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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

128 replies

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o139

12 hours 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

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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

18 replies

16,116 views

IshikuraKanako

Jan 01, 2024

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

25 replies

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Jackyfied

Jan 15, 2023

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

20 replies

7,485 views

GamesByJack

Dec 01, 2022

DesignAny interest in general purpose gamedev editor? (Exploding Editor)

I'm working on a platform-agnostic game development tool called Exploding Editor . I started making it for my own use bu...

started by Exploding Rabbit Jan 20, 2018

5 replies

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Exploding Rabbit

Jan 26, 2018

ProgrammingSimplest engine/tool to make a sokoban clone?

Hi, I would like to make a simple puzzle game like sokoban with a few game mechanics altered. I want it to have a few le...

started by Stavros Skamagkis Jan 25, 2018

2 replies

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Stavros Skamagkis

Jan 25, 2018

DesignA History of Game Difficulty in Spectrum Break

Original Blog Post https://spectrumbreak.com/blog/a-history-of-game-difficulty-in-spectrum-break Ease of Controls When I...

started by Jason Hein Jan 25, 2018

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ProgrammingWebsockets and SLL

Hello, is there some way to have my game played via HTTP rather than HTTPS ? I have multiplayer game and I have configur...

started by stealman Jan 21, 2018

1 reply

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leafo

Jan 22, 2018

CAT Game Builder: The easier, faster way to make games in Unity

My company just released a game building framework for Unity called CAT Game Builder . It's currently on sale for $64 as...

started by SirGolan Jan 09, 2018

13 replies

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SirGolan

Jan 21, 2018

Exceptions after release

Hi guys, I'm wondering, how do you handle unexpected exceptions and crashes after game launched/released? How do you get...

started by Patico Nov 24, 2017

3 replies

512 views

Phill

Jan 18, 2018

Looking For Someone To Make A Game With.

Im Using GameMaker Studio 1, or Unity 5.

started by HyperLightStudios Nov 29, 2017

1 reply

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Manpacman

Jan 10, 2018

Here talk about Static Meets 2D Plate fomer plans

The following game been working on have been having a hard time with it. Here's the talk about it, This game is no other...

started by Bordem Studios Jan 09, 2018

2 replies

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Bordem Studios

Jan 09, 2018

Programmingmeow game engine

hi guys what is this game engine? https://tak.itch.io/meow

started by amireza Dec 06, 2017

5 replies

590 views

JMAS

Jan 05, 2018

TipEmbed itch widget on Github

Hi there! My name is Sebastian, i'm working on a game called Under Control, it's open source, made with Unity, Wwise and...

started by lqngames Dec 17, 2017

7 replies

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Dariusz "Darkhog" G. Jagielski

Jan 03, 2018

DesignQuest Of Raziya

This is gonna be pretty awkward of me because at the moment, I have no screenshots. I'm still making assets for it right...

started by Handlebar-Orion X. Jan 01, 2018

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Help Please!!

started by Suspended Account Nov 01, 2017

2 replies

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Suspended Account

Dec 26, 2017

ProgrammingHow to achieve good security using the itch.io OAuth authentication?

Should the callback URI point to my global game server which manages basically everything? But how would the server know...

started by mid Oct 18, 2017

3 replies

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mid

Dec 16, 2017

What age group do you think my game/project is catered for?

Hi everyone, I'm be curious to know what you think the age-range is for my game/development kit. It's a simple toolkit w...

started by tingthing09@gmail.com Nov 10, 2017

4 replies

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tingthing09@gmail.com

Dec 16, 2017

WritingThe Writ Platform Survey #1: A new way to make games

Hello game makers! My name is Alt and I am part of a team working on a new (totally free) game-making platform that will...

started by Althis Dec 09, 2017

2 replies

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Althis

Dec 09, 2017

TipPYGAME? PLZ

I love the fact that everyone is using unity to make games here. And the results are wonderful..But i was wondering is t...

started by KamiLucky Dec 04, 2017

3 replies

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leafo

Dec 05, 2017

DesignLooking for ideas :)

I am making a game called Trick or Treat (i am also looking for ideas!) Does someone have some good ideas? -Thanks Quint...

started by quintvanoorschot Nov 30, 2017

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MarketingHow do you collect player feedback? Knowing what your community wants in your ga...

It is hard building a community around a game. I think being in constant communication with your fan base is crucial for...

started by ajoris Nov 12, 2017

3 replies

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Jonathan So

Nov 27, 2017

ProgrammingInserting new resource files into a signed OSX XCode app? Possible?

Hey fellow devs. I like having my OSX version signed so that when people download it directly they can just run it: http...

started by notpatchman Nov 16, 2017

1 reply

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leafo

Nov 27, 2017

Names of any active HTML5 publishers/portals?

I want to submit my game there and to those portals

started by IMakeBadGames Nov 25, 2017

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