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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...