Dean (FEAR//LESS Game Dev)

@fearlessgamedev.com

Game Developer, Software Engineer, Music Lover. Australian

“I’m not a programmer. Never have been, and I fear, never will be, despite some valiant efforts on my part (if I do say so myself). I’ve done okay despite not knowing a blessed thing about programming.“ - Warren Spector I found this weirdly inspiring coming from someone so successful. #gamedev

I have been compiling a list of projects that I want to work on. They range from building Snake to Doom-like games to more complicated Playstation 1 era games. I have also been gathering an array of courses that can help me bridge the knowledge gap for me to work on these projects. #gamedev

I've been refactoring my C++ Snake game, splitting main.cpp into separate files and setting up what would (in theory) be proper game architecture with abstractions for Raylib so I could hypothetically replace it. It's been an interesting exercise but very time-consuming. #gamedev

I finished all the features in my #raylib C++ Snake game. Just doing some refactoring and tidying up. It’s nice to reach the end of a project. It gives me the motivation to try something a little bigger. It’s important to cleanup after yourself though. It really helps cement your learning. #gamedev

Been working on making a simple game of Snake in C++ with #Raylib lately. Trying to learn more about C++ and #GameDev at a lower level. I love it when you make a small change and then everything breaks and you have to spend hours trying to get things working again. It's a great learning experience.

I have been making a lot of progress on my portfolio site lately. I have been building everything from scratch with React and Typescript. I'm trying to use as few libraries as possible so most of the components have been built from scratch. I still have some placeholder AI images to replace. #dev

A big part of my #gamedev journey ahead of me is wanting to learn to draw and create art. I have always felt like this is the biggest hurdle for me when approaching game dev and i’m going to start tackling it head on. I’m going to start a daily drawing challenge and i may post some sketches here.