I've been making video games in some form for 20 years, so I wrote an article about my process - and why I don't use an engine.

https://noelberry.ca/posts/making_games_in_2025/

Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)

Thoughts, tools, and libraries I use to make games

@noelfb I love the article! My time is spread so thin that, while I would love to take this approach, I swerved over to Game Maker... I'm a control freak, so it's been tough, but when I was rolling custom, I found myself spending so much time on the tools that I forgot what I was doing 😅

I want to get back to custom, but I wouldn't know where to begin (but I do love C#).