List of Free Tools and Utilities for Games and Other Development

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Below is a list of Free Tools and Utilities that I use most of the time. I hope it helps you as well:

Software Description
Platforms
Notepad++ King of text editors! But only available on Windows :(
Windows
Brackets, Atom Great text editors for Mac OSX
Mac OSX
Tile Map Editor Awesome 2D tile map editor (Orthographic and Isometric)
Windows, Mac OSX, Linux
Inkscape Awesome Vector Art Editor (SVG etc.)
Windows, Mac OSX, Linux
Kingsoft Office Free alternative of Microsoft Office
Windows, Mac OSX, Linux
Blender 3D Awesome 3D Authoring tool
Windows, Mac OSX, Linux
particle2dx.com Online free tool to develop particles for Cocos2dX Games
Web based
FileZilla Free FTP Utility
Windows, Mac OSX, Linux
Dia Diagramming Tool (Flowchart etc.)
Windows, Mac OSX, Linux
Audacity Audio authoring tool
Windows, Mac OSX, Linux
XAMPP/LAMP/WAMP Apache and PHP with MariaDB easy install package
Free
Redis/MongoDB Awesome NoSQL Databases
Free
Open Game ArtAbsolutely amazing and Free library of Game Assets (BGM, SFX etc)
Free (Look for CC License)

 I'll be posting more as and when I get things that could be added here. In case you have links to tools which could be useful for others, do share the same through comments box, and I'll the same over here (with due credits of course ;)

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