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From Zero to Game Designer: how to start building video games even if you don't have any experience

by Angela He

From Naught to Game Designer: how to start building video games fifty-fifty if yous don't have any experience

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2 years agone I was merely 17 year old high schoolhouse student who knew goose egg almost coding. But I pushed forward anyhow, and within a few months I published my offset game on Steam.

Now, I've fabricated over 10 games for desktop, spider web, and mobile, with over i.nine million plays combined.

No matter your skill level, you can brand a game too. 2 years ago, I thought it was impossible, but tried anyways. It was the hardest thing I'd always done. But it was worth information technology. At present, I realize game development is like whatever skill — you just get amend by doing, failing, so improving.

I taught myself everything I know. And now I'k going to teach you.

To brand a game, you must go through the half dozen stages of game development: Design. Art. Code. Audio. Polish. Market place.

The rest of my post will construction each stage into the following:

  • ?Advice I've curated from my and others' experiences.
  • ?Resources I've constitute most helpful.
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1. Pattern ?

Communication?

You've got a great idea. *

Merely how exercise yous capture it in writing?

Everyone'll have their ain way of doing that best. Some etch 60-folio design documents. Others, like me, write a page of badly-written notes, unreadable to anyone else. I don't know what's best for yous. But I tin give suggestions on what to write about:

  • Hook. What makes your game idea great? For me, this is the virtually of import to write down. In one case you lot capture this, you can write down the next three points much easier. Is your game nearly something thought-provoking? Scandalous? Is it putting a new twist to an onetime classic? Or, is it doing something that's never been done before?
  • Mechanics. What does your actor do? And for what purpose? This is your gameplay. It can be as simple as pressing QWOP to move in the game QWOP, to tapping buttons to conversation in Mystic Messenger, to the tons of key combos in Dwarf Fortress.
  • Story. What story should players think your game past? What emotions should they exit your game with? Every game has a story. If the story isn't obvious, information technology is created past the player. A story can be created from the increasing numbers in 2048, the ascent empires in Civilization, and the silent interactions in Monument Valley. Think well-nigh what story'll be found in your game.
  • Mood. What impression does your game make? What are the visuals? Sound? Starting time impressions affair. First impressions will claw — then continue — the role player playing. Perhaps, you'll give your game a retro vibe with pixel graphics and chiptune music. Or, a modern, clean look with flat geometries and instrumentals.
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* Having a difficult time thinking of an idea? Creative block hits u.s.a. all.

  • Join a game hackathon/jam. You and other participants'll be tasked to brand a game in a short amount of time. Throughout, and afterwards, you'll be met with back up from other jammers. And the excitement and inventiveness during a jam? Infectious. Don't know where to get started? Try Ludum Dare, one of the largest game jams.
  • Proceed a list of ideas. I and other developers I know jot downwards our ideas. That way, nosotros can refer back to our old ones when we run out of new.

When the muse hits, stop whatever you're doing. Write that idea down. The next time creativity ghosts, yous won't be left grasping for straws.

Resources ?

All of the beneath are tried and truthful. (?) means I utilise it currently.

Note-taking:

  • Notes for Mac (?)
  • Google Docs (?)
  • Trello

Collaboration (for teams):

  • Google Drive
  • GitHub (?). Requires git and Unity .gitignore.
  • Unity Collab. Easiest out of the three. The free version has limitations.

Heads upward — Unity is the game engine I use to make games, then I'll exist mentioning it throughout. Feel free to use a different engine.

Game blueprint:

  • The Art of Game Design by Jesse Schell
  • Gamasutra
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2. Art ?

Advice?

You've planned out your thought; congrats, that's amazing! At present, yous can work on the bodily game.

(If y'all don't know how to lawmaking, I suggest doing stage 3, Code, before Art. Yous don't want to create art that you'll trash later because you can't code it in.)

Don't know how to describe? Do not fret. Anyone can make something beautiful with the 3 bones visual principles: color, shape, space.
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Thomas Was Lonely — a beautiful still uncomplicated game

UI

Think about how you tin make it unique — have a distinct color scheme, font(s), shape(due south), and icon(s) — while functional . Is the important data readable and obvious? Do the colors/fonts/icons distract from that at all?

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Who would win? ?

2D animations

You have two options:

  • Frame-by-frame. Draw out each frame of the animation. For this, you should use sprite sheets with TexturePacker (or if y'all're using Unity, Sprite Packer).
  • Os-based. Draw each animated limb, and so animate the limb's position, rotation, and whatnot in-game. Can exist faster, easier, and save memory. If you're doing second and using Unity, try editing the pivots of sprites or Anima2D.
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Misc

Here are some full general miscellaneous art tips that employ to non only art in games, but in other software also.

  • Tile patterned avails to create tiled images and save memory.
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Untiled to tiled
  • 9-patch/9-piece assets with unscalable borders but a scalable middle to create scalable images and relieve memory.
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?The blue ditto grows, merely its corners stay the same!
  • Make the dimensions of each asset a multiple of 4 or a power of two to save retention. Which one depends on how y'all're compressing the avails.
  • If you're using Photoshop, use "File > Export > Layers to Files" to rapidly consign each layer equally a file (e.chiliad. PNG, JPEG).

Resource ?

Creating UI:

  • Photoshop (?).
  • Sketch.

UI principles:

  • Google Material Blueprint (?).
  • Apple's UI Practise's and Don'ts.

Creating second assets:

  • Photoshop (?).
  • Gimp.
  • Paint Tool SAI. Good for polish/anime styles.

Creating 3D assets:

  • Blender (?). Powerful only steep learning curve.
  • Maya. Good for animation.
  • Max. Skillful for rendering.

Free assets:

  • Behance (?). Fonts + icons + other designs.
  • KennyNL. HQ, game-set UI/second/3D art.
  • Open Game Dev Fine art. Large library of user-generated art.

Inspiration:

  • Dribbble. Designs from invite-only designers.
  • Behance (?). Designs from anyone with an account.
  • itch.io (?). Beautiful indie games.
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3. Lawmaking ?

Communication?

                Debug.Log("Oh boy! Time to lawmaking!! ^_^");              

Your commencement pace? Decide on a game engine and an IDE (Integrated Evolution Environs — basically, an app that lets you lot code). My recommended game engines+IDEs are in Resources below.

Your second step? Code.

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Don't know how to code? No worries. I got you lot. You lot tin can larn.

These CS fundamentals should be enough to showtime. (All code examples here are in C++, ane of the primary languages the Unity 3D game development framework uses.)

one) Data types and variables. At the root of all lawmaking is data. That information is stored in variables. Yous tin can declare a variable like this:

                int i = 0;              

Let's suspension that down.

int is the data type. i is the variable proper name. And that = 0 assigns zero as the variable value.

And then what's this?

                string s = "pusheen is best cat";              

string is the information type. s is the variable name. And yep — you guessed it — "pusheen is all-time true cat" is the variable value.

Some common information types: int and long are integers. float and double are decimal numbers. And cord is any sentence. (Even an empty i — ""!)

Desire to know more? Go through this and this.

ii) If statements. If statements evaluate if a certain condition is truthful. If information technology is, run the lawmaking that'due south within the if statement:

                if (truthful){ //true is always true!      doThings(); //I'g inside the if argument's brackets; run me! }              

If the condition isn't true, we tin can evaluate other conditions with else if:

                int i = 1;  if (i == 0){      doThings();  } else if (i == i){     doOtherThings(); //I'm gonna be run!     }              

Or, just run some other code with else:

                int i = 60000;  if (i == 0){    doThings();     } else {    doOtherThings(); //I'm yet gonna be run.    }              

iii) For/while loops. While loops continue while a certain status is all the same true, executing the aforementioned lines of code over and over again. When the condition is false, the while loop exits.

                while (someBool == true){ //condition     doThings(); //We'll keep doing things until someBool is false     }              

Recollect: how long does this while loop final?

                while (truthful){    doThings();    }              

For loops are basically while loops where:

                int i = 0; while (i < condition){       doThings();          i++; //increment afterward doing things }              

That's equivalent to:

                for (int i = 0; i < condition; i++){      doThings(); }              

4) Basic data structures. So, nosotros take data, and nosotros ways to evaluate and manipulate that information. We can also store that data into some structure — a data construction. Information structures you lot should know are arrays, lists, queues, stacks, and sets.

Here'southward a quick case of an assortment:

                /* Say you have numbers 0 through nine that y'all want to store somewhere. You can store it in an array! */ int[] arr = new int[ten];  /* The [] brackets declare an array. We assign a new assortment to arr of size 10 - that means it can hold ten elements. Arr at present looks similar this:  arr = [ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ] */ for (int i=0; i<10; i++){      arr[i]=i; //Nosotros assign whatever i is to the the ith index of arr.      //Did yous know information structures' indices kickoff at 0? ?  }  /* After the for loop, our array data structure should look like this! arr = [ 0 1 ii 3 4 5 six vii viii 9 ] */              

To solidify your knowledge of two–4, go through this.

5) Functions and exceptions. Functions are basically a small line of code describing a big bunch of lawmaking. For example, if you phone call:

                EatBread();              

And EatBread() looks similar:

                void EatBread(){ //<---this is a function.      breadAte=truthful;        printf("I Tin FEEL THE CARBS COURSING THROUGH MY Body");     }              

Then the call to EatBread() is actually a call to the two statements within the EatBread() office.

If you lot do something bad in your code, an exception might go thrown. They're aroused ruddy errors there to tell you, hey, support, what you did right there only ain't 'workin out logically. Go revise it.

To larn more about functions, get here; for exceptions, go here.

So, there're other things you should know:

6) Language. What linguistic communication are you lot going to code in? C++? Javascript? C#? Every language is written somewhat differently and can let you do different things.

seven) API (Application Programming Interface). One time you know the basics, you'll have to learn the specific API of your game engine. APIs are essentially a bunch of powerful tools wrapped in simple classes and functions that yous can phone call. APIs brand life easier. Way easier.

Lastly:

8) Await at an example project in your called game engine. Unreal and Unity both have a ton of free example projects. This'll permit you find how everything comes together. Plus, you can build your game idea off of the projection. (I built my first game off of Corgi Engine.)

                if (you.getThisFar()==true){   veryProud=true;   you.didIt(); //Electric current MOOD: THE SH⭐⭐KEST ???    }              

A word of encouragement: I know. Coding is scary at beginning. Nothing makes sense, yous're hitting constant roadblocks, and you might want to quit in the face of failures and exceptions. It doesn't hateful you're bad at coding. Coding is challenging. It's understandable to feel incompetent at start.

But it just takes fourth dimension, like any other skill. It'll get easier. And it'll become fun (at least, it did for me).

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Important game programming concepts:

  • Object orientation. Makes programming experience more natural.
  • Naming conventions. Name your classes, methods, and variables as something that manifestly conveys its purpose. For instance, a melee attack function should be named meleeAttack(), not mA() or protecbutalsoattac(). You (and others who read your code) should know what's going on.
  • Decomposition. Put code that repeats itself into a separate function. Phone call that part instead of duplicating the repeatable code.
  • Singleton design pattern. Allows information that a lot of things need to be stored in i place.
  • Static avoidance. Across singletons, I'd avoid making static variables— their lifetime is the game'southward lifetime, they're slower, and they can have unexpected behaviors in the editor.
  • Observer design pattern . Allows things that must happen depending on another thing to non waste the reckoner'southward time checking that other thing.

Of import Unity-specific things:

  • Coroutines. IEnumerators and Coroutines permit y'all to starting time doing things, continue doing things until some time has passed, then stop. I employ them all the fourth dimension: for bursts of visual effects; for lerping motion; for waiting for a scene to load earlier grabbing the scene's objects.
  • ScriptableObject. These contain data with less overhead than MonoBehaviors.

Resources ?

Game engines:

  • Make your own. Requires C/C++. Low level. Actually, really low.
  • Unity (?). 2D/3D. Requires Javascript/C#. Mid-level. Cross-platform.
  • Unreal Engine. 2D/3D. Requires C++. Mid-level. Cantankerous-platform. Notes: 2d support is not great.
  • pixi.js (?). 2D. Requires Javascript. Mid-level. Web.
  • GameMaker Studio. 2D/3D. Requires GML. Beginner level. Cross-platform.
  • Corona. 2d. Requires Lua. Beginner level. Cross-platform.

IDEs:

  • Visual Studio Code (?). For MacOS. Gives me no lag and has awesome, VSCode-exclusive features (such equally inline reference info, quick navigation (⌘T)).
  • Visual Studio (?). For Windows.
  • MonoDevelop. Comes with Unity. Tends to lag.

Free Unity assets:

For Unity, tons of gratis assets exist on the Unity Asset Store, GitHub, bitbucket, and other sites. I utilise at least two in every project. Make your life easier with assets, but realize they're non perfect. If y'all spot mistakes, don't hesitate to prepare them and/or ping the developers.

  • TextMeshPro (?).
  • LeanTween (?).
  • Fungus.
  • Corgi Engine.
  • Dialogue System.
  • Post Processing Stack.
  • Keijiro Takahashi. Works at Unity. Has amazing open source Unity visual effects projects!
Last simply not least, my #ane solution for coding problems: Google!
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4. Sound ?

Communication?

First: Do yous want audio?

Sound tin can practice wonders for immersion and mood. But, it tin can cost memory.

If the reply's aye, what audio?

Will yous include music? Sound effects? Voiceovers or narration?

For any of the above, record and mix them in a way that matches your game's mood. For case, Bastion uses organic mouth and musical instrument sounds, matching its game world. Crypt of the Necrodancer uses a blend of electronic beats and chiptune rock to match the colorful, rhythmic game.

"Immersion is male monarch."

-Darren Korb, Supergiant Games

If your audio doesn't match your game'southward mood, information technology could detract from immersion. How volition your audio match your game?

Resources ?

Audio tools:

  • Logic Pro. $200. MacOS only.
  • FL Studio (?). $99–899. Has free demo.
  • Reaper. $60–225.
  • Audacity (?). Free. Express capabilities. Useful for cleaning audio.

Retro sound effect generators:

  • Chiptone.
  • Bfxr.
  • Leshy SFMaker.
  • as3sfxr.

Gratis sounds:

  • Soundcloud (?). Soundcloud has a ton of gorgeous gems nether Creative Commons (CC). Here's a playlist to become started. Make sure to provide attribution if needed.
  • Incompetech (?). CC music. Must attribute.
  • Bensound. CC music. Must attribute.
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5. Polish ?

Communication?

Hey! You're here! You made it; that'due south absolutely incredible (I'm serious, if you get this far, I'd love to hear about your game; striking me up)!

You're done.. right?

Well. There'south a 99.99999% take chances at that place're bugs.

It's time to bug test.

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Bug testing your game

  1. Get others — not you — to play it. Preferably in front of y'all, because if they meet a bug, they might not realize or accept a hard time describing it.
  2. Play information technology on all targeted platforms. Information technology may work in the editor, but does it work where it matters? For Linux and the different versions of Android especially, I find that things get a fiddling wonky.

Alright. You've plant a bug. What at present?

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  1. Bank check the console for exceptions. Institute one? Smashing! Find the file and line number where the exception was thrown. If the exception sounds similar something from Mars, Google it and larn most it. Then effigy out why that line number is throwing that exception.
  2. Notwithstanding can't effigy it out? Write to console. Get-go tossing in them log statements in the place(south) you think is causing you problem. Print variable values, and see whether what'south printed is what'south expected. If not, fix that.
  3. When worse comes to worse, check logs. The logs of your project will give yous mode more info than the console. Read the last lines where the exception occurred. Google anything you lot don't know. Can yous set information technology now?
  4. Sleep. It'll get fixed in the morning. This is only a bad dream. Right? ?

Common errors

  • NullReferenceException.
                var.doThing(); //throws NullReferenceException: Object reference not set up to an instance of an object              

Trouble: You lot're doing a thing on a zip (nonexistent) variable.

Quick fix: Check if the variable is null earlier doing the affair.

                if(var != null)     {         var.doThing(); // do the thing safely!     }              
  • SyntaxErrorException.

Trouble: Your code has invalid syntax.

Quick gear up: In the Exception bulletin, it should tell y'all what character is throwing the error. Change that grapheme.

Notation: If the character is a double quote, make sure you're using dumb quotes instead of smart quotes:

                " //dumb quote " //smart quote. I promise these'll give you lot problem at some point in your life. ?              
  • Pink or blackness screen.

Possible problem: Some shader can't render.

Possible causes: You're using a 3D shader for a 2D game. Or, you're using some shader feature unsupported past the target Os. Be sure to use mobile shaders for mobile games.

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After you're done debugging, polish your game off by optimizing its memory usage and functioning. This'll make it download faster and rut upwardly people's devices less.

General optimization tips

  • Set the target frame rate. The frame rate could exist 20 for a visual novel or threescore for a showtime-person shooter. A lower than default target frame rate allows the game to spend less time rendering frames.
  • Blitheness / particles / occlusion culling. Culling ways that things invisible to the camera aren't rendered. Characters'll only animate, particles'll only update, and 3D models volition only be rendered when in view.
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  • Compress textures and audio. Crisis shrink textures. Stream music and decompress audio furnishings on load. Decrease the audio quality. Annotation that compression may or may non subtract the quality of assets noticeably.
  • Object pooling. Avoid instantiating and destroying many objects at once to preclude huge spikes. Instead, object puddle them in a Listing, Queue, or other data structure. Things similar bullets should be object pooled.
  • Don't let raycasts hit things that don't need input. Raycasts are like fiddling rays that shoot from your fingers or mouse everytime yous tap or click. Remove objects that don't react to those inputs from raycast calculations.

If you're up for a claiming:

  • Optimize shaders. Give each renderer a material. This'll salvage resource in the offset since the game doesn't have to create new materials for everything. Have the shader for the material but include what'south functionally needed (for example, a button that doesn't need masking can use a Sprite shader instead).
  • In Unity, Employ AssetBundles instead of Resources. AssetBundles will salvage memory by pulling from online (e.g. dropbox) or local storage (e.k. hard deejay). I haven't tried too much due to the poor documentation, though.

Resources ?

All of these are from Unity but can be applicable to other engines.

Scripts:

  • Optimizing scripts in Unity games (?)

Art:

  • A guide to optimizing Unity UI (?)
  • Art Asset best practice guide (?)

Memory:

  • Reducing the file size of your build (?)
  • Memory

Platform-specific:

  • Practical guide to optimization for mobiles (?)
  • WebGL performance considerations (?)
  • Memory Considerations when targeting WebGL (?)
  • Olly's seven stages of optimizations for mobile VR
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6. Marketplace ?

Advice?

Congrats! ?? You lot've made something. It'due south time to show the earth what you've made.

Personally, marketing is my most anxiety-inducing stage. If you, also, go doubtful, the game developer community is helpful. You lot're not lonely in this. And yous've come and then far — might as well get through to the terminate, right?

You'll never know if it'll exist a hit unless you try.
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  1. Draft. Create drafts of your game page on all your targeted game distribution platforms. Find a list of platforms in Resources beneath.
  2. Network. If you get the total networking mile, you'll desire to email game press, showcase in festivals, and attend conferences.

With game printing, email your unlisted game page a week before release. Give people some time to write about it. Information technology's likely they won't write about it at all. I've institute that press loves a compelling programmer story, unique/controversial concept, and, most chiefly, a presskit.

How do you find emails? You can..

  1. Observe writers you similar and Google their name. Their electronic mail is bound to come upwards somewhere: Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. Or..
  2. Notice the magazine/new'due south visitor-broad email on their About folio. It's ordinarily in the format of tips@company.com.

Do not email printing about your game if they explicitly don't comprehend your genre/targeted platform.

Festivals can go you awards and/or professional recognition by other developers and press.

Conferences are what you make of it: they can be all about networking with other developers, companies, and printing (become get them business cards!); updating your latest game dev know-how; playing others' games; or meeting up with internet friends.

Game conference tickets are expensive. If yous're a student, think about applying for scholarships for them. The IGDA Scholars program gives yous some especially amazing networking and event opportunities.

3. Youtubers/Streamers. You lot tin become video coverage of your game by:

  1. Ranking high on game distribution platforms.
  2. Emailing. If you email, don't talk about yourself; talk about the game. Keep it sweet, brusque, and compelling. Use eye-catching photos and gifs.

How do y'all notice emails? Look at their About page. If you can't find it there, Google them and see if their other social media accept it.

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'tis an email
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*dances in the air*

4. Social media.

Social media is an amazing marketing tool. Agar.io constitute its rise from 4chan, Butterfly Soup got mad boosts from Twitter, and some form of social media always ends up in my top iv referrers:

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Live Portrait Maker (left), YOU LEFT ME. (correct)

My favorite social media platforms for marketing are in Resources below.

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A last note Publisher or self-publish? Game marketing is a lot. Practice you want a publisher to have care of all that? Want to get the Hotline Miami x Devolver Digital road, or rely on Farmville and Doki Doki Literature Order'south word-of-mouth?

With a publisher, you'll have to do your research to find a good i. After, you'll sign paperwork and go through legal hoops. Plus, information technology's a huge financial investment.

By yourself, you'll have to put a lot of time and endeavor into learning marketing. Y'all may love it. Y'all may hate information technology. And you might not do a great chore of it, either. Only information technology's gratuitous, and y'all acquire valuable skills.

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Yay organic, cocky-publishing growth~ (Merely is it non-GMO though?)

For me, I'll always self-publish. I love learning new things. Also, I firmly believe that a truly great game will succeed no thing what, equally long equally some marketing effort was put.

6. Hit that Publish button!

??Yooo, yous DID it!! ?Now relax, sit dorsum, catch a yummy potable, and take some fourth dimension for yourself! You've worked so hard. Yous deserve information technology.

And remember that, even if your game doesn't get the reception you lot expected, that's ok. Information technology'due south non gonna be perfect your first time. My offset game on Steam only has 255 downloads.

The facts are, y'all made a game. You learned so much. That's plenty.

And there'south always a adjacent time!

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Resources ?

Game distribution platforms:

  • Steam (?). PC. Requires $100 USD fee per game.
  • Origin. PC.
  • GOG. PC. Free to publish. Game must get accustomed.
  • Mac App Store. MacOS. Requires Apple Programmer account.
  • crawling.io (?). PC/Web. Free to publish.
  • Game Jolt (?). PC/Web. Free to publish.
  • Armor Games (?). Free to publish. Must use to be a programmer.
  • Kongregate (?). Westeb. Free to publish.
  • Newgrounds (?). Web. Free to publish.
  • GitHub (?). Web. Free to publish on your own site with domain name formatted as "___.github.io".
  • Amazon. Web/Mobile. Free to publish.
  • Google Play (?). Mobile. Requires one-time $25 USD fee.
  • iOS App Store (?). Mobile. Requires Apple Developer business relationship.

Game printing:

  • IndieGames.
  • Siliconera.
  • FreeGamesPlanet. Super overnice admin.
  • PCGamer.
  • Kotaku.
  • Rock Paper Shotgun.
  • Polygon.
  • Giant Bomb.
  • EuroGamer.

Game festivals:

  • Independent Games Festival (IGF). Deadline around Oct.
  • Indiecade. Deadline around May/June.
  • Swedish Game Awards. Deadline around July.
  • Southward by Southwest Festival (SXSW). Deadline around December.
  • The Game Awards. Deadline around November.

Game conferences:

  • Game Developer'south Conference (GDC). San Francisco.
  • Penny Arcade Expo (PAX). Seattle/Boston/Philadelphia/Melbourne.
  • Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). Los Angeles.
  • Tokyo Game Show. Japan.
  • Steam Dev Days. Seattle. For Steam developers only.

Emailing:

  • presskit()

Social media:

  • reddit (?). Pick an appropriate subreddit. Some of my favorites are /r/WebGames, /r/IndieGaming/, and /r/visualnovels.
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/r/WebGames.
  • Facebook (?). Post on your Facebook Page (if you have one) and personal facebook (if you're comfortable). There's also tons of Facebook Groups where you can bear witness off your game! Hither's some:

GameDev Show and Examination
Welcome to GameDev Prove and Test - a sister group to the Indie Game developer groups. The purpose of this grouping is to…

Indie Game Developers
Contained Game Developers group for pocket-sized companies and individuals designing and publishing their own games. **READ…

Indie Game Promo
Indie Game Promo has 47,645 members. Sis group to Indie Game Dev and Indie Game Chat for the purpose of promoting…

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Indie Game Promo.
  • Tumblr (?).
  • Twitter (?). Try using tags similar #gamedev, #indiedev, and #screenshotsaturday to go discovered.

Community:

  • /r/gamedev (?).
  • Ludum Dare (?).
  • Indie Game Devs (?).

Conclusion

There's no cheat code to making a game. It's simply a lot of determination and effort.

"Behind every One-half Life, Minecraft and Uncharted, there are OCEANS of blood, sweat and tears."

— Ken Levine

You'll get confused. You'll make mistakes. You might fifty-fifty cry (I did—and still do).

Only that's okay. It means you're growing. If you're putting in that much effort, I believe in yous and your game: You can do it.

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