Fatal Exit

Great low code/no code game engine which has been rapidly advancing in feature-set to match more established heavyweights and getting ahead of them in some regards over past couple years. In the past it was clearly overshadowed by alternatives, especially Construct which it built similar event sheet systems to, but nowadays it has many features that Construct is ironically playing catchup to such as their cloud services, 3D support, multiplayer ease of use, editor platform support etc. GDevelop also shares great educational content on their youtube channel and socials and truly is invested in helping new folks get into the scene, as a veteran gamedev who still gets lots of enjoyment out of the tool it's impossible not to notice their good vibes.

I use AI coding assistants for support with game development tasks as a solo game developer for most of past decade who recently adopted some AI tooling. Kilo Code is a brilliant coding assistant, works great for both VSCode (and forks of it) and Jetbrains IDEs. Very well rounded feature-set access to a bunch of different providers etc, My biggest complaint about Kilo Code is no ability to use it within Zed, I hope that happens soon, even if mostly as a provider to spend my credits to start with! But for the IDEs it works in, especially the JetBrains ones it has very little competition. For best value from it be sure to experiment with a bunch of different model configurations, the most expensive ones aren't often the best for most tasks. Alternatives I look at and sometimes use for dev work without using Kilo Code: Zed, GitHub Copilot, Openrouter, Bezi.

Amazing video generator that keeps getting better and better. Brilliant and friendly developer of the service who creates amazing user-first features that help the user save a lot of time and money compared to alternatives. Might not be the cheapest service but you get something awesome for what you pay, and your time credit rolls over even if you stop paying for it, so if you want to take a break then pick it up again a few months later, you'll retain all your credits you paid for earlier times that hadn't been used yet.