Game Development Essentials: Tools you need to get into Game Development! | Rocky Bytes
Summary
You can download this engine for free and use its variety of features and take advantage of its comprehensive tutorials to learn, design and develop your own game. Visionaire is an engine aimed at adventure games, with a large number of modern Point & Click titles developed using it, such as the Deponia series from Daedalic entertainment. Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop are the professional tools for image manipulation and vector editing but they come with a significant price tag, be it as a subscription or buying the software. You can learn the different scripting languages for video game programming quite easily with its support for Javascript, C# and Boo, so there are three different doors open to you, best of all, you can mix and match. As for the rest of the tools, a game developer friend of mine swears by GIMP and sings its praises so it has to be good, same with Audacity and Blender.