Hello, my name is Markus. I'm an austrian artist, independent filmmaker and game-designer.
I like itch.io a lot, I think it's a great and very creative place for many talented people, so I decided to join you ...
You can download my RETRO-RPG here: https://markusbruckner.itch.io/tambarin
Yesterday I made this Comic, representing my mental state after reading about Indie-Game-Marketing ;-D
Hi I'm James,
I am one of the team at Monster Finger Games in the UK.
We use Clickteam Fusion, personally I have used Clickteam products for 15 years although I would same I'm really still only beginner-intermediate.
We started by putting games on the Ouya which went pretty good actually, went to Googleplay after and not enjoying that so concentrating on the PC Market now instead.
A few games we have made with links
Finally our most recent project Super Bombardier which is still in Early Access
No they are not, for the whole world knows i am a scam artist on religious games. Listen, we the whole world start like scam artist, then we become more more legit. I am very sorry I am a faker. But the world knows that. But honest to truth. I desire to make AAA Pentecostal games for Jesus.I don't give a care what people say, think and scream because I am religious man; so bad people can stay away from my life! I still desire to make religious games for what I believe and bad people stay away from me and my family. So yes no games.
I love making religious games anyways!
Perhaps Game Maker might be a good pick. It's very beginner friendly and is perfect for 2D games such as the ones you mentioned. It also has a ton of great youtube tutorials (Shaun Spalding is my recommendation).
Happy coding!
Welcome to itch.io! Everyone sucks at first, just keep at it and don't give up - you'll be an expert in no time. :p
Scratch is perfect for itch! Sorry, I'll see myself out.
Horrible jokes aside, welcome! Best of luck on your big project!
Heyo! I'm Henrique Campos, and I manage Pigdev Studio. Our mission is to create and promote freedom in the game industry. We make games using open source tools, and all our games are MIT this way everyone can tweak and make their own versions(even sell their own version) of our games. We even canon content through our GitHub projects <3
Our toolbox to fight this battle for freedom includes:
And many others, but mainly these :)
The idea is that we will create ever growing games that improve along time. Our strategy is that we will through improvement cycles fund the amount needed to push the games roadmaps to the next release! And new content (new games) are developed through patronage :)
That's it, keep developing and until the next time!
Looks like we have similar philosofies on gamedev, but certainly different levels of experience, since I started out just some months ago haha. Also, legal ver um BR por aqui.
Olha aí! Bom demais ver que estamos não só consumindo como produzindo games! LOL
Hope we team up some time to make some games, maybe a game jam? :D
maybe not the fps, but the rest of those are pretty tough to do. it'll be a while till you can do them at a level your satisfied with, you hey, having high goals isnt a bad thing. and i like your determination! welcome to itch! cant wait to see what you manage to pull off.
I wish I had your kind of dreams. I think that I used to but after seeing how things work I think that my big dream transformed into a "I hope people play my game" kind of dream hahahahaha.
Haha! It's easy to find yourself in that situation. Every time I update my game it almost becomes an obsession to get people to play it and leave feedback. We just got to keep working at it and those dreams will become more and more achievable.
Welcome to the site! the game looks fun! cant wait to check it out later! hope you have a good time here!
chinwag thats the first time i've heard that term. XD but welcome to the site! i'm actually really into narrative games as well, problem being, i suck at making stories. but im looking forward to seeing the projects you put out!
ey man, pixel art is tough, so i definitely respect you putting in the work to improve. anyways welcome to itch!
Thank you. My works are not so advanced, but i would like a general feedback.
https://burakaltr.itch.io/
Hi, when you have time, please review my game. https://imavera.itch.io/7th-goddess It's an atypical visual novel made with prerendered graphics. This is going to be a free game at least in its first version (kinetic novel). The focus is on story, surprising plot twists, quite a large cast of characters, extraordinary/supernatural events/powers. I am working on this every day for several hours and I hope to finish the kinetic version by the end of this year. Thanks!
Except developing I try to give my opinion on other people's games. Mostly on small games that don't have much popularity. But my games don't get much of reviews and if they do, they are mostly hypocritical and with no criticism. I would love to have someone to criticize my game. This is just an early version but if you'd give it a try would be great.
hello and welcome to itch! sounds like we like many similar things! sounds like the type of novel that i would read XD but honestly, your work seems impressive and i cant wait to check it out. hope you enjoy your stay at itch!
ohh thanks for ur words :D :D i didnt really complete my novel yet. but you can see my work in my profile and gave me ur feedback! :D, i appreciate your opinion
Awesome! Take a look at Godot Engine. It's completely free (open-source) and no royalty cut if you succeed. It also deals with some nuances that Unity has (moderately advanced stuff). Offers 4 languages (visual script, gdscript, C# and C++). Visual script is like blueprints in unreal. gdscript is their own dynamic language (much like python + javascript kinda thing), C# - well, no need to explain this and C++ - they call it GDNative. It's their own system that allows you to create custom nodes (base entity in godot) in C++ without recompiling the entire engine .
Hey!
Yeah. I tried Unity when it was v 2.3 (mac only). The reason I switched was because my team switched projects and I ended up on Unreal. Having used Unreal for a while, I got the impression it is way too bloated and an overkill for most of the thing you want to do. Searching for free alternatives.
I found Godot which blew me away with its scene/node paradigm. It's very light (barely 40MB). Took me around 10 hours to go thru the docs and about 4 hours to make my first game. The thing I like the most about it is that EVERYTHING is a scene (think unity PREFAB, NOT unity scene) and can be instantiated as a node (think unity gameObject) within another scene. Also, scenes can be inherited (unity prefabs can't) and you can nest scenes (can't nest prefabs without losing connection of nested prefabs). Another thing is that it supports 4 coding languages: VisualScript, GDScript, C# and C++.
Also, it's open-source and has no 'success fee' (like Unity's 100k or Epic's 5% cut).
I haven't tried Godot but I've seen some videos + your opinion on it and it looks great. I've been using Unity since I started, a bit more than 2 years ago and I never thought to switch to another engine. Maybe because it took me some months to understand it in depth. I had knowledge in C# before finding out about Unity and it was just great for me because it used putted in use all my previous knowledge. Do you suggest me to give it a try and maybe switch over or I should stick with Unity? I mean, is it easy to start using another engine after you get used to one?
An about the fee, I think that Godot is fairly new and it is looking for more users and it will have a fee later on... Just my personal opinion.
Since Godot is open source - it will probably never have a fee. Whether you should switch is entirely up to you. I would definitely suggest to at least give Godot a try (a week, maybe two) and see if you like the scene/node paradigm. Two years of Unity is enough to get to a point where something starts annoying you (e.g. we've been waiting for nested prefabs for years). But, don't force yourself. I had good reasons and I don't regret doing it. Who knows, I might go back to Unity if professional (9 - 17h) work requires me to.
Hi Steve =), nice to meet you, its awesome that you used to make your own engine, i always prefer to make my own things (2d sprites 3d models etc you know) and while i never did my own engine, i used to use dark sdk that is like a directX wrapper that saves lot of work, but yes i agree with you, after trying unity it seems a lot better due its visual interface and built in features like physics particles etc. Sports and physics games are really fun, i made a racing game (in steam for now), I hope you complete your game really soon and can distribute it here with steam keys (i want to do that too due its protection feature), i hope you can share your experience when its out, good luck!! =)
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Hi Charles nice to meet you. Whatever you do finish college A.S.A.P. because the college debts are serous. O _ o
Hi Fernando. Good luck with your game dev projects. Have a blast in your hours of development.
Nice to meet you Ben. That's wonderful to know. Music is a gift.! Great to know your calling. :)
Hey guys I want to market the living out of my games and friends both Christian and Secular Indie studios. So!... What is Camping Grounds Game Studio? Camping Grounds Created in Chicago Illinois owned by me Davis Don on a mission to create Unity3D Visual Novels. Background themes are camp, Romainglish, rock-solid Christianity, and endless Expansion of Virtual Kingdoms.
Please spread rumors about my studio and yours too! ^_^
Happy Developments!
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Hey everyone I made a New Studio called "Simple Games: Chicago Edition". My first %98 completed game called "Zap! ver 1.0.3". It's a top down space shooter. I used a few purchased and free assets to make this game more completed. My plan is to sell this game in every gaming market. I still have no clue how to make this game for mobile? And place ads for this game and make for free? Is their and help I can get?
Thank you.
Here's the link to my page.
I need some help of to sell my games?
Can someone give me advice?
same here bro.. :)
Started game dev when my father left. Its cool when depressions turn to motivations :) Keep up the good work brother !
Thanks! You too man. Sorry to hear what you went through, but happy to hear you too turning depression into motivation.
Take as many time you want. itch.io have a feature that post about ur developing progress and u might interested to do that
Dont forget to set a goal, rest a bit after you have done to your goal. Thats my advice for you.
you really were just like me back then. its like i am seeing myself >.<
well Ill take tht as a compliment, I hear ya. I was laying in bed last night thinking of tht one button dev jam tht just stated and came up with three dif games all tugging on my heart to put on the back burner for later. I also noticed I felt like my brain was mush so I will take tht advice to heart.
Well currently, i still dont know about that but, read some post of that devlogs thread in community will might help i guess
Hi everyone. I'm the weird loser dork Matthew Lyles Hornbostel. I'm an indie artist (here's some stuff I posted on Pinterest) and an eBay seller of handmade art and the like, with 320+ ratings on my eBay account, 100% of them positive so far. I make some indie videos which I write, direct, record, edit, do VFX and sound design on... etc. Pretty much I do everything except fill all the roles acting, because otherwise the projects I envision simply won't get made!
I also do indie game development, and a lot of traditional art (painting, sculpting, drawing with pencils and pastels, etc). I do a lot of 3D animation in my projects and love what can be done in 3D in my creative pipeline with modern hardware and software, but I also retain a soft spot, however irrational and impractical, for extensive use of miniatures and physical effects elements.
You may have noticed my recent [substantial] involvement in posting a bunch of different stuff on Itch.IO just in the last 3 months. In that time, I've expanded my roster of games and game assets here markedly, but some of the biggest stuff was in the work for years before making it to Itch.IO. I have been doing 3d stuff since I was a teenager, and now I'm over 30. So I have a decade of experience doing this crazy stuff - freelancing for below minimum wage or just doing creative work without salary, either to help others in my social circles [friends, family] who need my assistance, or often just for the fun of it, because I have some cool idea I'd love to see realized.
I'd like my creative work to someday result in a full time income so I can ditch everything else, all the gigs around the edges and just make games and art stuff all the time basically. And if it were really to take off... well, I like the idea of supporting a long list of other people and other causes, because there's so much desperate need in the world and I like to help people. And this is what I'm good at, so if I can someday leverage this stuff into some reasonable measure of success, i.e. annual income climbing to $16k or more per year, then it'd cover my basic costs personally and creatively with extra to spare, and then that extra would be given out to everyone in some manner to thank them for all the assistance everybody's been giving me that is helping in getting me to that point. But at the moment, I'm on disability, I have some mental disorders and other weaknesses, nobody will hire me to a normal job - so I am stuck freelancing and selling stuff online and supplementing that with a bit of govt. disability cash which, I want to get off of soon by earning enough annually, over $12k/year, to get off of that entirely. And I'm not quite there yet. I do creative work for 14-15 hrs/day, average income a bit below $2/hour overall. I sometimes make $4/hr or so, and other tasks $2-3/hr, some less, and there's also a couple hours/day in there, on projects just for fun, on top of that, projects which have no real likelihood of paying off but which I'm passionate about.
So yeah. Gig economy lifestyle. If I made say, roughly $3.50 an hour on most of my work it'd get me to my target. But I don't have enough work yet that pays that well.
I am attempting some passive revenue by releasing sale items on Itch.IO but for 'passive income' it's an awful lot of work and I've averaged maybe 20 cents of income from every hour worked on the products being sold, and those items are the best cases.
So here are some notable failing [or should I say flailing? They seem to be going all over the place!] projects I've got displayed on Itch.IO (there are a few others, outside of Itch, but these ones are the most relevant to this community)
This is a first-person puzzle/adventure game I began thinking about making in 2010, and which has been gaining momentum continually since then, with over two dozen substantial areas, realized with fairly realistic looking handcrafted miniatures, extended digitally. I basically captured panoramas inside O scale models built in my garage, TONS of models, you have no idea how much space this is taking, because much of it isn't yet posted due to spoilers or other reasons. But it's been a big time sink and the costs of developing it are pretty high for an indie with a low income. That said, I'm thinking it'll be out there by the end of February 2019 at the latest even if sales here on Itch.IO don't really materialize at all to cover the remaining $235 in costs. So yeah, I guess I could describe it as having an interface similar to Myst III/IV or Scratches, but higher visual resolution than either and art made primarily with miniatures and not digital 3d renders. It's being built using Unity 2018, PlayMaker (a visual scripting system that is great for rapidly assembling variations of a lot of the most common interactions) and a few postprocess shaders. And lots and lots of scale models photographed with a knockoff GoPro style little camera locked into a position inside the miniature environment, that shoots 20-megapixel stills, it's rotated around in 15-degree increments, then the stills for every required position in the miniature world are stitched together into 360-degree panoramic nodes with the roof of the garage replaced by a digital extension, generally some sort of sky matching my vision for the particular world. So that's kind of my process here. It is pretty involved and it has to be repeated carefully for 200+ different 360-degree nodes. Right now I'm missing the last fifth of the game; the final puzzle sequence and five different miniature sets that still need to be built, captured, integrated into the project. If I really push myself though it should be possible to do within 60 days, 90 if the assembly of the remaining models is pushed back a month due to limited funding. I hope it somehow breaks even at least on the physical materials cost of making it but I'm a bit skeptical that it will.
The 2018 Triumphant Artists Complete Collection
This started around 2013, when I was selling the earliest version on eBay as a DVD product I physically shipped to customers. But it's expanded threefold in scope since that point, and dropped dramatically in price too. We're talking about 1GB of texture and stock video elements. 1250+ texture image maps, and 100+ video elements designed to be compositable for motion graphics work (i.e. cutscene videos, or visual effects work) - It started off on Itch.IO for $3.99, quickly dropped to a baseline of $1.50, and [currently] is on sale from Nov. 20-30, for 87 cents. Great Black Friday fodder.
The Autumn 2018 bonus collection.
201 additional texture image files, 15 new pyrotechnic elements shot in 60fps high speed 1080p HD. Currently discounted to 58 cents.
My most recent asset collection includes more than a dozen 3d plants and objects, for use in your realistic looking outdoor landscapes for games, architectural previz, VFX, etc. detailed enough to look decent prerendered but low poly enough to be used by the hundreds in any good game engine. .FBX and .OBJ format, mostly .PNG or minimal-compression .JPG textures. It's available for 63 cents during the current Thanksgiving week sale. I'm planning to add some more models to this soon, as in a few days before the sale is over. (I currently expect to acheive incremental updates tomorrow and on Cyber Monday to this pack in particular, bringing the total included model count to around 30 at that time)
So... that's the main stuff available on Itch.IO at the moment.
There's also a bit of other stuff though - one thing is a tiny freeware package of blood spray elements for use in action or horror videos/cutscenes... a mini adventure game project called 'Spiral Skies' in development, but kind of on the backburner until Miniature Multiverse launches... a Miniature Multiverse artbook, hint guide and 'extras pack' including a small game demo, and a last chance for people to see their names credited in game... that's showing up at the start of December 2018, roughly two months prior to estimated release of the full game. $1 batch of stuff aimed at enthusiasts.
Note that while all of these items have accumulated a ton of views, and although the attention directed towards my work here on Itch.IO has been snowballing seemingly exponentially the past week, sales volume remains weak due to absence of meaningful customer reviews or ratings. The closest I've gotten was one customer who posted an enthusiastic comment on one of my product pages. In hopes of generating some publicity and ideally provoking people to actually rate the asset packs, I posted 9 free download links on Black Friday. Still no reviews yet though. In fact, some of the free download keys still remain unclaimed at the moment.
It's also worth noting that the biggest bargain currently active is this one:
And there are additional perks for any bundle buyers, should the sale unexpectedly hit a list of sales targets, starting at $200 in total sales by end of Nov. 30.
Now, given that the sales volume across all my stuff on itch is still below $10 for the past 45 days, even this initial goal threshold seems highly unlikely to be met. But I suppose it's still possible. If the sales total hits $500 everybody who bought the bundle for $1.49 gets Miniature Multiverse for free at time of launch, along with the extras connected to it - which would, in total, add up to $6.10, not $3.60, of already arguably underpriced content for $1.49 if that actually occurred.
Not holding my breath though at the rate things have gone so far, given the current climate of passive disinterest and weary wariness currently surrounding this sale.
Still, a few of you have shown excitement about what I'm doing, and I really appreciate the positive responses when they do materialize. It makes me think maybe I'm not utterly pathetic. ;/
It's encouraging, and helps keep me motivated to continue working hard, release of new games and game assets in 2019. If this starts to go at all well, somehow, either in November or later (Christmas sales? New Year's?) then I'll probably keep at it for as long as it shows some sort of potential.
Hello itch.io community!
My name's Michael and I'm a self-taught artist hailing from germany. I am a software developer by day, but around the age of 14 I fell in love with 3D art. I played around a lot with 3DS MAX and later even purchased a software called "Monzoom 3D" (if anyone knows this 
) for a whopping 200 €, which was quite a lot for me at that age. I tried to create some Half-Life 1 & 2 mods back then, but my ambitions were far greater than my skills at the time. After some years, my motivation dwindled as I had to focus on my studies and got more into programming.
Over a decade later I stumbled over Blender and my motivation has been rekindled. Today, stuff I was not able to figure out back then is easy as childs play (since I got stuck already at the easy stuff, haha). My main motivation is to create games in the Unreal Engine 4. To get something done I try to be as self-sufficient as I can, so I picked up Blender, the Substance Package and recently even ZBrush (benefits of having a salary 
). That does not mean I only work alone, though. I partnered up with an old friend of mine working together on some first, small games as our limited time permits. I'm doing the programming and some basic art, he's contributing the more awesome art. 
I'm not trying to break into the industry or anything, this is purely a self-realization/recreational hobby for me. So far it's been a lot of learning (only started sculpting a about a month ago, I'm more comfortable with Blender und UE4). I'm currently working on a puzzle game clone to get familiar with the whole process from start to finish while keeping the scope simple and small. After that I want to realize my own game ideas.
I registered here to keep up my motivation as well as to give and receive constructive criticism to improve. After all, there is nothing more valuable than sharing thoughts and opinions in a nice community, meeting like-minded people to help each other out. 
Cheers!
Hello!
I also love art, and I have a website: http://nathanspaintinghacks.home.blog
I have been drawing and painting for the past few years.
