hello! im new to itch.io but i love making games whatever way i can. im just wondering what programs i could use for making games and uploading them here. thank you!

If you're looking for something simple - then try Construct and GameSalad- they basically use drag and drop to build a game - no coding required.

Clickteam Fusion has a free starter edition - you don't need to learn code for it.  It's a bit more involved than Construct / Game Salad - but also a lot more flexible - they also have some included tutorials.

GameMaker's beginner tutorials are very good - or used to be - I haven't looked at them in years, but I started learning with GameMaker and it gave me more knowledge than just programming - they also covered good game design etc.   However, you will have to learn some code to use GameMaker - but they teach you that in their tutorials / documentation to some extent.

There are so many different tools. More than i can list, but here's what's off the top of my head:

Engines:

• Unity
• Unreal
• Godot
• Game Maker
• Construct 2

Modelling:

• Blender
• 3DS Max (not free, but maybe educational plan if student)
• 3DS Maya (not free, but maybe educational plan if student)

Graphics

• Pain
• Gimp
• Paint.net
• Photoshop
• Krita

Audio

• Audacity
• FL Studio

Also, there are tons of people who would be willing to collab in areas you fall short int. There are also tons of sites that offer free and buying resources (sounds, art, examples).

Here are a few tools i know of

-Engines-

* Unity

* Unreal

* CRYengine

* Uhro3D ( or something like that )

* BUILD 2

* Quake Engine

* Source

* GoldSrc

* LOVE2D

* Cube2 Engine

* FPSCreator

* GameGuru

* Blitz3D

* BlitzMax

* Leadwerks

* Blender Engine ( for old versions of blender )

* ClickTeam Fusion 2.5

* Construct ( Free)  2 and 3 (paid)

* Buildbox

* Minetest (more of a game but still)

* 101 Game Engine

* CopperCube 6 ( or something like that)

* Danmakufu ( For Bullet Hells)

-DAWS ( Music Producers and audio editors)

* LMMS

* Fruity Loops studios 20

* MixCraft

* Majix

* Audacity

-Image Editors and Makers-

* Paint .NET

* GIMP

* Photoshop

* MS Paint -_-

* Plenty of online sprite creators

-IDEs-

* SASM ( Assembler code )

* Notepad++ (various)

* MS Visual Studios

* Netbeans

* Eclipse

* Notepad (wait a sec)

* Dev-C++

* Code::Blocks

* JEdit

* Easy64K

* XCode

Hope this helps you out :)

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Hi Marsel! so. if you dont know unity or unreal code, you can use scratch! its an blocking coding! here is the site: scratch.mit.edu

I begin my journey with Unity Game Engine in 2015, And now I'm enjoying using it for all my problem in game development. Even for making apps. LOL
It's great game engine you should learn I think. If you like to write code especially :)