BIG PAGE O' LINKS

Feel free to visit any of these great websites. I’m not partnered with any of them and I don’t receive a dime if you click any of the links below. Some of them you may have already heard of, others are  just cool sites that might get overlooked in the increasingly crowded world wide web.

Adventure Game Studio
Chris Jones’ amazing swapware game creation utility. Updated often, vigorously supported and featuring a robust support forum. Many of the Barn Runner games were made with this great program.

Game Maker
Mark Overmars’ equally amazing game creation utility. In addition to Adventure Game Studio, this engine is also being used to create some of my games. It’s not swapware, but it is powerful and versatile enough to justify the small price tag.

Video Game Music Archive
Where old console game .midis go to be forever enshrined.

Caiman Free Games
One of the first big fans of Barn Runner, Rudy and his crew collected some great  freeware games over the years. Sadly, Rudy passed away in early 2010, but his legacy lives on here. Pay them a visit and discover oodles of overlooked and forgotten gaming gems hiding among all those dusty, digital stacks.

Itch.io
A great place for small game creators to show their games to the world. You can even support them financially if you want. Lots and lots of great stuff there, if you're willing to look.

Sound Image
Eric Matyas has crafted a tremendous assortment of free music to use in your games, all of it royalty free. Lots of genres and styles. Good stuff!

Grumpy Gamer
Ron Gilbert's (he of Monkey Island and other classic LucasArts Gaming fame) editorial / rant website. One of the greats of adventure gaming plus he has a fascinating article in the archives about  just how much work and money goes into producing old school adventure games. Well worth the time of any game maker in the making.

Hollywood Animation Archive
A fantastic repository of the golden age of American animation. For any aspiring animator or just some who appreciates a bygone era, this site is a must-see.

TEXTFILESDOTCOM
A nostalgic peek into the early days of the internet. For anyone who visited a bulletin board system back in the days when BBSs were the only thing you COULD visit, this is the place for you. Just browsing this site makes me remember when War Games was the most cutting edge hacker coolness I had ever seen. I should have linked this site from the very beginning as it is very much in tune with the "retro-ness" TWI is all about.