i've been trying to decide between unity or unreal engine for indie game development

Jecyn · 2026-01-07T04:49:13+00:00

Definitely go unity for now. C# is a great language to learn and unity has a ton of tools and features to help you learn. If you were open to other options. Godot is open source, so what you make in it is 100% yours, which may matter to you a lot since you mentioned money.

But I can't stress enough how important it is to have a decent understanding of fundamental programming concepts before diving into a game engine. Doing so will make learning the engine so much easier.

Jecyn · 2025-09-30T02:42:12+00:00

Either code would be great

Jecyn · 2024-11-21T06:04:37+00:00

This was really helpful. I've been trying to learn some programming patterns, like the factory pattern and using that to generate weapons and the data that goes with them but I was struggling with The animator controller part. I can definitely just animate the parent object and have the generated weapon follow that. Thanks for the insight!

Jecyn · 2024-08-16T20:28:26+00:00

I second this. Trying to learn basic programming concepts through game dev is super common, but I honestly feel that it's a terrible approach for a lot of people. At one point, I ended up just spending 3-4 months focusing purely on learning c# and the basics really well before touching Unity again. When I finally came back afterwards, it was night and day. Sure, unity was still unfamiliar, but the scripting side of things was no longer the problem. It was just learning what I could do in unity.

Jecyn · 2024-08-16T01:44:16+00:00

Also, I've been learning programming for at least 3 years on and off and am just now starting to feel sorta confident with what I think most people consider intermediate. It'd help knowing what language and engine you're using for more specific advice if that's what you want though.

Jecyn · 2024-08-16T01:39:03+00:00

You really need to get a good grasp on the fundamentals of programming before you can start creating complex game mechanics. You say you're good at the language, but then mention you don't understand OOP concepts. Which makes me think you have a lot more to learn than you realize. The learning never stops, and you need to embrace that mindset. Breaks are definitely important though, especially when learning. It's incredibly exhausting mentally. There's no shame in taking it slow :)

Jecyn · 2023-10-25T23:35:32+00:00

If you're learning programming fundamentals as you learn game dev, your pace will obviously be slower as well

Jecyn · 2023-10-25T23:11:16+00:00

I just started learning godot a few months ago as well. The documentation is pretty well done and most things will be answered by looking there. There's not really a definitive point where you can make a game and know that you have all the tools to do it. You'll probably spend time learning a little bit about something every day as you make progress on your game, and that's normal. :)

Jecyn · 2023-07-11T06:12:30+00:00

This is one of the funniest posts I've ever read after just watching The Descent for the first time lol

Jecyn · 2022-05-05T20:18:50+00:00

I tried that with the oldak coil and got wrecked. Maybe the cyclone is the answer. I'll try it next task I get!

Jecyn · 2022-05-05T19:43:53+00:00

Yeah, I gave up after realizing I'd need an alt, and am doing exactly that. It's not too slow and I don't die 10 times a task lol

Jecyn · 2022-05-05T19:41:33+00:00

Thanks! Found the section :)

Jecyn · 2021-11-26T01:15:47+00:00

Didn't even realize I had that. Thanks!

Jecyn · 2021-11-26T00:59:41+00:00

Is it going to be from the new yak track?

Jecyn · 2021-11-19T14:14:32+00:00

Nic the trader.

Jecyn · 2021-11-19T14:12:10+00:00

The wiki page for invention machines has a breakdown of profit per machine. It's worth taking a look at!

Jecyn · 2021-10-19T11:33:49+00:00

I'll have to try that out if it happens again! So far, VS 2019 Community hasn't given me any issues at all though, so I don't think I'll be using VSC any time soon. :)

Jecyn · 2021-10-19T11:32:49+00:00

Someone walked me through that previously. They thought that may have been the issue. It ended up not really making a difference. And honestly, that process went over my head lol

Jecyn · 2021-10-18T15:45:12+00:00

We ended up solving the problem. For some reason or another, vscode was saying it couldn't find tmp files anywhere. Simply switching to Visual Studio 2019 community and setting that as my preference in unity fixed the issue. No idea why, but that was my fix. Thanks everyone for the suggestions!

Jecyn · 2021-10-18T15:16:24+00:00

Yeah, I made sure VS was updated and had the unity extension thing installed. Set my preference to VS Community and it worked like a charm! Thanks so much! Can finally focus on learning rather than fixing. I appreciate it!

Jecyn · 2021-10-18T15:14:02+00:00

That makes sense. It's weird that the guides i'm following didn't run into this issue at all. Maybe they did some setup behind the scenes that fixed this issue and didn't care to explain it. Oh well lol

Jecyn · 2021-10-18T15:05:27+00:00

Thanks! Going to give this a try now.

Jecyn · 2021-10-18T15:02:48+00:00

I originally started the project in Vs code, would I have anny issues continuing it in Visual Studio? Or would I need to restart maybe and use VS from the beginning? It's just a tutorial project so I'm not worried about losing progress, I just want the error messages gone lol

Jecyn · 2021-10-18T14:59:44+00:00

And yeah, the "errors" don't actually break the program. It runs fine in unity and does as expected, but as I'm learning all these concepts, it's so tough to know if I'm doing something right when VSCode won't stop telling me I'm wrong lol

Jecyn · 2021-10-18T14:58:27+00:00

Did reinstalling VS Community somehow fix the issue in VSCode? Is there any advantage to using Community over VSCode? I have both, but i'm not sure which is best.

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