Game Jam Advice
- Game Jam Survival Guide - Essential Tips and Tricks
- Your First Jam Guide
- Releasing 8+ games (ft. game jams) and when to take a break
- making game development backup plans
- Advice for Leading VN Game Jam Teams
- How to Make a Visual Novel Solo
Programming
- Ren’Py – free visual novel engine
- Light.vn - free visual novel engine
- Twine – free text-based game engine
- Godot - free open-source game engine
- GameMaker - 2D 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
- Feniks Ren’Py resources – various add-ons and tutorials by Feniks
Visual Novel Design & Writing
- How to Make Visual Novels
- Visual Novel Development Wiki
- Visual Novel Conference Talks
- Vimi’s Visual Novel Design
- Writing Interactive – guides for narrative games writers
- Ellipsus - free no-AI browser-based writing software
- Visual Novel Conference Talks
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
Marketing
- How to Market a Game
- How to Market Visual Novels
- Marketing Visual Novels FAQ
- Marketing Fundamentals for Indie Game Developers
- Marketing your first indie game – What we learned from releasing the same game twice
- The stairstep approach to indie game marketing
- Marketing Visual Novels on TikTok
- TikTok Marketing for Visual Novels
- Visual Novel Press-Kits
- Social Media Field Guides
Audio
- Eric Matyas music & SFX
- Vita-chi SFX & graphics
- Free Music Archive
- Free Sound
- OpenTracks / dova-syndrome
Misc.
- Lemmasoft Creative Commons Forum
- itch.io visual novel resources
- Google Fonts – free fonts
- Uncle Mugen backgrounds
- Canva – browser & desktop graphic design tool
- Unsplash – free photos