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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

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

21,875 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

8,308 views

GamesByJack

Dec 01, 2022

Options for publishing my old Flash games

I've got a lot of old Flash Games that I'd love to bring to a hip new young audience now that Flash is officially deprec...

started by EddyParanoia Aug 14, 2021

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DesignNew guy here and having questions early on.

Wow is this software awesome! I found something that comes really close to what I needed but I have some opening questio...

started by analien Aug 07, 2021

1 reply

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analien

Aug 07, 2021

System.DateTime.Today why not working on mobile?

Hello! This is my script, I want to save DateTime when I close the android app. It works perfectly on the editor, but on...

started by Ber-C Aug 03, 2021

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ProgrammingHTML game, hosting/hiding server game logic

I've made a turn based HTML game (PhaserJS, not published on itch yet) that I'd like to host a server side bit to solve...

started by scunliffe Jul 21, 2021

2 replies

512 views

Tadgames

Aug 02, 2021

GAME ENGINE - plsss

hey, i'm searching a simple game engine that doesn't include coding..............pls, i need it for a game jam that is c...

started by LordFenny Jul 21, 2021

6 replies

583 views

The GDG Bot

Jul 30, 2021

TipHow to Make a Platformer Game: New tutorial for Beginners

Our New Tutorial for Beginners: "Creating a Platformer Game in Construct3 " Make the Dinosaur Game easily in 30 minutes!...

started by DoonDookStudio Jul 31, 2021

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Plane movement

Hi there, I'm making a game right now and the premise is that you need to destroy enemy planes in space. I did some rese...

started by Shahzain Jul 31, 2021

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TipTips on minimizing workload to speed up your dev process

Hey guys! I'll be writing a short article about some tips and tricks game makers can use to save themselves a lot of tim...

started by Yana Jul 19, 2021

2 replies

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Yana

Jul 30, 2021

What software should I use to program my catfighting game?

So...I'm a degenerate with a catfight fetish, and I'm looking to make a female fighting fetish game. It will have things...

started by JTEddy Jul 24, 2021

6 replies

447 views

The GDG Bot

Jul 30, 2021

Tipmarketing

Hi guys, How are you making your game "famous". I mean, where and how you market the game for people to know it. So far...

started by KocianTech Jul 21, 2021

1 reply

393 views

SUPERSTRING

Jul 26, 2021

TipHow to make retro aesthetic colorblind-friendly 👁

Colorblindness is more usual than one could think, about 1 in 20 people have it to some degree. Games should always be d...

started by eri 🍓 Jun 14, 2021

4 replies

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Lee

Jul 22, 2021

DesignNew Tutorial: "Knife Hit" Replica in Construct3 "Part 3&4"

New #Tutorial on our Website: How to make a Replica of popular game "Knife Hit" in Construct3 In part 3 & 4 of this tuto...

started by DoonDookStudio Jul 20, 2021

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making fnf mods on chromebook

I really wanna make fnf mods on my laptop, but its a chromebook. Is there any way to make fnf mods on chromeboom or am I...

started by logan smells xD Apr 15, 2021

8 replies

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XxMaz_MadnessxX

Jul 17, 2021

ProgrammingPhotoshop extension for procedural textures generation

Hello to all, I am new to this forum, so I see things interesting here and hope you folks will give me some guide on wha...

started by psprocedural Jul 11, 2021

1 reply

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psprocedural

Jul 16, 2021

ProgrammingError 403 loading assets and fonts

Hello there, Is there any guidelines available for uploading a game? I get errors while my app tries to load fonts and I...

started by IlTimido Jul 15, 2021

1 reply

657 views

leafo

Jul 15, 2021

ProgrammingThread for Wolf RPG Editor users

I am attempting to make a horror game with the Wolf RPG Editor and wanted to create a thread for anyone else who may be...

started by Kenzie Jul 12, 2021

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ProgrammingRevisiting the storage question for HTML5 Games

There are old posts about trying to save game progress in html5 games (e.g. https://itch.io/t/186563/html5-game-save-dat...

started by WhaleBunny Jul 03, 2021

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DesignNew Tutorial: "Knife Hit" Replica in Construct3 "Part 2"

New #Tutorial on our Website: How to make a Replica of popular game "Knife Hit" in Construct3 In this part, you will lea...

started by DoonDookStudio Jun 29, 2021

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Unity localization help

Good morning, I'm working on a project on unity and we started to add a localization system for the game. We decided to...

started by Marchellus Jun 27, 2021

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ProgrammingTutorial for time rewinding mechanic

Hi! I very much enjoy games which have some sort of time travel, for example Braid. I just hope there would be more game...

started by aXu Jun 25, 2021

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