Category: Blogs
Join us on the often messy journey of pursuing a creative dream. All are welcome, but especially anyone who’s ever dreamed of quitting their 9 to 5 and traveling full time, swapping their high-paced lifestyle for tending a veggie patch in the countryside, or chasing their artistic dream.
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Game Dev is Easy: Working Together as a Couple
A few years ago, we hired a friend to do a project for us (a physical, real world one rather than a digital one). We’d heard…
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Game Dev is Easy: Animation
It seemed like a simple idea: an animated logo screen. My partner (who is a genuine Good Ideas Guy) came up with it one day: let’s…
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We Finished our First Game (Well, Sometimes it Works)
My partner and I joined our first game jam in April 2023, Ludlum Dare Game Jam 53 . We had no right to think we could actually make…
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How We Thought We’d Get Out of Tutorial Hell
So far, I’d spent hours upon hours following tutorials and felt I was just copy and pasting, without really learning much. I needed to break that cycle, but that…
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Tutorial Hell is Real (And I Was Definitely In It)
In late 2022, I started to look into actual game dev and chose the Unity engine. I was sitting doing yet another Unity tutorial, and I…
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How I Accidentally Became a Game Dev (Thanks to Pixel Art)
I’ve always made art. While other kids were playing sport, I locked myself away inside drawing pictures, which turned into watercolors and eventually oil paintings as…
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The Fight Against AI is Real
My partner and I met while we were both volunteering for a project in Nicaragua. It was a small project focused on educating local kids and…
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We Found Paradise and Had to Leave for WiFi
We stood on top of the cliff at Punta Ninfas, gazing out over the endless ocean and taking in the endless sky. There was not a…
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Starting Over: The Livingstone Project
Date unknown – sometime before 20 May 1866 – My name is Tuesday, but that is not my real name. It is the name given to me…
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The Birth of Little Creatures (Part 2)
The idea was simple: write an interactive novel about tiny creatures protecting trees. Building a World on Paper Once I came up with the Wopua concept,…