Noticed this while watching footage of builder games,Its a bit sad to see tbh If you spend 2-3 years making a game, its sad to see it come out the other end unrecognizable because you made a decision to use marketplace assets. Better to downscope art into something more managable imo! #Gamedev

I dont know whats going on with Starsand Island, but the gamepass early access version is buggy. Playing on Ultra & they completely butchered the EA version to make it run well? They also just deleted collision for a bunch of assets. O_o I'm so confused #StarsandIsland

Having played a bunch of the Nioh 3 Demo I can say that Yes I like the game & Yes its probably one of the worst optimized games out there. What you pay vs what you get in terms of graphics fidelity is not really worth it. Good game though, its just a sad state of things.

Alright, another Unreal Engine (5.6) Heads Up for people using Lumen + Non-Nanite Meshes + Packed Level Actors. It appears that surface caches doesn't properly get forwarded/generated for packed level actors BPs with HISMs inside. tinyurl.com/yus8cctx #UnrealEngine #UE5

Looking back at Borderlands 4, I'm not sure I quite like the specular response they have on the landscapes & materials. The game just kinda ends up looking wrong to me. Especially in comparison to BL3. BL3 had a nice matte look to it, made it look painterly. Maybe Im just picky 😆 #GameDev #Gaming

Had another one of these Win 11 BS things in Unreal. This time in the editor instead of a game. After the PC has been running a while (days + sleepmode), performance degrades, you get stutters even in Editor. A restart fixes it completely. #GameDev #UnrealEngine

Here is Lee Petty, having to deal with Unreal Engine shenanigans and just having to do this wait for computing references in a freakin 1h 45min breakdown vid haha. I love it , none shall escape the game engine quirks! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMa5... #UnrealEngine #UE5

One of my favorite things in the world is seeing people enjoying themselves quietly listening to music on the bus. Small movements, head bop etc. It's nice thing to see people enjoying life in small ways.

There is joy in creating something by yourself. Something worth remembering in these times especially for the ones that feel despair for the future. Just create anyways, for you, for joy. #craftmanship #gamedev #hobbies #creativity

The best weekend days are the ones where you can spend like 12-14h on your own personal project, whatever it may be. Just put on your favorite music albums and go for it all day.

Started playing Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden and my first reaction to the game after playing for like 20 mins or so, is damn, I really enjoy the voice-acting! #Banishers #Gaming

Been playing some open world games this year. Mostly mixed feelings, it feels like teams are scrambling to reach the expectations of the genre while games that have more focused experiences has excelled Favorite open worlds this year is probably: MH Wilds & Nightreign #GameDev

So I tested out Diversion for version control for my smaller projects. Its stupid easy to setup. www.diversion.dev , had version control setup in like less than 2 minutes. Both for my source-files and the project itself. Neat! #GameDev #GameDevelopment #VersionControl

Been playing Star Wars Outlaws and I'm pretty impressed with it. Especially since I worked at Ubisoft Massive for 10 years and know the tech it's cool to see it move in this direction. The quality of everything compared to say Division 1 is incredible. #Gamedev #SWOutlaws

I'm 50/50 when it comes to stepped-anim in games. I feel like having a choppy character & fluid everything else is weird. If I made a game like this I'd force usage static cameras + hand-animating everything with steps + moving objects on a grid with steps XD..team would hate me

With the drama in regards to retracted awards I do feel like the IGDA needs to have a more fleshed out AI Policy. Any award show should do their due diligence before handing out awards, handing the award to another after the fact just sours the experience for everybody =/ #GameDev

Had a a good evening hanging out & drinking beer with the She Was Such A Good Horse team. They are making store.steampowered.com/app/2024600/... , extremely artistic and cool game, from some awesome people. Honestly can't wait to play it! #GameDev #IntoTheUnwell

Man do I miss more focus on immersive gameplay in more modern titles. Games are just becoming more & more static. I understand that its a huge production cost but its a bit sad to see large productions barely even doing the minimum when it comes to world interaction.

I was up at midnight to early morning watching the Game Awards with some really cool people involved in the swedish gamedev scene. Had a great time! I really enjoy when we come together like that, up all night, celebrating the successes of our peers, lets do it again! #Gamedev

You know that moment, when you play the game you are making & even though its rough its starting to come together, it finally feels like a game. Its such a wonderful feeling, just some more content, more variation & maybe something magical with happen in the future. #Gamedev

www.patreon.com/posts/sprite... Decided to release this Sprite Outline Shader that was converted from a Unity tutorial for free on my patreon. No actual uassets, but images+comments for easy re-creation 2D Projects #gamedev #paperzd #paper2d #unrealengine

So I've been having lots of issues with stuttering in Oblivion Remastered. Turns out Resize Bar wasnt working even if toggled in BIOS. Flashed system bios and VGA BIOS for my MSI 3080. Framepacing is now smooth! #OblivionRemastered #PCGaming #PC

Let's give some appreciation for The Order 1886. It's 10 years old, hands down a lot more realistic & nicer looking than some modern titles. The care, effort, craftmanship put into the visuals is stunning even 10 years later. Thanks DF for the gifs ! Part 1

Considering how freakin well made #KingdomComeDeliverance2 is, maybe we should call these games Warhorse-likes instead of Bethesda-likes. I'm really loving the game, its so awesome. Spent all weekend playing from morning til evening. It was great & just what I needed!

Played some #EternalStrands , 2-3h. Not sure what to say about it to be honest, for some reason it reminds me of Fable but without the charm & mystique. Like...a light action rpg with some weird decisions regarding inventory management. Will keep playing & see what happens!

www.reddit.com/r/JustGuysBe... I think this is my new favorite video on the internet. Video games man. ❤️

So I've been doing some tests using CustomDepth to isolate a post process material to only affect certain characters (cel-shading). But me using CustomDepth also messes up Occlusion Culling for said characters (they dont), anybody got any tips to fix that? #UnrealEngine #UE5

youtu.be/OChjVLHlkVE They don't make em like they used to. These were some great times tbh, 2000s playing video-games (Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2), skateboarding, hanging out with your buddies. Ahh simpler times ^^

So, here it is! The cinematic is ready, I hope you will enjoy :) You can find more on my Artstation, come say hi! www.artstation.com/enrico_labar... #gameart #gamedev #indiedev #unrealengine #ue5 #videogames #digitalart #3d youtu.be/E2eBu85zotA?...

Man Stalker is a long game! Had a funny interaction with a door yesterday as well I was just so surprised how fast it was closing after you get out of its range. It basically slams itself shut and it surprised me XD #Stalker

Really been enjoying Stalker, it's nice to be plating a pretty straight forward game, it's too bad it has some perf issues and missing some AI feature but still though, I'm enjoying it :)

So I've been playing Stalker 2 saturday evening & all day sunday. It's definitely a stalker game which is awesome, the visuals are alright! though overall quite noisy, ie the art content itself. Some of the ground-clutter is just..ultra noise! Having fun though!

Spent 63h in Dragon Age, basically 100% the game. Its a 7/10 game & I don't really agree that its "back to form" for Bioware. It's an OK experience with some frustrating moments (mainly level design & progression) Character art was great and overall world art :) Now onto Stalker! Woop!

Watching the Half-Life 2 Documentary just really makes me realize just how much I miss the focus on physics interactions in games Right now its just all pretty rendering & very little interaction which is not really what games should be doing imo! Breaking crates isn't it xD

I think it's weird that #DragonAgeVeilguard sometimes don't provide all the different personality/attitude options in dialogues. Forcing your character into behaving in ways you don't want. Ie you cant have a stoic or tough character always behaving that way. The game doesn't let you.

I'm making a starter pack for game developers connected to the amazing community around Malmö, Southern Sweden and Game Habitat DevHub. It's still early so please comment if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/V44KH8b

I wrote this a while back.. actually it was quite a while back now. www.artstation.com/blogs/chrisr... It's a little guide on how to hide seams on Trees + Branches etc, providing 3 different solutions. Some more optimized than others :P #GameArt

The birds in Dragon Age are the stuff of nightmares xD #DragonAgeVeilguard

When I talk about visual inconsistency in Dragon Age I'm basically talking about this: If you look close at these images, nothing looks like it fits. Texel Density all over the place, noise-level all over the place, stylization, all over the place. Scanned wood create, next to hand-made table.

Dragon Age Veilguard definitely has some visual consistency issues art direction wise (previous posts) since some of the stuff comes from scans and some of it is hand-made. It kinda makes for a mixed-bag visually Here is an example of Megascan usage. #DragonAgeVeilguard #GameArt

This is a little bit funny too. Not sure why one would do that rather than just scale the mesh to a point or something. & also I'm sorry if I'm being overly negative about the game, its a good game its just not the quality I expected in many ways. #DragonAgeVeilguard

#DragonAgeVeilguard has some uneven art direction in some areas & I'm currently on the main path. The noise levels are crazy on some of these assets. Like this normal-noise placed on all the terrain & some of these rocks, contrasted against the cleaner marble. There must be a nicer middle-ground.

If you don't know me on here then Hi! I'm Chris! I'm the art co-founder of @bloomandgloom.bsky.social ! Industry veteran of 14+ years. I do everything environment art & tech art, I sometimes mentor professionally, stream on twitch and generally just live and breath game dev. linktr.ee/chrisradsby

You know in Mass Effect when you had off-time between missions you'd walk around the Normandy & actually have dialogues with your companions? Yeah Dragon Age doesn't have that. They just sit there sometimes talk to you & you dont respond. Makes the game feel a bit stiff =/

Whenever you have dialogues that isn't with forced set companions, the companions never really weigh in with their opinions or say anything when you have dialogues with other people. You just randomly get "this person approves" It's a bit weird tbh #DragonAgeVeilguard

This is such a time-capsule. "Remember what games looked like 8 years ago?" , post that is 10 years old. With a game that at glance just looks photo-realistic + has more physics interaction than most modern games. We are focusing on the wrong things in game dev ^^ #Gamedev #Gaming

I've really been enjoying Rivals of Aether 2, it's seriously a beautiful game, runs really well and is a great platform fighter. The movement is so smooth its crazy. Unlike the first game this one feels more like smash which is pretty cool! The VFX alone are worth the money lol! :D #ROA2

How #UE handles Lit Translucent Materials & their colors vs the Opaque/Masked counter-part is crazy. I don't even know what the hell to think and how anybody can do Vfx and color matching in these conditions! xD These are the same but left is masked, right is translucent.

I've been having fun just making a Stealth Archer prototype in the last few weeks. I usually do this stuff when I'm streaming though lately I've been easing off with game-dev and playing more games to balance my life out a bit! #UE5 #Gamedev #Indiedev

Thanks everybody for the new follows! I'm still very bad at actually remembering to post here. I'm still kinda stuck to twitter lol. but again thank you :)