General Development

1,382

Topics

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.

View this community's rules…

Rules

This board is not for self promotion of your games. If you've just released a game on itch.io please head to the Release announcements board.

1,382 topics · Next page

Topic

Last post

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

39,485 views

Frontline Studios

2 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

28,618 views

mig

17 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

9,998 views

Vaida

91 days ago

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

29,503 views

Vaida

91 days ago

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

11,337 views

No replies yet

DesignHow and Why I Started Making a Roguelike, and Why Godot?

The development story of SheepKnight — a few weekends of work (but with a year-long break). About a year ago, I saw a...

started by CosmoPark 1 hour ago

7 views

No replies yet

ProgrammingClaude (Opus 4.7) is really capable of managing the whole project and it surpris...

Hey folks :) Recently I got excited by the idea to revive one of my projects with AI and the result was honestly quite f...

started by Silver3310 5 hours ago

4 replies

108 views

Steve Mitchell

2 hours ago

Programmingmake games in godot with me

i make games in godot

started by Groove_Genius 2 days ago

2 replies

49 views

Steve Mitchell

5 hours ago

DesignInteractive 60-30-10 Color Palette Generator

An interactive 60-30-10 Color Palette Generator. Pick any color - or input yours - and instantly get harmonious palettes...

started by NandoPlay 14 hours ago

16 views

No replies yet

DesignLooking for Volunteers to an Indie Horror Videogame

Hey everyone, my name is ReczG here (Orangeade_Games on other platforms) and I am looking for a Clickteam, GameMaker or...

started by ReczG 22 hours ago

26 views

No replies yet

Tips

I'm a beginner developer and want some tips and shared experiences. (I use Godot 4)

started by Mustafa 4 days ago

6 replies

105 views

SillyLix

1 day ago

ProgrammingGuide on modular Save System for Unity

Hi, I’ve been working on a save system for a while now, and I wanted to ask what you all think about it. I’m a stude...

started by SillyLix 1 day ago

19 views

No replies yet

ProgrammingZiva - AI Agent for Godot

If you're interested in using AI to make your game development faster (which, lets be real, many people are), Ziva is he...

started by Zivash 71 days ago

5 replies

1,114 views

Red Bracket

4 days ago

ProgrammingEver made a game in your own programming language? Well, I did!

A game in my own programming language Yes, it was about time. I started developing my own programming language a few yea...

started by Daniel Brendel Jul 06, 2025

12 replies

1,469 views

Daniel Brendel

6 days ago

game engines

does anyone has suggestions for good free 2d and 3d game engines that dont need my email to use. I have an idea for a ne...

started by dveloper123 10 days ago

9 replies

176 views

mid

7 days ago

Experimenting with a Letter Boxed–Style Word Puzzle — Feedback Welcome

Hey everyone, I’ve been playing around with a small word-puzzle concept inspired by the NYT game Letter Boxed , where...

started by Hellen Charless 90 days ago

1 reply

128 views

ellahayes

7 days ago

ProgrammingMade a Ren’Py VS Code extension because existing ones were lacking - includes...

I kept running into limitations with existing Ren’Py VS Code extensions - mainly not being able to jump to definitions...

started by Allure Diffusion 33 days ago

1 reply

117 views

Allure Diffusion

8 days ago

[Need Testers] Help me map out HTML5 VRAM limits (Browser APIs are lying to us!)

Hey everyone, I'm the creator of @zakkster/lite-vram , an open-source VRAM manager for HTML5 games. I'm currently fine-t...

started by PeshoVurtoleta 9 days ago

63 views

No replies yet

Programming[SMW Hacking] Building a Point‑and‑Click Engine on the SNES Using Sequential...

I’ve been experimenting with a sequential “password block” system in Super Mario World using custom ASM blocks. Ea...

started by SUPER-J11BIT 91 days ago

4 replies

270 views

SUPER-J11BIT

10 days ago

(Scratch) Cats covering screen and menus.

I’m making a multiplayer game in Scratch using cloud variables . Whenever a new player joins, the cat sprites (or play...

started by Gam | Official Account 11 days ago

48 views

No replies yet

Programminggodot+dialogic general help (multiple questions)

ok i hope this was the right place to ask this (if its not pls tell me, ill move/delete it), i am a new visual novel dev...

started by saturnX3 13 days ago

1 reply

103 views

saturnX3

13 days ago

ProgrammingA skill/plugin for building modular UPM packages with ScriptableObject patterns

I've been trying to get AI coding assistants to stop writing bad Unity architecture, and I think I've gotten somewhere...

started by eyenpi 71 days ago

2 replies

320 views

CaseyDuck101

16 days ago

ProgrammingGame engine question

Right now I have 3 engine running the game. A Symbolic engine, Keyword engine, and a Narrative engine. I am trying to ha...

started by CaseyDuck101 16 days ago

39 views

No replies yet

ArtCan anyone help me on how to do cosmetics for hitscan weapons? (GODOT 4)

Hi! I'm making a top down shooter inspired by hotline Miami. I'm choosing to use hitscan for the guns but I was unsure h...

started by NEDSloth 16 days ago

1 reply

75 views

NEDSloth

16 days ago

DesignUnity Package Experiment — AI-Assisted Workflow & Iteration

Just finished tinkering with this package and had to share — there’s a lot of solid stuff in here 😄 The Story Ver...

started by EmaceArt 16 days ago

54 views

No replies yet

New topic

1,382 topics · Next page