The Complete Guide to Starting in Game Development
Most “complete guide to starting game development” tutorials online are just glorified sales pitches for expensive engine plugins or math textbooks that assume you want to spend your weekends calculating vector trajectories instead of actually making a game. They treat development like a linear climb up a mountain, but if my time moderating guild forums…
Difficulty Is a Conversation, Not a Slider
I spent three nights last week staring at a boss encounter in a niche indie RPG, and I realized I wasn’t actually playing a game—I was just participating in a math equation. Most people think that when a developer talks about how difficulty is designed, they’re talking about skill ceilings or complex patterns, but they’re…
Your First Stream Will Have Two Viewers. Start Anyway.
If you spend ten minutes on YouTube looking up how to start streaming, you’ll be told you need a $3,000 PC, a studio-grade lighting rig, and a personality that screams like a caffeinated toddler just to get noticed. It’s total nonsense. Most of those “pro” setups are just expensive ways to distract yourself from the…