Did you know that there's a catalog of old antique textile patterns? If you like knitting, embroidery, sewing etc, Check Out Antique Pattern Library otherwise known as APL, where every pattern is public domain www.antiquepatternlibrary.org

CARI, or Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute, is an online community dedicated to developing a visual lexicon of consumer ephemera from the 1970s until now. #aesthetic #graphicdesign cari.institute

Learned about this from LauraKBuzz, I think it's a great initiative that deserves more buzz around it #signlanguage #accessibility

I made a tool that makes retro anime sound effects. Meet AnimeVox! I made it for a game, but it's free to use. I'm using the forgotten (but popular in 80s japan) Schroeder reverb algo, and some wobble. If you find it useful consider supporting me on itch :) castpixel.itch.io/animevox

This is really helpful! I actually found place to buy an album I couldn't find anywhere else! Highly recommend

Since I'm being crabby about abandonware, I will recommend two folks that I think do a nice job updating games that are no longer for sale and working on modern OS, and take downloads down when they're rereleased Collection Chamber collectionchamber.blogspot.com Zomb's Lair www.zombs-lair.com

To add to the art resources w/o AI: With the new Preview in Browser feature, Model Resource is a good place for fan artists to get a good 3d close up of their blorbos. (Spirters Resource is also good for pixel art) models.spriters-resource.com #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky #3dmodeling

If anyone likes to buy books at a discounted price, consider supporting ThriftBooks. Some of their prices are lower than Amazon’s. Anyway, I buy most of my danmei there now. They have a lot in stock. Shipping isn’t the fastest, but it’s always well packed in my experience. www.thriftbooks.com

Similar to Death Generator, but for the pinkest gay indie horror game, Sorry We're Closed #sorrywereclosed #indieweb vps.itsmeow.dev/swc_dialogue/

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html 🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky

Zenius -I- vanisher keeps a pretty up to date map on where you can find music based arcade machines, thanks to the community! Highly recommend if you wanna spend a day with friends. #rhythmgames zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/arcades...

For all of you struggling with drawing Frieren at a different angle, check this out. referenceangle.com

A zoomable, fully searchable archive of every single page of every single issue of BYTE magazine from 1975-1998. “I hope seeing everything in single, searchable place offers a unique perspective.” (via @jonudell.bsky.social) [byte.tsundoku.io]

Kahvibreak, like Flashpoint, but for J2ME games: bluemaxima.org/kahvibreak/

Free resource for Ui designers in the video game industry. I think graphic designers would also find this site helpful, with how stylish some games are #gamedev #graphicdesign www.gameuidatabase.com

if any of you ever want to search your wishlist on Steam for games with demos available btw this website has been really useful for me. a lot of them straight up just won't show up for Next Fest for various reasons so this search has been necessary for me www.lorenzostanco.com/lab/steam/wi...

Fonts in Use is a website that archives examples of typography we see in our everyday life, including signs, books packaging etc. "[…] with the goal of improving typographic literacy and appreciation." #graphicdesign #typography fontsinuse.com

Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

Found this archived site which has a lot of HQ covers of Apple II games & programs. Def before my time, but a lot of cool art work #retrogaming #appleII web.archive.org/web/20130902...

The New Spriters Resource has launched! Go and check it out, watch our announcement video for details, or read our home page update! spriters-resource.com Thank you so much for your patience! Server issues have been somewhat resolved.

Wiggly Paint is a free online tool you can use to make lofi art that wiggles! I really love all the art work people make with it #wigglypaint #indieweb wigglypaint.net

If you're wondering what's up with all these little GIFs, they’re memory card icons and back in 1994 the PlayStation introduced them alongside physical memory cards, revolutionizing the way we saved and shared our games! Check out this post for MUCH more about them memcard.art/what-are-the...

HEY YOU! Do you remember how online art tutorials used to be back in the mid 00’s? WELL I MADE ONE!! And its on MY website!! NO clickbait! NO filler talk! REAL drawings! It’s a tutorial on how i draw guidelines and construction lines and apply it to forms! mirre.neocities.org/posts/2025-0...

I have added a new section to my website: a gallery of company logos with the names of their respective designers. vgdensetsu.net/companylogog...

“Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.” walzr.com/IMG_0001 this is beautiful 🥲

YouGlish is a site that search through Youtube Closed captions to find how native speakers pronounce certain words! It not only features English, but tons of languages like German, Korean, Arabic, Chinese and even ASL! Highly recommend #indieweb #languagelearning youglish.com

For all the folks stuck in the US right now, esp those who are trans or otherwise marginalized: TransWorldExpress is a very good resource for visa and emigration information transworldexpress.org/wiki/Country...

Skeivt arkiv is Norway's National Archive of LGBTQ+ history in Norway, including things like writing & video interviews. #queerhistory skeivtarkiv.no/en

Marginalia Search is a open source web search that priorities non commercial sites & older filled with text. It's perfect for finding obscure info when sites like Google aren't helping #indieweb marginalia-search.com

My big project: The Death Generator. It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything. deathgenerator.com

This site is archiving all the PS2 Memory--Card icons! ps2iodb.com ~ cool as shit

Hello! This will be a Link Directory Account! I will post Links to websites that I think are neat. It will mostly be hobby based sites like gaming, but also other interesting stuff once in a while, we're mostly gonna have fun here!