this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
24 points (100.0% liked)

Game Development

3479 readers
27 users here now

Welcome to the game development community! This is a place to talk about and post anything related to the field of game development.

Community Wiki

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Ategon@programming.dev
LiquidityC@programming.dev
Frank@programming.dev
24
QOTD: What game development tools or software do you find most essential and why? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by Ategon@programming.dev to c/gamedev@programming.dev
11 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Going to start doing daily questions of the day here about misc game development topics. Probably also going to start some over in !game_design@programming.dev as well

For today heres a question about which tools & software you find essential

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] mifuyne@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

I haven't started working on a game yet. It's a near future goal. I hope y'all are okay with me answering this question despite that fact!

The FOSS ones:

  • Blender for 3D. I'm excited to see what I can do with the geometry nodes (somewhat similar to Houdini's workflow)
  • Inkscape for 2D/GUI
  • Aseprite for 2D pixel art (I have a game project that mixes 2D and 3D)

The proprietary ones:

  • RizomUV: Blender covers a lot of ground, but RizomUV is much more fun to use for UV editing
  • Reaper: This is what I'm familiar with and excited to use. It's been very stable for me as well.
  • Obsidian.md (Free for personal use): I might need to reconsider this one if I ever need to work with one other on a commercial game, but I use this for writing documentations that aren't tied to code, workflow organization, etc. Use it for a lot of non-dev related stuff too