Some links to kick things off

[Guilect]

SayIt -- freeware program that creates synthisized voice wav files of the text that you type in.
www.analogx.com/contents/download/audio/sayit.htm

Automated Composing System -- creates royalty free midi songs. Current version is shareware; if you can find a version 5 or earlier it is freeware.
hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA014815/music/English/autocomp.html

Reiner's Tileset -- free graphic images (sprites, etc.)
www.reinerstileset.4players.de:1059/englisch.htm

Install Creator -- the install program used for Brutus2D;
freeware and pro versions available.
www.clickteam.com/English/install_creator.htm

Sound effects -- free
www.a1freesoundeffects.com/noflash.htm
www.royaltyfreemusic.com/free-music-resources.html
www.wavsource.com/sfx/sfx.htm

A sound effects generator - v1.3 freeware tested fine on Windows XP (bottom most link)
www.sonicspot.com/simsynth/simsynth.html

Midi's - free and original
www.industrialstudios.audiodragon.net/index.php?idx=midis-free
MP3's
www.industrialstudios.audiodragon.net/index.php?idx=freeware

NovaMatic - It is a freeware Win32 program designed to create cool graphic effects known as novas on existing windows bmp images.
www.geocities.com/fcueto/Otros/NovaMatic.htm

[Guest]

Cheap Graphics:

I bought this sprite pack and it is well worth the $16. It has some really good graphics in it and a variety of styles:
www.blackrogue.com/page4.html

Sprite Works is an extremely affordable sprite pack ($20) and it has a wide variety of graphics in it. They are extremely good quality.
www.spriteworks.com/sworks.html

Texture Works is ideal for creating tiles for your 2D games. It is only $14.95
www.spriteworks.com/texworks.html

Free Graphics:

RTiles has some 2D graphics perfect for a dungeon crawler. A huge assortment if you download all of them. Even some "3D" looking graphics
rltiles.sourceforge.net/

This one is "connected" to the previous link, but a while back, it contained a few different graphics, that the previous link didn't have.
crawlj.sourceforge.jp/

Lots of 2D graphics can be found here. A wide variety of styles and quality.
www.molotov.nu/?page=graphics

Gaming World literally has a lifetime supply of 2D graphics.
www.gamingw.net/resource/

Although this book, Designing Arcade Computer Game Graphics is dated, you can download it for free and it is useful and the techniques can easily be applied to Windows image creation/editing.
www.gamemaker.nl/feldman.html

Ari also has a free sprite lib (This is an updated version with newer sprites and a few of the old ones):
www.flyingyogi.com/fun/spritelib.html

Also here is a free book on game design by Chris Crawford who is the godfather of video games. The book is called The Art of Computer Game Design and even though it came out in 1982, it still holds up today.
www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/peabody/game-book/Coverpage.html

If you like his books, check Amazon as he has three or four newer books on game design that are just as good.

Amit's has a plethora of useful game programming info:
www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html

GameDev.Net is also a goldmine for help:
www.gamedev.net

[Guest]

Zpaint is great for making 3D buttons and interfaces for your games, and its free:
www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/

[Guilect]

Free ogg music loops:
www.acoustica.com/mixcraft/free-loops.htm

Free wav sound effects:
www.acoustica.com/mp3-audio-mixer/sounds.htm

[Guilect]

Tilemaker - by aahlam

Like MSPaint only much better and built specifically for the creation of a tile.

Freeware.

link:
www.pewtersoftware.com/freeware/TileMaker.zip

screenshot:

[Guilect]

Tileset maker.

Combines individual images into a tileset.

Freeware.

Link:
www.pewtersoftware.com/freeware/tilesetmaker.exe

Screenshot:

[Guilect]

Tileforge - by Vincent Foster

A program that will take 3 seperate tiles and then combine them to provide all possible combinations.
This yields 16 different tiles that has all of the major and minor compass points generated for you.
(see screenshot)

Freeware.

link:
www.pewtersoftware.com/freeware/tileforge.zip

Screenshot:

[Guilect]

Isometric Convertor -- by Daniel Marin

Converts a standard tile into a isometric view tile.

Freeware.

link:
www.pewtersoftware.com/freeware/isoconv.zip

Screenshot:

[Guilect]

Tileset Info -- based on a program by Mephisto

Load a tileset and get various information about the tileset as a whole and indiviual tiles.

Freeware.

Link:
www.pewtersoftware.com/freeware/tilesetinfo.zip

Screenshot:

[Guilect]

Soundmaker -- by Ulli

Creates bleeps, bings, and buzzes in .wav format.

Freeware.

Link:
www.pewtersoftware.com/freeware/Soundmaker.zip

Screenshot:

[OddChild]

InstallStation
www.download.com/InstallStation/3000-2383_4-10391082.html?tag=lst-0-5

Freeware ;D

[robylu]

Easy Music Composer

www5f.biglobe.ne.jp/~mcs/emc.html

Freeware and Shareware, it compose automatic great tunes in midi format

[Guilect]

theWrap

"theWRAP makes a single EXE (executable) file out of your program and all its support files. When the WRAPped EXE is run, all the required files are extracted for use. When the application is closed, all the extracted files are deleted, leaving just the original WRAPped EXE in the directory, along with any new files created by using the application."

You can download the trial version here:

Link
trondoc.ezwebtech.com/theWRAP/more.html

The trial version allows for 17 files total to be wrapped.
You can not purchase the full version any longer as the author is deceased.

[OddChild]

thousands of sprites charas-project.net/resources.php?wa=0%C3%83%C2%A2%C3%85%E2%80%99%C3%82%C2%A9=fr&lang=en&area=Charasets&offset=29&howmany=10&fsearch=

[OddChild]

RPG Sprite Generator - charas-project.net/charas.ex/Charas.EX_04-10-02.zip