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I thought I'd mention where to get assets since not everyone wants to make everything or has the energy to make everything from scratch depending on how big a game they're planning

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📌 not sure I’m going to make a game anytime soon, but hmmmmm

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More emphasis should be put on the fact that being able to write complex code shouldn't be a prerequisite to being able to create games. As long as you aren't stealing assets or code, I'm all for no-code solutions to game dev

replying bc there's no way to bookmark bsky posts but ty

📌 Ty for this awesome masterpost!!

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📌Got a few in mind! Just gotta find the time. Thanks for the resources!

📌 ing this for later ive always wanted to give it a shot

is it 4am right now? yeah maybe. am I about to begin my lifelong dream of trying to dev my very own video game? oh you betcha

Can the skills you teach get you some kind of work that deals with coding?

As a programmer that gets too deep into technical stuff. You're doing God's work here.

Very nice resource.

Definitely pinning this for later 📌

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Ok the original inspiration was bipsi which I believe is also true of bitsy. Idk really. But people should try them too!

Oh, this is super helpful! Thanks for this, definitely saving this thread. I can program okay, but a lot of what I want to do is far beyond my current skill level. 📌

If it's bamboozler you would have to do another tap shot after or I'd have enough health to get away

I'm unsure how godot isn't oriented towards beginners, it literally hands you everything, and even autofills your code for you, i dare say it's even easier to use than roblox, with the perk of not being roblox, if you could explain more what you struggled with, I'm more than willing to help

I totally agree about hostile to beginners! I *really* wanted to use Godot, but it felt so heavily oriented towards people who are already developers. And they built their no-code version (which is discontinued now IIRC) by asking what coders thought it should look like! I just gave up in the end.

if rpg maker and gdevelop aren't your thing, probably scratch gamengine / make code arkade might fit? some start with mobile apps first, like buildbox or game builder garage for switch

honestly I think its still important to mention the engines that require you coding in this thread. people will have fun using the simpler engines and then eventually want to make more complex games, they should know where to start from then :)

Godot has Native C support and a full source code release so if you know what you're doing its a very powerful engine.

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still waiting for an answer

i love rpg maker myself.

This is amazing!!! Thank you! 😭❤️

And Monster Prom!

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Thanks for this post! Do you have any experience with GBstudio? :3 I've been interested to try it but I'm not good with coding.

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📌 thanks for the share, need to pin it for future reference 🤭

Lol I already liked it, so I have it saved. Thank you so much for writing this post!

In my case, I started picking up Gamemaker Studio again after playing around with Tyranobuilder and finding some things I wanted to do being a bit too advanced for the program. Past couple years I've gone from not being able to code at all to having written up an entire dialogue system from scratch!

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It's kind of like Ren'py for Disco Elysium'ups.

Yes! Thanks for putting this together. I'll add it to the readings for the game design class. (Also, sneaky little @netrunner.nullsignal.games logo in the hair.)

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ur so right, every oil painting made on a canvas just ends up looking the same too

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You made stars in time? :o

📌 super resourceful post, definitely did not know about other engines besides renpy and rpgmaker so this is very cool!!

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All that to say, if you’re scared of coding, start small. Don’t even make choices yet, just a straightforward story. Then go back, add in transitions… so-on-so-forth. You can always go back! (End of this thread lol, sorry!!!)

I need to save this. I have so many ideas that I want to turn into video games

preach Adrienne preach!!!

I just wanted to say, playing isat recently gave me the motivation to revive a game project I abandoned years ago! so thank you!! ;w; 💖

amazing resource! and IN STARS AND TIME is such a rad game!!

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I tried Unreal's blueprints and it's never clicked with me. I just found it to be clunky, confusing and hard to organize. Props to anyone who can use that thing.

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Oh yeah this is a classic post, extremely good

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Just wanted to say that In Stars and Time slaps

GDevelop (subscription with free version) Again a bit limited so you have to get creative on how you do the things you want to do. I think they added ai features but didn't check gdevelop.io/es-es

Tyrano Builder - (Personal opinion here) the cleaner version of RenPy. Pixel GameMaker MV - Made by the RPG maker people. Can make any game but specializes in games that have parallax scrolling and physics (as opposed to RPG maker that specializes in top-down game play.)

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joining the pin army 📌

super useful, been dabbling with a game idea this year and this is an amazing resource

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thank you so much for sharing! with my bachelor project around the corner and the most bare bones coding skills, you might have just saved my life 🥹

All I wanted was to do a visual novel, though. And I looked information, googled and worked my butt off but none of the guides explain the process, and it's very technical language which is hard for non-native English speakers. But the mocking when I got stuck was the worst about the entire thing

I’m putting this post in my pocket, for later use

Thanks for the recs 📌

You are the angel we all needed

Another simple option for visual novels and RPG stuff in the vein of a Disco Elysium but smaller scale is Narrat. Not sure how it compares to Renpy but it's also free and possibly easier to use? Definitely more underground😎 narrat.dev

Game Maker Studio 2 with some plug-ins would probably be your best bet. I would look into peoples text adventure tutorials and go from there. If you dont wanna shell out you could try Adventure Game Studio. Its a bit clunky. Not intuitive for what you want but closer than other engines.

yoooo no way i jus bought yr game! my friend tristen reccomended it to me as their Goty 2023, im excited to get to it!

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Yet another option is to ask me for collaboration, I can code, even have my own pixelart-optimized engine with software synths, you just need to provide me design, graphics, music (?), and regular messages whether I'm working on this project or not.

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I will read this later for sure 📌 thank youu!!

Also develop.games may be useful for someone

I'd like to suggest looking at enginesdatabase.com where you can look at and filter through a lot of different game engines by various features (2D/3D, Visual Scripting vs Coding, etc) and genres (Platformers, RPGs, etc) to find an engine that may work best for your game idea and skill level.

I’ve got my hands full lately but I do have a game project in pursuing, I’m definitely gonna have to check this out soon!!🥰💝 Thank you for sharing 💝💝💝💝💝💋💋💋💋💋

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worth mentioning AGS, Adventure Game Studio for point-and-clicks (or text inputs)! it's an oldie, but still works and has thorough documentation!

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