General Development

1,138

Topics

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.

View this community's rules…

Rules

This board is not for self promotion of your games. If you've just released a game on itch.io please head to the Release announcements board.

1,138 topics · Next page

Topic

Last post

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

132 replies

29,573 views

Snow140

32 days ago

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

9,079 views

No replies yet

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

18 replies

19,629 views

IshikuraKanako

Jan 01, 2024

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

25 replies

24,449 views

Jackyfied

Jan 15, 2023

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

20 replies

8,121 views

GamesByJack

Dec 01, 2022

TipAnother Tutorial on How to Fail Your First Game

Introduction On a cold December evening in 2022, I discovered Stardew Valley game. I had already been fond of pixel art...

started by DeKore 7 days ago

1 reply

92 views

Magicsofa

11 hours ago

TipVideo tutorial 3D LP retro pops the easy way, texture and model.

Made a quick tutorial on retro props the quick and easy way ;)

started by Kruk2024 10 days ago

55 views

No replies yet

Looking for ideas and inspiration for planning a game like Hogwarts Legacy

I recently started planning a game. This game is largely inspired by Hogwarts Legacy but also by others in some ways. I'...

started by WhispV Feb 02, 2024

4 replies

289 views

Chorus

10 days ago

Programming[Tutorial] How to create a drivable car on Unity

As a beginner in game development, there is a lot of stuff that I have yet to explore and and there is a lot of stuff to...

started by Biswa_29 Apr 22, 2021

6 replies

7,467 views

amaraha

10 days ago

Your thoughts on Googleplay?

I'm interested in how other developers feel about the updated requirements to keep your Googleplay developers account...

started by K. A. Laherty 19 days ago

4 replies

133 views

K. A. Laherty

17 days ago

MarketingKickstarter day 1 is done

Hello everyone I wanted to say thank you so far from everyone who has supported my game M.Y.S.O.U.L so far. By next Frid...

started by christianciaro 44 days ago

2 replies

121 views

christianciaro

19 days ago

TipCreating new textures from base texture atlas

Hello :) i got a simple quick tip for everyone struggling on expanding their texture library but still need to have the...

started by Kruk2024 20 days ago

70 views

No replies yet

What Game Engine Should I Use?

Hi! I am working on CLIPS ( https://snow140.itch.io/clips ), a point-and-click horror game with mini-games and a deep st...

started by Snow140 25 days ago

18 replies

207 views

redonihunter

23 days ago

DesignLow resolution or pixelated filter??

This is my first post here and im making a PSX-style game. I'm very divided on something - do i make the game in a high...

started by kodenmachou 32 days ago

3 replies

154 views

Snow140

23 days ago

Programmingconsejos y guias para novatos

muchos llegan al mundo del desarrollo por una razon u otra muchos no sabemos como empezar alguin quiere compartir algun...

started by D19962024 27 days ago

1 reply

92 views

Snakey33

25 days ago

ProgrammingEnemy AI in Unity part 2

Have you seen part 2 creating enemy in Unity?

started by FireRaccoon Games 28 days ago

69 views

No replies yet

DesignWhat elements make a good horror game?

What elements do you think make a good horror game? be it assets, screamers, story, etc.

started by kichokhrizzz 36 days ago

7 replies

168 views

redonihunter

32 days ago

ProgrammingAnyone knows how to access old GDC Vault's videos that are flash-based?

The videos from pre-GDC 2009 on their website seem to be mostly (all?) flash-based. They say "Get the Flash Player to vi...

started by peqvim 34 days ago

95 views

No replies yet

MusicVocaloid

For the Vocaloid fandom

started by Mesmerizer Shelby 35 days ago

62 views

No replies yet

Need help choosing program for game!

Hi! I was planning on making a visual novel mixed with a point and click puzzle style game but i wasnt sure what softwar...

started by R0ttt1ngg_P4tchezzzzz 37 days ago

3 replies

139 views

No Time To Play

37 days ago

ProgrammingUnity WebGL VR game doesn't enter VR mode

It loads, I see the viewport, the game is there rendering, I hear the music, but there is no way to kickstart the VR mod...

started by POLYMAD 37 days ago

64 views

No replies yet

Using Debian arm for mobile development

I installed Debian on Android with Termux but I can't get any practical use out of it. I installed Godot but it's very s...

started by Maykel Fernández 40 days ago

2 replies

121 views

Maykel Fernández

39 days ago

TipHow to Make a Game in a Week — Use These Insane 5 AI Tools

In the world of indie game development, speed and efficiency are super important. With tight budgets and short deadlines...

started by Chmerry May 30, 2024

3 replies

405 views

Anton

40 days ago

"Embed in page" doesn't work for browser games

Earlier, when I made a browser game and selected Embed in Page, it would embed in page. If I clicked Fullscreen, it made...

started by Kasper Hviid May 03, 2024

3 replies

417 views

Toksyuryel

42 days ago

TipWhat's your Polish Process?

I struggle with polish. When it comes to polishing up your games for release, what is everyone's approach? Do you throw...

started by ohmygiggles 52 days ago

3 replies

131 views

K. A. Laherty

42 days ago

New topic

1,138 topics · Next page