Game Jam Advice
- Game Jam Survival Guide - Essential Tips and Tricks
- Releasing 8+ games (ft. game jams) and when to take a break
- making game development backup plans
Writing & Design
- Writing Interactive – guides for narrative games writers
- Visual Novel Conference Talks
- Vimi’s Visual Novel Design
Artwork
- Clip Studio Paint
- Krita
- FireAlpaca
- Medibang
- GIMP
- FastStone Photo Resizer – batch photo resizer and editor
- FotoSketcher – various settings to apply artistic filters to photos
Programming
- Ren’Py – free visual novel engine
- Twine – free text-based game engine
- Naninovel – Unity-based tool for making Unity VNs
- tiny tools – collection of various game dev tools
- Ren’Edit Add-On – Ren’Py script editing & feedback tool
- Ren’Py Accessibility Add-On
Misc.
- Lemmasoft Creative Commons Forum
- itch.io visual novel resources
- Eric Matyas music & SFX
- Vita-chi SFX & graphics
- Google Fonts – free fonts
- Uncle Mugen backgrounds
- Free Music Archive
- Canva – browser & desktop graphic design tool
- Unsplash – free photos
- marketing visual novels guides
- making nicer than default itch.io pages