Art & sprites
PixelLab
Pixel-art generator for characters, tiles, and animation, including an Aseprite workflow.
For indie game developers
A short list of AI tools for people making games.
Art, models, animation, audio, code, levels, characters, store pages, and testing. Every entry is a real product. A price appears only when the model is known: free, freemium, or paid.
54 · A directory for indie game developers.
Jobs
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Art & sprites
Concept art, pixel sprites, icons, cut-outs, and upscaling.
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3D & models
Mesh generation and scans for props and characters.
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Animation
Character animation, motion capture, and video previz.
04
Audio, music & voice
Score sketches, effects, and character voices.
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Code & engines
Editors, agents, and engines that help you build the game.
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Level design
Dressing spaces, skies, and maps you already framed.
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NPC & dialogue
Characters that can answer a player who leaves the script.
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Marketing & store pages
Capsules, trailers, and posts around a real build.
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QA & testing
Agents that play a build and report what broke.
A tour of the bench
One tool from each job. The full list can be filtered.
3D & models
FreemiumMeshy
Text and image to textured 3D models, with mesh export such as GLB and FBX.
Animation
FreeMixamo
Free auto-rig and a library of motions for humanoid characters, with an Adobe login.
Works with: Unity, Unreal, Godot
Audio, music & voice
FreemiumElevenLabs
Speech, voice cloning, and text-to-sound-effects for dialogue and ambience.
Code & engines
Unity AI
Unity's assistant, CLI, and plugins for working inside a Unity project.
Works with: Unity
Level design
Promethean AI
An assistant that searches your asset library and helps dress 3D scenes. Unreal first, with a Unity plugin.
Works with: Unreal, Unity
NPC & dialogue
Inworld AI
Runtime character AI for NPCs, with Unity and Unreal integrations.
Works with: Unity, Unreal
Marketing & store pages
FreemiumCanva
A design tool with AI image and writing features for capsules, posts, and press sheets.
QA & testing
modl.ai
AI agents that play a build and look for bugs, glitches, and performance problems.
Start with a job
Short lists written from the directory. Not a paid ranking.
- Best AI tools for 3D game assetsGenerators and one production service for props and characters, plus a phone scanner for real objects.
- Best AI tools for game animationA free humanoid library, an animation package, video capture, and video tools for previz.
- Best AI tools for game audioVoices, effects, and music sketches. The license on the plan matters more than the demo.
- Best AI tools for game codeEngine-native help, general coding agents, a free engine, and a browser prototyper.
- Best AI tools for game testingTwo agent products that play a build. They do not replace a person who knows if the game is fun.
- Best AI tools for level designThree different jobs: dressing a 3D set, lighting a sky, and drawing a fantasy map.
- Best AI tools for NPC dialogueRuntime characters for when the player will not follow the script, plus a story tool and NVIDIA's stack.
- Best AI tools for pixel art and spritesA starting list for pixel-art games: grid-aware generators, style-locked sets, and a local open-source option.
- Best AI tools for store pagesCapsules, trailers, and short posts. Generated art supports real captures. It does not replace them.