hello! im new to itch.io but i love making games whatever way i can. im just wondering what programs i could use for making games and uploading them here. thank you!
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If you're looking for something simple - then try Construct and GameSalad- they basically use drag and drop to build a game - no coding required.
Clickteam Fusion has a free starter edition - you don't need to learn code for it. It's a bit more involved than Construct / Game Salad - but also a lot more flexible - they also have some included tutorials.
GameMaker's beginner tutorials are very good - or used to be - I haven't looked at them in years, but I started learning with GameMaker and it gave me more knowledge than just programming - they also covered good game design etc. However, you will have to learn some code to use GameMaker - but they teach you that in their tutorials / documentation to some extent.
There are so many different tools. More than i can list, but here's what's off the top of my head:
Engines:
Modelling:
Graphics
Audio
Also, there are tons of people who would be willing to collab in areas you fall short int. There are also tons of sites that offer free and buying resources (sounds, art, examples).
Here are a few tools i know of
-Engines-
* Unity
* Unreal
* CRYengine
* Uhro3D ( or something like that )
* BUILD 2
* Quake Engine
* Source
* GoldSrc
* LOVE2D
* Cube2 Engine
* FPSCreator
* GameGuru
* Blitz3D
* BlitzMax
* Leadwerks
* Blender Engine ( for old versions of blender )
* ClickTeam Fusion 2.5
* Construct ( Free) 2 and 3 (paid)
* Buildbox
* Minetest (more of a game but still)
* 101 Game Engine
* CopperCube 6 ( or something like that)
* Danmakufu ( For Bullet Hells)
-DAWS ( Music Producers and audio editors)
* LMMS
* Fruity Loops studios 20
* MixCraft
* Majix
* Audacity
-Image Editors and Makers-
* Paint .NET
* GIMP
* Photoshop
* MS Paint -_-
* Plenty of online sprite creators
-IDEs-
* SASM ( Assembler code )
* Notepad++ (various)
* MS Visual Studios
* Netbeans
* Eclipse
* Notepad (wait a sec)
* Dev-C++
* Code::Blocks
* JEdit
* Easy64K
* XCode
Hope this helps you out :)
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