Working on basic game mechanics. Map building, character control and animation.
Love2d https://love2d.org/wiki/Main_Page - platform to run the game.
anim8 https://github.com/kikito/anim8 - lua library for animations
Simple-Tiled-Implementation (sti) https://github.com/karai17/Simple-Tiled-Implementation - for importing and using the exported map (lua) from Tiled software.
Tiled https://www.mapeditor.org/ - for creating a map using a tiles image. You can export the map you create to a .lua file and this can be imported into your game so you can build map levels.
GIMP https://www.gimp.org/ for slight editing and adjustment of sprite sheets.