I think 1 ultra wide + 1 portrait 16:9 monitor is a good ammount of monitors to have space for code + browser + documents, and maybe 1 extra monitor on top of the ultra wide to run the game for testing while you can still see the rest of the stuff. I currently have 1 ultra wide + 16:9 monitor and I love this setup.
2 Screens: 1 for code, 1 for the game/editor/etc. Much easier to debug. Third screen: for people working in teams so the team communication is open. If working with 1 screen only, I find the Mac is much better as it handles multiple desktops better than Windows.
A great small lean DAW that can do what audacity does as well is Reaper. One time 50 euros per major release. And you own it. I love it as my daw as it’s small no useless bells and whistles it starts quick. It’s great.
@@orangepixelgames yes the UI is a bit weird at times. But for just doing audio work it’s pretty decent. But it’s a shame the went full on spyware 🙁I didn’t even know that until you brought it up. I did a hack video last year m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6LS6rcwXQ_E.html where I used audacity to find the OOK pattern of a received signal to reverse engineer the protocol of those cheap weather stations from the Action. And it was part of the Linux distribution with all the RF tools. And I could actually find my way around but usually after the 2nd or 3rd try.
Hey there Pascal👋, love your vids and tips about game dev. I was wondering if you could tell us how to optimize the GIFs for a Steam page, I saw that only a certain resolution, bitrate, framerate is going to work well and load fast and it really has been kind of a hassle for me to figure out how to do all of these, all I know is how to record game footage with OBS but turning it into GIFs for my Steam page is something that I still need to figure out.🙌
Honestly, I never knew there were bitrate limitations! Usually the best GIFs are less than 5mb in size, and I believe the optimal width for the steam page is 600px (could be 640)
I have a pretty similar setup for general software dev. One main monitor for the IDE, and the laptop monitor for comms and PM stuff. I don't really feel a need for another monitor either, it seems like it would be harder to focus at that point.
By the way, you can disable the sleep when the lid is closed option in windows power settings, so you can close the laptop and still have the monitors working.
Hot take on "breaking patches" - too many folks don't really code defensively. 1- They don't maintain test / archive versions, so all platform changes are pulled into master, sometimes automatically. Gotta at least make a test branch, so you can safely see what breaks. 2- Lot of "black box" plugins, SDKs, and other dependencies, that aren't staying on top of upcoming releases. It's like updating the OS before finding out if all your critical software runs on the new version. And 3- people wanting to use the shiny, bleeding-edge stuff from the Unity keynotes, even while it's still in alpha/preview. I keep my development at Current-1, and leave preview features for side experiments. Folks out here flying too close to the sun, then complaining when their wings melt 😅
@@orangepixelgames well, easy, I'm a web dev xD haha. But I like Godot, so I use the editor in one monitor and VS Code to write gdscript in the other one, just like when I'm doing web dev hehe
I looked up the lid close hibernation thing, Its in "Power" settings for when the lid is closed. I could find it typing in "lid" in the search bar as well. Handy to know.
Think I looked that up and tried it when I just had this setup, but for some reason it didn't work, screen remained black.. maybe I should try again as my PC had many update since
yeah, it's in power settings. it will pop up an option that says "change what closing the lid does" when you type in lid and then you can change the setting.
first tip: rename your wordpress login location/page/url (google for some info on that) second tip: try to keep your admin account private, so don't post things using that one, but create a separate account for posting news third check out and install any (or preferably all) of these plugins to make your site more safe: - BulletProof Security - Sucuri Security - WP Cerber Security
libGDX, the topic that brought me to your content. If I ever start back up my old mobile game project, I'll try to rewrite it using Flutter and the Flame game engine. And I agree about the three monitor experience as I used to be that guy 😅
@@orangepixelgames Cause they've got us by the 🍒, man 😩 I hung on with CS6 for ages, but eventually had to just bite the bullet to get CC. Gimp is cool, but for work, school, and home, I use at least 7-8 major Adobe products (and added a new one last year - XD is great for UI design). The opportunity cost of learning new tools for *all* of those functions, and hoping they are well-supported, is just higher than the sub at this point.
Definitely using a framework vs an engine has its inherited benefits. But I must confess that I would probably go bananas if I don't have an engine behind me...or perhaps I'm just lazy😅
Nice video. I have almost the same setup. Can also only work on 1 screen, for me no need for an extra screen. All software you use is basically the same I use except for the engine. I also do java game dev, however I use an engine called jMonkeyEngine. Been developing in it for more than a decade, so yeah, don't really want to change to Unity etc.
I remember jMonkeyEngine! When I was first getting into Android, I read up on that one and libGDX. At the time though they seemed limited in what platforms they could build to (2012 or so). By the time I came back around to commercial games (2016-ish), Unity seemed a better option (free, better support, more platforms).
Looked up LibGDX and you can only use Java as the programming language. Shame I thought maybe it would also support Kotlin since you can compile Java to Kotlin since they both run on the JVM. With LibGDX do you need to import anything into your project?
Yet another great video! Thanks for taking the time to communicate through videos as well as the discord. Wish more solo/small team game developers did this. :)
@@orangepixelgames That's true. Editing takes time. And good videos takes more time. So, it's very understandable that not all finds the time to do so. Even more cudos to those who do take the time.
I currently use 3 external monitors in addition to the laptop, one for teams, one for the XD, one for web browser and one for Vs code. I like my monitors 😂
Unity certainly has its quirks but as someone whom has used it for almost 10 years, I have never experienced it messing up my code during upgrades. An idea for a future video: How does SeriousLion migrate your games to other platforms? Will he re-write your code, how do you manage the collaboration etc
Regarding engine updates - no one is actually forcing you to update to the latest Unreal or Unity version. And a lot of companies and teams are still using older versions to finish their current projects.
5:26 Yes, please do a video on why you like using Java & libGDX 👍 As someone who "thinks" in Java, but has been doing C#/Unity for about 7yrs now, I recently did a little exercise of converting the meat of one of my old Android games to Unity. It's not hard, or even terribly time-consuming if you aren't using anything esoteric. It wasn't my primary project, so I didn't go through the full porting process. But the potential there to either leverage 3rd party tools/assets, or achieve true "code-once, deploy anywhere" ability is worth a solid look.
Nothing better than the do-nothing gatekeepers telling you "you're not indie", when you bank account and more-importantly; number of "employees" says otherwise.
@@orangepixelgames afaik for 3d, MG does not have a lot of libgdx features like playing a 3d gltf animation track, or is everything in your games is 2D?
