I use Blender for most of my animating needs. And using Houdini Indie has helped me to start thinking about asset creation in a more procedural way, which helped when I needed to make my own building generator.
This week I've been trying to figure out a way to load user-created characters and skins in a multiplayer game. My character setup scripts seem to work, but still a ton of hurtles to get over.
Solo game developer (and fellow ADHD-haver) here. I do the coding, 3d modelling, animations, and even a little bit of sound design. It's all incredibly time-consuming though.
There's been a few times where I had to look into an issue and found a comment I wrote much earlier with a ticket number or link to a previous ticket that explains exactly why this new issue is actually the intended behavior.
It's really helpful when the product owners clearly can't make up their minds about what they want their apps to do.
Ideally, you would set this up ahead of time and won't need to see it. But the thing that annoys me about outlook's out-of-office thing is that by default, it just turns on for people in your organization. So if you forget to turn it on for everyone you can have an annoyed client wondering why you haven't responded all week.
I feel like people must be tired of me recommending the same few games (you know, if anyone cared enough to read all my comments), but I'm the type of guy who is pretty much only interested in finding the more hidden gems, and I generally ignore the stuff that keeps showing up on the front page of Steam.
The Upturned - A cartoony horror-comedy game with a great sense of humor.
Withering Rooms - The story is interesting and the atmosphere is great.
Your Spider - This one is possibly my favorite indie horror game.
Exanima - Read about the features. This one is more impressive than the screenshots make it look (at least for me).
Lunacid - I love the visual style and atmosphere of this. I also enjoyed Lost in Vivo by the same developer.
Praey for the Gods - This one is for anyone who's looking for more games like Shadow of the Collossus.
8Doors: Arum's Afterlife - This is a decent metroidvania with a charming story. If you enjoyed Hollow Knight, then you may also enjoy this.
That's cool. I used to have a homemade furnace that I used to melt aluminum. But the crucible sprung a leak and the metal reached the blower and I just kinda lost interest before I could get a replacement.
I use Blender for most of my animating needs. And using Houdini Indie has helped me to start thinking about asset creation in a more procedural way, which helped when I needed to make my own building generator.
This week I've been trying to figure out a way to load user-created characters and skins in a multiplayer game. My character setup scripts seem to work, but still a ton of hurtles to get over.