Guide:Main Page

In this section of the wiki you can find and add helpful info on game making tools, and maybe anything else helpful to game makering.

Apart from software-specific stuff, general beginners guides for tool selection, and how to get started would be welcome!

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

• Clickteam (From KNP through to Clickteam Fusion)
• Bitsy
• Blender
• EF-12
• GB Studio
• Git
• Godot
• LMMS
• OpenSCAD
• Pico-8
• SmileBASIC
• Unity
• Vertex Meadow
• ZZT

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 peopel 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.

Procedural Generation

See Also

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

Distribution

• The Distribution section of this wiki, which has guides on distributing games.
• The Licensing page, for info. on choosing a suitable licence.

Miscellanea

• Guide:Virtual Machines
• Guide:Websites

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!