Admer456

I'm a 20-year-old wannabe gamedev (and software engineering student) who started out with HL modding in 2015. I am the author of Half-Life: ADM: https://github.com/Admer456/halflife-adm
I also work on:

• Half-Life Decay: Solo Mission
• Elegy Engine, a WiP retro FPS engine based on Godot
• Half-Life SDK programming tutorials on YouTube

Current PC specs:
GPU - EVGA RTX 3060
CPU - Intel Core i5 8400
Memory - 16 GB DDR4
Storage - 1000 GB Seagate HDD and 250 GB Samsung 860 EVO SSD
Monitor - AOC 2470W, 1920x1080, 60Hz - really bad ghosting issues, wouldn't recommend

Engines I've used in modding:

• primarily GoldSRC in every aspect
• a little bit of Source and Source 2
• Quake engine (mapping)
• CryEngine 1 in every aspect

Engines I've tried for gamedev with a brief review on the side:

• idTech 4 - usable for game development, still needs some major workflow improvements
• idTech 3 - idTech 4 but it's 1999, very nice if you're coming from GoldSRC, but needs lots of work to be GoldSRC-like
• Godot - Unity but extremely tiny & open-sors, I really like it, currently using 4.0 beta 10!
• Unigine - Unreal Engine-like but extremely lightweight, really sweet programming & modelling workflow
• Unity - it's flexible and pretty usable, amazing documentation, just not a fan of the licencing tho', so I leave it as my last resort
• CryEngine 5 - definitely not indie-friendly, as the modeling & UI workflow really cater to paid tools like 3DS Max and Adobe Flash...
• Unreal Engine 4/5 - definitely not for me, very hardware-demanding, clearly meant for AAA-level graphics, and doesn't let me have an iterative workflow in C++ due to huge compile times