The ground beneath your feet feels cold and unyielding as you step into Nanashi City, where night rain moistens the pavement and paper lanterns sway with the wind. Above, the buzz of caged LED lights merges with the echo of trains rushing just meters overhead, casting sporadic illumination on the streets below. Raindrops patter softly on corrugated roofs, their soothing sound harmonizing with the city's nocturnal symphony. Moonlight shines weakly, its feeble glow overpowered by the artificial radiance.
Amidst this surreal ambiance, you find yourself surrounded by a labyrinth of signs, each bearing a tantalizing invitation. The city's pulse thrums through the air, urging you to decide your path. The choices numerous, each one promising a unique adventure. Your journey in Nanashi City begins now—
you arrive in nanashi...the nameless city...
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Nanashi City - a sprawling metropolis that stretches for miles, is a marvel of human ingenuity and creativity. Its skyline is a mesmerizing blend of sleek skyscrapers and ancient temples, standing side by side in harmonious contrast. Neon lights paint the city in vibrant hues, reflecting off the glass facades of towering buildings, while narrow alleys wind through the heart of the city, revealing hidden gems of old-world charm. Nanashi is a city of contrasts, where futuristic technology and ancient traditions coexist, creating a unique atmosphere that captivates the senses.
This extraordinary city is the brainchild of Crow and a dedicated group of friends, writers who embarked on a world-building project over a decade ago. Their collective imagination breathed life into Nanashi, infusing it with rich lore, diverse cultures, and intricate histories. Every street, every building, and every character in Nanashi City has been meticulously crafted, making it a living, breathing entity in the realm of creative expression. At its heart, Nanashi is more than just a city—it's a sanctuary for supernatural beings, providing refuge to vampires, werewolves, wraiths, and other extraordinary entities. This safe haven amidst the bustling metropolis has fostered a unique coexistence, where humans and supernatural beings live side by side, forging bonds and alliances in the face of a world that so often misunderstands them.
With each passing year, the world-building project has grown, evolving and expanding alongside the imaginations of its creators. Nanashi has become a testament to the power of collaborative storytelling, a vibrant tapestry woven by the hands and minds of passionate individuals. As a result, the city continues to flourish, inviting adventurers from far and wide to explore its mysteries and shape its destiny.
You can explore it too; you need only to step inside...
This extraordinary city is the brainchild of Crow and a dedicated group of friends, writers who embarked on a world-building project over a decade ago. Their collective imagination breathed life into Nanashi, infusing it with rich lore, diverse cultures, and intricate histories. Every street, every building, and every character in Nanashi City has been meticulously crafted, making it a living, breathing entity in the realm of creative expression. At its heart, Nanashi is more than just a city—it's a sanctuary for supernatural beings, providing refuge to vampires, werewolves, wraiths, and other extraordinary entities. This safe haven amidst the bustling metropolis has fostered a unique coexistence, where humans and supernatural beings live side by side, forging bonds and alliances in the face of a world that so often misunderstands them.
With each passing year, the world-building project has grown, evolving and expanding alongside the imaginations of its creators. Nanashi has become a testament to the power of collaborative storytelling, a vibrant tapestry woven by the hands and minds of passionate individuals. As a result, the city continues to flourish, inviting adventurers from far and wide to explore its mysteries and shape its destiny.
You can explore it too; you need only to step inside...
Fun Websites
DOLLZ REVIVAL - a revival of the classic dress-up doll games
r/INTERNETISBEAUTIFUL - subreddit of cool, one page websites
NOCLIP - generates levels from different games for you to explore in your browser
NEON FLAMES - make flame designs in your browser
THIS IS SAND - online kinetic sand!
WHOMST ZONE - just go there and see for yourself
DEEP SEA - explorable ocean depth chart! super immersive!
CACHEMONET - cool animations and visuals
FLUID DYNAMICS - have you ever won at solitaire?
DVD SCREENSAVER - exactly what it sounds like
DRAWING GARDEN - draw with emoji flowers!
PIXELDOLLS - adoptables and doll makers
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Useful Software
G.I.M.P - a neat free Adobe Photoshop alternative that is heavily featured and made by the open source community! i use this to make stuff for this site as photoshop is expensive and a bit of a hassle for what i'm actually doing.
LMMS - free DAW (digital audio workstation) for making beats if you don't have any of the major softwares! not as fully featured as the likes of logic & ableton but pretty close, and good if you're used to the FL interface. works with lots of plugins too.
Inkscape - the GIMP of vector graphics, Inkscape is a great piece of design software with features similar to Adobe Illustrator.
Brackets - A free, open source textcode editor with live preview feature (I use this sometimes for coding my site).
Lunacy - More free design software built for creating UX/UI type stuff. Similar to Sketch/Adobe XD.
LMMS - free DAW (digital audio workstation) for making beats if you don't have any of the major softwares! not as fully featured as the likes of logic & ableton but pretty close, and good if you're used to the FL interface. works with lots of plugins too.
Inkscape - the GIMP of vector graphics, Inkscape is a great piece of design software with features similar to Adobe Illustrator.
Brackets - A free, open source textcode editor with live preview feature (I use this sometimes for coding my site).
Lunacy - More free design software built for creating UX/UI type stuff. Similar to Sketch/Adobe XD.
Site Resources
Here are some links to free resources around the internet that might come in handy when making your own website!
SmartGB - Popular free guestbook host with customiseable features
123 Guestbook - Another free option, slightly less featured but a nicer aesthetic imo
Free GB - Yet another free guestbook option
Bravenet Guestbooks - Bravenet's guestbook tool - I haven't tried this but it looks like it has lots of features
HTML Comment Box - A comments system that can be added to any HTML page
cBox - Add a shoutbox to your website for free!
Shoutjax - Another shoutbox provider (I have not tried this one)
The Last Melon's Scraps - Lots of web materials, pixels & graphics for your site.
Pixel It - Generate pixel art from images
Dafont - Respository of thousands of downloadable fonts. See font terms before use.
Emoji in Blog - Pasteable emojis that will show up in your HTML blog
ACA Systems Button Maker - Make 80x15 web buttons in your browser!
Stripe Generator - Generate striped backgrounds for your site
Patterncooler - Generate cool seamless patterns of your choice
Canva - Excellent free browser-based publishing software. Premium version available.
Pixlr - Photoshop-esque image editor based in your browser
Zonelets - Very simple free javascript-based blog script for your html sites
Photopea - Another photoshop clone with advanced features!
Photomosh - Generate glitchy photos and gifs
CSS Gradient - Create CSS gradients
Mesher - CSS Mesh Gradients Generator
CSS Scrollbar Maker - A codepen that allows you to generate a customised scrollbar code
Image Color Picker - Pick out colours & their codes from images
StickPNG - Free transparent PNG images/cliparts
Glitter Graphics - lots of awful 90s goodies from the old (fun) internet!!
Web Badges World - Lots of badges to use on your site
Animasta - CSS animation effects (e.g. background gradients) to make your website pop!
Doodlenerd CSS Text effects - Different text effects for your site
Heongae Favicons - Some cute favicons for your site's title bar.
Hotglue - Very fun looking actual 'drag-and-drop' site-builder. Also a downloadable script if you want to upload the framework to your own server.
Ichi - A very small and simple html site host.
Status Cafe - Display your latest 'status' (microblog style) on your website. You can also customise your profile with HTML & CSS.
Textanim - Animated .gif text generator in your browser!
Webneko - Add a cute character to your page that can follow your visitors' cursor.
Wobble Town - Adopt a pixel character.
Texture Town - Thousands of seamless background textures for you to use, with a handy live preview feature.
Fat Strawberry - More free backgrounds & graphic resources.
Salvaged - Archive of recovered photoshop/paint shop pro resources from the sites of olde.
Cursor Effects - Cool cursor effects that you can add to your website.
Smol Pub - A very small & minimal blog platform.
Dither Me This - Dither images in your browser
Slideshow Generator - Create javascript image slideshows for your website!
Pilssken's Artist's Toolbox - Useful list of various resources for art/design/web design work (incl. software, font repositories, free-to-use images)
Simplilearn SEO tutorial - A very long (but free!) introduction to SEO.
Neocities - a great place to make free html sites with tutorials abound, founded in the ashes of 90s favourite yahoo geocities! also my lovely host
Gifcities - search engine for archives of yahoo geocities, lots of vapourwave-ish gifs and 90s pixels to be found! i get some of the pixels in my content section from here
Simplilearn Project Management Tutorial - Another long (but also free) introduction to Project Management, could definitely come in handy for comms/design project experience.
Foollovers - HTML/CSS Layouts (Japanese Web Style)
Almost Sweet - Free layouts right here on neocities!
Sadgrl - More free layouts
Cepheus - (well, I couldn't not plug my own, right?) HTML/CSS layouts you're welcome to use/edit for free!
Createblog - Mostly created in the late-2000s, this site is filled with themes!
Loveblush - Cute, customisable stylesheets!
Dorkistic - Neat free blog themes
Jubilee Themes - Excellent tumblr themes that can be made to work on websites if you know what you're doing
Celestial Star - Even more 2000s-style layouts!
HTML5 UP! - Free, professional and responsive web templates
Codes By Laighlin - More awesome tumblr themes that can be adapted!
Nycto Themes - Even MORE great tumblr themes
Egg Ramen - Nice simple CSS templates, great for learning how to position things and make certain layouts. Hugely recommend if you're getting started with neocities!
Websets by Lynn - Awesome, cute early 2000s style web layouts! Great for a dose of nostalgia x
Templaterr - HTML themes & guides for neocities!
UserStyles World - CSS styles for various sites/apps.
Guestbooks/Comment Systems:
SmartGB - Popular free guestbook host with customiseable features
123 Guestbook - Another free option, slightly less featured but a nicer aesthetic imo
Free GB - Yet another free guestbook option
Bravenet Guestbooks - Bravenet's guestbook tool - I haven't tried this but it looks like it has lots of features
HTML Comment Box - A comments system that can be added to any HTML page
cBox - Add a shoutbox to your website for free!
Shoutjax - Another shoutbox provider (I have not tried this one)
Art/Design/Web Resources:
The Last Melon's Scraps - Lots of web materials, pixels & graphics for your site.
Pixel It - Generate pixel art from images
Dafont - Respository of thousands of downloadable fonts. See font terms before use.
Emoji in Blog - Pasteable emojis that will show up in your HTML blog
ACA Systems Button Maker - Make 80x15 web buttons in your browser!
Stripe Generator - Generate striped backgrounds for your site
Patterncooler - Generate cool seamless patterns of your choice
Canva - Excellent free browser-based publishing software. Premium version available.
Pixlr - Photoshop-esque image editor based in your browser
Zonelets - Very simple free javascript-based blog script for your html sites
Photopea - Another photoshop clone with advanced features!
Photomosh - Generate glitchy photos and gifs
CSS Gradient - Create CSS gradients
Mesher - CSS Mesh Gradients Generator
CSS Scrollbar Maker - A codepen that allows you to generate a customised scrollbar code
Image Color Picker - Pick out colours & their codes from images
StickPNG - Free transparent PNG images/cliparts
Glitter Graphics - lots of awful 90s goodies from the old (
Web Badges World - Lots of badges to use on your site
Animasta - CSS animation effects (e.g. background gradients) to make your website pop!
Doodlenerd CSS Text effects - Different text effects for your site
Heongae Favicons - Some cute favicons for your site's title bar.
Hotglue - Very fun looking actual 'drag-and-drop' site-builder. Also a downloadable script if you want to upload the framework to your own server.
Ichi - A very small and simple html site host.
Status Cafe - Display your latest 'status' (microblog style) on your website. You can also customise your profile with HTML & CSS.
Textanim - Animated .gif text generator in your browser!
Webneko - Add a cute character to your page that can follow your visitors' cursor.
Wobble Town - Adopt a pixel character.
Texture Town - Thousands of seamless background textures for you to use, with a handy live preview feature.
Fat Strawberry - More free backgrounds & graphic resources.
Salvaged - Archive of recovered photoshop/paint shop pro resources from the sites of olde.
Cursor Effects - Cool cursor effects that you can add to your website.
Smol Pub - A very small & minimal blog platform.
Dither Me This - Dither images in your browser
Slideshow Generator - Create javascript image slideshows for your website!
Pilssken's Artist's Toolbox - Useful list of various resources for art/design/web design work (incl. software, font repositories, free-to-use images)
Simplilearn SEO tutorial - A very long (but free!) introduction to SEO.
Neocities - a great place to make free html sites with tutorials abound, founded in the ashes of 90s favourite yahoo geocities! also my lovely host
Gifcities - search engine for archives of yahoo geocities, lots of vapourwave-ish gifs and 90s pixels to be found! i get some of the pixels in my content section from here
Simplilearn Project Management Tutorial - Another long (but also free) introduction to Project Management, could definitely come in handy for comms/design project experience.
Site Layouts:
Foollovers - HTML/CSS Layouts (Japanese Web Style)
Almost Sweet - Free layouts right here on neocities!
Sadgrl - More free layouts
Cepheus - (well, I couldn't not plug my own, right?) HTML/CSS layouts you're welcome to use/edit for free!
Createblog - Mostly created in the late-2000s, this site is filled with themes!
Loveblush - Cute, customisable stylesheets!
Dorkistic - Neat free blog themes
Jubilee Themes - Excellent tumblr themes that can be made to work on websites if you know what you're doing
Celestial Star - Even more 2000s-style layouts!
HTML5 UP! - Free, professional and responsive web templates
Codes By Laighlin - More awesome tumblr themes that can be adapted!
Nycto Themes - Even MORE great tumblr themes
Egg Ramen - Nice simple CSS templates, great for learning how to position things and make certain layouts. Hugely recommend if you're getting started with neocities!
Websets by Lynn - Awesome, cute early 2000s style web layouts! Great for a dose of nostalgia x
Templaterr - HTML themes & guides for neocities!
UserStyles World - CSS styles for various sites/apps.