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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

126 replies

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BlobbyWeirdThing

7 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

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IshikuraKanako

92 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

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

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GamesByJack

Dec 01, 2022

Designhow to make a colored pixel font ? (.png - any font type at this point)

i made a new pixel font (8x11 pixels) that uses colors instead of just black andi cannot get it to work anymore with the...

started by nabrappy Jan 27, 2022

9 replies

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Tadgames

Feb 03, 2022

TipProfessionalize your development

Professionalize your development Contents Introduction Git Anti patterns Documentations Semantic versioning Continuous i...

started by Lyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Jan 29, 2022

17 replies

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Midnight Spire Games

Feb 02, 2022

TipBite-Sized Tutorial 2 - Basic Movement in Unity

(by Jin) Welcome back to ACM Studio at UCLA’s second bite-sized tutorial! Today we’ll be focusing on making our sphe...

started by ACM Studio Feb 01, 2022

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Salvare i panorami in 3d x software di grafica tipo cad

E' possibile esportare un panorama in formato utile per software vettoriali?

started by ArturoDiVitaFotografia Jan 26, 2022

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ArturoDiVitaFotografia

Jan 27, 2022

What programming language for the games? PLEASE!

What programming language do I make my game in? I am new to Itch so it would help if you could give a thorough explanati...

started by Poor Games Jan 25, 2022

5 replies

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No Time To Play

Jan 26, 2022

TipBite-Sized Tutorial 1 - Intro to Unity

(by Jin) Hello everyone! Welcome to the first installment of our short, digestible and “bite-sized” tutorials brough...

started by ACM Studio Jan 22, 2022

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Understanding for loops

i have a couple questions about for loops that i’m not quite sure is correct, this is using c# as well. for (int i =...

started by William Jan 19, 2022

2 replies

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William

Jan 19, 2022

Programmingare there 3d frameworks?

if trying to program a 3d game could you get access to any 3d frameworks to help?

started by William Jan 17, 2022

6 replies

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firecat

Jan 19, 2022

Where to start programming with C#?

i want to begin learning the basics of programming a game with c# but from scratch. Where would you recommend starting?...

started by William Jan 17, 2022

2 replies

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William

Jan 18, 2022

How to setup raylib for C#?

Does anyone know how to setup Raylib for C# and visual studio? I am trying to figure out how to make a 3d game engine fr...

started by William Jan 18, 2022

2 replies

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William

Jan 18, 2022

Programminghow to start programming a game engine for 2d in C# Help?

hello everyone, when taking the beginning steps of programming a game from scratch, what kind of code would you usually...

started by William Jan 17, 2022

2 replies

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William

Jan 17, 2022

Should I learn to build a game engine from scratch with C# or not?

I have recently got back into my passion of programming after a couple terrible years, i want to ask everyone if learnin...

started by William Jan 17, 2022

4 replies

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William

Jan 17, 2022

ProgrammingUse of NFC on Unity:

I was thinking to use a reader on my phone to get a NFC tag that will give an input on my game to use it for an action...

started by GrazianoBrothers Jan 15, 2022

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What are the requirements for using cookies?

I am a newbie. I made a game. It works OK on the local server, but doesn't save the level number here (on ITCH). If you...

started by Marker Play Jan 05, 2022

2 replies

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Marker Play

Jan 10, 2022

ProgrammingThe Cool Kids FPS Pack - Quake/Doom Inspired FPS Dev Asset Kit

Quake/Doom Inspired Unity Dev Kit to help you get started on making that future Doom Eternal/Quake Champions spiritual s...

started by ExtraWildGames Jan 10, 2022

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What is, in your opinion, a good game engine?

I want to get into gamedev, but am seriously confused on what engine to use. Unity/Unreal is what most people seem to re...

started by subtra3t Jan 05, 2022

7 replies

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subtra3t

Jan 07, 2022

a text based game engine?

is there such a thing as a text based game engine, as in text based editor/player etc. is it a good ideal to make one?

started by Deleted Account Dec 24, 2021

9 replies

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No Time To Play

Jan 06, 2022

Questions about game engines ?

I'm trying to find a good platform to make my game on I would love something like or similar to the game monster girl ma...

started by Bloodruby02 Jan 05, 2022

1 reply

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quou

Jan 05, 2022

MarketingHow to evaluate game Publishers?

Hey, So, I would like to share a few tips on how to evaluate a game Publisher, that I learn from my personal experience...

started by 16bitnights Jan 04, 2022

3 replies

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16bitnights

Jan 04, 2022

ProgrammingCan a C#/Godot developer explain this to me?

How comes this snippet of code produces no error: using Godot; using System; public class Animation : AnimatedSprite { p...

started by CyberRobotnix Dec 30, 2021

1 reply

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PaulsGames

Jan 02, 2022

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