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Yuvraj Singh Kumpavat
Yuvraj Singh Kumpavat

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My first post as an indie gamedev

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Hello, this is my first post on Dev.to!! I have been suggested by my relative to start blogging about my coding journey on this website since 2022 but I always find it quite corny to write about your coding journeys publicly like how it is in LinkedIn; it is sad to see the state of LinkedIn nowadays.

But anyway, a little introduction about myself -

  • My name is Yuvraj Kumpavat
  • Game developer by profession
  • My skill-sets are: Unreal, Unity, C++, C#, HLSL, Clip Studio Paint, Git/GitHub and various IDEs

My main purpose of starting this blog is to document my journey on making my own game after years of education and experience, my very own MAGNUM OPUS and honestly it has been quite hard ever since I started taking this thing seriously, sometimes it is a bit hard to hold myself accountable even though I have written deadlines and I am barely getting some sleep lol.

I have a lot of responsibilities including the development of this magnum opus but despite breaking through those barriers being thrown by life and focusing on making this game is quite fun to be honest. It is just the start of the journey honestly because I recently came up with the idea and I have to maintain that patience, discipline and determination to realize that idea.

I think I have talked too much so a little update about the game I'm working on:

  • Right now I'm trying to get the idea about turn-based combat system and trying to translate that from one framework to another with my own specifications, rules and datasets.
  • Thanks to my previous self in the 2nd year I was able to save that JRPG framework and learn about it.
  • I am making something like Octopath Traveler and when I heard that you can make a 2D game in Unreal Engine especially in a 3D environment, they are called Hybrid 2D or HD2D (Square Enix came up with it), the amount of neurons started firing in my brain were explosive.

And in conclusion, I'm ending this blog on a positive note that:

Good thing takes time. You need patience, discipline and determination to craft that idea

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