Making Delightful Tools for Sustainable Small-Team Development

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GDC 2025
Speaker: Isadora Rodopoulos
Company: Coldblood Inc.
Format: Programming

How you and your team spend time is key to achieving a sustainable development workflow. The time invested in developing tools pays off over the years by providing a solid foundation with a rapid iteration. Making these tools delightful to use reflects on the game quality, team culture, cohesion, and the creative energy poured into the game.In this talk, Isadora will present nine tips for investing in development tools for your small indie team. She will cover how a data-oriented mindset helps build a modular and flexible gameplay architecture; how building tools tailored for the team's exact needs ensures scalability and simplicity; and how to balance engine development, tools development and gameplay implementation to maximize your team's sustainability and morale.