A great many respected game developers seem to start down the road to their next brilliant creation with these tools:
[Lost content, image. Alt-text “Trusted for time out of memory, the old scriber and paper.” Likely a photograph of a Moleskine notebook with writing implements on top of it.]
These days, I find myself starting here:
[Lost content, image. Alt-text “Image of Unity and Monodevelop script editor.]
In many ways I envy those who’ve found joy in the analogue implements. Perhaps at the end of a career it’s something magical to sift through stacks of dog-eared and war-torn papers, some stained with the rings of an errantly-placed caffeinated beverage or perhaps the scorched trail of a forgotten lit cigarette.
It’s a shame, then, that Unity so nearly freely translates ideas directly from the brain into digital life, where the only notes made are those in the margins of a Google Doc or an Evernote, or perhaps whispered softly into a voice memo app.
In the end though, it doesn’t really matter how you arrive, only that you have the most fun getting there.
2012.05.01 – 2012.05.31