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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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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

22 replies

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ScotterMonkey

39 days ago

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

133 replies

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-X-ScornGames

49 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

26 replies

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investus.itch.io

Feb 01, 2025

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

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IshikuraKanako

Jan 01, 2024

DesignI need NES sprites!

I need 16x32 sprites, 03 colors, for use in NES project. Thank you very much ================== Necesito sprites 16x...

started by JorgeSpindola Mar 25, 2019

2 replies

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JorgeSpindola

Mar 26, 2019

ProgrammingParamedic Letters Monster AI

As you know, I use multiple AIs to make monsters not get stuck in walls and not go away from you. (or to make them not f...

started by Melancholy Games Mar 23, 2019

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What is the easiest engine to use for Visual Novel game?

Hey guys, I'm working on my own visual novel game ( https://www.patreon.com/californiadreaming ) and I was wondering wha...

started by Magnus Feb 02, 2019

8 replies

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Benevolentwanderer

Mar 22, 2019

ProgrammingWho uses Objective-C/Swift for their games?

Hi, I haven't done game coding/programming before since I'm more of an artist and rarely ever done coding itself. I did...

started by Toxic-Ramen Mar 21, 2019

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DesignStructuring a "larger" game project in RPG Maker

Kicking off a series of articles which explain a few useful things for structuring games in RPG Maker, but these might a...

started by Tanuki-sama Studios Mar 17, 2019

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ProgrammingUnity WebGL and CORS

Having uploaded a few Unity web games to itch.io recently I've noticed a nasty problem with the embedding/hosting. Any a...

started by Dom Camus Jan 05, 2019

14 replies

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Dom Camus

Mar 15, 2019

TipTaking Breaks

Hello Everyone, I have a question to ask (or two) about taking breaks and time away from development. However,I don't ju...

started by LebbyFoxx Mar 13, 2019

2 replies

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SwipeStudios

Mar 14, 2019

Where do I install Downloaded Assets?

I've just downloaded some free game assets (Mostly RPG Maker MV assets) but I was wondering how & where do I install the...

started by Toxic-Ramen Mar 14, 2019

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ProgrammingFonts in video games

I'm making a research about using fonts in video games. Could you, please, help me and share your experience. What are p...

started by nadyakzmn Mar 10, 2019

2 replies

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nadyakzmn

Mar 10, 2019

Writing(help)How to start writing the story?

Hi Internet, I have a ton of idea idea's but I cant seem to start writing the story for my action RPG that will unfold w...

started by GuldorGames Feb 28, 2019

4 replies

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Deleted Account

Mar 09, 2019

ProgrammingItch Toolit - Library for Itch API calls

Hey Everyone, I have made a tool in .Net Standard for making API calls to the Itch server. It works of tokenisation with...

started by Harley Torrisi Mar 02, 2019

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Problem with Parasite Invaders game

I recently posted my game called "Parasite Invaders" on itch. The game works well on desktop, but I’m having a lot of...

started by GlSmibert Feb 13, 2019

3 replies

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Thinking Frog Studios

Mar 01, 2019

TipFree Map art for your games

Greetings! Once I needed to fast created a draft, but presentable map for a game. I want to share some free tools and so...

started by Graphium Studio Feb 22, 2019

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How to collaborate without VCS?

Hi, Is there a good way to work on a novel collectively without knowledge of Version Control Systems? The novel is gonna...

started by zencd Feb 11, 2019

1 reply

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No Time To Play

Feb 11, 2019

Programming2D Engine

Hiya fellers, it's rainbow in tha house! i need help. i'm making an Rpg kind of like undertale but different, but i dunn...

started by RainbowMagical Oct 04, 2018

13 replies

1,052 views

Cold Sweat Games

Feb 04, 2019

TipLet me ask you something...

I want to ask you a question. If you lost your identity, your memories, and everything you held dear and didn't even kno...

started by RileyChan Oct 14, 2018

9 replies

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Cold Sweat Games

Feb 04, 2019

TipLegal question.

So i decide trying create my own visual novel game. But i really sucks at drawing and even with free assets available i...

started by pattcz Jan 31, 2019

2 replies

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pattcz

Jan 31, 2019

ProgrammingUnity Ememy AI Algorithm

Hi! I am currently working on making a 3D game called Hasmon on unity. Right now, I am trying to develop some sort of en...

started by ChilliTech Jan 31, 2019

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about game suggestions from this pic?

hi everyone. I was thinking of this game suggestion based on these pictures? https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mod...

started by DeBOMBs88 Jan 31, 2019

1 reply

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DeBOMBs88

Jan 31, 2019

DesignCraftStudio modeling

Hey is there a way to cut (black annotation) out overlapping pieces of my model, because once i texture it, it wil stat...

started by ChiBot Jan 25, 2019

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