Game Making

Game Design

• Game Design Insights
  lots of recources collected in a mind map
• How to keep your game projects small and your mental health strong 🤏🎮✨
  great advice on making small games
• Game Accessibility Guidelines

GameMaker

GameMaker is a free game engine (with a 100$ one time commercial license), that is made for mostly 2D games and it is what I mainly use for making games.

They have a lot of useful tutorials on their own website as well as on Youtube.
Here are some other resources I want to highlight.

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  The rpg tutorial series i used to learn GameMaker and start making my first game.
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  GameMaker dialogue system. This channel also has other good tutorials.
• 
  UI can be a bit annoying in GameMaker. Here is one approach explained nicely.
• Official GameMaker Discord Server (invite link)

Ren'py

Ren'py is a free game engine made for visual novels.

UI

• 
  main menu customization
• 
  GUI things
• Customizing Menus
• [Tutorial] Crash course in screen language/UI design
• Imagemaps explained by a dummy
• [Tutorial] Customizing the Textbox
• Nonnomnami Blogs
  Here are also some helpful tips for Ren'py among other things.

Itch.Io Assets

• Ren'Py Layered Image Masks
• A downloadable RenPy shader pack
• Inventory and RPG Systems
• Train Movement Animation
  It's about animated backgrounds and also links to some other helpful posts about different examples.

Other

• 
  Very fun video style and really well explained.
• What is the difference between default, define, global, python, init, and $?
• NaNoRenO 2024
  An annual month long visual novel game jam.

Music/ SFX

Royalty Free

• dova-s.jp
• incompetech.com
• opengameart.org
  also has free art sprites
• senses-circuit.com

Music/ SFX Making

• jfxr
  for making simple sound effects
• beepbox
  make simple songs in your browser
• scritch-editor
  For putting your music on itch.io

Other

• Game Accessibility Guidelines
• better creator pages
  How to make your itch.io page look nicer.
• Catlike Coding
  Unity and Godot tutorials that I heard are good.