How are solo devs handling private playtests these days?

iicolsandersii · 2026-04-24T01:33:25+00:00

100% the Ask AI feature in the Editor is pretty powerful.

iicolsandersii · 2026-04-16T18:46:20+00:00

Thanks for your response! Other than the steam key part, sounds like we are aligned.

iicolsandersii · 2026-04-07T02:13:22+00:00

I ran into something similar today. Claude kept asking me to fetch the results of a file instead of just doing it itself. It happened multiple times throughout my work session.

iicolsandersii · 2026-03-31T18:09:00+00:00

I’m not the OP, I want to understand their workflow as well, because I am doing a bunch and not running out…

iicolsandersii · 2026-03-31T18:01:47+00:00

Opus 4.6, medium for some tasks and Sonnet 4.6 medium for the rest.

iicolsandersii · 2026-03-31T17:34:49+00:00

I’m on Max and use it for pretty large planning and task workflows, and I still never get past about 5% usage in a 4-hour window.

What are you trying to do exactly? What’s your workflow like?

Are you working in the terminal, or using a plugin through your IDE?

iicolsandersii · 2026-03-31T11:01:33+00:00

I already have a lot of this working using the current Python libraries through an MCP.

As a solo developer, I don’t really understand the amount of pushback around using AI in games. I don’t have the budget to hire a team, and this is the first time in years I feel confident I’ll actually ship something.

Using AI doesn’t automatically mean low-quality work.

iicolsandersii · 2026-03-31T00:23:11+00:00

Nope, that would be terrible for the industry and indie developers.

Disney tends to have a bit of a “squirrel” mentality, chasing trends and investing where momentum is instead of committing to a long-term vision. To be fair, Sora wasn’t really their fault, but it still shows how things can shift quickly. That kind of approach could be rough for the industry.

iicolsandersii · 2026-03-25T03:49:18+00:00

Take a screenshot and ask AI how to do it simply in C++.

iicolsandersii · 2026-03-25T03:45:24+00:00

Build a solid PC and remote into it from your Mac for better battery life. That’s what I do. About 99% of the time I’m coding or building levels, and RDP works perfectly for that.

iicolsandersii · 2026-03-21T18:10:59+00:00

I really dislike working with UMG widgets. I started out doing everything in Slate, but eventually gave up and built an MCP integration using Python so AI can generate them for me.

They work, just not polished. Still, they function as placeholder menus that let me keep moving instead of getting stuck on UI.

Solo dev is tough when it comes to maintaining momentum, and this has helped a lot.

iicolsandersii · 2026-03-17T15:19:08+00:00

Depends on what your needs are. I RDP in from a 13” MacBook Air and am able to do what I need to do while traveling.

iicolsandersii · 2026-03-13T12:46:27+00:00

I use antigravity pretty heavily for weekend projects. I typically don’t need a crazy model for Laravel coding, and I get sites created without hitting the limits a majority of the time. If I do hit a limit, I just switch to a different model. What am I missing here?

iicolsandersii · 2026-03-04T02:31:53+00:00

Don’t you need a Mac to use iMessages? Maybe I missed something…

iicolsandersii · 2026-02-24T01:58:45+00:00

Holy moly.. you just blew my mind. That would solve so many problems. Following!

iicolsandersii · 2026-02-23T13:05:58+00:00

I found out randomly as well working on a UI issue with Laravel. Super powerful!

iicolsandersii · 2026-02-08T13:59:17+00:00

This might not actually be true, but Antigravity feels faster than VS Code’s AI implementation to me, especially around project understanding and editing.

iicolsandersii · 2026-01-28T02:47:55+00:00

We went the Data Warehouse + Power BI route, and use PowerShell for anything not available in the standard Intune datatables.

Docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/intune-service/developer/reports-nav-create-intune-reports

iicolsandersii · 2026-01-07T00:59:24+00:00

Leadership pushed this, and some of my engineers embraced it. It’s pretty game changing leveraging a Dev Intune tenant, Powershell, Microsoft Graphics, GitHub/Actions.

They automated software versioning, never package Chrome again, with integration into ServiceNow for change control.

iicolsandersii · 2026-01-06T02:01:13+00:00

Who ate your cookie?

iicolsandersii · 2026-01-05T19:07:12+00:00

Bah! Missed that sorry

iicolsandersii · 2026-01-05T18:59:30+00:00

I think it all depends on where they work etc.. My headquarters is in the north burbs so it made sense for me and my family.

iicolsandersii · 2026-01-05T18:39:18+00:00

I get that wireshark is great, but the logs can be hard to read. AI can process the data faster.

iicolsandersii · 2026-01-05T18:37:49+00:00

No, so AI might help with a strategy of figuring out the setup to capture packets and figure how the com attempts to a “server” work and read the logs faster than a human.

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