Neat Links

Whenever I find something especially cool online, I'll try to remember to link it here. Browse around, hopefully you'll find something new!

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(I made the Aseprite and TF Curator ones! Feel free to add them to your site! I'll have a SnepShark one ready soon, I'm not satisfied with the one I made a few years ago, haha)

New! Blogs 'n' such for your RSS reader

  • Laura Michet's Blog - A blog focusing on all sorts of different things, I highly recommend the "interesting links" series in particular!
  • Space-Biff! - My favorite board game reviews. The most eloquent, insightful, and funny way to discover new games to play.
  • Cathode Ray Dude's blog - Posts from one of Cohost's best chosters. Uncommon tech focus.
  • Critical Distance - Weekly roundups of cool writing on video games.
  • Aurambles - Neat posts about games, often targeted at indie devs, by Aura/Moomanibe.
  • Azhdarchid - Insightful wrighting on video gamesby Bruno Dias of Failbetter Games.
  • Virtual Moose - Micheal Klamerus' indie game blog, lots of cool suggestions.
  • Low←Tech Magazine - Articles exploring technologies from the past and how they could be used to create a more sustainable future.
  • Bad Game Hall of Fame - Deep dives into a variety of games commonly considered bad.
  • lyra's epic blog - Hacking-focused blog... do not trust the "screenshots."
  • Retro Game Mechanics Explained - The written compainion to the RGME YouTube channel, breakdowns of old games' programming.
  • The Transsexual Chofetz Chaim - Shel Raphen's blog, I recommend the Fiveish/YapDollar/Xiaohongshu/Prognoz Pogodi article for a fun read.
  • The Future is Now and CD ROM Journal - Misty De Méo's blogs, which have tons of writing on everything compact disc.
  • The Obscuritory - Writing on extremely obscure games by Phil Salvador of the Video Game History Foundation.

Just for fun

  • One Book, Many Readings - A beautiful and interactive dataviz project analyzing the Choose Your Own Adventure book series.
  • Corru.Observer - An incredibly impressive (and still ongoing!) web game/hypertext story thing.
  • vole.wtf - Tons of silly web toys.
  • ABA Games - Dozens of tiny yet wonderful browser games.
  • Antonymph - Super impressive browser-based music video. (Desktop only!)
  • Living Worlds HTML - A web-based recreation of Living Worlds, a collection of extremely high quality time-adaptive pixel art.
  • Immsim Discovery Queue - An extensive catalog of immersive sim (and immsim adjacent) games.
  • Death Generator - Foone's project letting people make game characters say anything in extremely accurate ways.
  • Regexle- A daily word guessing game à la Wordle, where you guess Regex expressions by trying words against them.
  • OnePost- A social media site where only one post exists at a time.
  • Broider- A cute tool for making embroidery-inspired pixelart CSS text borders.

Making video games

  • Twine - Tool for making text-based games. I think it's one of the easiest game making tools to learn!
  • Blue's Twine Tutorials - Easy tutorials for creating interactive stories in Twine, from basic "Choose Your Own Adventure"-style stories to much more involved fare.
  • GB Studio - A game making tool for creating GameBoy (Color) games. Well suited to Bitsy-like experiences, but much more capable overall.
  • Bitsy - Tiny game making tool, like if RPGMaker was pared down to only the bare minimum needed to tell an interactive story.
  • Decker - Robust HyperCard-ish multimedia creation tool.
  • NEW! RenPy - The most popular tool for making visual novels. Only a bit harder to learn than Twine in my opinion, and if you're interested in making a visual novel it gives you a very robust framework to build it in.

Making board games

  • nanDECK - The card deck creation tool I personally use. It's such a big time saver to be able to automate the creation of multiple cards at once.
  • Les ludistes origamistes - Origami for organizing board games.
  • TemplateMaker - Template generator for creating tuckboxes (and other simple papercraft) to specific dimesnions.
  • Game-Icons.net - A wide selection of stylistically-consistent and readable CC-BY icons, very useful for prototyping tabletop games.
  • Yarn Spinner for Books - A tool for easily making gamebooks typeset in the style of a Choose Your Own Adventure book.

Making art, more generally

  • Comics Devices - TONS of techniques for making effective comics, with illustrated examples!
  • Ableton - Learn Music - Fun, free, and highly interactive music making tutorial (not just applicable to Ableton).
  • Ableton - Learn Synths - A course similar to the previous one, but focused on synths.
  • Artvee - High quality scans of public domain art, which have themselves been released into the public domain.
  • Beepbox - Browser-based music making tool.
  • x6udpngx's Animal Reference - Find references for animal heads in different positions.
  • Ceaser - Tool for customizing easing on CSS animations.
  • Blambot - Fonts, free for use in independent comics (only comics though, all other uses require a purchased license).

Other useful tools

  • Everything - Lets you search your entire (Windows) PC in seconds. Useful enough I have it bound to a key on my keyboard.