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#Devruary Day 12: What tool or plugin saves you the most time in game dev?

The Node Wrangler Plug-in for Blender saves me loads of time setting up materials! You just select your textures and with one click of a button they're all connected and set up!




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#Devruary Day 4: What keeps you making games when it gets tough?

I love creating worlds (just like the games I mentioned inspiring me), so sometimes the motivation is being able to see those worlds come together and explore them myself!

#Devruary Day 10: What's your least favorite part of game dev?

Ngl, although I can do it, coding is the least enjoyable part of game dev to me Even with visual scripting tools it can be hard... Pictured some code from my game Rivet

#Devruary Day 16: What feature almost broke your game?

Moving things in pixels per second almost broke our game... When testing the game at 120fps everything moved in double time, so I had to add extra math to each line of code to calculate frame rate

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#Devruary Day 4: How Did You Learn Game Dev? I learned game dev by playing around in Construct 2 and figuring out what everything does. And to this day I'm using that same engine to make the game "You're Not Welcome to Rennville" with @Lit-Lore-Studios !

FUNDRAISER LIVESTREAM #SaveJim

#Devruary Day 10: How do you usually plan a game dev project?

I often make checklists and sketches on physical paper and white boards, and I also prototype the game.

I also use the projects feature on GitHub to track tasks

#Devruary Day 18: Which game dev inspires you most?

I'm really inspired by the developers behind No Man's Sky, Hello Games. They never gave up on their game after a failed launch, and made free updates for 10 years turning it into an amazing game today!

topology of our main character model so far

#Devruary Day 9: What's your favorite part of game dev? As I've mentioned before, I love being able to create my own worlds to explore! I also really like sound design, it's a fun way to add a lot of detail to the experience.