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Whether it's game engines, new algorithms, designing the perfect mechanic, working with a team, marketing, creating sounds, or coming up with a captivating story, anything about game development goes. Share tips and techniques, or find insights posted from other members of the community.

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Thought it might be fun to have a thread where everyone could share their favorite tools for making games. I'm gonna use...
started by flankstaek Dec 02, 2015 Last page
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I see a lot of devs using a mix of these techniques to distribute early builds of their games/tools: .zip or installer i...
started by Amos Jan 10, 2016
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Since itch.io is full of very interesting personal games, I thought it would be the best place to post something like th...
started by Vaida Dec 04, 2015
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Since many people on itch.io used animated cover images I figure we should have a thread with some GIF creating resource...
started by leafo Dec 28, 2015 Last page
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After having a blast making the personal games resource list , I decided to compile a list of games, articles and other...
started by Vaida Dec 15, 2015
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I’m soon going to release Strategy game but with a penguin who has a sword , but I’m not sure what would be a good p...
started by Pikku-a 5 days ago
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Already begun programming a new but simple game. So the basic premise of the game is that you play as a dark bluish-purp...
started by GodwayGames 5 days ago
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I created a blueprint that works like a code lock, when all the digits are filled in it checks if I picked the right cod...
started by Dragon Studic 6 days ago
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Hi All, Like many other people on here I'd like to make my first game. I don't have any experience with any of this. I s...
started by Sirion 29 days ago
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So I have this twine made HTML with my game consolidated to a zip folder with the pictures for said game......But when I...
started by CurrentGames 9 days ago
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What are your comments on these game making programs? Thanks. They look really powerful for game development!
started by rcbasicfans Jul 30, 2020
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(I was not entirely sure where to put this, as it is looking for mainly discussion, but also encouraging interested user...
started by spacenerdy 29 days ago
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I've been coding on and off for about 3-4 years but it's all been non-witten coding and I've been trying to get better a...
started by CoderEli 16 days ago
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advertising is a whole new level for gamedev and artists very hard to get noticed much for example here on itch.io I get...
started by o139 69 days ago
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I have a Unity application ( https://will9371.itch.io/probability-calculator for reference) that works fine in the edito...
started by Will9371 38 days ago
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In the Unity game engine, theres a useful thing that can help you debug your games, this is the Gizmo toggle. First, an...
started by Phill Nov 15, 2017
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Good day. I decided to publish my game on Itch.io. However, I don't want users to be able to just copy the .exe file. I...
started by RomaBlackRat 38 days ago
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Hi, I’ve been recently trying to use addressable assets to reduce memory usage in Unity - I already looked at a tutori...
started by NullXer 67 days ago
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Hey readers, well, I have an indie game, but the problem is that I want to make it grow, however, I don't have friends w...
started by KittyCreamPuff 45 days ago
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Hey all, I co-founded a startup called Asset Layer ( https://www.assetlayer.com/ ) which built a backend platform to mak...
started by DersHere 42 days ago
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I've seen many three years old threads about this, and looks like it is not yet fixed. The issue is that the games statu...
started by Omiod Sep 06, 2022
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I recently started planning a game. This game is largely inspired by Hogwarts Legacy but also by others in some ways. I'...
started by WhispV 45 days ago
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Steam. Xbox, PS4, etc. have trophy/achievement systems. Even games not on a platform with achievements may display achie...
started by Identical Games Jun 28, 2020
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The Pink banner bothered me when browsing so I created a css script to mod it. Installation If you have custom css style...
started by Courcat Feb 08, 2017
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Arcweave is a tool created to give game developers a way to create the interactive narrative elements used for their pro...
started by ArcMason 47 days ago
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