Directory

Adobe Firefly

Adobe's generative image tools, with a limited free allowance and paid plans.

AIVA

Music composition with style and structure controls, and a free plan.

Beatoven.ai

Background music generated from a description of the scene.

Blockade Labs Skybox AI

Text to skyboxes, HDRI lighting, and environment meshes, with a Unity integration.

Works with: Unity

Canva

A design tool with AI image and writing features for capsules, posts, and press sheets.

CapCut

A video editor with AI captions and templates for trailers and social clips.

Cascadeur

Character animation software with AI-assisted posing and physics, exporting to Unity and Unreal.

Works with: Unity, Unreal

Charisma.ai

Conversational characters for interactive stories and structured scenarios.

Claude

Anthropic's assistant for code, design notes, and dialogue drafts. Free tier and paid plans.

ComfyUI

Free, open-source node editor for running image models on your own machine.

Convai

Real-time conversational NPCs for games, with Unity and Unreal plugins.

Works with: Unity, Unreal

Cursor

An AI code editor that reads a repo, edits files, and runs commands.

DeepMotion

AI motion capture that turns ordinary video into 3D body animation.

Descript

Edit trailers and devlogs by editing the transcript, with AI speech cleanup.

Devin

Cognition's AI software engineer, a coding agent that works on a repository.

Dungeon Alchemist

A paid map maker that dresses the rooms you draw with walls, doors, and props.

ElevenLabs

Speech, voice cloning, and text-to-sound-effects for dialogue and ambience.

GDevelop

Free, open-source game engine with AI assistance for learning and building.

GitHub Copilot

An AI pair programmer in the editor, for gameplay code, tools, and shaders.

Hyper3D Rodin

Image and text to detailed 3D assets.

Inworld AI

Runtime character AI for NPCs, with Unity and Unreal integrations.

Works with: Unity, Unreal

Kaedim

A service that turns approved images into 3D game assets.

Krea

Browser tools for generating and enhancing images and video.

Layer

Image workflows for game art, including sprites and training on your own style.

Leonardo.Ai

Image generation and editing used for game art, with a free allowance and paid plans.

Luma AI

AI video from text and images, used for animatics and short cinematic shots.

Meshy

Text and image to textured 3D models, with mesh export such as GLB and FBX.

Midjourney

Text-to-image for concept art, key art, and texture exploration. Paid subscription.

Mixamo

Free auto-rig and a library of motions for humanoid characters, with an Adobe login.

Works with: Unity, Unreal, Godot

modl.ai

AI agents that play a build and look for bugs, glitches, and performance problems.

Move AI

Markerless motion capture from video.

nunu.ai

AI agents that test a game on PC or a phone by looking at the screen and using the controls.

NVIDIA ACE

NVIDIA's digital-human technologies for speech, expression, and game characters. Centered on Unreal.

Works with: Unreal

Opus Clip

Cuts short, captioned clips out of a longer video.

PixelLab

Pixel-art generator for characters, tiles, and animation, including an Aseprite workflow.

Plask

Turns video into 3D character animation.

Polycam

Capture real objects and rooms as 3D scans from a phone.

Promethean AI

An assistant that searches your asset library and helps dress 3D scenes. Unreal first, with a Unity plugin.

Works with: Unreal, Unity

Recraft

Raster and vector generation for icons, UI, and style-locked illustration.

remove.bg

Automatic background removal for cut-out sprites and marketing art.

Retro Diffusion

Pixel-art models for characters, sprites, and small game assets.

Rokoko

Motion-capture hardware and software, including capture from video, for Unity and Unreal.

Works with: Unity, Unreal

Rosebud AI

Builds a playable browser game from a text description or a template.

Runway

AI video generation and editing for animatics, previz, and trailer shots.

Scenario

Game-focused image workflows for keeping a style consistent across a set of assets.

Sloyd

Text and image to 3D models, aimed at game developers who want to adjust the result.

SOUNDRAW

Background music you can customize. They describe the tracks as royalty-free.

Spline

Browser 3D design with a free plan and AI features for generating 3D content.

Stable Audio

Music and sound generation from Stability AI, built for iterating on a clip.

Suno

Text-to-music for temp tracks and, where the license allows, a released score.

Tripo

Text and image to 3D models for props and characters.

Udio

Text-to-music for soundtrack sketches.

Unity AI

Unity's assistant, CLI, and plugins for working inside a Unity project.

Works with: Unity

Upscayl

Free, open-source desktop app for AI image upscaling.