Here are some useful resources for making dungeon crawler games. This section will gradually grow to include more tools, tutorials, art/sound assets etc.

Tools

• AtlasMaker

  A standalone tool for rendering PNG image atlases that can be used when developing 2D first-person grid-based dungeon crawlers. The rendered image atlases can be used with any game engine.

• Dungeon Crawler Atlas Generator

  A small online tool for generating image atlases to be used in development of 2D dungeon crawlers.

• DungeonRenderer JavaScript class

  A simple JavaScript class for rendering a first person grid dungeon from image atlases generated using the Dungeon Crawler Atlas Generator.

• Dungeon Crawler Atlas Generator for Unity

  A package for Unity which will allow you to render images atlases to be used in developing first person grid dungeon crawlers.

• Dungeon View Maker

  Dungeon View Maker creates all the static images used in oldschool dungeon crawler games like Dungeon Master or Eye of the Beholder.

• Daedalus - Random Dungeon Generator for Unity

  Complete suite of tools to generate procedural dungeons/levels for your dungeon crawler game.

• Mipui

  Mipui is a free and open-source collaborative web application for creating, editing and viewing grid-based maps for tabletop or role-playing games.

Tutorials

• Dungeon Crawl Dev Stream (YouTube)

• Captive - View rendering

• Godot Engine: 3D First Person Dungeon Crawler (YouTube)

• First Person Grid Based Dungeon Crawler Controller in Unity (YouTube)

• A simple dungeon crawler player movement script for Unity

Assets

Note: Always read and understand the licenses for the assets you plan on using.

• soundimage.org

  Free Music, Sound Effects, Video Footage, Texture Images and Game Art

• freesound.org

  Collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound files.

• opengameart.org

  Online asset repository of freely licensed graphics, models, sounds, & music for use in free & commercial games & other media.

• game-icons.net

  Thousands of free game icons.

• Extracted/ripped game graphics

  Game graphics extracted from Dungeon Master, Captive, Knightmare, Dungeon hack and Eye of the Beholder 1,2,3

• Dungeon Crawler Toolkit for Unreal Engine

  All the essential components you need to start making your own first-person grid-based dungeon crawler.

• Dungeon Crawler Controller for Unity

  First-person grid based character movement controller.

• sonniss.com - GameAudioGDC

  160 GB of free sound effects.

• This Person Does Not Exist

  AI generated character portraits for your game.

• The Neverwinter Vault - Music

  Free music

• Torio-pixiv

  Free enemy/creature graphics

• ttsmp3.com

  Free Text-To-Speech and Text-to-MP3 for US English

• freepbr.com

  Free PBR materials and texture files.

• Open source Delver engine & editor

  Suitable for creating dungeon crawler areas.