Indie & Dev World

Earlier today I saw a post either here or in r/indiedev or something where people were talking about how if you want to get a job in the games industry it doesn’t make sense to do personal projects with godot because no studios use it. Arguments are saying that in an industry this competitive it’s a waste of time to work on projects that aren’t an exact match, even if having a personal project at all helps a little. The obvious conclusion being make games with C# in unity or C++ in unreal.
My issue is that I just greatly prefer godot over unity for ease of use and especially being open source. And unreal is just not the engine for the small scale solo projects I would be working on by myself.
Of course all this was talked about in that post but the thing I’ve been thinking about since reading that is what about my CS degree?? I’m closing out my 3rd year of college where I’ve been using C++ for the majority of assignments and projects, including a class where I am making a VR game in unity and I joined a unity project in the gamedev club at my school.
Is that enough to have a strong resume even if my main personal project work is in godot? I’ve taken part in 3 game jams now so I was planning to use this summer to make a full small game to put on steam as my kinda replacement for an internship. But now I’m worried that that won’t be a good use of time if I use godot. Should I try unity or unreal instead?

Hey r/gamedev!

I’m a solo dev currently working on Project Manager SIM on Steam. Naturally, I've been trying to post about my game in various subreddits to get some feedback.

But I've noticed a wild trend: whenever I post in any dev-related subreddit, I get a surprising amount of visceral negativity aimed not at the game itself, but at the concept of the PM role. I get comments like:

• "You shouldn't joke about this kind of stuff."
• "Why would you make a game showing how to be a bad boss? (I AM NOT!)"
• "In the current job market, this actually feels offensive."

It's just a game? It doesn't even lean into heavy, real-world corporate trauma that much. The civilization series allow me to nuke the world! And my game about management, not about torturing people or something...

I do get some genuinely hilarious comments too. Like*"Wow, a horror game where you take on the perspective of the monster, very cool."*

Many people also suggest "interesting" mechanics, like adding a feature to replace half your staff with AI, or an active skill to scream at your boss when he screams at you.

Here is the thing: I actually used to be a project manager in real life. Sure, maybe there are few people out there who hated me, but overall, I always had a great relationship with my team(s). We went through a lot of crunch and chaos, but we always found a way out of tough situations together.

So, my question to you all: where does this baseline, deep-seated hatred for the Project manager role come from in the dev community? Have bad PMs really traumatized that many people, or is it just an internet echo chamber at this point? Am I not allowed to mention my past job in public anymore XD?

No offense, just curious!

I want to hear your thoughts on this.

I wanted to find out how Cities: Skylines drives the constant motion you see in a growing city - residents looking for jobs, tourists visiting attractions, garbage trucks doing their rounds, even cims looking for love - and I couldn’t find much written up about it. So I decompiled the game and dug in. What I found is that almost every interaction in the game runs through a single, elegant system: a stock-market-style trading market.

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I wrote this post a few years back, and recently updated it to add detail to areas I thought lacked sufficient explanation.

I found it really interesting to explore how Colossal Order built such a versatile system, I hope it will be an interesting read to anyone involved in game development.

Please let me know if you have any comments or questions! Thanks for reading.

I'm currently working at a job and we use UI Toolkit for UI. Everything is so much more bureucratic than using Canvas with a proper UI architecture, it is a complete suffering for animations and I passionately hate it.

I'd use it for editor UI only.

Trying to set up version control for my Unity project. Does GitHub properly track things like component changes, prefabs, scenes, and newly added models/assets? Also, is Unity Technologies Version Control better than GitHub + Git LFS for Unity projects? What do most devs use?

So me and my friend are planning to publish game on steam and recently we heard that in order to do that you have to have a firm is this true?