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

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Houdini is pretty cool. I can make assets with it that I never would’ve had the patience to make by hand.

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VSCode! I can use it for pretty much any project I’m working on, and I’ve customized it enough that it feels wrong to use anything else 😆

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If you’d prefer to use it without Microsoft’s trackers, check out VSCodium.

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True! I tried it out for a few months, but the luck of extensions made me go back to the regular install. I use copilot regularly now anyway and I’m not sure if that’d work on codium

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RenderDoc for debugging graphics

Imgui for tool UI

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I develop on linux, i use cmake for compileing, blender for assets

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I just bought aseprite for creating sprites and it’s great

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