video game writing is drastically underrated as a factor in their appeal and a lot of games regarded as stone cold classics (e.g. Witcher 3) are basically just Fine in the gameplay department and carried on the strength of their narrative and characters

Any dem that can’t stand up for trans people at this point is a coward or an asshole or both As much as it pisses off “centrists” and “moderates” to hear it- Acceptance of transphobia seems to be the #1 indicator of burgeoning fascism in modern times (on both a personal and institutional level)

Hacking framework done(ish) Basically a way of doing 'spells'. Can be used to apply game effects or just damage eventually. (Like shutting down weapons. Overheating. Debuffs. Explosions.) Mostly, the Ears Weapon Slot is for 'Casting'. Clover uses the ears to broadcast, I guess. #CherubDev #UE5

I'm SO done with modern society. I don't want a phone anymore. Living is so goddamn expensive 😭

I just released Unreal Launcher v2.0, a fast, open-source alternative for managing your projects. You get instant project auto-detection, integrated log monitoring, and a much smoother workflow without the extra friction. unreallauncher.vercel.app #UnrealEngine #UE5 #GameDev #ElectronJS #ReactJS

Not exactly what we meant by "watch your back," but major points for creativity. 😅 #blooper #gamedev #indiedev #ue5 #indiegames

youtu.be/A59aXoJhXZI?... This is where I'm currently at in my Unreal Engine "Catgirl Halo" shooter. The weapon system is primed, and now I also have some basic parkour! I still need to turn off Controller Rotation Yaw and clamp the camera so it can't look 360° when doing parkour tho.

This looks cooler every day

Had some time tonight, so I did a bunch of under the hood work, including shields. All sorts of attributes now play a roll in attacks and damage amplitude, determining the hit reaction as well as warning flares. Here I'm slowly decreasing Clover's mass to fun results. #CherubDev #UE5 #GameDev

Well shit. It explains why feeds update inconsistently if ever.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility, beloveds! You are seen and loved!

For impacted Epic Games folks in Texas (or exploring Texas), we have an "Unreal Engine Texas" Discord, and you can pick your Austin, Dallas, Houston, or San Antonio chapter. discord.gg/yZkhFdhCsk

I keep hearing Unreal Engine is "poorly optimized"... Anyway, here's me vs ~400 demons ⚔️😅 Arms of God endless mode, 60 fps, UE5 #indiegame #solodev #solodevsurvivor #indiegames #UE5 #UnrealEngine

Wires with situational awareness. Feature spotlight: Node Avoidance. Gridline intelligently routes wires around your nodes, ensuring that execution paths never clip through your logic or hide important pins. Stop playing hide and seek with your connections. #UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #IndieDev

Got laid off earlier this week, so I'm on the hunt for a new job. Most of my professional experience is as a game artist, but I'm flexible. I do character design, concept art, animation, etc. If you wanna help, just share the post and spread the word, or DM me with any opportunities you know of.

Every PS1 game is like "the hardware sucked shit but the genius programmers tricked it into playing games" and every N64 game is like "you could run crysis on this thing but no one actually knew what they were doing"

I think the worst aspect of DLSS 5 is - despite developers having some level of "control" over how frames are "generated" - is the amount of cognitive dissonance for the same people who bitch and moan about games "looking like "Unreal Engine games" and hailing this AI slop as technical achievement.

Guardian boss fights just hit different. Take on the Shards of Ursul, Morda, and Yggri in Kristala's full release, COMING SOON. ✨ #kristala #soulslike #bossfight #arpg #photomode #ue5

youtu.be/lChq6z4oQc4?... I've literally already improved it from here 😅 Currently the enemy chooses a point around the player and strafes around, but it's not setting the player as it's target in the blackboard and idk why not yet. I love UE5! This is so fun!

Very happy to share that my entry to Megajam 25, Crashowary won not one but TWO categories! Crashowary took out both the Make Us Go WOW! (Photoreal) & Procedural Magicians prizes. Congrats to all who participated, was a very fun Jam! #GameDev #IndieDev #UE5 #UnrealEngine #Megajam25

I'm at the point where I just block Unreal Engine haters. They basically never have anything to add to the gamedev conversation except being unnecessarily derogatory, and almost never know what they're even talking about.

You can grab it here: dylserx.itch.io/crashowary #GameDev #IndieDev #UE5 #UnrealEngine

That's shockingly elegant

If you enjoy Unreal plugins here are the plugins that the Clair a Obscur devs used:

Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen rerelease has an immense amount of banned terms/words not allowed to be entered, when doing trainer/rival names. Which means—GameFreak could have added things to base game outside of Pokémon Home connection. Interesting to think about on a game design/preservation level.

My human brain cells did the same thing when Doom came out. Later I programmed them to generate new first-person shooters. We've come full circle guys: Human slop incoming. Get ready. #gamedev #genai #humanslop

...know your true enemy. #IndieGame #CozyGame #PuzzleGame #GameDev #ScreenshotSaturday #BraveCart

It's #screenshotsaturday I'd like to show off some of the concept art for the Jelly's. A mystical race of humanoid Jellyfish! Just one of wacky races you could encounter on the Siren Seas. Wishlist Scallywags on Steam (link in bio) #gaming #gamedev #indiegame #pirates

This is Lower Pergamum, and it will be included in the patreon demo in a few months. I'm really happy with this one because I captured accurately the feeling of a dream I had. Shout out to my awesome patreon pals! patreon.com/StellarManti... #gamedev #IndieGame #IndieDev #PixelArt #Horror #godot

The next phase of Dungeon Adventure is here! I finished adding the features from last night, as well as the health UI! Once again, great thanks to Cobra Code for having such a great course! youtu.be/lKKPiaPpx8c

level design is my passion ❤️ #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev #platformer

I'm recreating the UE5 Dungeon Adventure course from Cobra Code. There are some noticeable differences in how things are done. For instance, I can't cover a sprite with a 2D death animation when it's a 3D Skeletal mesh. So thanks to Pitchfork Academy's Vylicity, I have this! youtu.be/x_onjVR33pc?...

#Navigation points were next to learn. I also did a few more artwork on the elevator spawns with the green light to trigger enemy spawns. #VerticalSlice is nearly complete. #Art #DigitalArt #Artist #Animation #MotionGraphics #CharacterAnimation #BlueSkyArt #GameDev #Unreal #UE5 #IndieDev #SoloDev

Finally got my weapon system with swapping figured out! Shoutout to Pitchfork Academy on YouTube for the Weapon System 2.0! Also shoutout to @leosaurusr3x.bsky.social for the Yui and Liv models being available on FAB! I really love UE5 sometimes.

starting my very first game art contract and thusly making both my resume and the answer to the question “what do you do” even more confusing (I still need work though, so if you need a game designer, writer, editor, 3d modeler, propmaker, or fabricator with experience running teams HIT! ME! UP!)

I lived through publishers telling me constantly that NFTs and Crypto games were the future and I needed to get on the train and design them or I'd be left behind. I said NO. I'll outlast "AI generated games" too. That's an oath. #gamedev #games

Tfw you still have some edge cases to fix in your procedural locomotion system #gamedev

Made an FPS roguelike with stylized looking maps, what do you think? ❤️ #indiegame #gamedev #ue5 #fps #indiedev #steam #game #afterblast

Phantom Liberty was such a lesbian feast

I started working on a #verticalslice. You take on a few waves before reaching an objective. Shoot a keypad to gain access and trigger story cutscene. 3 shootable objective panels will pop up for the player to choose / shoot #UE5 #Art #bluesky #GameDev #IndieDev #Animator #followme #Arist #wip

Our game's combat is coming along nicely #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #ue5

Fun with physics - here's some jump tests! Fixed an Unreal Engine issue where vehicles bounce back up a lot when landing. c: I can't change Unreal's physics, so instead I multiply the bounce and add it back downward to cancel things out. Works quite well.

Little things ~ When it came to switching weapons, I noticed I was being locked into the animations for too long. So, I updated the weapon swap animations and made them quicker/snappier #ue5 #indiegame #gamedev

Update on Tonya my Rascal character controller in Unreal Engine. She can jump now! 😊 As an animator it feels really nice to be able to create animation logic without programming. If you're looking for an animator feel free to reach out! #gameanimation #blender3d #unrealengine #indiedev

hello i am average unreal marketplace asset creator i have made the default scale of this asset 4000km x 4000km x 4000km and have set the pivot to be 5cm to the left of center i hope you enjoy

I've never really messed with materials before, because it's always felt so overwhelming. But today I need to, so I can set up my damage system! And then, i should possess the ability to do shootybangs!

Working on some NPC protect quests Helping these ducks see the great Duck King Statue😀 #UE5 #indiegame #gamedev #IndieGameDev #indiedev #d&d

I'm really sad about Mudang: Two Hearts apparently being scrapped, because I've been following it for a hot minute. I think they overextended themselves though. Scope creep kills many a project 😅😭