This provides sprites and backgrounds. It is a nice website that helps you to use many different kinds of sprites. I hope that nobody has contributed this yet.
This video shows the basic format used in creating an interactive story / text based adventure using the Inform software. The video is great as it definitely provides the viewer with the belief that creating a text based adventure with this tool is definitely viable!
textadventures.co.uk provides a web based and desktop (Windows only) tool for creating text based adventures (interactive fiction). The stie also serves as an online community to share your creations.
This is a set of resources I have created including videos and 'how to' examples of game maker skills and concepts. The examples use game maker 8.1 and will soon be accompanied by examples using Game Maker Studio.
Looking Glass is the successor to Storytelling Alice. It was designed to teach computer programming skills to middle school students through digital storytelling. Add characters and objects to your story and drag and drop commands to program the story.
This post contains many useful tricks you can use when creating your game. For example, it gives you tips on how to make your game quicker and more efficient to run. It also helps you on what sprites you should use to make your game better.
This is a tutorial on Youtube about GameMaker. This resource could definitely help a beginner who is new to GameMaker, and needs to no the basics about programming, rooms, sprites, sounds, etc.
Playfic is an online community that lets you write, remix, share, and play interactive text-based games with the world. The site includes tutorials on creating your own text-based adventure games.
This isn't just any blog, this is a blog made by the man, the myth, the legend, Mr. Isaacs! It's a great resource filled with links to other sites, mostly about game based learning. Towards the bottom of the page you will find the Holy Grail to all Game Maker tutorials. There are literally dozens of tutorials, all created by none other than Sir Isaacs himself.
Adventure Game Studio provides the tools to make your own adventure, for free! Bring your story and artwork and slot it in, and let AGS do the rest.
AGS provides everything you need from within one easy-to-use application. Create, test and debug your game, all in one place. Why wait? Get cracking on your first game now!
Ren'Py is a visual novel engine that helps you use words, images, and sounds to tell stories with the computer. These can be both visual novels and life simulation games. The easy to learn script language allows you to efficiently write large visual novels, while its Python scripting is enough for complex simulation games.
Ren'Py is open source and free for commercial use. It supports Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Android.
Use the free Sprite Maker tool to create your own sprites. It is really easy to use and you can very quickly create a character with his own unique outfit. You will be creating your own sprites in seconds. When you have finished customizing you can export out your sprite and use it in your game.
Learn how to incorporate external sensors and input devices into your Scratch projects. We'll examine a variety of projects, utilizing different input devices, that participants can remix and share.
A collection of projects for Let's Get Physical with Scratch: Sensors, Robots & Consoles BYOD session at #ISTE13. More @ http://techkim.wikispaces.com/cs4all.
This blog post features interactive fiction authoring tools used to create interactive fiction (i.e. text based adventure games. ) The tools featured are: twine, Inform7, TADS, Quest, and ADRIFT.
Whilst surfing the web, I found not another sprite page, but a forum containing MANY sprite page links! Individual sprite pages are useful, but this is a solid block of links leading to different sprite, background, etc pages! The guy who posted this forum is quite helpful to us who are too lazy to look for pages ourselves.