Programming with Plumbo

My favorite technology so far during development is Blender, with Affinity Photo as a last-minute runner-up. My least favorite software would have to be Adobe Photoshop.

Blender

I have extensive experience working in Blender for manifold 3D modeling. However, game design has honed my skills in creating efficient topology along with new methods of texturing 3d objects. Further, creating a full game scene has given me ample practice in creating assets rapidly during our fast-paced development cycle.

Affinity Photo

This software takes everything that is good about Photoshop and packs it into a more intuitive, aesthetically pleasing user interface. And not to mention, for a one time price less than three months of Adobe’s “competing” subscription. I don’t think I will ever be going back to the Adobe suite after discovering Affinity’s products.

Unity

I had difficulty learning certain aspects of the Unity Editor as it is a large application with many different modules. Particularly, it was hard for me to learn how to use materials created in Blender and imported into unity. Now that I understand how to extract materials and associate them with textures, it is intuitive and quite useful to be able to manipulate those materials within Unity.

If I could start over, I would consider using Godot as the game engine. We are only really using Unity for its grid system at the moment, so I think Godot would have allowed easier flexibility in how we integrated the code base. That being said, I believe we will be using more of Unity’s modules in the next sprint including the grid system and animation.