Tiled is a 2D level editor that helps you develop the content of your game. Its primary feature is to edit tile maps of various forms, but it also supports free image placement as well as powerful ways to annotate your level with extra information used by the game. Tiled focuses on general flexibility while trying to stay intuitive.

Visual Studio Code is a free source-code editor made by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Features include support for debugging, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, code refactoring, and embedded Git. Users can change the theme, keyboard shortcuts, preferences, and install extensions that add additional functionality.

Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs, websites, web apps, web services, and mobile apps. Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platforms such as Windows API, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Store, and Microsoft Silverlight. It can produce both native code and managed code.

For Individuals

Any developer can use Visual Studio Community to create free or paid apps.

For Organizations

An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open-source projects.

For All Other Usage Scenarios

In non-enterprise organizations, up to five users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or >$1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open-source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.

VLC media player is a free, open source software, designed to play videos and audio files. It supports a wide range of formats, including MPEG4, DivX, and WAV files. It is also able to convert between various media formats and allows users to customize their videos.

VS Codium is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor Visual Studio Code.

xNormal is a free program designed for the sole purpose of generating various kinds of texture maps from 3D meshes. xNormal allows you to generate normal, ambient occlusion, and displacement maps. xNormal includes an interactive 3D viewer (with advanced shaders and real-time soft shadows/glow effect), some Photoshop filters, and importers/exporters for 3ds Max and Maya.