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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How My Crash Course in Game Art Taught Me to Let Go of Doubt and Just Do It
A couple of years into game dev, our journey had already taken a fair few twists and turns, and with it, my art style. Coming from…
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How to Think Like an Indie (Without Losing Your Mind)
It’s so easy to be an armchair gamedev. Like you see all the devs on YouTube and watch projects progress on Reddit and you think “I…
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From Ideas Guy To Wanting To Be a Designer, Forced to Be a Programmer
The deeper I got into gamedev, the more I realized what I really wanted to do was create worlds, design systems, and come up with new…
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Gamedev is Easy: Teaming Up
I’d started learning 3D modeling in Blender, and made a few models, including a car which wasn’t half bad. I realized I enjoyed modeling so I…
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How Much does your Choice of Game Engine Matter, Really?
We’d been working in Unity for a while at this point. After finally moving past tutorial hell, we made a couple of game jam games in…
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Game Dev is Easy: 3D Modelling
We came to an important realization: gamedev is hard! Though we’d had to pull the plug on our last game jam because we just didn’t have…
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We Suck at Making Video Games: Pick your Game Jam Carefully
We’d just done our very first game jam and actually finished a game. Riding high on that success, we looked around for the next game jam…
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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…