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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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StickyTipFavorite Game Making Tools

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

140 replies

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Frontline Studios

25 days ago

StickyTipCreating a GIF for your game

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

28 replies

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mig

40 days ago

StickyMental Health in Games Resource List

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

24 replies

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Vaida

Feb 03, 2026

StickyPersonal Games Resource List

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

19 replies

29,970 views

Vaida

Feb 03, 2026

StickyTipDistributing pre-release builds with itch.io

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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My biggest project: A game *engine* with its own scripting language

So I'm a C# developer and I have a prototype of a game engine (based on GameMaker 8) that uses the interpreted programmi...

started by DavidCS1 5 days ago

4 replies

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OURABIG

5 hours ago

ProgrammingIn 2026, which game development frameworks / libraries / engines are actually AI...

It is important to me that my games are AI-free, and if the engine I use includes AI code, the end product includes AI c...

started by Ratsnake Games 48 days ago

14 replies

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OURABIG

17 hours ago

What would it take for people to start making games on elves?

I have always been a big fan of elves since my early days of gaming, there is so much I love about them and I like to fi...

started by psyf3ktorstudios 5 days ago

19 replies

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redonihunter

4 days ago

DesignHow would you design fair clues for an AI detective game?

I’m experimenting with a browser-based detective game where players can ask suspects their own questions instead of ch...

started by mmjuns 5 days ago

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ProgrammingLite-signal v1.1 - zeroGC reactive library

Hi everyone — @zakkster/lite-signal is a small (~3.2 KB min+gz, single-file ESM, zero deps) reactive state library for...

started by PeshoVurtoleta 8 days ago

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Apple Developer Program Pending Termination — Looking for developer experience...

Hi everyone, I’m an independent game developer working on a small 2D mobile runner game for iOS. The game includes nor...

started by ozgur2534 8 days ago

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Price

Just curious how everyone else comes up with a price for their games.

started by Taro Dec 02, 2015

50 replies

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saqlain_baloch

8 days ago

Give Me Ideas For Baldi Mods!

im out of ideas for baldi mods and another thing thats basically out of topic how do i publish games on itch.io when i u...

started by MemealdiLOL1 8 days ago

1 reply

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No Time To Play

8 days ago

ProgrammingAmianto Editor (in development)

Hi everyone, I’d like to introduce a project I’m currently developing solo: Amianto Editor . Amianto Editor is a web...

started by Amiant 9 days ago

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Writingkeeping motivation for making visual novels?

i'm a solo developer and rn i'm in the stage of visual novel development where i know what i want to happen and the main...

started by saturnX3 9 days ago

1 reply

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Irog

9 days ago

ArtArmory Crafter - Modular 3D Weapon Prop Models Editor

Hey everyone! I wanted to share a tool I’ve been working on called Armory Crafter , a modular 3D weapon prop editor. T...

started by Kevin Iglesias 13 days ago

1 reply

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Kevin Iglesias

11 days ago

New Rpg game Ideas and Tips

After what 2 years we are back we took a break from agem dev and focused on Website Designing but we are back and want t...

started by Strain studios 11 days ago

2 replies

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Strain studios

11 days ago

Audio cassette damage tool for game audio

Hey! I made a small browser tool called ATTAQ TAPE CHEWER . https://artemyzen.itch.io/attaq-tape-chewer It turns audio f...

started by Artemy Zen 11 days ago

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DesignLevel Design Tips

I'm working on a prototype for an infiltrator game where neither side has guns. I love stealth gameplay but it always st...

started by SwivelChairGames 13 days ago

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ProgrammingProblems with shooting in my bullet hell project.

Hello everyone!! I'm a begginer gamedev trying to make a bullet hell game, the game engine being used is Unity . The pro...

started by Arthuritos 16 days ago

4 replies

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newmemberdeveloper

15 days ago

ProgrammingFalling in love with Game Feel polish phase

I felt in love with the Game Feel task. It's really empowering to go from "working" game to a "satisfying" one and feel...

started by Coding Mojo 18 days ago

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Making an online card-turnbase game

Hello, I have an idea for an online turn-based card game, but I'm not sure whether I should go with Godot, Python/JavaSc...

started by ngdat24 19 days ago

5 replies

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Ratsnake Games

19 days ago

Question

Why game developing is too hard? even when i do a tutorial from YouTube? (Note: I use Godot 4)

started by Mustafa 22 days ago

2 replies

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Ratsnake Games

20 days ago

ProgrammingI built a Zero-GC 100k Particle Pipeline for JS/Web ECS (Open Source)

Hey everyone, If you are building HTML5/JS games using an Entity Component System (ECS), you know the biggest enemy of s...

started by PeshoVurtoleta 21 days ago

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Marketing🎮 Is Getting 4 Steam Wishlists in 2 Days Bad? 🤔✨

Hey everyone, I just published my game's Steam page 2 days ago. I think the game looks visually pretty good, but I haven...

started by UnbelievableGames 22 days ago

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UnbelievableGames

22 days ago

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