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[Chronic]

This topic is a collection of links that hopefully will help you with your Game Maker creations.

It lists various sites that have sprites, tutorials, tools, forums, etc on them.

How can you help?

Simple! if you know of any sites that you think should be in this list (including your own), simply reply with its url, a description will help us sort where the link should go. Your url may be added to the list if a moderator thinks it's worthy.

Please only submit links if they have a lot of resources to use. Some people are submitting sites with around 5-10 images.

You can also reply if a link on the list appears to be broken.

Disclaimer:
The links in this topic are NOT guaranted to be free for your use. We (the staff on this forum) or forum host are not responsible for any action taken against you if used in your creations. The sites may have their own rules for allowing its contents to be used by you. Please read these to ensure they are safe/free to use.

WARNING:
Some of the urls may contain nude images, some are marked to alert to this. This does not mean the unmarked ones are nudity free. User discretion is advised.

[grashaboras]

MIXED SPRITE SITES
Bogleech
Bonzo Industries
Dragon Sprite Shrine
elementGAMING
emugifs
Fated Circle Online
Fattyboy's Video Game Sprites
Fire Ball 20 xl
For Rpg Makers
Gaming Ground Zero
Gaming World
Graphics For Games
GS Archive
Index of /gigoper
Kengine's resources
M2k Brothers
MFGG
Midianweb Gif Animations
molotov.nu - Game Graphics
Mystical Forest Zone
NES-SNES-Sprites
Noni's World
Panelmonkey: The People's Sprites
Pixel Perfect
Pixel Warehouse
Reiners Tile Sets
Ren's Comic Zone - Sprite Sheet Archive
RPGClassics (Recommended)
RPG Dragoon
RPG Extreme
RPG Infinity
RPG Millenia
Sheep Sheet Sprites
Shy Guy Kingdom (Recommended)
Sprite Database
Spriters Resource
Sprite Town
Tatakau - Game Sprites & Picture Gallery
TommieV's GTA Tiles
Video Game Sprites
VGWS

MISCELLANEOUS
3DFlags.com
AnimatedGifs.de
Animation Factory
Ari Feldman's SpriteLib
CoffeeShark Resources
DLBrooks' Sprites
Free 3D Animations
CoolArchive - Icons
Gif World
GRSites.com - Web Graphics
Icon Bazaar
Iconhut
Indian Games Royalty Free Textures / Backgrounds
Juanna's animierte Welt (English translation)
inet 2 inet Resources
Leo's Icon Archive
Logotypes Logos
PanelMonkey Sprites
Pixel Art by Tsugumo

TILE SETS
Hard Vacuum (RTS) Tilesets
Reiner's Tilesets
Zelda Tileset
Another Zelda Tileset
RPG Tilesets

NINTENDO SPRITES
Retro Game Zone

MARIO SPRITES
Super Mario Bros. font
The Mushroom Kingdom - download section

SONIC SPRITES
The Mystical Forest Zone
Sonic Fan Games HQ
Sonic Gif

ZELDA SPRITES
Zelda: The History of Hyrule (Search under The Gallery, then Sprites)
PureZC

CASTLEVANIA SPRITES
Castlevania stuff

DRAGON QUEST SPRITES
monsters

KIRBY SPRITES
KirbyWarriors & PlasmaKirby's Sprite page
Kirby Sprites

POKEMON SPRITES
Pokemon Buildings
Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire Pokemon Sprites
Pokelite sprites
Pokemon Diamond & Pearl Sprites

METAL SLUG SPRITES
Slateman.net - logos and sprites
Metal Slug Database
Metal Slug GIFS 1

CAR SPRITES (GTA etc)
GTA\GTA London User Cars

FIGHTING GAME SPRITES (Mortal Kombat etc)
Fighting Game sprites
The Fighters Generation

RPG SPRITES
Charas Project RPG Resources
FinalFantasy Tactics Sprites
Golden Sun Sprites
Ragnarok Online sprites
Ultragratis Mixed rpg charsets

MEGAMAN SPRITES
MMXZ Zophar
Sprites Inc.

KINGDOM HEARTS SPRITES
The KH Sprite Archive

FIRE EMBLEM SPRITES
Fire Emblem Planet

SAILOR MOON SPRITES
LA-Soldier Sailor Moon Sprites

TEXTURE/BACKGROUNDS
3Dgate
Absolute Cross seamless textures
Background Archive
BG HQ (Background Headquarters)
Bowex's texture pack
Coolarchive - backgrounds
D-Grafix Textures
David Gurrea's Texture site
GM textures site
GRSites.com - Textures
Marlin Studios - Free Textures
NVidia - TransmogrifyingTextures Vol. I (.DDS format)
Quake III Rock Textures

DRAWING REFERENCES
Anime Model Sheets
Human Anatomy Pictures for Artists (nudity)

3D MODELS
3dCAT (register to download)
3D Cafe
3D Lands
3D Total
Anim8or models
Planet Quake (needs GameSpy subscription)
Polycount (needs GameSpy subscription)
Relm of Tyrants Fantasy Theme Models
Quake Factory
Renderosity
Turbosquid

FONTS
1001 Free Fonts
Acid Fonts
Astigmatic One Eye Foundry (free fonts)
BitmapMania
Cooltext.com - Fonts
Coolarchive - fonts
BlamBot Comic Fonts and Lettering
DaFONT
FontFreakGraphics Fonts
GoodFonts
GRSites.com - Fonts
Simply the Best - Fonts
SWS2B - Fonts
Zone38 - Font Stuff

2D PROGRAMS
3D Flash Animator (both 2D and 3D)
Aha-soft.com Utils
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Buttonz & Tilez
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite
Explosion Generator
Explogen
FREESerifSoftware.com
Fontlab (free trials availible)
GIMP
GraphicsGale
Iconempire Pixel Editor
ImageForge
Jasc Software
Kaos Rhei
Macromedia (flash, shockwave, etc.)
Mask Maker
Microsoft Expression
Microsoft GIF Animator
NeoPaint
Paint.Net (Icon Plugin)
Paint Shop Pro 4
Photofiltre
Pixia
Project Dogwaffle
Pro Motion 4
Serif DrawPlus
Texture Processor
The World Creator / The Button Maker
TileSetMaker
Tile Studio
Zbrush
Zephyr
Zpaint

3D PROGRAMS
3D 2 2D model to sprite renderer
3D Flash Animator (both 2D and 3D)
3D Canvas
3D Links
3D Studio Max
World3d
3dPlus
AC3D
Anim8or
Art of Illusion
Aztec
Blender
Bryce 5.5 (now free)
CharacterFX
Cinema 4D
DeepExploration
Delgine 3D Tools
Doga-L
G3D C++ Library
gameSpace
Gmax (Essential Gmax Tools)
Google Sketchup (free version 5 torrent)
JTEdit
Lightwave
Maya (Personal Learning Edition)
Meshwork
Metasequoia
Milkshape 3D
Misfit 3D
OpenFX
Phelios
POSER
Povray
Rhinoceros
Silo3d
sPatch
Tattoo Mesh Skinning Tool
Terragen (Terra Dreams)
Truespace (newer expensive version)(older free version)
Wings 3D (Site #1)(Site #2)

ETOOLS
3D Text Maker
ASCII Generator
Charas (Charas.EX)
Coolarchive - Logo Generator
Coolarchive - Button Generator
CoolText
FlamingText.com
GIFWorks
GRSites.com - Button Maker
GRSites.com - Logo Maker
Postcard Maker
WebFX
Color Scheme Generator

ICON-CREATION PROGRAMS
@icon sushi
Clic
GoldIcon
IcoFX
IconArt
IconEdit
IconEdit2
Icon Maker
LiquidIcon XP
Microangelo
Pop BMP > ICO converter

FONT CREATION PROGRAMS
Bitmap Font Builder
Bitmap Font Writer
Font Creator Program
Microsoft Font Creator

MISC PROGRAMS
Allegorithmic MaP
AnimGet
Avi to Gif Converter
Color Cop 5.0
Coolarchive - Utilities
Fraps Real-Time Video Capture
Free Software Downloads
Gif Movie Gear
IrfanView
K-Lab Watermark
Pivot - Stickman animator (Has other software too)
Text Effects
Texture Maker
TSTTool Graphics Utility
UnFREEz
Wally
Bulent's Screen Recorder

PROGRAMS MADE WITH GAME MAKER
Userbars
LiveDesigner
Photoweb
Textbar Maker V3.1
Userbar Maker by 2% Milk
Userbar Maker by ChIcKeN aTe My DoNuTs
GM Graphical-Design
Userbar Maker by HockeyFlyers
Avatars
Avatar Maker
Photoweb
GM Graphical Design
General Image Editing
Big J's Image Editor
Dpaint
Icons
Icon Editor
Big J's Image Editor
Banners
Signature Maker
Sig Maker v4
Photoweb
GM Graphical-Design
Misc
EmoteMaker

TUTORIALS / BOOKS
Anime Hideout
Basic Spriting/Lighting
Designing Arcade Computer Game Graphics (Recommended)
Dot Picture Introduction
Gamasutra
Good Photoshop Tutorials
Google.com - Photoshop tutorials
Google.com - Paintshop Pro tutorials
GFX Tutorial
GUG GIMP tutorials
How to Draw Anime
How to Draw Manga (nudity)
InCreator's background drawing tutorial
Isometric Tutorial
Makeshift
Manga Tutorials
Mark's Pixel Art Tutorial
Mutoanime (nudity)
Nethersphere
Photoshop and PixelArt Tutorials
Polykarbon: Tutorials
Sonic Spriters Network
Spriteart.com
XaraXone - Isometric Basics

GRAPHICS-RELATED FORUMS
EatPoo
GMPixel
Graphics forums
Pixel forum
Pixeltendo forum
Sprite Land

SEARCH ENGINES
AlltheWeb
AltaVista: Image Search
Ditto
Fagan Finder: Image Search Engines
Google Image Search
Lycos Multimedia Search

Edited by FredFredrickson, 29 November 2010 - 06:43 PM.

[Morinfen]

Hello,

The CoffeeShark Resources link needs to be updated, they've moved to here:
http://www.coffeesha...bshop/index.php
Yes it may say webshop but there is still a lot of freely downloadable stuff there

~Morph

[Natso]

http://www.winterdra...eeware/png2ico/

Icon Creation resource, however it has no Graphical User Interface. It converts PNG images into a format of ICO that is compatable with Game Maker. It is available for multiple operating systems, including Windows.

[bearSoft]

pixel artist tutorials.
A permanent link on this pinned topic should save these from being permanently 'burried' in the forum:
tutorials galore

[SinX]

I would like to note that you have "The Spriters Resource" as "Fireball20xl", they have a new domain and are located at...
http://spriters-resource.com
The domain has been changed for a while.
Thanks.

[Tahnok]

Skeleton
http://www.tahnokgam...ns_skeleton.htm

You can choose whether it should go in Misc Programs (along with things like Pivot), or Programs Made With Game Maker.

[Classics]

Heres a new forum a friend of mine made for pixel art.

PixelNation

[funcravers]

Here is a forum where you can hopefully find someone to help you:
GMRecources forum
Also, I have a recources page on my site:

FSP recources
The toychest webpage is here!!!

Edited by funcravers, 17 September 2007 - 01:07 AM.

[bearSoft]

For building 'seamless' tiles / backgrounds.
Member IsickPuke mentioned This in a thread today.
I think a link in the resource section is apropiate
Obs! The proggy is NOT! freeware!
-------
meight as well ad the ref to the orr. topic:
link

Edited by bearSoft, 30 August 2007 - 11:43 AM.

[gamemakeraaron]

http://www.fe-planet...sprites/archive
brocken just expired afew days ago...

[JamesW]

The Tileshop (PUREZC)

This has custom Zelda, FF rips, etc. Awesome for those who want Zelda-like tiles or want to make a FF2 remake.

PRETTY DAMN SKIPPY! 10/10!

[mememe]

Sprites Database

This has rips from Nintendo DS to GBA. Also has custom.

Edited by mememe, 17 September 2007 - 01:20 PM.

[Elmernite]

The link to Explogen (under 2D PROGRAMS) links to the old version (Not V2)

If it could be updated to read
Explogen V2
And link here:
http://www.kenginega...plogen2page.php

Thanks!
-Elmernite

[RoboBOT]

The link "Isometric Tutorial" is broken. The new url is:
http://www.pixelfrea.../tutorial0.html

[grandhighgamer]

http://berneyboy.pla...om/textures.htm

Big 'ol pack of textures.

[funcravers]

Z-Pixels is a blog/forum site with a main navigation page, created by me. 30 + members there can help with all pixel art.

http://zpixels.informe.com/portal.php

[gamer404]

piXel world is a growing community for piXel artist!

piXel world

[coollog]

SPRITE SHEET SEPARATOR:
Very useful tool for seperating sprite sheets. Read the instructions first! Once you get used to it, you will be seperating sprite sheets like *snap* that.
Learn more and download here.

[SeeYouAlways]

This site has tons of resources for Game Maker; that includes sprites, music, sound effects, and heaps more.

Go to RPG RPG Revolution