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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

146 replies

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logicandchaos

20 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

30 replies

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HKM United

31 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

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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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How is prototyping/ game designing changing with AI

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 6 days ago

5 replies

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DREAM_SEARCH_REPEAT

1 day ago

ProgrammingNatural Blinking Animations in Ren'Py (2026)

Do your blinking animations in Ren'Py feel too stiff? Do you want to have blinking animations at all? This video will he...

started by Overlooked Option Visual Novels 1 day ago

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ProgrammingUsing PICO 8 GPIO for analog touch input in a web export

Been learning about GPIO while adding analog mobile controls to a PICO 8 web export. Sharing the approach in case someon...

started by hillhillhill 1 day ago

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TipThread for WOLF RPG EDITOR Users!

Hello! Just figured I would start a thread here surrounding Wolf RPG Editor, considering I have yet to find one and Engl...

started by cafe__q Jul 25, 2020

17 replies

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Waffle

2 days ago

How do you track stale CSV translations after source text changes?

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 3 days ago

3 replies

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Hickery68

3 days ago

ArtI built a free tool for previewing Steam artwork across different store layouts

Hey everyone, I built Steam Art Lab , a free browser-based tool for checking how your game artwork might look across sev...

started by tenebr1um 3 days ago

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Thoughts on artificial intelligence for code?

I've been learning various coding languages for years. With the new rise of ai, I find it a bit useful, particularily in...

started by AverageUnityGameDev 7 days ago

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DarkBloodbane

6 days ago

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 May 15, 2026

2 replies

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Kevin Iglesias

6 days ago

DesignAvospace

i created avospace my space sim mostly because i liked to have a space shooter that had freelancer style targetting syst...

started by Coa 6 days ago

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Cozy Taxidermy Shop, a Game Concept

Sticky Business × Unpacking × Capybara Spa, but you're a taxidermist. Genre: Cozy simulation / crafting / shop managem...

started by petthezoe 7 days ago

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Programming[Tool] BuildHarbor: raw ZIP path checks before itch.io HTML5 uploads

HTML5 uploads can fail for boring ZIP reasons: index.html nested in an extra folder, case-sensitive asset paths, absolut...

started by P4ODEBATATA 13 days ago

2 replies

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HKM United

7 days ago

ProgrammingI made a modular no-code development environment for GameMaker

I've been developing a tool for GameMaker called Shinguji GML Studio . Shinguji is a modular no-code development environ...

started by DoubleInt Software 7 days ago

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What software do you use to create installers for your games?

Hi everyone! For those of you who release downloadable Windows builds, what do you use to create your installers, if you...

started by RATASOFTWARE.INC 19 days ago

9 replies

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CSAF — Core Systems Asset Factory

7 days ago

ProgrammingHow do you test your game across different resolutions?

I’ve been working on a Unity project and found testing the same flow across different resolutions pretty tedious. I’...

started by ENJOYBASE 22 days ago

13 replies

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CSAF — Core Systems Asset Factory

7 days ago

Marketing[Tool] Two things that break when you localize a Steam store page

Steam gives you no API for store page text. The only path is Steamworks, Store page, Localization, export the JSON, tran...

started by moonpunchstudio 13 days ago

1 reply

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Lizzard Studio | Indie Games

11 days ago

ProgrammingHow much did you struggle going from desktop to Web version? --> a real drag for...

Hi everyone! Recently I've come to understand that having to download a game to play / test it is actually a major frict...

started by jerkyhips 18 days ago

14 replies

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jerkyhips

12 days ago

Made a small heightmap/terrain tool for my own game, sharing in case it helps so...

Hey everyone, It's been a while since I last worked on anything dev-related, but I wanted to share a small tool I put to...

started by Axgin96 13 days ago

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started by dage davi 13 days ago

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Programming[Tool] ShaderOS - Shader Diagnostics & Material Health Monitoring for Unity

Hi everyone, We’ve just released ShaderOS here on itch.io! ShaderOS is a free Unity Editor tool that scans materials a...

started by Tools Studio 14 days ago

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ProgrammingEver made a game in your own programming language? Well, I did!

A game in my own programming language Yes, it was about time. I started developing my own programming language a few yea...

started by Daniel Brendel Jul 06, 2025

17 replies

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Daniel Brendel

14 days ago

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