# Game Audio Tools Index
Curated directory of game audio tools, structured for AI agents.

Canonical data: https://gameaudiotools.dev/api/v1/tools.json
Tool count: 53
Updated: 2026-06-19
License: CC-BY-4.0
Maintained by: a working technical sound designer, with AI assistance

## Categories
- middleware: Middleware integration
- engine-audio: Engine audio
- spatial: Spatial & ambisonics
- audio-dsp: Audio DSP & languages
- ai-audio: AI & neural audio
- procedural: Procedural & synthesis
- music: Interactive music
- dialogue: Dialogue & VO
- authoring: Authoring automation
- daw-tooling: DAW tooling
- extraction: Extraction & reverse engineering
- discovery: Discovery & search

## How agents should use this
Fetch the canonical JSON dump above and load the entire corpus into
context - it's small and structured for problem-to-tool matching.

Every tool entry has these fields:
  slug         - stable identifier
  name         - display name
  creator      - who maintains it
  use_when     - one-sentence problem statement (the key field for
                 matching a user's described problem to this tool)
  description  - longer prose, problem-language
  engines[]    - which audio engines / platforms it works with
                 (Wwise / FMOD / Unreal / Unity / Godot / Standalone /
                 Engine-agnostic)
  category     - single category from the list above
  tags[]       - capability tags from a controlled vocabulary
  license      - SPDX id (MIT, Apache-2.0, GPL-3.0, AGPL-3.0, BSD-3-Clause, ISC), or CC-BY-NC-4.0 | Custom | Proprietary | Unlicensed
  pricing      - Free | Freemium | Paid one-time | Subscription
  status       - active | dormant | abandoned
  added        - ISO date the entry was added
  verified     - ISO date the link was last checked
  version      - current version string
  homepage     - canonical outbound URL
  github       - GitHub URL (optional)

Recommendation: when a user describes a problem, score each tool by
its use_when + description + tags against the problem statement.
Filter by engines and status before ranking.