I want to develop a game and am considering collaborating with others, potentially even making it open-source.

To make this process smoother, I need to establish an easy-to-replicate development environment—one that can be set up by non-programmers (such as artists) but is also simple for me to configure so I can focus on actual development.

I’ve explored various options (Docker, Podman, Anaconda, NixOS, VMs), but the choices are overwhelming, and I’m unsure which one is best for my needs.

I’ve had partial success with a Fedora+i3wm virtual environment (VM), creating a plug-and-play experience. However, this setup requires extra space (~3GB for the OS) and includes software already installed on the host system. It also requires users to learn i3wm and possibly use the command line, which may not be ideal for everyone.

I would appreciate any advice on how to approach this effectively.

Edit: An example of things to setup:

  • The right .Net Sdks version
  • Git
  • Git LFS
  • Format Checks
  • VScode (+ extensions)
  • Godot (+ extensions)
  • Botzo@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I take it a step further with distrobox to provide the tooling (like the preferred version of poetry and other cli tools). That ensures people can jump in with the right versions of tools easily, and changes to tooling can be disseminated with a commit (and container build).

    But I agree. Get started and solve these problems when they are problems.