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When I first opened Unreal I expected to suffer. After months in Godot, switching engines felt insane — new interface, new principles, new everything. What actually happened was different. #gamedev #indiedev #unrealengine #godot

Nastys Dev

@nastys.dev

4 Aug

On day one I put together a scene that finally looked like the game I’d been picturing for months. Crooked, a bit ugly in places — but alive. In Godot I’d been spending more effort fighting the tools than building the world. Alive landscapes would tank the framerate.

Nastys Dev

@nastys.dev

I don't regret those months though. That’s where I learned to think about games as systems, not pretty pictures., and where most of Windfall's core ideas took shape — painfully, because I had to cut them down to get anything working.

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Nastys Dev

@nastys.dev

4 Aug

The takeaway isn't that one engine is better. It's that sometimes you're not bad at this and not lazy — you just picked a tool that doesn't fit the problem. The clearest sign I'd found the right one: I wanted to open the project tomorrow. Full write-up: bear.nastys.dev/switching-to...