The Tools I Use for Indie Game Dev

Timestamps! Art: 0:56 Sound: 2:27 Code: 3:38 Planning: 5:20 Engine: 6:26 Hope this helps!

It's pretty impressive your total toolkit cost came in at 15$ bucks, what a time to be alive bois

Thanks for the shutout pal <3 keep the content coming!

If anyone wants to do non-pixel art game art, affinity photo (like photoshop) and affinity designer (like illustrator) are on sale for $25 right now. I use designer, and it's the best vector-based art/design software I've ever used, would recommend!

I'd like to see how you manage your games with Trello. Or the different ways you've used Trello for games.

You seem like a really genuine guy, i'll be sticking around

Free/open source software running on a very expensive hardware.

I'd love to see more detail on how you use Trello for planning out your game. One of my problems is organization and planning and I think a dedicated video could be extremely helpful.

I am also a sw engineer and was looking into developing games on the side. Your videos are of sooo much help and encouragement. Your games look great too!

I love seeing how much progress you're making in each episode. It's really inspiring and motivational. Keep em' coming!

Much needed in times like these. Thank you.

I'm working more on my own games given world events, so your channel has been super awesome, thanks!

After seeing you use Trello in earlier videos, I tried it out, and have been really liking it. Thanks! Really enjoy your videos, keep it up!

Loved the tip for VSCode! Thanks for sharing the tools, Ben!

It was really cool to see what you use and some of your suggestions! I had actually never even heard of visual studio code! I would definitely like to see how you utilize trello for game development, the way I'm using trello right now is like virtual sticky tabs so I don't have to keep everything on my mind all the time.

Three cheers for Trello! It really is a fantastic tool since it's highly configurable to however you want to use it, and thus can be used for multiple things, such as task tracking (like shown here), in-depth character/plot/feature boards with their own card/list structure, trip planning in different stages, even speech or event planning. If you're the planning type and starting to get the hang of using it, I recommend creating "template" boards with their list, example cards, labels etc all set up to copy and rename for different purposes when you need them. I've planned out three small games, eight novels, and countless iOS apps and Rails sites this way. Highly recommended to anyone else who works at/with a digital device regularly and needs a good planning tool.

I would love to see a video talking about your Trello organization! I've been using Trello for a long time and I love it, but I have a hard time organizing my projects. Thanks Ducky!

Great video man. I’ve always been more into full stack/back end dev but this video makes game dev seem approachable.

Awesome video! I just bought aseprite a week ago so now I'm all set! :)

I'd love to see more trello stuff! I currently use spreadsheets to track my progress, and I used trello in the past, but it's nice to always learn more