Resources

Game Development

• Unity - don’t bother, RIP

• Rider - best IDE out there

• Fork - solid Git client

• Modo - 3D modeling

• Affinity Photo + Affinity Designer - These have turned into truly awesome tools. Wouldn’t switch back to PS for anything!

• Substance Painter - still on the Allegorithmic version, because f*** Adobe and their subscription model.

• ZBrushCore - don’t use it a lot, but love it when I do. Looks like Maxon scrapped the perpetual license for ZBrushCore. 😟

Audio

• ⏺️ Bitwig Studio - my favourite DAW, does Ableton-style grids just as well as track-recording.

• 🥁 EZDrummer - simple and easy to get something going, fantastic when you plug in a digital drumkit

• 〰️ Valhalla VintageVerb / Delay - everyone needs reverb / delay

• Guitar Rig, ToneHub, Helix Native as virtual amps, all the Evolution plugins are great virtual guitars, and so are all the AmpleSound plugins!

• 🎻 EW Hollywood Orchestra Opus Ed. - all the classic orchestral instruments (strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion) you need. Nucleus is great as well and has a Lite version.

• 🎹 Phaseplant - superb modular synth playground

General

• Notion - best note-taking app (though I’m watching AnyType develop with great interest!)

News and stuff

• Manning has some decent books about software development. And I quite like the Manning liveBook feature.

• Pakt is giving away a free ebook every day - if you stay around for a looooong time maybe you’ll eventually get one you’ll actually want to read. 😉

• Quit X(Twitter), use Mastodon instead. - No ads, fewer crazy people.

• Daring Fireball

• NY Times

• List WIP - which sites do you check every day?