u/GFX47

I'm a solo game developer and, after spending most of my career developing games on Windows (15 years, ouch!), I recently decided to give Mint a serious try on my secondary dev machine.

I wasn't really sure to switch completely at first. I wanted to see how much of my everyday game development workflow I could actually move to Linux without constantly having to go back to Windows.

Turns out... pretty much all of it. 😄

So I eventually switched my main development machine too, and I'm now doing all my game development on Linux Mint!

Unity, Visual Studio Code, Git, Steam, image/audio/video editing tools, build scripting... so far I've been able to keep my usual workflow without missing Windows at all.

As a nice side effect, using Linux every day also pushed me to add a native Linux build to the game I'm currently developing, instead of only relying on Proton.

There have definitely been a few things to figure out along the way, but overall I'm really enjoying the switch.

So here's my now 100% Mint-powered game dev setup! 🐧

I'm curious if there are other game devs around here using Mint as their main development environment?

Hi! I'm a solo developer and I've just announced Respect the Horde, a top-down extraction shooter / tower defense I've been working on.

The idea is simple: you're heavily outnumbered, but zombies are predictable.

Instead of fighting hundreds of them head-on, you build obstacles to shape their path, create bottlenecks and lure them into barbed wire, fire and deadly traps.

The more zombies you kill, the greater the rewards — but the horde also becomes increasingly dangerous. Once you've completed your objective, you have to decide whether to extract with what you've earned or stay for one more wave.

You're outnumbered. Outsmart them.

I released the announcement trailer today and the Steam page is now live:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4550130/Respect_The_Horde/

On t'aime Pascal <3