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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

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Frontline Studios

32 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

28 replies

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mig

47 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

Feb 03, 2026

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

30,114 views

Vaida

Feb 03, 2026

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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Programming[Não remunerado] [programador] [modelagem 3d]

Oie gente! Estou planejando um jogo mobile e estou procurando pessoas interessadas em participar de forma voluntaria! No...

started by Boteirolin 22 hours ago

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Sick of messy casting calls? I built an ecosystem to fix it. (FREE Software Keys...

Hey everyone! I’m an indie dev and a VA, and I just built a dedicated casting website and DAW called Velum . It’s a...

started by Thomas Coltrane 22 hours ago

1 reply

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No Time To Play

22 hours ago

DesignResearch: Developing a "Lean Canvas for Game Development" (LCGD) – Need your i...

Hi everyone! 👋 My name is Abbas Madwani . I am a Communication Design student currently completing my bachelor's degr...

started by Abbas Madwani 1 day ago

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ProgrammingI built a free browser-based sprite sheet slicer — feedback welcome!

Hey everyone! I just released Sprite Slicer Pro, a free browser tool for cutting sprite sheets into individual frames. F...

started by ORHstudio 2 days ago

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Writingkeeping motivation for making visual novels?

i'm a solo developer and rn i'm in the stage of visual novel development where i know what i want to happen and the main...

started by saturnX3 16 days ago

2 replies

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RawFormula

3 days ago

TipGameWare: A Virtual Console for HTML5 Games

GameWare is an attempt to take HTML5 games to the next level. The idea is to give HTML5 games the feel of a console expe...

started by ROEGA™ 5 days ago

22 replies

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Eldwood

3 days ago

ProgrammingCollab Voluntária] Projeto de jogo em terceira pessoa procura programadores C#...

Olá, pessoal. Estou desenvolvendo um projeto de jogo em terceira pessoa, com uma proposta narrativa sombria, focada em...

started by Felipe Fr 4 days ago

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ArtBlender workflow for environments for Godot

Hey everyone! I would love to connect with other environment artists to learn good workflow practices for blender to god...

started by nocturnalpenguin 6 days ago

1 reply

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gamtec1

6 days ago

My biggest project: A game *engine* with its own scripting language

So I'm a C# developer and I have a prototype of a game engine (based on GameMaker 8) that uses the interpreted programmi...

started by DavidCS1 12 days ago

4 replies

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OURABIG

6 days ago

ProgrammingIn 2026, which game development frameworks / libraries / engines are actually AI...

It is important to me that my games are AI-free, and if the engine I use includes AI code, the end product includes AI c...

started by Ratsnake Games 54 days ago

14 replies

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OURABIG

7 days ago

What would it take for people to start making games on elves?

I have always been a big fan of elves since my early days of gaming, there is so much I love about them and I like to fi...

started by psyf3ktorstudios 12 days ago

19 replies

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redonihunter

10 days ago

DesignHow would you design fair clues for an AI detective game?

I’m experimenting with a browser-based detective game where players can ask suspects their own questions instead of ch...

started by mmjuns 12 days ago

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ProgrammingLite-signal v1.1 - zeroGC reactive library

Hi everyone — @zakkster/lite-signal is a small (~3.2 KB min+gz, single-file ESM, zero deps) reactive state library for...

started by PeshoVurtoleta 14 days ago

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Apple Developer Program Pending Termination — Looking for developer experience...

Hi everyone, I’m an independent game developer working on a small 2D mobile runner game for iOS. The game includes nor...

started by ozgur2534 14 days ago

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Price

Just curious how everyone else comes up with a price for their games.

started by Taro Dec 02, 2015

50 replies

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saqlain_baloch

15 days ago

Give Me Ideas For Baldi Mods!

im out of ideas for baldi mods and another thing thats basically out of topic how do i publish games on itch.io when i u...

started by MemealdiLOL1 14 days ago

1 reply

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No Time To Play

14 days ago

ProgrammingAmianto Editor (in development)

Hi everyone, I’d like to introduce a project I’m currently developing solo: Amianto Editor . Amianto Editor is a web...

started by Amiant 15 days ago

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ArtArmory Crafter - Modular 3D Weapon Prop Models Editor

Hey everyone! I wanted to share a tool I’ve been working on called Armory Crafter , a modular 3D weapon prop editor. T...

started by Kevin Iglesias 20 days ago

1 reply

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Kevin Iglesias

18 days ago

New Rpg game Ideas and Tips

After what 2 years we are back we took a break from agem dev and focused on Website Designing but we are back and want t...

started by Strain studios 18 days ago

2 replies

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Strain studios

18 days ago

Audio cassette damage tool for game audio

Hey! I made a small browser tool called ATTAQ TAPE CHEWER . https://artemyzen.itch.io/attaq-tape-chewer It turns audio f...

started by Artemy Zen 18 days ago

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