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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

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investus.itch.io

22 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

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SupersizeMyHeart

64 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

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

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GamesByJack

Dec 01, 2022

Recommendations for learning Unity Programming ?

Hi, I'm trying to get into game development and start making games with Unity, opposed to RPG maker like I've done since...

started by stardustjessie Mar 15, 2022

4 replies

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technicat

Mar 18, 2022

ArtMahjong tile placeholder assets

So at some point (if I can ever get myself to just buckle down and do it) I plan on making a riichi mahjong game. I'd lo...

started by browndj3 Mar 11, 2022

2 replies

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browndj3

Mar 12, 2022

How to make Ball for Pong Game.

So I have discovered this awesome game framework called Love2D that uses Lua. I am in love with it and am still very new...

started by GamerPlayz Jan 31, 2022

3 replies

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Hugues Ross

Mar 10, 2022

TipBite-Sized Tutorial 4 - UI Components

UI Elements in Unity (by Faustine) The Unity User Interface (UI) system offers a variety of built-in elements and compon...

started by ACM Studio Mar 02, 2022

1 reply

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ACM Studio

Mar 02, 2022

MarketingEmail Marketing

Email Marketing What did I do last week while my partner was fixing the last few bugs left? I did a bit of email marketi...

started by 16bitnights Feb 07, 2022

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Reading from an included text file in .zip with index.html file

I want to use text files to store JSON that I can read from via my main index.html file, in the same directory within th...

started by FricativeMelon Jan 05, 2022

8 replies

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Daniel Lemke

Feb 06, 2022

TipBite-Sized Tutorial 3 - Accessibility in Games

Accessibility in Games—How to Get Started (by Faustine) It is essential for game designers to ensure that everyone has...

started by ACM Studio Feb 04, 2022

5 replies

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ACM Studio

Feb 04, 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 GGD3V Jan 15, 2022

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