The tutorial that taught so many people platform game development.

Blog about Gaming on Linux

<>A database like IMDb or Goodreads but with more media types, and it's collaborative like Wikipedia.

Rate, catalog, discover, and discuss music, movies, TV, literature, games, and podcasts all in one place. <<<<

<>Looking for retro video games? You've come to the right place! You will find tons of roms, isos and games here. Download and play them with an emulator or play them right inside your browser window! <<<<

[img[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kitao/pyxel/master/pyxel/editor/screenshots/image_tilemap_editor.gif]]

Similar to [[PICO-8]] but in python.

Thanks to its simple specifications inspired by retro gaming consoles, such as only 16 colors can be displayed and only 4 sounds can be played back at the same time, you can feel free to enjoy making pixel art style games.

An interactive map that can help in completing Zelda Breath of the Wild.

Related to: [[BoTW interactive map]]

An interactive map that can help in completing Zelda Breath of the Wild.

Related to: [[Zelda Maps (BoTW)]]

This is a list of small, free, or experimental tools that might be useful in building your game / website / interactive project. Although I’ve included ‘standards’, this list has a focus on artful tools and toys that are as fun to use as they are functional.

The goal of this list is to enable making entirely outside of closed production ecosystems or walled software gardens. <<<

A puzzle game inspired by functional programming

[img[https://www.lexaloffle.com/gfx/jelpi_demo.gif]]

PICO-8 is a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs. It feels like a regular console, but runs on Windows / Mac / Linux. When you turn it on, the machine greets you with a commandline, a suite of cartridge creation tools, and an online cartridge browser called SPLORE.

Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.

You don't need to write any code to create a simple story with Twine, but you can extend your stories with variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript when you're ready.

Twine publishes directly to HTML, so you can post your work nearly anywhere. Anything you create with it is completely free to use any way you like, including for commercial purposes.

[img[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Gospers_glider_gun.gif]]

Biography of the exceptional mathematician who invented the Game of Life.

[img[https://64.media.tumblr.com/b48321d1a3cd0a1b570dd2f696247353/tumblr_inline_orlo88y0i81qdiwz3_1280.gif]]

Another location for the tutorial: http://saint11.org/blog/pixel-art-tutorials/

Complete Series of ''How to start making pixel art'' by ''Pedro Medeiros'':

[[An absolute beginner’s guide|https://medium.com/pixel-grimoire/how-to-start-making-pixel-art-2d1e31a5ceab]]

[[Cluster sketching and painting|https://medium.com/pixel-grimoire/how-to-start-making-pixel-art-2-bcd705cb04d7]]

[[A basic Aseprite animation|https://medium.com/pixel-grimoire/how-to-start-making-pixel-art-3-c9eb70270fa1]]

[[Anti-Alias and Banding|https://medium.com/pixel-grimoire/how-to-start-making-pixel-art-4-ff4bfcd2d085]]

[[Basic Color Theory|https://medium.com/pixel-grimoire/how-to-start-making-pixel-art-6-a74f562a4056]]

[[Working with lines|https://medium.com/pixel-grimoire/how-to-start-making-pixel-art-7-e504bfa4ddf2]]

[[Saving and Exporting Pixel Art|https://medium.com/pixel-grimoire/how-to-start-making-pixel-art-8-eb218a4637dd]]

[img[https://www.renpy.org/static/index-logo.png]]

Ren'Py is a visual novel engine – used by thousands of creators from around the world – that helps you use words, images, and sounds to tell interactive stories that run on computers and mobile devices. These can be both visual novels and life simulation games. The easy to learn script language allows anyone to efficiently write large visual novels, while its Python scripting is enough for complex simulation games.

Related to:

• [[itch.io - Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality]]

1710 video games

See also:

• [[Top Rated Games from the itch.io Bundle]]
• [[A few Android games from the bundle that are actually worth playing!]]

Many people want a game without fail states, where there is no game-over screen or mocking voice to taunt their shortcomings. In a world fraught with stress and responsibility, blasting alien scum in the face might blow off steam—but farming your first strawberries is where true relaxation is born.

Godot is a free and open-source game engine that allows you to create 2D and 3D games.

This book examines how video game mechanics and narratives can teach players skills associated with increased psychological well-being.

The following table provides a listing of people on Twitter who write about, talk about, or study the overlap between video games and academic fields like psychology, communications, economics, sociology, etc.

Take This works to decrease the stigma, and increase the support for, mental health in the game enthusiast community and inside the game industry.

Competitive party game featuring bears in space suits.

Software for MS-DOS machines that represent entertainment and games. The collection includes action, strategy, adventure and other unique genres of game and entertainment software. Through the use of the EM-DOSBOX in-browser emulator, these programs are bootable and playable.

Tired of crappy mobile games full of ads, or semi-good games that try to squeeze as much money as possible out of you in the form of in-app purchases?