British Library has over a million public domain images online
Saturday, October 31, 2015 - 06:59
I saw this last night and thought I'd share: The British Library has a Flickr account with over a million public domain images, here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary
The images are all pretty old, so how useful they'll be for your game depends entirely on what kind of aestheic you're going for, but there's a wealth of excellent stuff there. In particular, I recommend poking through the Albums section, where you can find items that have been sorted into categories.
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Awesome!
A lot of this stuff is pretty good as reference image. Great, thanks for sharing!
In the same vein, I recommend the Internet Archive's flickr account. Again, all public domain.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/
There's a lot of game-making potential buried in these types of collections. Here are some examples.
Character portraits:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidremin...
Full-body portraits with a lot of personality:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidmasqu...
Visual novel backgrounds:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidourdo...
More backgrounds - there are a lot like this:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookiditaly...
Get digging. I'm currently making a game that's around ~70% public domain art assets.