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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

131 replies

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TheMetalCarrotDev

16 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

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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

16,368 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

7,670 views

GamesByJack

Dec 01, 2022

ProgrammingAmulet

Amulet Amulet is a free Lua-based audio/visual toolkit suitable for small-scope games and experimentation. It runs on Wi...

started by flankstaek Jan 20, 2016

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MarketingThe Elevator Pitch?

I've been trying to come up with a sensible way to describe my Game in a short and concise manner. But it's just so hard...

started by Michael Kissner Dec 10, 2015

6 replies

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dx0ne

Jan 07, 2016

How did your team form?

When 2 or more are gathered to make video games, that's a what I'd call a team. While I deeply admire the one-person dev...

started by falpal Jan 06, 2016

1 reply

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falpal

Jan 06, 2016

DesignFormats for creating & distributing role-playing adventure modules (D&D, CoC, Pa...

I've made a D&D 5e campaign that has gone over well DMing for a couple different groups of players. I'd like to compile...

started by falpal Jan 06, 2016

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ProgrammingAGK users

Hello! I use AGK (app game kit) as my development environment of choice. With it being fairly unknown I was wondering if...

started by Ched80 Jan 03, 2016

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Development Transparency on Social Media

Hey guys! So I'm beginning work on a small demo that I'm tentatively calling Project Melancholy. Because I'm a 3D artist...

started by AustinChalk Dec 05, 2015

7 replies

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Asatiir

Dec 25, 2015

Gif & WebM Dumpsite (Throw your stuff in here)

Regular Dumps Are Important

started by i.i Dec 01, 2015

11 replies

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No Time To Play

Dec 24, 2015

Ludum Dare Games Thread

So Ludum Dare is over and I know many of you in the community participated in it so...feel free to show your game off he...

started by slimefriend Dec 15, 2015

2 replies

704 views

oz2mura

Dec 16, 2015

MarketingThe Dreaded Marketing Thread

Preface: itch.io is awesome, not just as a platform, but as a community, and these forums are so far reflecting that qui...

started by Lantana Games Dec 01, 2015

10 replies

2,417 views

KentishZombie

Dec 11, 2015

Hime Enemy Reinforcements Script

Hello all my name is Stabalot, I am a new streamer on twitch and also an avid gamer and noob game maker. I started makin...

started by Stabalot Dec 06, 2015

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DesignSo I have this mechanic, what now?

So I've got this prototype and I think I have a pretty need mechanic. You can collide with the red squares to attach the...

started by NotExplosive Dec 03, 2015

17 replies

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oz2mura

Dec 05, 2015

Blog Post: I very forcefully reverse-engineer pseudo-3D racing using math

A blog post I wrote earlier this year, documenting how, as a non-math expert, I worked through making a pseudo-3D racing...

started by plorry Nov 30, 2015

2 replies

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Natalie

Dec 02, 2015

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