Video Game Development 🌱

Text Games #

#1 Recommendation:

• Twine

Guides:

• Read: Total Beginner
• Read: A Quick Twine
• Watch: Epoch’s Twine Tutorials
• Watch: Twine or Treat

Forums:

• Interactive Fiction Community Forum: Twine
• Twine Discord Server
• Twine Subreddit
• Search Hacker News: Twine

Slightly Related:

• 50 Years Of Text Games
• (TV) Tropes

Visual Novels #

#1 Recommendation:

• Ren’Py

Guides:

• Watch: VimislikArt
• Watch: Zeil Learnings
• Read: VN Coder

Forums:

• Lemma Soft Forums
• Ren’Py Discord Server

No-Code #

#1 Recommendation:

• GDevelop

Guides:

• Watch: Official Intro Tutorials
• Read: GDevelop 5 tutorials

Forums:

• GDevelop Forums
• GDevelop Discord Server

Slightly Related:

• Hacker News folk wisdom on visual programming

Code-First #

• Scratch (MIT)
• Microsoft MakeCode
• CMU CS Academy
• p5.js + p5.play

Explore:

• Scratch Games
• p5.js Games

8-Bit / Retro #

#1 Recommendation:

• PICO-8
• PICO-8 Education Edition

Explore:

• PICO-8 Cartridges
• itch.io PICO-8 Games

Resources:

• Awesome PICO-8
• PICO-8 Discord Server
• LazyDevs

Puzzle Games #

RPGs #

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Comments Section #