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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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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

133 replies

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I Am Dev 42

28 days ago

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

24 replies

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Vaida

34 days ago

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

19 replies

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Vaida

34 days ago

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

Feb 01, 2025

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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I Want To Know Your Opinion/Experience With Unity and Godot

Hello, everyone! It's been a while since I didn't make any games again. I'm currently re-learning Unity and starting to...

started by ReyGameDev 30 days ago

4 replies

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ZinebDev

1 day ago

ProgrammingHow do indie devs collect bug reports during playtests?

Hi, I'm curious how other indie developers collect bug reports during playtests. For example when players encounter thin...

started by Jan max pavlica 2 days ago

2 replies

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Jan max pavlica

2 days ago

Looking for Completed Games to Publish on Dreamcast

Hello everyone, I’d like to open a conversation with developers in the community regarding something I’m building ca...

started by Legend Of Console 2 days ago

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ProgrammingNeed help

I'm new here and don't know if I'm posting to the right board. Godot's community is weird. I tried to create an account...

started by blazingbobcat 2 days ago

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ProgrammingZiva - AI Agent for Godot

If you're interested in using AI to make your game development faster (which, lets be real, many people are), Ziva is he...

started by Zivash 13 days ago

1 reply

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Zivash

2 days ago

tagging as AI?

I recently finished putting together a choose your own adventure type visual novel for a collaborative project in one of...

started by hivemindheretic 3 days ago

1 reply

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redonihunter

3 days ago

DesignAny advice/experiences for devs making a 3D game for the first time?

One of us attached to this account is planning one of their next short projects hopefully to be completed before the end...

started by Kador 4 days ago

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Programming[Programming and Art] stuck on "natural" effects

I need to implement two simple and hard thing: representing a tree growing up (continuously); making doves flying and mo...

started by Snowy 13 days ago

2 replies

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Snowy

5 days ago

WritingTired of "dialogue spaghetti"? Help us build a better dialogue tool!

Hey y'all! We are two master students from Technical University of Denmark currently researching tools for authoring dia...

started by Dreunin 5 days ago

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ProgrammingHow do I use the `game:view:ownership` endpoint?

I have successfully acquired an access_token with the `profile:me` and `game:view:ownership` scopes enabled using the OA...

started by Ikkengoya 50 days ago

4 replies

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Ikkengoya

6 days ago

How Does Itch handle new versions of games?

My shower thought the other day was, if I release a game that does not have an auto updater, and then I create an update...

started by Frontline Studios 11 days ago

5 replies

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Magicsofa

7 days ago

ProgrammingItch.io Dark Theme

The Pink banner bothered me when browsing so I created a css script to mod it. Installation If you have custom css style...

started by Courcat Feb 08, 2017

3 replies

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Andrew

Feb 01, 2024

ProgrammingRight GUI for Management Sims

Looking for some advice. Hobbyist, relatively new to this, coding most everything in python. I am very into management s...

started by goosehollowgames 8 days ago

5 replies

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No Time To Play

8 days ago

Ags Launcher

Hello there! I made a launcher for AGS games. The launcher automatically downloads and sets up the game you choose, crea...

started by Weis84 9 days ago

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DesignHow do I come up with ideas

I can't for the life of me think of any ideas for games. I have no issues with development, I just don't know where to b...

started by Ozzymhigh 17 days ago

4 replies

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Arcane Creations

10 days ago

MarketingMetin2 Mobile

🎮 Metin2 Mobile – Our full-featured mobile MMORPG is now available for licensing with complete source code . ✅ Bu...

started by Metin2 Mobile 59 days ago

1 reply

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MalxAPP

12 days ago

ProgrammingA skill/plugin for building modular UPM packages with ScriptableObject patterns

I've been trying to get AI coding assistants to stop writing bad Unity architecture, and I think I've gotten somewhere...

started by eyenpi 14 days ago

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ProgrammingGame engines

Hi, I'm DAZY and I am planning to make games/horror videos. I have never made a game before but I have just downloaded R...

started by DAZY 15 days ago

9 replies

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-X-ScornGames

14 days ago

Programming[HELP] [LEGAL] [TECHNICAL] Can my game legally block task manager on Windows?

Hello, First of all, I would like to apologize if there are any mistakes, I am French and I am translating this message...

started by Chajimo Nov 27, 2025

11 replies

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redonihunter

15 days ago

Building a tool to turn game ideas into playable games – need feedback

Hey everyone, I’m currently working on a project where you can turn a simple game idea into a playable game (without h...

started by prem04siva 16 days ago

2 replies

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John

15 days ago

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