Links

This is a collection of links to other people's stuff that I find cool or interesting. This is not my stuff. For that, see Socials

If you want to link back to me, consider using my 88x31 banner!

Cool People with Cool Websites

• - Good friend I met in university who makes cool art and has a kickass neocities page.

Communities

• Newgrounds - Great website full of varied art of many different mediums. Newgrounds has excellent discovery systems - I've had very good luck with publishing my games there. I would recommend you give it a shot.
• YoYoGames Sandbox - IF IT STILL EXISTED!!! The YYG Sandbox was the best place for truly innovative indie games on the net - all made with GameMaker. An avant-garde community like nothing else out there, and it's a shame we lost it. Instead, visit the YoYoGames Sandbox Archive to play the games, which have thankfully been preserved.

Tools

• Godot Engine - Extremely good open-source game engine. Overall has a very elegant design and a lot of useful features which are great for productivity when developing games at the "polished indie" kind of level that I try to work at. In particular the UI system is to die for, and saves me so much time making menus.
• GameMaker - The game engine I started with, and I still think it's probably the best starting point if you want to learn game development.
• Cockos REAPER - Excellent professional DAW (Wikipedia link if you're unfamiliar with the term) with a less predatory licensing model than most of the industry. This is what I use to make music.
• Audacity - You all know it, you all love it. This is a swiss-army-knife of audio that I use for quick edits.
• Helm - Really good free, open source, and cross-platform synth. Has a really user-friendly interface too so it's great for learning about sound synthesis.
• Kdenlive - Free and open source cross-platform video editing software. It's no Premiere, but it's incredibly easy to use and it's good enough for my purposes. Just don't ask me how to say it.
• OBS - Free, open source, cross-platform, and highly-capable screen capture software (among other things). I wish I could go back in time and tell little me who wanted to be a YouTuber that he didn't need to pay for Fraps.^{(Follow the link to Fraps at your own peril)}
• Vim - Command line text editor. Some doors, once opened, can never be closed.
• Kolourpaint - Do you frequently find yourself thinking "I sure do love Linux but man I wish this thing had MSPaint"? Well boy do I have just the tool for you. You know you're dealing with great software when the feature list includes "Support for drawing various shapes - lines, rectangles, rounded rectangles, ovals and polygons".^{No joke, unironically I love this program}

Resources

• Incompetech - The OG of royalty-free music.
• Freesound - Good place to find sound effects for your games or what-have-you. Just be careful with the licensing, because some sounds are more restrictive than others.
• Kenney - Treasure trove of game assets under the freest possible license.
• OpenGameArt - Free game asset repository. Kind of a pain to search but there's a lot of stuff on there.
• This is a motherfucking website. - Words to live by