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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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…
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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…