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That’s not true. Most engines, big ones like Unity and Unreal included, use plenty of middleware.

I don’t have to build a physics engine, graphics engine or sound engine for it to count as my own project. As a software engineer, you simply have to pick the right tools for the job.

In contrast, by being made for every use case, Unity and Unreal are never the right tools for any job.

Lol, way to self-report

Learn programming.

Spam: https://itch.io/t/6145322/building-a-game-discovery-platform-for-indie-devs-looking-for-feedback.

And with that reply, confirmed AI garbage.

I find the survey’s framing to be strange. By only considering retro games and demakes, it suggests that modern software otherwise cannot be low-end/thin/performant.

I certainly agree that all hardware should be used to the fullest, to the extent that is practical, but that does not mean I should also use decades old software that could potentially be ridden with bugs and security vulnerabilities.

Same as always was. I write games using existing middleware, and no direct engine use.

My latest project uses: GLFW, OpenGL, glad, Open Dynamics Engine, Lua (for scripting), FreeType, Vorbis, PortAudio, stb_image, minicoro, komihash, ENet.

What limits my games is not really the programming part; it’s the fact I work alone, am not an artist and have another programming job.

EDIT: Hmm, maybe I can propose adding k4 to that Starlight list

That website looks so fucking fake

it just HAPPENS to have a damn LLM tacked in >.<

Just how the world is nowadays. If you make this clear it should not be a problem. Plenty of people continue to use GitHub despite Copilot being shoved down their throat.

I must be bad cause enemies deal a lot of damage to me, but the game is generous with health kits. I am also forced to think and not just shoot, which is always a sign of good design. I have not beat level 2 so far, but I like what I see.

Check out this article: https://blog.pkh.me/p/42-sharing-everything-i-could-understand-about-gradient-noise.html.

It uses GLSL for code snippets. Do not be alarmed if you don’t understand the code itself. As long as you understand the algorithm you should be able to implement it in Game Maker’s language. You also do not need to read all the way down; feel free to stop the moment you’re satisfied with your noise implementation.

It’s state of the art, cutting edge spam tech, just generate a bunch of garbage text and then insert links into a bunch of terms.

Every creative revolution was first condemned as cheating, soulless, or dangerous: digital art, photography, synthesizers, sampling, 3D graphics, the internet. All were attacked before becoming foundational pillars of modern creativity.

Nice framing. Nobody ever critiqued a creative revolution; people critique the ill uses of technologies.

A rendering engine and a UI library are totally different; there’s no reason one should include the other. There are rendering engines for Python, as are UIs. The trick is finding a pair that’s compatible.

Pygame is a rendering library, and there have been UI libraries implemented atop of it: https://www.pygame.org/wiki/gui.

I’m very much a DIY kind of person, and since I was already making my own rendering engine, I ended up implementing my own UI as well. It took up some time, but in the end I have something that works for me. That’s always another option for you.

There’s “light on graphics”, and then there is “completely non-game UIs” which is what QT/PySide6 is about. I’d never choose Qt for anything game-related besides some kind of editor. That being said, I’m curious what limitations you’ve found.

If you actually want game graphics in your game, I would simply choose a rendering engine and plug in a UI library on top of it. One that is retained which rules out things like imgui, and one that is mature, which also rules out imgui and most other UI libs. Unless you have a more vivid idea, this question won’t be easy to answer.

Depends on what tools you have at your disposal. As is I have no idea what kind of graphics you’re looking for. Is your art done with sprites or is it Spine-like? Is it actually 3D?

A Bezier curve should be okay in theory but you’ll want the bird to slow down as it approaches, as they glide in before flapping their wings to slow down.

Mocking? Au contraire, I gave the only realistic answer. Engines don’t make you a game developer, they make you an engine user. OP literally admitted to finding Game Maker too confusing.

If you start getting into game development and your first question is “what engine to use”, start over. That’s not a bad thing, no progress was lost anyway.

Learn programming.

Where are people here going to?

I’ve been touting XMPP and/or Matrix for years. XMPP is the OG protocol that used to power things like WhatsApp and Google Chat. Like Matrix, there are many interoperable XMPP clients.

Matrix is shittier in pretty much every way but had the bucks for marketing, so it won over XMPP. That being said, I’ll take anything.

Okay but if you know which steps need to be done, then it should be enough for you to study those steps separately. For example, do you know how to convert window coordinates to your world-space coordinates? I found this with one search: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77373782/how-to-get-coordinates-where-pointing-a-mouse-with-raycast-in-3d.

You can’t expect a tutorial for every single small feature your game will have. At this stage you’re expected to know, you know, programming.

Accomplish which part? You listed three steps.

Thanks for the feedback!

Spoken like someone who’s terminally online on Itch, lolulolulolu

You speak for yourself, and yourself only.

The photographer “just presses a button”.

Spoken like someone who has no idea about what goes into photography.

lol

An old game of mine had a very small map, and a total 30 minutes of playtime. I made it save automatically on closing, so you could close the game, open it again, and be exactly* where you were. It made for a pretty smooth experience, IMO.

I don’t know about your game, but mine was mostly exploratory. If there are stakes, some threats about, and you want to put pressure on the player, then having fixed save points makes sense. Kind of hard to answer anything specific without knowing what your game is like.

A lot of wrong in a single sentence, holy.

No, exclusion filters are not easy to do, not performantly. No, it does not take 5+ years either. Therefore the obvious conclusion is that they haven’t touched the topic.

Sorry for the harsh words. The topic of people just gets me heated.

Some softwares might be rebuild from scratch which takes loads of time and engineer workpower.

This is not true. There is plenty to reuse already; just don’t turn that into shit. It’s not rocket science.

What we’re seeing is people getting their comeuppance. People deserve everything that’s happening now, and I have no sympathy.

As far as I’m concerned, developers have been upping minimum requirements to force people to feed an economy that simply doesn’t require growth in the first place. The majority of software doesn’t justify at all the insane amount of RAMs it consumes, or features it demands. It is ridiculous that Notepad in 2025 takes even seconds to load on a modern computer.

Hopefully this nonsense will come to an end, as people are no longer able to upgrade, developers will finally start putting in effort in optimizing their software.

I say “hopefully”, but I don’t actually believe this will happen. So yes, I’m taking the “watch the world burn” route.

Yeah, I live in Ukraine. Take a guess.

The rate of garbage production increased over time, too, so old games amongst the good are always going to rise. Or, in other words, bad games grow asymptotically faster :).

I know I’m in the minority on many things, but the only games I play regularly is Minesweeper, Tetris, TF2 and Ultrakill, none of which were released in 2025. I never go out of my way to find games released now, I simply don’t care about that.

Really got your cult dogma down, haven’t ya. Nobody here said a thing against AI as a tool.

EVERYTHING THAT CALLS FOR CHANGE

Technology cannot call for change. The only things I see calling for change are Big Tech, who benefit monetarily from pushing AI trash, and desperate non-skilled people for whom AI is the only way to compensate for their stupidity.

AI won’t make you a game developer, not now, nor in a few years.

This is basically like asking how to draw. The answer is always the same: practice until you get the anatomy down.

Your homepage URL can simply be your game’s Itch page. Itch’s documentation answers your other questions: https://itch.io/docs/api/oauth

While you can make your game server the callback URL, the server will have no way to attach/pair the access token to the client that requested it. Because of this, it is more proper & secure to set the callback to 127.0.0.1 (localhost/loopback) at some super high port that’s unlikely to be reserved. This means the client will have to temporarily host an HTTP server, too, with which it can extract the token, and then send it to the game server from its own address.

That being said, you don’t have to set this up during development. Separate the game logic from the authentication, then add logging in through Itch at a later stage. This will really ease things.

Ideas cannot be outdated by definition.

❌ No, they aren’t.

DW, that’s what it’s there for.

On the other hand, I made a small error. In practice, I think running the HTTP host on the client is the only choice, because that lets the game server pair the API key to the client’s network address, whereas otherwise there would be a security risk.

I don’t see why you cannot trust OAuth. The API key gets passed in the callback URL you define when you register your OAuth application. This URL can be for an HTTP server your client runs, or it can be the same server that hosts your multiplayer games.

In any case, the API key can be verified by querying Itch. There’s no problem.

I’ve no idea what you mean. What’s the point in a copy protection system that didn’t protect games?