Places to get images, sounds and more…
Sites that have royalty-free and Creative Commons images, sounds, 3D models and data collections for you go grab, modify and use. Note: Make sure you understand Creative Commons licenses, especially if creating a commercial product.
Retro Comics at ComicBookPlus
A wonderful collection of older strips, many of which are public domain.
For fun, you might, control(mac) or alt(click) to save them to your computer and edit them with Pixlr to add your own words.
Europeana Archives
Europeana provides access to millions of books, music, artworks and more – with sophisticated search and filter tools to help you find what you’re looking for.
Data.gov.uk
Find data published by central government, local authorities and public bodies to help you build products and services
York Council Open Data
The City of York Council provides lots of data about all sorts of things in your area, such as spending or footfall numbers in the town in .csv format.
There are even .kml files of listed trees, or where litter bins are, that can be imported into Google My Maps or Google Earth.
List of Text Editors
Choosing a text editor for coding is a very personal choice. Some have "too many" features, others are too simple. You may need to try more than a few to find one that you like working in, but it's not until you start on an actual project, that you'll be really able to tell.
Free Vectors
Fabulous collection of SVG or .ai graphics files that you can edit with tools like Inkscape, Janvas or Gravit Designer.
MIT App Inventor Extensions
Thunkable is based on a very similar free tool call MIT App Inventor. Because lots of people create Extensions for it, that also work with Thunkable, you can find extra code, called Extensions which do everything from rotation detection, to sound analysis, to QR code recognition and connecting to other devices.
YouTube Audio Library
YouTube has bots that check your videos to make sure you haven't used a copyrighted music track in your video. All these tracks are free to use on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram & Twitch without copyright issues.
This guide shows you how to download tracks from the Audio Library.
There are also lots of sound effects to download too.
Pay special attention to attribution requirements, with any audio user ever.
Royalty Free Video Clips
Lots of royalty-free videos to use. Can you tell a story with these sorts of videos?
A REVIEW OF NINE INTERACTIVE NARRATIVE SYSTEMS
An academic paper about interactive narrative systems.
Project Gutenberg
A collection of thousands of free to read and use texts, from Trump's inaugural speech to Alice in Wonderland.
Noun Project
The Noun Project has millions of images available as both .png and .svg files (which you can edit). Maybe one of these might be the start of your logo or design.
* Remember to credit the original author.
Collection of Equirectangular Images
A Flickr collection of equirectangular images, many of which are Creative Commons licenced for use in your own VR creations.
Lots more here.
Digital Comic Museum
A strange collection of retro comics from Captain Science to The H-Bomb and you.
The issues are downloadable in .cbr format for which you will need a free comic reader like YAC Reader.
SimplyScripts
Just a lot of scripts and screenplays in various formats (PDF, txt, even comic .cbz etc)
Generated Photos
A collection of people's faces automatically generated by artificial intelligence. None of the people actually exist.
Collection of Posters
Fabulous collection of posters from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the 1930s
