The Best Game Developer Tools (ULTIMATE List To Start A Game Studio!)

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REALLY love how many advice videos you've been putting out lately. You're the best on YouTube at these videos.

I was considering the Ultimate Game Dev Course and realizing my dreams, then I saw the price tag and realized some dreams are better to let go than have to take a loan against my house to achieve. Joking aside, the price tag is too steep for me and my situation, but I love your advice videos and enjoy all of them.

I just wanted to say that this is the best video you have done, from the effects to the humor. I also wanted to say that i learned some stuff from this video. Keep up the great work Thomas!

You’re really spitting out the videos lately! Thanks man. Really love your videos and appreciate you. I’m pretty experienced at this point with Game Dev but I still like seeing how you compile all the steps into these videos lol. I’d love to see more of those podcast videos with other game devs like you were doing before! I’m sure they don’t get you the views, but I’m telling you they’re soooo valuable to people like me who have already been doing game dev for a while and want to learn what kind of strategies other successful game devs are utilizing. Also, I use Unreal engine over Unity and I’d LOVE to see you make a review video on UE to see what you think of it over Unity. Thank you as always Thomas.

Just to add to this, there are free alternatives to a few of the programs mentioned. Krita/GIMP as a photoshop replacement, Blender has video editing too. Maybe not as user-friendly as Premier but would do in a pinch. Not to undermine the recommendations or anything, just adding a few more to the mix. :)

I really appreciate the editing of this video.great work!!

If I had to choose a tool to use 60% of the time then I would choose Aseprite. I already use it almost constantly while developing my game cause it is a very well made and helpful pixel art tool. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to make a pixelated game.

Awesome video idea! The Satisfactory devs had a long video on their channel channel too about which tools they use. You asked per mail what tool we'd use if we had to spent 60% of our times with it. For me, that's easily Unity. I mainly use Unity and Visual Studio Community. I haven't dived into animation or art a lot, so most music, textures, models and animations I use are from online assets. I also have audacity and Blender installed for rare cases where I need them, but then they are super handy. For version control I use git with SourceTree as graphical user interface

very useful! Music has always been a bit of an issue for me, which I find particularly important in establishing the immersive atmosphere and feel of the game

You can also use Ableton, Cubase, FL Studio, Studio One and many others for music production on windows

I am 100% on the creator suite, g Suite tools, etc. I'm building my first game now, but when I was doing just art stuff, I wish I had taken the time to notice and understand these tools built around social media, basic web, and marketing. Because they are free websites and platforms we think about the post fast and get rich fast ways of doing things, but these creator components aren't really new. They've been sitting there for awhile now and mainly to aid in making our post and marketing more business like. Now I post on FB and Insta cross post in creator suite only instead of individually. Ty, all of this stuff is great advice.

This is amazing! Overpowered! I'll probably swap out some of these for my own choices, but having a list of what & why I need is amazing! Will probably use Adobe and Sonic Pi for making music, garage band if I really need it. I also use Unsplash for a ton of art stuff as it is, though I'll check into these others.

Gotta give cred for the editing here, was on point! Thanks for the tips

The thomas in the background is a great addition 😂 Great video!

Tom, you're on fire man. Forward, always!

Hey Thomas! Which tipps would you have for an indie game developer creating 2d horror game? Love your work, it inspires me so much in my journey! Thank you!

Love this... not only the tools but dude, the word of advice at the end. Am I actually scared of learning/applying code? Or am I using that to justify procrastinating? Appreciate your time making this video 🎮

Thanks for all the GREAT INFO. It's nice to know tidbits that get from 0 to Hero.

I would use square space if I had to use a tool you recommend for 60% of my time. I actually really like the setup and the customization.