My Game Development Journey Blog

Devlog

• Overthinking Almost Destroyed My GameDev Journey
  August 29, 2025 by Rheyan

  I wrote a post a couple of months back where I admitted that I was struggling but then I kind of went quiet for a couple of months. The truth is that I kind of fell into a bit of a dark hole and this... Continue reading

  
• I'm Struggling - Still Not Started A New Game Project
  July 04, 2025 by Rheyan

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  I started my gamedev journey in a bit of a whirlwind. I started out teaching myself a framework called MonoGame and created two games with that and then I switched to the Unity engine after just a few... Continue reading

  
• My First 3 Months of GameDev - 2 Engines, 4 Games, 1 Jam!
  June 06, 2025 by Rheyan

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  I've been learning game development for 3 months now. I started out teaching myself gamedev using MonoGame , which is a code-based C# framework, and with that I built my first two games, Pong and Orba... Continue reading

  
• The Mental Drain Of Unfinished Gamedev Projects
  May 14, 2025 by Rheyan

  After the switch to using Unity , I dove right into it with enthusiasm and managed to get my first game, Toasty Tumble (a simple Flappy Bird style game) mostly done reasonably quickly. Getting the bas... Continue reading

  
• Moving away from the MonoGame framework
  April 18, 2025 by Rheyan

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  #monogame, #unity, #unityengine, #godot, #godotengine

  In my last post and video I talked about the realisation that continuing game development with MonoGame would mean either building some kind of game engine for myself on top of the MonoGame framework,... Continue reading

  
• Do I Want To Build A Game Engine in MonoGame? Not Really!
  April 15, 2025 by Rheyan#monogame, #godotengine, #unityengine, #devlog

  When I first started on this journey of teaching myself game development, I made the decision to start by using the C# based code framework called MonoGame. It felt familiar, it was a spiritual succes... Continue reading

  
• 5 Totally Free Gamedev Books (+ Bonus Magazine Archive!)
  April 02, 2025 by Rheyan#resources, #books, #freebooks, #programmingbooks

  Whilst video content is what the vast majority of people consume these days, there's a goldmine of useful content in a good book! Here are 5 great books on game development to be had completely free... Continue reading

  
• The Sad World of Distasteful "Shock" Games
  March 19, 2025 by Rheyan#rant, #hitler, #steam, #opinion

  I was browsing SteamGifts this morning and I came across a game "Hitler is my crush" - which I cannot bring myself to link to, but you can of course search it and you'll find it easily enough. I was s... Continue reading
• My Version of the 20 Games Challenge
  March 03, 2025 by Rheyan

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  #20_games_challenge, #devlog

  Over the last couple of weeks I have been trying to figure out how to get started in game development; what to build, how to learn, what engine/framework to use and so on. Everywhere I went the advice... Continue reading

  
• Starting my Game Dev Journey With C# and MonoGame
  March 01, 2025 by Rheyan

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  #learning, #C#, #MonoGame, #devlog

  I first decided I wanted to be a game developer at 12 years old; it never happened 😔 Now, over 40 years later, I'm finally getting around to it! I've had quite a lot of software development experie... Continue reading