Why Good Tooling is Always Worth It

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Tom Knowles

I’m Tom. I spend my days looking at screens full of code, and sometimes writing it. I’m a software engineer at PlaySide. If I was in Avatar, I’d want to be a water bender, but probably be a non-bending earth kingdom cabbage farmer.

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Why Good Tooling is Always Worth It

TG Lightning Talks @ Queensland Games Festival 2025

The journey we took on the game Shattered to build high quality level tooling, and why it helped us.

why-good-tooling-is-always-worth-it.md

Tom Knowles

I’m Tom. I spend my days looking at screens full of code, and sometimes writing it. I’m a software engineer at PlaySide. If I was in Avatar, I’d want to be a water bender, but probably be a non-bending earth kingdom cabbage farmer.