I've been without electricity for over 20 hours and still don't have it, so today I'll show you something from the past. The idea was to create containers that, upon receiving a collision (impulse), would fly, stick to the surface, and then move away #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #UE5

I clean my workplace, the last time I did it was a year ago. It's hard, a lot of technical (PCs, console devkits, monitors), so it took a lot of time. A lot of dust. Steam Deck is an example of how much. I sneezed 666 times. Pack things I hadn't used in a while into garbage bags

Display sections of a texture in the order you want. This is how I display characters on the screen of a binary code lock prototype #UE5 #UnrealEngine #gamedev #indiedev www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxBU...

I wanted to do this over a year ago, but I put it off until later. And now the moment has come. Morse code, binary code, combination lock, 1 and 0, dot and dash, Hex, from binary to hexadecimal. This is a prototype I made in 8 hours. Everything is simple and Sci-Fi, I'm a geek 🤓

End of 2024, Unreal Engine 5.3, my first ladder gameplay. I wanted to make it almost realistic, different states... I will show only part of the process, because it was not easy and has value as a competition of knowledge #gamedev #UnrealEngine #UE5 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyHm...

According to the classic sci-fi games, an adventure game should have several scenes in zero gravity. I added a boost and stamina to the hero that regenerates. Also, if the character crosses the surface, he can push off from it #scifi #gaming #indiedev #gamedev www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBTI...

I started making a prototype and instead of making a widget, I decided to make a material for the drafts for these situations that would display 4 characters from MiniFont texture. I'll show you on my YouTube channel what the 4 symbols will look like #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev

Unreal Engine Niagara UI Renderer plugin and Script Module to change color. The idea was to show the points as particles that would have a fixed number, and change the color at a specific number, for example scanning objects at a location #UE5 #UnrealEngine #gamedev www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKVE...

I love experimenting with Materials in Unreal Engine, it's like drinking coffee in the morning. I already have 44 videos on my 📺 channel about it. I want to eventually have 666 videos on this topic, then I'll calm down (just kidding) #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev www.youtube.com/@alienmax-re...

Many games have mini-games related to puzzles, where you have to assemble a model from pieces to use it somewhere in the game. So I wanted to recreate that too. There is a table that needs elements to activate the process or already has some parts #gamedev #indiedev www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yqd...

24 days have passed, 200 followers and 80 videos. I promised that I had a lot to show. There will be more in time. I hope there will be 1K followers, then I will think about another stage www.youtube.com/@alienmax-re... #gamedev #indiedev

I haven't drunk alcohol for 4+ years. The last time I drank vodka was in 2021. I've had a few bottles since then. This bottle is from 2020. Today my wife wanted to make a de-icer spray for her car because it's -12C outside. Mix vinegar, vodka, and water

On Sunday I was working on the user interface (HUD) and while walking by the terminal in the game, I realized that I needed to add the mechanics of limited camera rotation. Now the gameplay with the terminal has become 5% more realistic 🖥️🤪 it will be a surprise for the player #scifi #gaming

All of this was my first implementation on this engine, namely to recreate the gameplay and mechanics associated with crafting and then fixing (Unreal Engine 5.3, end of 2024) #gamedev #indiedev #UnrealEngine #UE5 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFAB...

Unreal Engine material, gradient as a route for animation. This was one of the first experiments in creating a texture. Then I realized that it was better to use RGB separate as routes and A #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sedb...

Saturday Unreal Engine. I decided to create a material function based on which it would be possible to display how a signal or other entities change. Maybe I'll show the code on YouTube eventually, but you could have already seen 80% of it in other examples #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev

I created a new playlist on my #gamedev YouTube channel "Examples from games". The first video is Object Interaction Mechanics and User Interface from Moons of Madness Homefront: The Revolution KONA The Forest Deliver Us the Moon SOMA Fallout 76 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDTA...

I don't want to display the list of actions on an interact object at the pivot point. But if the object is below the center, then the tooltip text is superimposed on the object mark. I decided to try to make 2 options for handling this situation. Here is the first #gamedev #indiedev

The night was very scary, but you have to train your brain every day. I don't have electricity, so I'll show you something from the archive. I'll upload the full version of this Unreal Engine material examples (VectorLength) to my YouTube later #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev

I uploaded a new video to the YouTube channel, but this is an old gameplay puzzle idea: luminous liquid and spots as a basis for movement, the spots should affect the environment, which should react to it, or the protagonist should react to it #gamedev www.youtube.com/watch?v=giVN...

I'm continuing to improve the interface, robot HUD. It's not the final version yet, but I already really like it. Beautiful? Fantastic? Sci-Fi..stic? But over time I will look at it and think that it is not so beautiful and could be better. Because it is Stranger things

Making a game is about creating something alive. Stranger things have been happening in my head every day since I entered to "game dev" space. I'm an adult who's afraid of becoming a "shame dev". This term has been in my head for a long time #gamedev #shamedev

A gameplay collect samples of other creatures and the environment on another planet, to then use it in the graft. At that time, I had little experience working with Unreal Engine and these were essentially my first animations #gamedev #indiedev www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz5P...

This is dedicated to all fans of the Chuck series. The Intersect inspired me to create a similar entity. Don't forget to check out my YouTube channel, there is already a lot of interesting stuff there and more to come #gamedev #indiedev www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2PM...

Creating a game is creating something alive, much more emotional than other areas of programming. Stranger things happening in my head every day since I entered this space, reprogramming my feeling of old experiences, everything that was before is an inverted reality, I don't want to return

I never thought I'd say this. Before I moved into gamedev, I've worked in different areas (programs, mobile apps, websites) including I had to do user interfaces. I didn't like working on UI, I hated it. Now I like working on the UI in Unreal Engine for games 😜

Unreal Engine 5, Niagara. Line Attraction Force gives a lot of ideas for creating behavior, for example if it is a swarm of fish or birds, or a bunch of insects, or the object that affects it may have magnetism #gamedev #UnrealEngine #UE5 www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Kc...

This is almost the beginning of the project, these are more advanced prototypes that became the basis of the core character's mechanics. Follow my YouTube, longer videos will appear there over time, because this is a story I don't want to lose #gamedev #indiedev #scifi #videogame

Remember, once, in terms of programmer time, it was a long time ago, because we're like dogs, 1 year = 4, I was showing gameplay with radar. This was in my first year of studying Unreal Engine. I decided to improve it, started with the screen #UE5 #UnrealEngine #gamedev #indiedev

How to draw text in any language from Widget on Decal in Unreal Engine. I hope you appreciate it. I created a short video of how it works #gamedev #UnrealEngine #UE5 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlR6...

I came up with more rules for interacting with objects. I decided that the gameplay should have more details of identification, especially when you are a robot. I won't say anything more, just show a partial prototype. Yes, I'm working on the interface right now.

I promised to show you a way I came up with to make glowing text in the UI, a very simple Unreal Engine material imitation, because there is no glow in the widget. I used SpiralBlur - Texture node ;) #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt7d...

I created a material based on what I showed you yesterday. I thought "I need to make the screen an environment object", a cube or a box, to display the texture as a sign, generate the normal and turn it off at a distance www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv1O... #UnrealEngine #UE5 #scifi #gamedev

Sunday with Unreal Engine, I created a material for a battery screen, which can have 4 states: discharged, charged, charging and giving off energy. There are no textures here, I generate everything inside material. I like it, it looks like a sci-fi

Gameplay idea a force field as an emergency blow that demagnetizes robot stamina, but repels anything that might be dangerous. And then I realized that I had to do separate parts of the scene that would hide something and I had to knock them down by force #gamedev www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhhh...

Good morning, afternoon or evening my game developer friends. At first I wanted to write: Unreal Engine is "Such a fun". But I thought that there are days when it's not fun. And why should the tool that allows us to make our fantasies come true be fun? This is a serious process!

I experimented a lot in Unreal Engine and finally made a very simple material of glow text. Imitation, because there is no glow in the UI. Like / repost if you want to see the code, I'll show it here and my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@alienmax-re... #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev

First Saturday in 2026, so in keeping with the tradition of the indie game dev social media tag, here you go. I wish everyone positive and ideas. If you're overheating, here's a coolant from Unreal Engine. Support me www.youtube.com/@alienmax-re... #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #UnrealEngine #UE5

On Saturday morning, I was making coffee and listening to the radio, and I realized that I needed to create a material in Unreal Engine to display the frequency / waves. Am I broken? As always, all thoughts cross paths in game development #UnrealEngine #gamedev #UE5 #indiedev

Here I created a component for objects that react to sector. When stones are in the zone, they levitate. If they out of the area, they lose levitation. The zone can attract such stones to itself, or repel them even if they are outside. #gamedev #indiedev #gameplay

I'm currently working on a user interface. There's still a lot to do, first prototypes. I know not everyone likes a lot of information in HUD, but I want to recreate a simulation / imitation "you are program" experience so that most of the UI blocks can be hidden #scifi #gaming #gamedev

I try to copy old videos of what I did in Unreal Engine to my YouTube every day. There will be many gameplay examples there soon. Today I found something I did when I was just starting out with UE5, I call it - body emission #gamedev #UnrealEngine #indiedev #UE5 www.youtube.com/@alienmax-re...

I thought, why waste resources on typing text, I've known for a long time that String are memory usage. I created a pseudo-print of text through the material. The text is already there, it rises and hides behind the texture. I know you want to see the code #gamedev #indiedev #UnrealEngine #UE5

First day of 2026. You know me, and you know that I share knowledge and experience here, and now on my YouTube channel about game dev. I'll start this year with Unreal Engine material, I call this - moving along the gradient #gamedev #UnrealEngine #UE5 #indiedev

I'm trying to work on a user interface (UI), or as it's called in Unreal Engine - widgets. Last year when I didn't know much about materials, I used a Progress Bar element, but now I don't. I use Border and Dynamic Material Instance #UE5 #gamedev #UnrealEngine #indiedev

Tuesday, morning, coffee, Unreal Engine training with materials. What will Radial Gradient Exponential look like from Sine and (1-x)? Don't forget about my YouTube channel, I'll be posting all these educational videos there www.youtube.com/@alienmax-re... #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev

Did you know I'm a programmer? This is a joke, because I've been showing materials rather than blueprints a lot. Here's one of my versions of how to print text in chunks. Yes, I started doing something with HUD #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev #blueprint

My old gameplay idea - puzzle or mini game about restoring data from 3D recording video file. Finding all items and events. I hope over time I will finish it and it will be in the game on the Moon. I still see potential in this #gamedev #indiedev

Saturday Unreal Engine experiment with a breathing grid (vector to radial value as UV). It looks a bit like radar. See the grid creation function in my YouTube channel #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev

I slept very little today, I'm working on a bunch of different Unreal Engine materials. The main task for the next days is to make an Sci-Fi HUD, I'm trying to do something I haven't done before, but I realized that I need a scanner based on a decal #scifi #games #gamedev