Share helpful links

Armelline

I think it would be very handy to put together a comprehensive list of helpful links that new (and old) GameSalad user can refer to. These could be for anything that might help someone make their game.

A few examples:

• Subtle Patterns (http://subtlepatterns.com/) - Free (with attribution) patterns that are clean, subtle and tileable.
• Open Game Art (http://www.opengameart.org) - Free game art, huge collection of many types of art.
• Adobe Color Wheel (https://kuler.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/) - A colour wheel to help pick compatible colours.
• prMac (http://www.prmac.com/) - Press release distribution help.
• Bfxr (http://www.bfxr.net/) - Make your own sound effects, great for retro games.
• Font Squirrel (http://www.fontsquirrel.com/) - A collection of high quality fonts that are royalty free for commercial work.

Suggested types of links:

• Art and design links - either resources or tutorials
• Music - sources of free or cheap music
• GameSalad resources - links to tutorials or (free) templates etc.
• Sound FX - links to sites that help you generate sound fx or offer free ones
• Mac/Windows applications - links to Mac or Windows applications that you find helpful working with GS
• Sites that help with advertising or promoting your game
• Anything else you think might be helpful!

I have a pretty healthy list going already, but I'm positive there are many more sites that the awesome members of this community can recommend! Once I've compiled all the recommendations posted here and added them to my list, I'll sort and order and annotate them and make the whole list available in one handy post.

Looking forward to seeing the great suggestions!

gamestudent

Heres a link to a free download for pixel art software: http://download.cnet.com/Pixen/3000-2191_4-44996.html

jigglybean

Level Design Tips
based on FP2 Left4Dead but explains top tips when designing levels

30 pixel art tutorials

Tips on outsourcing your art
But can be used for everything you outsource

Testing and publishing GS apps to Windows

Indie.db
Great resource for everything Indie

Hopscotch

Quick browsing of color combinations for flat design:
http://www.colorcombos.com/

Nice set of links collecting here!

Socks

'Google' - literally anything !

https://www.google.co.uk

Armelline

Great suggestions so far - keep 'em coming!

Hopscotch

Thanks for the tip @Socks, haven't been so happy with altavista lately

Back on track...

SoundFX generator like Bfxr, certain results sound cleaner to me though.

http://www.superflashbros.net/as3sfxr/

Socks

Nice textures I've used in the past:

http://freestocktextures.com

Licence: All textures may be used for both personal and commercial purposes. You may make any derivative work out of them. However you are not allowed to sell or redistribute these textures in an underived form or if the modified product is a texture or a textures pack.