Reviews and comparisons of AI tools for game development.
You already have a built FMOD event in a bank, so now you get FMOD for Unity reading that bank and make one event play when something happens in your game. This is the Unity-only, one-event version of the FMOD handoff, not the Godot plugin walkthrough in post 173 and not the FMOD Studio design…
Use a phone or any recorder you already own to capture one musical idea of a few bars, find its loop point by ear, and drop it into your game as placeholder music. This is a different slice from our earlier game audio posts: those cover generating sound with AI tools and building adaptive music…
Write a tiny Python script with no outside libraries that turns a seed number into a short noise-burst footstep, so every seed gives you a slightly different step. This is the write-it-yourself footstep pass, not a tour of procedural audio tools. You will not install anything or compare products. You will write about fifty lines…
You already have a built FMOD event, so now you get that one event into a Godot 4 project and make it play when something happens in your scene. This is the one-event Godot handoff, not the FMOD Studio design overview. You will not build events, parameters, buses, or snapshots here. This article assumes you…
Choose between Unity and Unreal for your first XR project, then build one small test: a room, the player’s head, and one object that reacts when you look at it. Your first VR or AR project should not be a game. It should be a test that proves three things work: the headset or phone…
Start a small first world in Meta Horizon Worlds with one space, one interactive object, and a clear signal that tells visitors what to do. Meta Horizon Worlds lets you build a shared 3D space that other people can visit. For a solo creator, the trick is to start small. One room. One thing to…
Take one game prop from untextured mesh to engine-ready base color, normal, and roughness maps in Adobe Substance 3D Painter. Texturing gets easier when you finish one object all the way. This guide uses a single prop, a wooden crate with metal corners, and runs it through the full loop: bake, base material, edge wear,…
You will build one procedural fence in Geometry Nodes, tune it with two sliders, and turn it into a plain mesh that any game engine can import. Geometry Nodes lets you describe how a model is built instead of modeling every piece by hand. For a solo developer, that matters most on boring, repeated props….
Generative audio tools are useful in a game project when you treat them as a sketchpad. They can draft a rain bed, a batch of cloth rustles, a temp music cue, or a placeholder line while you block out a scene. They do not mix your game, they do not decide loop points, and they…
Use FMOD Studio to build a small adaptive music event that reacts to intensity and health, mix it with buses and a snapshot, and hand it to your engine as built banks. Every engine can play a sound file when something happens. It gets awkward once you want music that swells during a fight or…