A lot of you out there are working on the next “big” game. Often, you’ll find yourself without the necessary resources to finish your game. Usually this means you just plain suck at graphics or audio, and don’t have the skills to pull anything cool together. Here’s my list of top websites to go to if you are need of some resources for your game. Please keep in mind some of these sites can be used for commercial purposes, while others cannot.
Sprites
http://sdb.drshnaps.com/
http://www.spriters-resource.com/
http://opengameart.org/
http://charas-project.net/
Textures
http://mayang.com/textures/
http://www.cgtextures.com/
http://www.morguefile.com/
http://www.turbosquid.com/Textures
http://www.deviantart.com/ (Also might find some sprites here)
Music
http://ocremix.org/
Sound Effects
http://www.soundjay.com/
http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com/
Fonts
http://www.dafont.com/
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Here are some more sites:
http://www.vgmusic.com (music)
http://www.gsarchives.net (sprites)
http://www.fontfreak.com (fonts)
Does simple asset creation fit in this list?
sfxr:
http://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html
http://code.google.com/p/sfxr/
Musagi:
http://www.drpetter.se/project_musagi.html
FontStruct:
http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/
For deviantart, the Stock part is very helpful. There are fonts, graphics, icons, etc.
Some very nice and incredibly useful links.
Thanks Tim!