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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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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

26 replies

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investus.itch.io

15 days ago

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

30,524 views

SupersizeMyHeart

56 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

21,687 views

IshikuraKanako

Jan 01, 2024

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

8,290 views

GamesByJack

Dec 01, 2022

ProgrammingTalo - an open source backend for managing players, leaderboards, stats + more

Hey everyone! I wanted to share the project I’ve been working on: a set of tools for building games faster and a dashb...

started by Sleepy Studios 32 days ago

3 replies

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Sleepy Studios

2 days ago

ProgrammingGong from C code to Web Assembly

Soo I'm trying to choose between the low level librarys in order to start experimenting with gamedev. My first guess is...

started by PibeCaverna 5 days ago

2 replies

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PibeCaverna

3 days ago

Best Ways to Recruit and Work With Artists?

Drawing assets is a huge time sink for me. I've spent some months dedicating myself to get better at it. While I can now...

started by MagusCurt 6 days ago

1 reply

53 views

Frontline Studios

5 days ago

Advice and help to create a game

Hello, I'm a French developer and, with a friend who's also a developer and musician, we want to create a game inspired...

started by mat555kliro 10 days ago

2 replies

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Frontline Studios

9 days ago

Any ideas for me?

The question is simple, if you have a PSX shortish style horror game idea that I can use then that would be wonderful!

started by Hamman11 12 days ago

6 replies

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Hamman11

10 days ago

TipGodot 4 AnimationPlayer+AnimatedSprite2D

I was creating the attack animations for my turn-based RPG game in Godot Engine 4 using the AnimationPlayer and the Anim...

started by Alex Requiemd 9 days ago

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WritingI have many ideas for RPG maker games, I'm looking for some people to collaborat...

I have so many ideas and I would love to work together on a project, I feel my strongest skill is writing the dialog/sto...

started by GRAYF0X5 10 days ago

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ProgrammingHow to make a world infinite in pygame??

So, here is my question, I have made a game in pygame, that I am yet to share with the itch community, but my problem is...

started by lemoncleaver 31 days ago

7 replies

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lemoncleaver

12 days ago

Design3D World Studio 6 - Web-Page and Sign-Up Sheet is LIVE!!!

The Web-page and Sign-up sheet is below. If we can get at least 200 people interested and signed up.. Joshua Klint will...

started by DrWho 25 days ago

1 reply

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Frontline Studios

13 days ago

ArtBeginner's guide for putting together asset packs?

Might just be impatient, but I'm getting tumbleweed w/this question on bluesky, so I thought I'd try here. If there is a...

started by Shalmons 15 days ago

1 reply

88 views

Frontline Studios

13 days ago

TipClassic games renewed

Hello everyone, This topic is addressed to programmers, particularly those skilled in using various game creation softwa...

started by rafnet 20 days ago

1 reply

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Frontline Studios

14 days ago

How to make a gacha mod?

**HELLO I AM TRYING TO MAKE A GACHA MOD HOW TO MAKE IT? TY

started by CuteCupcxkec Jan 10, 2023 Last page

49 replies

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MTSyntho Dev

16 days ago

WritingWhy do people don't download android games on itch

For the past few years when I joined itch I realized that only a few people download my game.

started by PixelDot 19 days ago

3 replies

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Frontline Studios

16 days ago

MarketingB2B Marketing Collab - Case study

B2B Marketing Collab INTRO Hello, For the ones that don’t know me, my name is Cristi P. and I represent 16 BIT NIGHTS...

started by 16bitnights 22 days ago

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ArtSeeking Feedback: Designing Top-Down Game Characters with Only Left and Right Vi...

Hi everyone, I’m working on a top-down game and looking for ways to optimize the time spent creating character art and...

started by Archi Const 23 days ago

1 reply

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DarkBloodbane

23 days ago

ProgrammingGodot tutorials?

I went through the official Godot tutorial already, but then I started to make my own game and realized I basically don...

started by esotericpig 35 days ago

2 replies

141 views

esotericpig

27 days ago

What are the best sites to use sounds from for the game?

I'm making my own game, and here the question of sound effects arose. What sites are the best to use sounds from? Or do...

started by AwfulStuffForAwfulKids 32 days ago

5 replies

163 views

Aim studios

27 days ago

ProgrammingQuestion On Educational Games

Is there any prior precedent for games that blend romance with educational experience in an adventure game context? The...

started by SRWeaver 30 days ago

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ProgrammingHello looking for coding expertise when it comes to creating a competitive onlin...

Hello as a game developer I will admit while not helpless in coding it is a weak spot. That's why I was hoping to get th...

started by tic458 30 days ago

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Which games engine and what kind of games?

Hey! I am a newbie here, so please be understanding. I am a very average programmer, so I am looking for "No Code" games...

started by GamesForgePL 86 days ago

8 replies

341 views

Arcane Creations

35 days ago

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