Guide:Main Page

In this section of the wiki you can find and add helpful info on specific game making tools, as well as guides on other aspects of game making.

This Wiki

• Guide:Game Making Tools Wiki - General guide for editing this wiki.
  • Guide:Game Making Tools Wiki/Templates
  • Guide:Game Making Tools Wiki/Infoboxes
• Guide:Glossary - Game-making terms and jargon.

Getting Started Making Games

[links to basic guides, also general tips]

• Personal Games Resource List on the itch.io forum.
• Mental Health in Games Resource List on the itch.io forum.

Tool-Specific

• 3D Rad
• Clickteam (From KNP through to Clickteam Fusion)
• Bipsi
• Bitsy
• Decker
• EF-12
• GB Studio
• Godot
• Inform
• OHRRPGCE
• PICO-8
• SmileBASIC
• Unity
• Vertex Meadow
• ZZT

Asset Creation

• Creating GIFs
• Blender
• FFmpeg
• ImageMagick
• Inkscape
• LMMS
• OpenSCAD

Genre-Specific

• Roguelike coding advice on No Time To Play.
• Articles on the RogueBasin wiki.

Accessibility

Help on ensuring your game is accessible to people with disabilities.

• Disability And Gaming Resource List - Great list of essays on playing games with disabilities.
• The Disabled Gaming Resource - Links for players and makers with disabilities, people wanting to making things accessible to people with disabilities, and more.
• Accessibility Design: Color Blindness - Easy to grasp help for designing for colour blindness. Even has a shader to download to help testing.
• gameaccessibilityguidelines.com
• Online Accessibility - Great reference for general (IE not game-specific) accessibility.
• Accessibility List 1 - Zine by Mariken.

Procedural Generation

• Scape: 3. Procedural extensions
• Procedural Generation Resources - Annotated list of links.
• Spelunky Generator Lessons
• unity-wave-function-collapse

Distribution

• Distribution - Info. on how to share your games.
• Licensing - Info. on choosing a suitable licence.
• Git - Using Git to manage and share projects.

Funding

• Retribute
• Grants

Websites

• Creating Websites
• Internet Archive - Using Internet Archive to host games.
• HOTGLUE
• Itch.io
• Neocities

Sources

Source code / projects for games that have been made public.

• Sources

Programming

• book.famicom.party - NES assembly programming guide (in-progress).
• freecodecamp.org - Free, structured guides for learning various languages and things.

Graphics Programming

• The Book of Shaders - Shaders!
• Quaternions - Interactive web thing to help understand 3-D maths.
• Realtime Voxel Landscape Engines

Miscellanea

• Virtual Machines

Other Resources

• Assets - Links to free Assets/materials.
• Interfaces - Controllers, displays, etc.
• Texts
• Communities