Years of packs from a dozen sites, under a dozen licenses, in a folder nobody remembers the terms of. Tessera keeps each pack whole, puts its license and source on record, and sends it into Unity, Godot or Unreal with the credits already written.
In development, with the source code public. See what is coming
Models from one site, textures from another, a bundle of sound effects, a font from somewhere you cannot recall. Nothing is labeled, and nobody remembers the terms any of it came under.
Then a publisher, a store, a client or a takedown notice asks a simple question, and there is no honest answer.
“What did you ship, and under what license?”
| Name | License |
|---|---|
| characters_NEW.zip | Unknown |
| sfx pack (1).zip | Unknown |
| forest_4k.hdr | Unknown |
| font_i_liked.ttf | Unknown |
| loop_FINAL_final.ogg | Unknown |
| bg_parallax.png | Unknown |
| Pack | Source | License |
|---|---|---|
| Mini Characters | Kenney | CC0 |
| Interface Sounds | Kenney | CC0 |
| Forest Clearing | Poly Haven | CC0 |
| Press Start 2P | Google Fonts | OFL 1.1 |
| Dungeon Loop | OpenGameArt | CC-BY 4.0 |
| Parallax Forest | itch.io | In Review |
Four steps, and the license travels with the files through every one of them.
Drag a zip onto the window, choose a folder, or paste a whole list of links. Tessera knows the asset pages of the sites below and finds the actual file behind each one.
The download is copied in exactly as it arrived. A zip stays a zip and is read from the inside, so you keep the original and still get a full catalog of what it holds.
Where it can, Tessera reads the license out of the pack’s own files and keeps a snapshot of the page it came from as proof.
Anything it cannot work out waits in Review. It stays out of search and out of reach of every game until the question is answered. This is the central promise: nothing reaches a game without its terms.
Full text search across packs, files and tags, with filters by kind, format, source site, creator, license, genre and style that stack and say how much each would leave.
Models turn, images zoom, sounds play and fonts type, all inside the app. A model that came as .fbx, .obj and .glb is one thing with three formats, not three things.
Point Tessera at a Unity, Godot or Unreal project, or any folder. Files arrive in the format that engine prefers, with their textures and dependencies alongside.
Every pack brings its license file, and the game gets a CREDITS.md that rewrites itself as things are added and taken out.
Link a pack to a game and it arrives in the shape that engine expects: models in the format it prefers, textures beside them, a license file for every pack.
CREDITS.md in the game that updates itself as assets are added and taken out.BunnyDash
bunny-dash
BunnyDash
my-game
# Credits
Bunny Dash uses the following assets.
## Dungeon Loop
Mara Lind, via OpenGameArt
CC-BY 4.0: credit required
## Mini Arcade
Kenney, via kenney.nl
CC0 1.0: no credit required
## Interface Sounds
Kenney, via kenney.nl
CC0 1.0: no credit required
A test library of four hundred packs and a hundred and twenty thousand files. A library that holds years of downloads should still feel instant.
Gather packs and single files for one game. A collection can insist on CC0, or refuse anything that needs a credit line, and it says why when it refuses.
Bunny Dash accepts CC0 only
Dungeon Loop was not added. Its license, CC-BY 4.0, needs a credit line.
Models turn, images zoom, sounds play, fonts type. The panel beside each file says which license covers it and what proves it.
Drop more files into a pack already in the library, in a folder you choose, with their own terms if they came from somewhere else.
Keep what matters close and the rest out of the way. Deleting goes to the library’s own bin, which puts things back exactly where they were.
Optional encrypted backups with Kopia, to a drive, a cloud drive or a server. Optional sync between your own computers with Syncthing.
Tessera watches the library. Add or remove files in Finder or Explorer and it notices, and keeps as many libraries as you like.
While Tessera is open, it answers AI assistants running on the same computer over the Model Context Protocol. There are 49 tools, covering everything the window can do, and any MCP client can use them.
You choose which groups of tools an agent may reach. The app’s own settings and permanent deletion start switched off. Every call is recorded and shown to you, and nothing outside this computer can reach it, not even a web page.
No sign in, no telemetry, no analytics. A library is an ordinary folder of ordinary folders that you can open in Finder or Explorer at any moment.
The search index lives apart from your files and can be thrown away and rebuilt from them whenever you like. The only things that ever use the network are the ones you start. Read exactly what they are.
No version has been published yet. The source code is public, and the first release will be listed here the moment it exists.
The builds are not signed with paid Apple or Microsoft certificates, so each system asks once. This is what it says, and what to do.
“Tessera is damaged and can’t be opened”
Right-click Tessera in Applications, choose Open, then Open again. Only the first time.
“Windows protected your PC”
Choose More info, then Run anyway. Only the first time.
Nothing at all.
Make the AppImage runnable with chmod +x, or install the .deb or .rpm as usual.