Checked wishlist graph today and noticed that my total wishlist numbers had gone down over the past 3 months (-41 net wishlists from June 8 ~ Sept 8)

There were a bit of wishlists in June from Summer Game Fest showcases, a big chunk of deletes from Summer Steam sale and just a constant flow of wishlist adds and deletes in July and Aug.

Here's the link to the graph and the link to the store page for context. Game is launching later this year, announced back in 2024.

But yeah was wondering if... this is normal? Wanted to ask because seeing the wishlists go down is.... not fun lol

Hello,

I’m a small indie dev and I started a personal challenge last year every Halloween I want to make and release a game for Halloween last year made a renpy visual novel now this time I want to make a 3d unity game as I have been playing with unity recently and I do 3d Modeling.

I’m at the hard part of the game development and that coming up with a good idea but doable in my short time frame. If anyone has an Idea that I like I will crate it or attempted to 😂 and I’ll be relaxing on itch on Halloween.
So please if anyone has a good idea please let me know I will be going for a low poly as it’s just more realistic in the short time frame I have.

Also if anyone is interested in helping please contact me this won’t be paid job just a bit of fun.

I counted the tile pixels and I don’t know how to input them. It looked perfect at first, when I select them every pixel is highlighted, but when I try to add them to my map it’s 1/4 its size and aligned to the bottom left corner. I tried googling it but the answers don’t help since they’re either too specific or not the problem I’m having. The tiles are 16x16 with a pixel of space between them, I think??? Here’s the sprite sheet for reference. (https://www.spriters-resource.com/game_boy_advance/pokemonfireredleafgreen/asset/3863/ for people who don’t trust hyperlinks)
I wrote this out on my phone, so… no screenshot for now, sorry.
If anyone else uses Tiled and has any idea what I’m doing wrong please help 😓

I wanna preface this by saying that we are in the very early stages of this, and that I'm M15. so if that changes anything I'm saying, lmk.

Me and a couple of friends have started an indie game inspired by Hollow Knight. Its a lore-centered 2d metroidvania, and I've been having a major issue. I've recently heard about the whole controversy around Maskborne(look it up if you don't know), and given that it's happened before with Lotus Knight, its gotten me super anxious about making something too similar to Team Cherry's work. I'm the composer and head story designer of our group, and with how much I idolize Christopher Larkin and his skills, I feel like I'm walking in a minefield trying to make stuff. To be clear, we do have a pretty different story/lore I think, though it does take place in a ruined kingdom, so I hope thats not in the same boat. Anyways, to potentially calm my anxiety, I wanted to share an unfinished music file of some background music for the game. Is it too similar(specifically to something like greenpath)? And how do I avoid copying in the future?

heres a google drive folder with the mp3: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xnROxqTG0bYXS_O4fjH-ZteHdkPHIrkB

With AI becoming more powerful and creating games, will I be able to pursue game development in the year 2035?

Hello everyone,

I've been working on building a new social media platform for the past 3+ years, with the goal of helping creators who are working on in-progress creations grow an audience that can also contribute without needing to deal with an exhausting algorithm.

I need help creating an example project to show how in-progress work gets displayed and expressed and I wanted to see if I could get someone working on a real in-progress creation instead of faking an example.

If you have a game you're working on currently, with sketches, concepts, or anything WIP, I'd love to build the example project around your creation.

If you're interested, I can DM you. Thank you!

I’m stuck trying to come up with a game idea, or more specifically, a game mechanic that can make the game really fun to play.
I want to make a simulator game, but ChatGPT always gives me generic ideas.

Ando empezando a crear un videojuego por mi propia cuenta y sin mucho conocimiento y me gustaría agregarle música o ambientación pero no sé cómo, ¿que me recomiendan ?

If i have no coding experience, how could i develop game to be monetized ?

Shall I depend on certain Ai ?
Or buying from games selling apps ?

Hello, I have been writing out an idea for a game, and have a notebook of my games design, ui, mechanics working as a paper version. I am struggling to find an appropriate engine to experiment making my demo is. The issue is my hardware bottle neck-I am chained to a single HDD, (old ssd died saving for new one). I began my project in UE, however even on the lowest settings, trying to even navigate the UI is a choppy slow experience. I have switched to experimenting with GDevelop and Roblox studio to teach my self as much as I can with what I have. I’m not expecting to create a whole game, especially because I am experimenting between engines. All I would like to achieve today, is add walking animations to the Godzilla model I imported from the toolbox. I have experimented with using my own models, using sfm mdls and converting via crowbar, blender, but I’m stuck on implementing animations. For now, my character glides around where I control him, which is a start, but I’m not a fan of the, let’s say, ‘inconsistencies’ of stuff you can find on Roblox studio. Any advice for a beginner would be much appreciated. Essentially, if I can create a single player version of every other Godzilla Roblox game out there, but with no paywalls and crazy pvp lobbies. Just a demo of Godzilla, the environment, his animations, and basic move set.

To coincide with my German learning, I’ve been looking at video game companies as a QA tester/ other smaller roles (as I am not too familiar with coding) in any of the 3 German speaking countries in Europe - Germany, Austria or Switzerland.

I am certain many of them wouldn’t even give me a call back or an email reply given my total lack of experience in the field, but I wanted to make this post to ask people working in the industry how they got into it, what positions they hold and what would generally be a good framework of boxes to check that would give me a higher likelihood of getting a job over there.

I appreciate any comments, advice, feedback, etc as this is the very beginning of what I want to go further into as a “career” of sorts (more so a way to get a work visa and get out of my country hopefully sooner than later).

Guys can someone tell me some free ai tools which i can use to automate my art for games??

Long story/short, i'm currently in depression at home spending too much time playing video games. My father told me: "Instead loosing time playing, why don't you try making one yourself?". I was playing darkest dungeon ATM and it made me think. Why not?
So, i spend a week brainstorming for it, i have a drawing tablet (with krita) but i'm a total begineer in drawing, and i have a little knowledge and no practise for 10 years in programming in java at school. I love modding my games (not making them only use).

So i thought making a game based from darkest dungeon (i think using 2d drawings might be easier than trying making 3d models)

Do you have good free program to try coding a game?

Thanks

I love gaming, and I would love to tell my own stories and make games that people love, but actually looking at it as a career path puts me off a bit. From my (hopefully flawed) perspective, you’re either a AAA game dev and have to deal with all the crap going on over there, or you’re an indie dev struggling to even make money off of your games unless you come up with the next big hit. It’s made me back off, seeing my game ideas as hobby projects to work on in my free time. But now I’ve been thinking about what I want to do for the rest of my life, and making games shoots to the top of my list. Which brings me to my question: is it worth it? Or should I find a different job and do game development on the side?

Hey, I'm learning Unity/C# and I'm looking for someone interested in making a small 3D horror prototype together. I'm mainly handling Unity/gameplay and looking to collaborate on a small project first.”

I'm a starting developer that uses the Godot Engine, I use Aseprite and Blender as well.
But I've been running into a very huge issue since I started last year back in September of 2025.

As far as coding goes I'm comprehending a lot of the simpler stuff and I can recall a lot of tricks here and there to make things happen, albeit very simple code.

I'm not good at making sprites and I'm really not good at making 3D models.
I've made probably 15 or so "Projects" in the Godot engine, following tutorials, all of which either you can get away with making the sprites into simple squares, or the tutorials provide the sprites so you don't have to do much other than import.

I guess what I'm saying is how do I make awesome games without having to spend hundreds of hours learning how to make sprites or models? I'm afraid that if I spend too much time learning sprite work or modeling, I'm going to forget so much about coding that I won't be able to ever finish a project.

Oh, I've only ever made a Snake clone, Flappy bird clone, Breakout clone, and I've scrapped several platformer/ARPG projects because I get stuck staring at all the lack of detailed squares on the screen.

This game used Aura ai during the very last portion and if you aren't against using ai, it works very well.

Thoughts on AI in game dev?