Itch.IO is a website where users share programmed content with each other, including digital tools and games. Programmes here are not made my a large company, so they are known as Indie programmes. These can range in quality from something someone made in minutes with AI services, or something that has been developed over multiple years. A lot of developers use this website to post free betas of their games or their tools before posting it paid and complete to a service called Steam. Some of these tools, games and other services on here are paid, but the others are completely free, and open source.
A key example of this is the game Ultrakill, which started as a free project by one person, and has been being developed for 6 years as of now. The only people the developer has had assist with development are voice actors and designers, all the code is still by him.
Itch doesn’t just list games, or tools, it also lists books, assets and music used for the games.
Itch also hosts gamejams, which are development contests based around a theme for people to get better at programming, or making assets for a game. They are based on multiple aspects of creativity, but the main important one is originality, as that factor is what allows people to rate them, (Outside objective quality of the coding, because some people are going to be more experienced, or in a team) since if something is technically impressive, but boring, it’s technically going to be higher than something that still works, but has a few programming oversights, and an interesting twist on the concept. Game Jams ban AI generation of most kinds due to being a contest of skill and creativity.
Just like how other people can post their projects here, so can you! So, if you’re starting the hobby of development, or are thinking of doing so, looking through here can be good for inspiration, and for posting it.