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QOTD: What game development tools or software do you find most essential and why? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by Ategon@programming.dev to c/gamedev@programming.dev

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Going to start doing daily questions of the day here about misc game development topics. Probably also going to start some over in !game_design@programming.dev as well

For today heres a question about which tools & software you find essential

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[–] ImpossibleRubiksCube@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not saying that proprietary software can't be good, but it is absolutely essential to have real skill with FOSS--Blender, Audacity, Inkscape, Krita, FFMPEG, GIMP, LMMS or Ardour, any number of terminal tools... they update fast, they're always available, they run on anything, and if you can't figure something out, you can peek inside.

You want to use FL Studio or Maya too? Cool. But, you just have to at least know the FOSS/Libre stuff.