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The Toolsmiths @thetoolsmiths

We are an online community of game tools developers born out of GDC Tools Roundtables and Tools Summit. Industry pros and students are welcomed!

Joined October 2009
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Victor Stepanov@VictorStepanov
2 Aug 2021
My notes for Technical Issues in Tools Development Roundtables, hosted by @gorlak thetoolsmiths.org/codex/gdc/… thetoolsmiths.org/codex/gdc/… thetoolsmiths.org/codex/gdc/… Tools Design Roundtables, hosted by @davidlightbown thetoolsmiths.org/codex/gdc/… thetoolsmiths.org/codex/gdc/…
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GameDev Tools Weekly - Issue 13 thetoolsmiths.org/2021/05/10…
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Geoff Evans@gorlak
7 May 2021
Reminder that Technical Issues in Tools Development is on the docket for GDC 2021, as well as the Tools Summit, which in particular has some fun stuff in store!
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@Official_GDC
7 May 2021
Check out the many incredible Roundtables at GDC 2021 gdconf.com/news/check-out-ma…
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GameDev Tools Weekly - Issue 12 - April 3rd, 2021 thetoolsmiths.org/2021/05/03…
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GameDev Tools Weekly - Issue 11 — April 26th, 2021 Nonlinear undo, organizing your code with a canvas, is there a decline of in-house engine development? and more thetoolsmiths.org/2021/04/26…
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We are starting another discussion in our Vault Club! We will watch and discuss @davidlightbown's "What I Learned About Tools Development From Games Industry Legends" youtube.com/watch?v=Zp4tJQJK… Join the discussion in our Discord! (invite link here: thetoolsmiths.org)

What I Learned About Tools Development From Games Industry Legends

In this 2021 GDC Showcase session, Ubisoft's David Lightbown shares...

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GameDev Tools weekly - Issue 10 List of 600 open-source tools for game dev, C tool fair, how you can improve the 3D Manipulator Gizmo and more! thetoolsmiths.org/2021/04/19…
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GameDev Tools weekly - Issue 9 Introducing Hot Tools Jobs section for the first time! Plus a lot of love for C ecosystem: AddressSanitizer in VS, ThreadSanitizer How-To, Compiling C from CLI, writing C plugins for Maya and more! thetoolsmiths.org/2021/04/12…
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GameDev Tools weekly - Issue 8 @irondavy dives deep into the history of Nintendo authoring tools, @lefticus explains how to setup local Godbolt and @niklasfrykholm makes converting text to C string easy! thetoolsmiths.org/2021/04/05…
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New Blog post by Irene Zhu "Applying Design Thinking Process in Tool Development" thetoolsmiths.org/2021/03/30… Join the discussion in our Discord! (invite link here: thetoolsmiths.org/)
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GameDev Tools weekly - Issue 7 Where bitmaps get vectorised, humans are generated and the lessons learned from history of tools programming! thetoolsmiths.org/2021/03/28…
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GameDev Tools weekly - Issue 6 Episode 6: where ImGUI gets pushed into HTML, darn robots steal playtesting jobs and floating points get their bits hacked! Stay tuned!
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thetoolsmiths.org/2021/03/21…
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GameDev Tools weekly - Issue 5 thetoolsmiths.org/2021/03/14… Episode 5: where we have a sneak pick in Tools Dev interview questions, wondering what to choose "C or Blueprints" and contemplating a lifelong question "can you use MIDI controller to change game object variables".
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GameDev Tools weekly - Issue 4 thetoolsmiths.org/2021/02/28…
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GameDev Tools weekly - Issue 3 thetoolsmiths.org/2021/02/28… made by @Pie_Daddy and @VictorStepanov
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GameDev Tools weekly - Issue 2 thetoolsmiths.org/2021/02/21…
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GameDev Tools weekly - Issue 1 is here! thetoolsmiths.org/2021/02/14… made by @Pie_Daddy and @VictorStepanov We hope you like it!
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The Toolsmiths retweeted
Victor Stepanov@VictorStepanov
15 Sep 2020
We are currently discussing @niklasfrykholm GDC talk "Tools Summit: Writing Tools Faster" youtube.com/watch?v=yYq_dviv… in the @thetoolsmiths community slack with Game Tools Devs from around the world. Join us! :)
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