Game Jam Advice

• Game Jam Survival Guide - Essential Tips and Tricks
• 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

Design

• How to Make Visual Novels
• Visual Novel Conference Talks
• • Visual Novel Cinematography & Design
  • Art Direction & Execution in Visual Novels
  • Making Impactful, Impressive Character Sprites
  • Post-production Techniques for VNs
• Vimi’s Visual Novel Design

Writing

• Writing Interactive – guides for narrative games writers
• Visual Novel Conference Talks
  • Writing Mystery Visual Novels
  • How to Design Interesting Choices in VNs
  • The Intrigue of Ambiguity

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

Programming

• Ren’Py – free visual novel engine
• Twine – free text-based 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

Marketing

• 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 your Visual Novel for Kickstarter
• 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
• 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

More resources for making your own VNs