Wallpaper Engine Editor to create your own animated wallpapers from images, videos, websites or applications. A large selection of presets and effects allow you to animate your own images and share them on the Steam Workshop or to just use them for yourself.
Marmoset Hexels 3 on Mac
Marmoset Hexels™ is a unique, grid-based painting tool for vector art, pixel art, design, and animation.
Hexelate
At the heart of Hexels lies a paintable grid of geometric shapes: a tessellating canvas built of hexagons, triangles, squares, and custom polygons. The Hexels grid allows artists to create complex vector designs with the stroke of a brush. It is a new kind of workflow that’s intuitive and easy to pick up by a beginner, and a versatile tool in the hands of a pro.
Pixelate
The grid-based canvas in Hexels is a natural fit for the forward-thinking pixel artist. Make full use of the same great drawing tools. Keep track of colors and gradients with the palette. Set your canvas in motion with the animation timeline. Export a sprite sheet for every princess in every castle.
Construct
For the craftsman looking to build worlds, Hexels provides a set of grids and guides for drafting all forms of isometric art. Raise walls, carve mountains, bend perspective to your will and build impossible wonders.
Detail
Pixels and Trixels living in harmony! Hexels lets you combine layers of vector and pixel art on the same canvas. Complement angular Hexel art with soft, sweeping brushwork. Carve pixel-perfect trim into isometric art. Block out whole cities in vector form, then dive in for the details.
Rasterize
Hexels gives you full control over the vector-to-pixel rendering process. Advanced rasterization tools provide vector alignment, pixel-perfect isometric art, pixel scaling, and antialiasing at any export resolution. And because Hexels renders everything on the GPU, you’ll see a pixel-perfect preview on the canvas as you paint.
Animate
Build a world and bring it to life with the Hexels animation timeline. Breathe subtle motion into a still image with post effects and motion curves. Send shapes and colors twirling with layer transforms. Or tell a hand-drawn tale with a simple flipbook animation.
Pattern
Hexels is the perfect tool for exploring tiling designs and geometries. Paint tessellating patterns on an endless canvas. Explore advanced grid types like Voronoi. Draft your own grids with a powerful custom grid designer. Whether you are creating textiles or laying out an elaborate mosaic, Hexels can help.
Design
Hexels is a versatile tool for the graphic artist working with multiple applications, at a print-ready resolution. Assemble your canvas out of existing images and animations. Keep organized with layers, masks and groups. Add a pinch of procedural with a library of real-time post effects and shaders. Then export an SVG or layered PSD of your canvas for final touch-ups elsewhere.
Featured artwork by:
Mark Knight, Mira Karouta, etall, Saskia Freeke, Will Wantz, Jen Maynulet, Jakobsen Beck, Charred, Ed Clews, Brunélie Lauret, Thomas Lonsdale, Beth Mohler, Andres Reinot, Tabby Rose
ShareX on Mac
ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to over 80 supported destinations you can choose from.
ShareX supports many ways to capture or record your screen. The main capture methods are:
Fullscreen
Active window
Active monitor
Window menu
Monitor menu
Region
Region (Light)
Region (Transparent)
Last region
Custom region
Screen recording
Screen recording (GIF)
Scrolling capture
Webpage capture
Text capture (OCR)
Auto capture
There are many configurable screen capture settings such as showing the cursor, transparent window capture, delayed capture, multiple region selection with different shapes, etc.
After the capture the following automated tasks can be executed:
Show quick task menu
Show “After capture” window
Add image effects / watermark
Annotate image
Copy image to clipboard
Print image
Save image to file
Save image to file as…
Save thumbnail image to file
Perform actions
Copy file to clipboard
Copy file path to clipboard
Show file in explorer
Recognize text (OCR)
Show “Before upload” window
Upload image to host
Delete file locally
For example, the captured image can be opened in image editor and after that, the image can be automatically saved to the hard disk and uploaded to your destination of choice.
ShareX allows you to upload any type of files with these methods:
Upload file
Upload folder
Upload from clipboard
Upload from URL
Drag and drop upload
Upload from Windows shell context menu
Upload from Windows send to menu
Watch folder
After the upload, any of the following automated tasks can be executed:
Show “After upload” window
Shorten URL
Share URL
Copy URL to clipboard
Open URL
Show QR code window
For example, the uploaded image URL can be automatically shortened using one of the 15 URL shortener services and the shortened URL can be copied to the clipboard.
ShareX also comes with a few simple productivity tools:
Color picker
Screen color picker
Annotate image
Image effects
Hash check
DNS changer
QR code
Ruler
Directory indexer
Image combiner
Image thumbnailer
Video thumbnailer
FTP client
Tweet message
Monitor test
ShareX has an advanced hotkey system which allows you to use any of these capture methods, upload options or tools with their own task settings. These are called “Workflows”. Workflows allow each hotkey to have its own after capture tasks, after upload tasks, destination etc. For example, you can set your screen recording hotkey to upload to a specific destination, bypassing the default destination. This way, only videos will be uploaded to this configured file destination.
Blender on Mac
Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, and video editing. Advanced users employ Blender’s API for Python scripting to customize the application and write specialized tools; often these are included in Blender’s future releases. Blender is well suited to individuals and small studios who benefit from its unified pipeline and responsive development process. Examples from many Blender-based projects are available in the showcase.
Blender is cross-platform and runs equally well on Linux, Windows and Macintosh computers. Its interface uses OpenGL to provide a consistent experience. To confirm specific compatibility, the list of supported platforms indicates those regularly tested by the development team.
As a community-driven project under the GNU General Public License (GPL), the public is empowered to make small and large changes to the code base, which leads to new features, responsive bug fixes, and better usability. Blender has no price tag, but you can invest, participate, and help to advance a powerful collaborative tool: Blender is your own 3D software.
RPG Maker MV on Mac
POWERFUL enough for a developer SIMPLE enough for a child VERSATILE enough for any platform!For years, RPG Maker has been the easiest way to make your own Windows PC Roleplaying game. We have strived to give everyone, regardless of experience or skill level, the tools to make a game they could be proud of. Now, with RPG Maker MV, your game isn’t just on Windows PC, its on the move. Make your game on your Windows or OS X PC, and then deploy it for iOS, Android, Windows, OS X, or even to play in a browser using HTML5!
MAKE GAMES FOR THE PLATFORMS YOU WANT FROM ANY PCRPG Maker MV can run on both Windows and Mac OS X PCs. Users can also export games for the following platforms:
Windows/EXE
MacOSX/APP
Android/APK
iOS/IPA
HTML 5 for Web Browsers
BUILD YOUR WORLD WITH AN IMPROVED MAP EDITORRPG Maker MV uses a user-friendly map system to help you build the RPG world of your dreams. With an additional automated upper layer, mapping in MV is even easier than before.
MAKE YOUR WORLD LIVE WITH A SIMPLE EVENT SYSTEMIn RPG Maker MV, you use the simple, intuitive event system to bring your world to life. You can easily and quickly create NPCs for your characters to interact with, puzzles for them to solve, and quests for them to complete.
GET STARTED IMMEDIATELY WITH BUILT-IN RESOURCESRPG Maker MV, like previous RPG Makers, comes with its own graphic and audio resources for you to use in your game. From sprites to battlers, from sound effects to music. MV comes with resources for both Fantasy and Sci-fi games, and you are easily able to add more.
USE TWO DIFFERENT BATTLE MODES, RIGHT OUT OF THE BOXWith a tick of a checkbox, you can switch between the classic Front View Battle to a Side View Battle system.
USE A MOUSE OR TOUCH SCREEN TO PLAY YOUR GAMESTired of playing RPG Maker games with your keyboard? With RPG Maker MV, your game will allow the player to play the game with a flick of their mouse, or using a touch screen.
SEE YOUR GAME IN HIGHER RESOLUTIONRPG Maker MV can show more than ever before. With a default 1.5x the resolution, sprites can show more emotion and the scenery can be more detailed than ever before.
USE PLUGINS TO MAKE A FULLY CUSTOMIZED GAMEWant to customize your game even FURTHER? Use plugins to change things the way YOU want them. You can get them from us, get them from other fans, or master JavaScript to make your own! With our new plugin manager, you can just drop in the .js file of a plugin, and then configure it directly in the editor.
GameGuru on Mac
Welcome to GameGuru, game making for everyone. Our mission is to create the easiest and most enjoyable game creator. Join us and our great & enthusiastic community on this journey. Imagine creating a world that you and your friends come together and play… and creating it could be a matter of minutes with no technical jiggery-pokery needed at all! Of course, you can happily spend hours, days..even weeks creating your masterpiece, the great thing about GameGuru is, you won’t be held up by learning strange alien languages or using complex modeling tools. The time you spend with GameGuru is all about creating and having fun whilst doing it.
When you first launch GameGuru, it may appear to be a simple level editor, but it’s actually crammed with lots of useful tools you will need to make your own game, including a character creator, model importer, building maker, complete scripting language and of course, over 6GB of complimentary game assets to get you started. The fact it’s as easy as any in-game level editor is a plus, and unlike level editors, you get to save out what you’ve made and even sell your game!
We’ve created a small game level for you to play and enjoy, which shows you how you might lay out your level, and balance the combat to give the player a challenging experience. You can, of course, edit this level any way you wish and learn from an existing demo level rather than start completely from scratch. We believe there is nothing on the market which enables you to create and share a 3D game as quickly as GameGuru, thanks to a massive starter collection of assets, our easy drag and drop approach and built-in game logic so you don’t need to code it yourself (unless you want to).
GameGuru offers you an easy yet comprehensive game creation process that is open to non-programmers and designers/artists, or anyone who aspires to become a game creator. It also has powerful editing tools for those who want to take their game creation to an even greater and more complex level. The power is there at your fingertips.
As a welcome bonus, we have also included an expansion pack with over 2.8 GB of additional game assets for you to get started, completely free! In fact, all the art you see in the screenshots above are included in GameGuru and you are free to include them in your games, no strings attached. We do sell additional content DLCs, but with over 6,000 megabytes of game assets already crammed into GameGuru, the DLCs are entirely optional.
You just need to follow these easy steps – welcome to the world of game creation! Create your virtual 3D world – Game Design
Construct huge game levels with the easy to use Level Editor. Sculpt your initial game design, add content and then play your game with one click of the Test Game icon:
Design your game and levels adding hills, mountains, water, paths, terrains until you have created the world you want for your game
Add all your environmental items, pick animated 3D objects including buildings, trees/vegetation, man-made objects/barriers with pre-set customizable properties Set the mood by controlling all aspects of the 3D rendered scene with easy to use sliders and combo box choices, including sky/ambiance, day/night scenes, lighting settings.
Decide what your game is – Game Plan
Have you ever wanted to create the game only you can dream of? Now you have the tools to do exactly that, possibly for the first time ever! You can create games very quickly and easily, or add more and more depth as you wish to create a unique game experience:
Create your dream game, whether it’s Modern-day FPS Action, Horror/Zombies, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Cartoon/Zany, Medieval/Historical and many more – you choose! Give your game objectives, missions, weapons, puzzles, collectibles from a suite of pre-set objects supplied, or create/buy/ customize new objects. Add characters to your game from the stock media or design your own with the Character Creator.
Now make your game come to life! – Game Crafting Using the editing tools you can add more depth and details to your game, make the scenes more complex and improve the objectives of your game to challenge experienced gamers:
Use the 3D editing mode to fine-tune your game design Add all the game-play aspects you want in your game and make adjustments Use the assets supplied free with GameGuru or import your own
Use the editing tools to make your characters and objects unique, give them additional behaviors using the powerful LUA scripting language.
Create, share & sell your game – The final result!
Once you have your finished game you can make it available to your friends and other gamers. GameGuru is unique in what it can offer, all at no additional cost: Build your final game – ready to play and share
Save your standalone game as an executable file to use as you wish Publish your game and sell it to others, all royalty free Make, share and play multiplayer games with other GameGuru users
GameGuru and its creators
GameGuru has been developed by The Game Creators and our mission with this product is to develop a game creator that everyone can use, with superior capabilities for those who want to take their creations to the next level. We’re a UK-based Indie development team with years of experience. GameGuru has been designed by gamers for gamers and we want to build and design it along with our enthusiastic community.
Our vision is to produce The Ultimate Game Creator for the PC – a solution that is easier, more intuitive and affordable than any of its competitors. A product grounded and shaped by one of the longest-running game making communities out there. Developing game creating tools is what drives us and we’re super passionate in finding ways to make the whole game creation process as easy as possible.
The Technical Stuff
For those who want to learn more – here are the main elements of GameGuru:
3D Game Engine & Editor
Easy to use, drag & drop style
Birds eye view & 3D fly editing systems
Game world – Construct levels for your games Terrain editor – With easy to use controls you can create unique environments
Infinite vegetation system – Vegetation is auto-generated, just paint it on the map Level of detail – The game engine supports Level Of Detail technology (LOD)
Cascade shadow mapping – Real-time dynamic sun shadow
Lightmapping – Add fast shadows to your levels with the shadow baking system
Sky maps – Choose from a wide range of high-resolution sky maps
Occlusion Culling System – Fast rendering from a special object culling system Light Rays – Let the light flood your game scenes with cool god rays
Connect to the Asset Store to extend your library of game assets
Physics GameGuru uses the Bullet Physics engine to create realistic physics events Rag-doll deaths of characters
Game Characters & Weapons
Customize character in-game properties
Simple Character Creator
A.I scripts control characters – Scripts are coded using the LUA language
GameGuru comes equipped with a range of stock weapons and ammo packs Explosive Munitions – RPGs, grenades, and landmines Ammo pick-ups – Reload weapons during game-play with ammo pickups Jet-pack – A special Jet-pack object lets you fly around your game world
Multiplayer on Steam (GameGuru is required by all users to play multiplayer games)
Build games with multiplayer features Create death-match levels Make Team death-match levels
Build Co-op Multiplayer games
Up to 8 players can play your game Play with friends
Build Games
Save standalone single player games as executable files
Distribute your games royalty free
Choosing Your Game Engine
GameGuru is not designed to compete with professional development tools such as Unity, Unreal and Cry-engine which are ideally suited to producing commercial apps and games. GameGuru is a recreational game maker, not a professional tool, and is still very much in development. GameGuru is unsuitable for serious game development projects at this time, and we highly recommend you visit the forums and ask many questions before you make a decision on the game making tool for you.
RPG Maker VX Ace on Mac
Simple Enough for a Child. Powerful Enough for a Developer. RPG Maker VX Ace improves on every aspect of creating your very own epic adventure. An immensely powerful editor, Ace supports multiple tilesets, offers full control over autoshadow and has a very flexible features system.
Ace gives you all the tools you need to make that game you’ve always dreamed of, including the following features:
• A powerful map editor to build your world.
• A database to track your characters, skill, equipment and more, all improved with the powerful new flexible Features system.
• New event options, including support for Ogg Theora video.
• An expansive set of default resources, including a built in character generator to create your own sprites and faces.
Key Features
Simple, Powerful Tools RPG Maker VX Ace brings powerful new tools to the table to enhance your RPG-making potential. None of the previous engines can match Ace for flexibility, even for users with no coding knowledge. These features are powerful but also very easy to learn, with most accessed through a simple point and click interface.
Enhanced Default Graphics RPG Maker VX Ace offers a large collection of new graphics, including 4 tilesets and the long-requested set of fallen character sprites. The engine is also compatible with all of the existing fan-made RPG Maker VX resources.
Export Your Game Once you’re ready to show your project off, you can easily export your game into a portable EXE file that can be played on ANY Windows system. Share it with your friends, family or with the vibrant RPG Maker community on the internet.