WHAT I ACTUALLY USE MOST HERE!!!
- Workrave - A helpful RSI-prevention tool that reminds you to take regular/micro screen breaks. It lets you set custom timers, it feels nostalgic, there's old looking 3D animated exercises to help you stretch!
- Mechvibes - Plays mechanical keyboard sound effects as you type! It's great if you love clicky mechanical switches but have to stay quiet around others, plus you can add your own custom sound packs!~
- Dead Link Checker: Free Broken Link Checking Tool - A fast and free tool to scan your website and make sure none of your links are broken!
- Pixel Art Scaler - A handy tool to upscale your pixel art using nearest-neighbor scaling so it looks crisp and perfect on social media!
- Corrscope - Excellent for multi-channel / multi-view scopes! I see a lot of music tracker artists use it for the Oscilloscope view, and I love it. The waveform is super stable and properly syncs with your music.
- Text ASCII Art Generator - Convert your plain text into cool ASCII art fonts! It has so many amazing styles to choose from~
- Chess.com - Play a quick game of chess online against other players or bots!
Web Customization & Retro Decoration
- Web Badges World - Collect web badges to decorate your site, there's SO many to choose from!
- cursors-4u - Loads of nice custom mouse cursors! Reminds me of old MMORPGs and classic Flash games~
- emojiBank™/絵文字バンク - A huge repository of retro and custom emojis, though I can't seem to sign up on the site *SIGHS*
- Kaomoji: Japanese Emoticons - Quickly find and copy classic Japanese kaomoji text emoticons—there's also an app version!~
Pixel Art & Retro Graphic Tools
Gaming Resources & Game Dev
- GB Studio - A retro game creator that lets you build your very own real Game Boy games!! Using a visual drag-and-drop editor!
- EasyRPG - An awesome open-source project inspired by RPG Maker that lets you play RPG Maker 2000/2003 games on modern devices!
- The Fighters Generation - Packed with massive amounts of fighting game history and character trivia^^ I especially love the animated sprite GIFs, it's a great read that I highly recommend!
- The Spriters Resource - An absolute treasure trove of game sprite sheets! I love finding resources and inspiration here.
- BigBoxDB - A cool archive project scanning classic retro PC game "big boxes" into interactive 3D previews~
- Earthbound Battle Backgrounds - An interactive web player featuring the iconic, trippy shifting battle backgrounds from the SNES RPG Earthbound (Mother 2).
- The Death Generator - A fun generator that lets you put custom messages inside retro game dialogue boxes and screens!
Web Games
Music
- Vidya Intarweb - A long-running, curated video game music (VGM) playlist (often called VIP). It started around 2008–2009 as a Flash-based player on Aersia.net and has been a staple of the scene for a long time! (The name "Vidya" is old internet slang, possibly related to King of the Hill).
- MIDITrail - A 3D MIDI visualizer. Formerly hosted on OSDN (SourceForge.JP), the project moved to this dedicated website around 2023 if you've been looking for it!