Electronic linkages

Highlights

• Game Engine Black Books

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

• Start making tools!: on making experimental art tools and why it’s valuable for indie game devs to make them (18 December 2020)
• The wonderful world of tools made by small teams, solo-devs, and shareware: weird, beautiful, and experimental things to be creative in + an analysis on building for approachability (15 February 2020)
• 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)

• 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

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

• Opera buys GameMaker Studio maker YoYo Games for $10 million (19 January 2021)

• The Flash game movement, my early Flash work, and how Flash games informed what we have in indie games today… (3 December 2020)
• 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)
• The Strong Museum and Kongregate partner to preserve Flash games (5 March 2020)
• 38,000 Flash games will live on after Flash support dies this year thanks to Flashpoint (3 February 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)
• Classic Tools Retrospective: Tim Sweeney on the first version of the Unreal Editor (9 January 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)

• Where have all the Flash developers gone? (15 September 2015)
• 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)