About my little genius, again. I never thought about Lerp mathematically. I was making material in Unreal Engine, my 11 year old son came up and saw that I used a lerp with black color. He said: you can just multiply. I can show you how to make your lerp #UnrealEngine #UE5 #tips #gamedev

In honor of Saturday, I'm going to show you something new. My sci-fi puzzle game will feature devices that ride on rails. In 15 seconds you saw the basic part gameplay, energy devices and terminal. Steam soon #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #UnrealEngine #indiegame #scifi #indiedev

Remember the terminal I showed earlier? I wanted to make it possible to change the text in the holograms on scene. I thought, maybe Unreal Engine could render widget to texture? Wow. This is brilliant. The text can be in any font in any language #UnrealEngine #tips #gamedev #UE5 #indiedev

Unreal Engine from my 11 year old son. He started experimenting with Blueprints. I showed him how to make a collision event, he figured out the rest. Because visual programming is very intuitive and similar to other. He called it a sphere of Half-Life 2 #UnrealEngine #gamedev

Tonight, evil attacked our country's energy facilities with missiles. Parts of the city have no electricity, I still have it, but the voltage is jumping and it's better not to turn on some devices. The batteries are charged, water supply is ready. We already went through this

I know you love it when I show you some Unreal Engine stuff, and even more, when I show you the code. So, today I remembered one of the tips related to InvLerp node. I call this image stabilization for 2 colors #UnrealEngine #UE5 #tips #gamedev #indiedev #shader

As always, my sick thoughts in the form of a prediction about what will happen next... AI and us, the value of what you know is falling in price medium.com/@prybulets/y... #ai #future #civilization #profession #vacancy #job #life

I'm not a photographer, but here's what I have. Before phones took better photos, this is what we used. If you're careful with your technology, even 20 years later it can still give you memories of the past, especially when you forget the memory card with the photos in it.

I really like playing with materials in Unreal Engine. It's like a break from creating gameplay. You probably know that my Sci-Fi game will have a variety of energy. I like VectorToRadialValue node, so, here's another prototype #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev #shader

I made gameplay of inspecting objects a long time ago, but only yesterday I realized that if the location is dark, the object is hard to see. So I added lighting. Sometimes logically obvious things don't appear right away #gamedev #indiedev #UnrealEngine #scifi #videogames

I continue the topic Unreal Engine from my 11 year old son. He made the energy field material and ask me about distance, I told him - try Distance To Nearest Surface node. He twisted it a little and improved the field to reflect hits. I said: WOW, I want it too #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev

Highlighting to indicate player action, again. For static objects that are waiting for other objects to place, I made a constant pulsating material. For pickup objects - a highlight that pulsing and disappear if we continue to look. What do you think? #indiedev #gamedev

It's a rod that you have to insert into a hole and then fry it... This technique will obviously have a name and description, and you will be able to read about it in the terminal #scifi #indiegame #videogames #games #puzzles #gaming

Night work with Unreal Engine. I expanded the blueprint a bit and it's better now. I added a Timeline that brings the object smoothly to the holding position, and I also added a light during the inspection #gamedev #indiedev #UnrealEngine

In my game, the box that need to be placed on the button are not just box, they are technological nodes that are like computers. Everything is connected, everything has been thought out. If it reminds you of the old Apple, then let it be the impulse to remember Steve Jobs #scifi #gaming #indiegames

Sometimes I write "soon" about Steam page for new game. Every week I get closer to this. It's like being a frog lying in water that is heating up. I understand what I will have to do after this. Today I took 144 screenshots and now I need to choose 10 #gamedev #indiedev #steam

When I see bugs related to physics or visuals in other games, I treat it with humor and in a minute I forget about it. For example, this from Fallout 76. As an indie game developer, when I see a bug that a player shows in my game, I have a nervous breakdown and a heart attack #indiedev #gamedev

Monday, #gamedev joke, or maybe not. What to use for soundproofing for sound recording if you are sound designer in indie game dev and you poor? Lifehack - paper egg containers. I'm wondering if this will work, I need to collect more 🐓

My morning thoughts about AI and Adobe. This package is still hanging in my hallway. medium.com/@prybulets/a...

If you follow my sci-fi game #gamedev diary (here), you probably remember the pipes and energy. Now it looks different, maybe it's the final version. There will be a lot of energy in this world and it will have different forms. There will be a Steam soon with more details

Oct 2022, during the Kickstarter, this is what my workplace looked like. Erra: Exordium game code was created here. It was difficult because of the war, shelling, explosions... When evil began to destroy our energy, I had to buy a powerful laptop, battery and hide it all away

This photo is from 2023, I got a Steam Deck to add code and other changes to the game Erra: Exordium. At that time, there was already a page and a demo version on Steam and yes, I drank a lot of Dr. Pepper back then. I haven't played any other games on this device

If you're a gamer, a fan of Fallout world or science fiction games, where part of the gameplay is computers or terminals that provide information about plot, tasks or even control objects on the scene, then I hope you'll like my terminal and game. Steam page soon #indiegames #videogames #gaming

Don't read this! These are my sick thoughts, as always medium.com/@prybulets/w... #gamedev #indiedev

Now my terminal can not only display text, but also send commands to other objects on the scene. Is this the final version? In this week - yes, but I guarantee that each of us has such days when we look at it and want to improve or add something #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #UnrealEngine

My 11 year old kicked me out of the room and played with Unreal Engine. While I was watching the news in another room, he found a InteriorCubemap node and create this. He said: "don't forget about Unity". He is a smart and comedian, and has never worked with Unity #UnrealEngine #Unity #gamedev

Here's a little bit about meditation on Friday, because for an indie developer, weekends are also game creation days. For you too, relaxation means doing something with vfx or MetaSound, rather than create gameplay?

I did it, woohoo! I'll improve the visuals later, but the first stage of the terminal gameplay is ready. And yes, I'm a fan of Fallout, so the behavior is similar. One data table, 3 levels of depth, very easy to configure each terminal with different data. I am happy #gamedev #indiedev #UnrealEngine

While I'm working on the terminal, I'll show you the rover. For those who are seeing this for the first time, this is my first prototype related to transports and drive in Unreal Engine. Watch more videos about the rover on my profile #scifi #gaming #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

More than 20 years ago, I dreamed of developing video games, but it happened after 15+ years. At that time, I had a friend also programmer, who thought he knew more than me, and he said about #gamedev: a game is moving a picture on the screen, it's stupid, don't do this

Thursday, on this day the morning coffee with cinnamon. Again, sick game dev thoughts. Think about a list of "classic spices for video games", not just for coffee or food. First you make game core and then you add these spices. What can be called #gamedev / #indiedev spices?

I added a section associated with a list or menu in terminal. It wasn't as easy as I thought, because I decided to initialize the text character by character first inside in each element. But now I know how to do it better + here is a convex screen. I'll continue cooking #scifi #games #indiegame

When I started my new #gamedev stage with Unreal Engine (last year), I learned everything I could and immediately made prototypes for a game that I had put on pause. Some prototypes became the beginning of a new game, even this. #indiedev life is fun!? Take care of your asses

I continue to experiment with the appearance of the terminal PC, this time I'm thinking about the text, because the font I still use by default. So here's an example of Unreal Engine Material #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev

Wednesday. Morning, coffee and a sick thought: 4 years without alcohol, 2 years without cigarettes, almost 1 year without vaping and 1 year without writing code in symbols, only Blueprints in Unreal Engine. If I break down, I'll drink, smoke and sit down to write code in Microsoft Visual Studio

It's 2am, but I decided to show you what I had in mind. I don't want a old VHS screen, I just need to make the text a little more convex, and that's it, this is the UI Widget (Unreal Engine). I'll leave it like that for now, I need to improve the font #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev

I'm trying to figure out how to make the future terminal screen look like the old screen with the rounded picture, or whatever you call it... Has anyone done this before, can you give me a hint? It's like a fisheye for post-processing #UnrealEngine #UE5 #tips #gamedev #indiedev

I added a block in material that displays the process of waiting. This video is not about code, so the diagram is far away, maybe I'll show it someday, but everything is very simple here. It's just to show how the screen has changed #gamedev #UnrealEngine #indiedev #scifi #gaming

Doors. You're ready for the doors, so here's the doors. And not just the game door, but the control panel, which has finally acquired different states. Yes, I spent several days experimenting not only with the terminal. What do you think, do you like it? #scifi #games #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev

Tuesday. What's wrong with us, indie developers? Or am I just such a sick introvert? Someone is drinking coffee looking at the beauty of nature, on a balcony or on the riverbank, while I'm looking at what I did last night in Unreal Engine or watching about UE5 on YouTube #gamedev

Sometimes your brain gets stuck and you ask yourself, what if you wrote it differently? And then your 11-year-old son comes and looks at it and suggests a third option, and it's even better, the one on top. Unreal Engine material Vignette #UnrealEngine #tips #UE5 #gamedev

So, I continue working on the terminal. In the previous video you saw a Rich Text Block, I replaced it with a simple text element, because it is impossible to handle line breaks during character-by-character display, if more precisely it requires something that I consider irrational #gamedev

As I promised, I'm showing 7 days of gameplay of the rover I made last year. At the beginning of 2025 I put this project on pause because it is very large and requires more than 4 years of my life, so now I am working on another game. You already know that #gamedev #UnrealEngine #indiedev

Monday. Before sitting down at Unreal Engine, I decided to write this while drinking my morning coffee. The feeling of having done something #gamedev and showing it to others #indiedev, especially for the first time, ... 1/3

You won't believe what I started doing :) Gameplay with a terminal. I based it on the one I used thousands of times in Fallout 76, 4, 3 and New Vegas, because I think it's the perfect simple solution. There's nothing here yet, even what you see is a draft and without effects

Last year I created this gameplay for about a month and a half. I set myself many tasks in Unreal Engine related to creating the landscape. This was my first landscape and rover. I learned a lot and put this gameplay on pause. Hopefully next year I'll get back to rover. #scifi #gamedev #games

It's real to make a glow Skittles in Unreal Engine. This is how I try to de-stress after a night. My relaxation is #gamedev #UnrealEngine

The night was scary, anyone from Kyiv knows. Explosions, rockets and drones that sound like they were specially made to be heard and everyone was afraid, like during WWII. But we are strong. I didn't sleep much, remembered what I wanted to do and added a camera shake when entering the anomalous zone

Smoke on the Water #UnrealEngine #indiedev #gamedev

Imagine a strategy video game where when you enter another country's zone with a fighter jet or launch drones, you receive a message from the government NPCs that they don't see it or consider it a mistake and won't do anything. WAT?