Electronic linkages

Highlights

• Game Engine Black Books
• Zdog Round, flat, designer-friendly pseudo-3D engine for canvas & SVG

Tools of interest

• GitHub - SuperIlu/DOjS: A DOS JavaScript Canvas with sound
• STOS and AMOS game creators
• A Gilsoft's QUILL/PAWS Reservoir
• Tweego: free command line compiler for Twine
• Chapbook: a story format for Twine 2
• Specs related to Twine
• A Catalog of Twine Story Formats
• Belle - Visual novel maker
• Visual Novel Engine for the Web - WebStory Engine
• Coblis — Color Blindness Simulator
• GBForth: a Forth-based Game Boy development kit

Tool round-ups

A regular source is The Candybox Blog.

• making your own engine: a survey of the landscape (14 July 2022)
• IF and Dialogue System Link Dump (7 August 2019)
• Comprehensive list of visual novel engines (28 June 2019)
• The best engines for making your own visual novel (14 February 2018)

More roundups:

• Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup
• Fantasy consoles/computers
• Content generators
• Game Maker — TVTropes
• Game Creation Tools Classification
• Game Making Tools Wiki
• Free Stuff for Game Programmers
• Open Source Libraries — lots of links
• Open source games list (OSGL); Contains information about 1368 open source games and 310 game engines/tools.
• Awesome Gamedev; A collection of free software and free culture resources for making amazing games.
• Let's Get Creative: A collection of high-quality, free, online creativity tools.

For HTML5

• 10 cool HTML5 games and how to create your own (March 2012)
• HTML5 based game engines and frameworks
• Links of interest for HTML5 game developers
• How to Make A Simple HTML5 Game With Enchant.js

Miscellaneous

A huge source of links is always Game Developer: The Art and Business of Making Games.

• Do You Speak the Lingo? (6 January 2022) — about making Director games work in ScummVM
• Building Gameworlds in PuzzleScript (28 December 2021)

• Pygame 2 released on 20th birthday (29 October 2020)
• Creating homebrew games for the Nintendo Gameboy has just become much easier! (28 August 2020)
• Take Your Audience on an Interactive Adventure with Twine: A Free No-Code Tool for Creating Nonlinear Games and Stories (5 March 2020)

• Blade Runner game becoming playable again through ScumVM ^sic (17 June 2019)
• Zarf Updates: What is ZIL anyway? (17 April 2019)
• Dungeo - a Bard's Tale-like game in PICO-8 (22 January 2019)
• Are RPG Maker games as bad as people think? (1 September 2019)
• Diary of an NESmaker developer (16 March 2019)

• Creating a (Non-Trivial) Lisp Game in 2018 (8 December 2018)
• Someone has ported Wolfenstein 3D for the Pico-8 fantasy console (25 October 2018)
• All their engines: stunning, original critique of the term "game engine" from a socio-political perspective, revolving around Id Software and the Doom franchise (8 August 2018)
• A brief history of text-based games and open source (20 July 2018)
• How small game makers found their community with Bitsy (23 February 2018)
• Super Retro Maker Developers Talk About Giving Players The Tools To Make 80’s Sidescrollers (29 Janyary 2018)

• How an accountant created an entire RPG inside an Excel spreadsheet (16 April 2013)
• A look inside the Final Fantasy VII game engine (4 February 2013)
• Guerrilla Tool Development (23 October 2009)