All Posts in Devruary
#Devruary: Prioritize writing actual code over passive learning like watching tutorials.
#Not_so_Minutely_Timeline: 6:29 AM.
#Not_so_Dately_Journal: 21/2/2026.
The best advice to give for new game dev is to start off small and simple. Be a part of hobby games or game jams is a great start to the get the feel of what making video games is all about and prepare of what to expect realistically.
When dealing with burnout I would take 10-minute break like going outside, exercise or play video games. Majority of the time playing video games or going outside does at time immediately give me idea for a setup game play for the game.
While I was mostly inspiring from the golden era of video games in the 1980s and 1990s. But seeing dev companies like Yacht Club Games and WayForward that are homage of creating retro like games with a modern touch has given me inspiration.
#Devruary: Involved hard-to-reproduce, or seemingly trivial issues that cause massive, expensive, or perplexing failures
#Not_so_Minutely_Timeline: 18/2/2026.
#Not_so_Dately_Journal: 6:27 AM.
The worst bug so far that I dealt with is the laser beam appearing as a pink mesh after built it to the game in unity. The FX uses material in the particle system while render in URP can be tricky. Update the material seems best.
#Dextoxic_Andersen's new job from occupation: Nuclearist, special aide, guard commander, regimental commander, spy police, movie actor, hockey player.
#Devruary "2020 Bug" in WWE 2K20.
#Not_so_Minutely_Timeline: 17/2/2026.
#Not_so_Dately_Journal: 7:06 AM.
The feature that almost broken my game was the number of asteroids in the ring. The ring surrounds the earth as it counter rotates the planet. It slowed the performance of the game to which I lower the asteroid count in the ring to work.
