Decent alternatives BUT there are better tools out there.įor simple terrain generation, I've considered 元DT, World Creator and Gaea. Sure, you can generate a black&white noise/cloud and use that as your heightmap. Photoshop is good at many things but creating amazing 2d terrain isn't one of those things. In my opinion terrains are a very important piece of the game environment. Probably good for LARGE projects but small-medium games can do just fine without it. Not to mention the easy and fast to use GDScript.Ĭ# is a beautiful language but I feel that it makes development somewhat cumbersome with all that OOP syntax. It feels lighter, more elegant, more concise and even MORE POWERFUL. And Godot has surprised me so pleasantly that I've decided to use IT instead of Unity. While at first I was tempted to go with the classic Unity I said to myself that I'll give Godot a quick run at least. The biggest two options for 2d games are hands down Godot and Unity. Using console.log to debug (and visualize your game) is not. js and having the game refresh in the browser is cool. Those beautiful animation curves.Īre you in a similar position where you're unhappy with your current pipeline? Here are the changes I'm making (and I hope you'll draw some precious insights for yourself):

But as I'm considering (and working) on larger projects I feel the need for better, more advanced tools. Simple stuff, good enough graphics for html5 games. So far I made the bulk of my games with Phaser.js + Photoshop.

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