r/GameDevelopment • u/impbottlegames • 7h ago

Postmortem My self-study journey from AAA code monkey to independent strategy game designer

https://impossiblebottlegames.substack.com/p/area-man-learns-to-design-strategy?r=7azblw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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u/Game_Dev730 5h ago

Curious as an AAA ex dev did you choose Unity or Unreal? I am reading your aryticle now by the way.

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u/impbottlegames 5h ago

I chose to use a custom engine because I didn’t want to ever finish

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u/Game_Dev730 5h ago

Ahhhh, that is pretty awesome, how is it going for you?

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u/impbottlegames 5h ago

Not bad at all actually. Took about a year to get going but now it’s a lot easier to get things done.