rucksack AlternativesGame Development Tools and other similar apps like rucksack

rucksack is described as 'Texture packer and resource bundler. Use the rucksack executable to build your resources file, and then depend on librucksack in-game to get the resources out at runtime. Alternately, roll your own resource-loading code using the file format detailed at the end of' and is a game development tool in the development category. There are six alternatives to rucksack for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Android apps. The best rucksack alternative is ShoeBox, which is free. Other great apps like rucksack are TexturePacker, Alfred Spritesheet Unpacker, Sprite Sheet Animator and Sprite Monkey.

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  1. ShoeBox icon
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    Free Adobe Air app for Windows and Mac OSX with drag and drop - and clipbord Game Development tools.

    8 ShoeBox alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
     
  2. TexturePacker icon
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    Make your spritesheets fast and efficiently !.

    8 TexturePacker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. A simple application which converts an animation spritesheet into individual frames. It's a really simple tool which automatically determines the sprite sheet bitmap background colour which can be used to set transparency in the exported frames and automatically determines...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Have a sprite that you want to show off? Well its easy to do that but if its an animated sprite and you want to show off the animation well then that requires some image cropping, a program that turns images into a gif and blah blah blah.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Sprite Monkey is the smallest and fastest sprite editor without sacrificing features! Quickly edit your sprite sheet/strip, aka “texture atlas”, in a simple uncluttered user interface. Easily create sprite coordinate scripts in the “no plugin” script editor for any game engine...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. An open source sprite sheet packer. More tools coming soon.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Self-Hosted
     
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