Yep I personally use Bitbucket, a holdover from the days when you couldn’t have private repos for free on GitHub, and I just never bothered moving. There’s tons of options, but I wanted to keep it simple for people starting off 🙂

Add stuff, commit stuff, push stuff. Like 99% of the time that’s all you need to know how to do, especially if you’re working alone.

But I think maybe part of the problem is people think it’s going to be a lot more complicated than that, and who wants to learn something big and complicated when you’re already trying to learn game dev, you know? At least that’s my theory.

Ok I’ve seen the “but I use Google Drive for backups so it’s fine” argument a few times from solo devs, but in a team? When you’re in a hurry? Argh, nightmare fuel.

Progress was made! 😄

To kick things off then. Progress on my little solarpunk city builder has basically ground to a halt the last couple of weeks among illness and other priorities. So it feels good to be back on the horse this weekend.

I’ve done some planning, picked out focus tasks for the weekend, and first up is to tweak this model a bit. It’s the central “hub” building in my city and it’s a little too six-way symmetrical for my tastes.

Here’s how it currently looks in-game, I’m still in the prototyping stage so there’s not much visual variety (all the house tiles are the same etc), but tackling that is a nice low-hanging task to ease me back in.

rolls up sleeves

Let’s get to it!