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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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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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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
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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
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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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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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Hello im new to game design and all that stuff. I was just looking for some advice mostly about coding in Godot any othe...
started by Jake the man5 16 hours ago
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I have a game in development, and I want people to design their own boss for the game. You don't only have to give me id...
started by HappyClam 1 day ago
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conceptual screenshots, title screens, poster mock-ups etc
started by RawFormula Sep 23, 2025 Last page
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Hi itch.io Developers, We are working on a web-based interactive media wrapper and canvas overlay that streams HLS video...
started by AniLab HD 5 days ago
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First off all sorry if this is in the wrong place I don't know what the best forum's are for specific things. So I wante...
started by TheBargainBedDev 5 days ago
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Hi itch.io Community & Developers, I wanted to open a quick discussion about optimizing web-based media assets and overa...
started by AnimeSalt App 5 days ago
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Hello! I lurk around these boards a lot and see lots of the same questions popping up re: marketing, and how to build aw...
started by SUPERSTRING Jan 03, 2020
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I recently started working on my game's animations, and I'm kind of stuck on one particular problem. It doesn't look ver...
started by Heroine-chan 7 days ago
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Hey everyone! I have a question for RPG Maker MV devs. I've been experimenting with making my own RMMV plugins lately, e...
started by LunarX 7 days ago
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Looking for a UI designer to refine an existing, already-structured interface for a children's board game app. What this...
started by Wess 8 days ago
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I've been thinking about this quite a bit recently: at what point does realism actually start making a game worse? Espec...
started by t0m_ok 13 days ago
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Hey everyone! 👋 For quite a while I've been working on Pixel-Deck , a free community platform for pixel art, game ass...
started by JedimeisterX 9 days ago
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I've been thinking about how sometimes the smallest additions end up making a game feel significantly better. Not huge n...
started by t0m_ok 11 days ago
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I've been building a fairly detailed emergency department simulation, and I've reached the point where one of the hardes...
started by t0m_ok 9 days ago
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I kept reusing the same handful of script conditions across projects, so I figured I'd share them here. These go in Cond...
started by TomazellaGames 10 days ago
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Been learning about GPIO while adding analog mobile controls to a PICO 8 web export. Sharing the approach in case someon...
started by hillhillhill 15 days ago
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I'm working on something for the prototyping phase of game dev and want to understand how people here actually work. Sol...
started by priyam3104 20 days ago
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I’m evaluating a small tool idea; no app exists yet. It would compare two CSV localization exports and flag changed so...
started by Hickery68 17 days ago
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HTML5 uploads can fail for boring ZIP reasons: index.html nested in an extra folder, case-sensitive asset paths, absolut...
started by P4ODEBATATA 27 days ago
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i always make sure my games run as lag free as possible ;S hate laggy games
started by Coa 13 days ago
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