Daniel

I'm doing a contest! First person to get all 4 achievments in a single session (with video proof because you can use external tools to unlock them) wins USD$50 (via PayPal or Ko-Fi). First person to reply on this post with their video wins! #indiegame #gamedev #darkrooms

DEMO IS OUT RIGHT NOW!!!! darkroomsgame.com #gamedev #indiegame #darkrooms #demo

INFLUX REDUX IS 50% OFF IN THE STEAM SALE and it is never going to be CHEAPER THAN THAT so you would be a FOOL not to buy it NOW store.steampowered.com/app/867150/I...

Going to GDC next week, if anyone wants to meet for whatever reason, hit me up! I am mostly interested in Unreal, PCG, Optimization, maybe some Graphics Programming. Also generally I just like making games, I love to hear any development stories.

Spring is just around the corner.

long shot but, if @teamcherry.bsky.social ever needed a freelance tech artist I would absolutely love to work on almost anything shader/rendering/art related in their games

beautiful

Hey! New article! This one's about the history of first person shooters, what makes 'em work, and why I like the shooters I like. It's also me lamenting how they've died, and talking a bit about why I want to go ahead and make one. docseuss.medium.com/first-person...

Unreal 5 CVar tip: Slate.GameLayer.PlayerCanvasVisible Slate.GameLayer.ViewportSlotVisible Slate.GameLayer.DebugCanvasVisible Slate.GameLayer.AllCanvasesVisible These let you easily hide all/some of the UI, for a photomode, getting trailer shots, or whatever else you want!

Made a start on a sequel to the first game I've ever made before I was a professional. Now i have the skills to do it in 3D and with multiplayer:

Hello everyone! It's been a while. :) We would like to thank Time Extension for their recent article highlighting the current financial state of the GPS. We would like to expand on it somewhat and respond to some of the comments left by readers. www.timeextension.com/features/we-...

Just one of our three cats enjoying the sun.

A day late but there's still tons of info being shared at REAC 25 today, not too late to register! enginearchitecture.org/2025.htm

In Unreal you can make specific nodes Development only with hotkeys. Go into your editor preferences and search for Nodes. You'll see entries for Enable Nodes (Always) and Enable Nodes (Development). I've set them to ctrl alt A and ctrl alt D. Enjoy! ✨ #Unreal #Blueprint

Tiny little shader thing: if you want to add components of a vector together, you can just dot product it with a vector of all 1's. Not always faster or slower, but especially in shader/material graphs I feel it looks better.

No Meta, I don't want to talk to your AI in my messaging app.

Absolutely massive collection of #unrealengine links by the #ue5study group, for everything from BP, Animation, Materials, UMG & C++, to publishing plugins on the Marketplace. It's in Japanese but there's an "EN" button at the top, if your browser doesn't auto-translate it. ue5study.com

if you see this quote with a photo of a bridge from your gallery

I see a ton of forums with "optimized settings" for Unreal games, and one is the r.fastvram.* settings being set to 1. This will not help. It's a console variable meant for Xbox One originally. With its tiny (fast) ESRAM of 32MB. You can assign a texture to go in there if the GPU needs it a lot.

There is no "Unreal Engine" starter pack to follow. So im creating one here: go.bsky.app/S3U5wKj If you have any Unreal Engine skills, reply if you want to be added. Repost if you can so other people can be aware too. #UE5 #UnrealEngine5 #UnrealEngine #Gamedev #Indiedev

Big bunch of hopefully helpful info I wrote down for Unreal Devs that have gotten started but aren't sure yet what settings and workflows are optimal: www.torkar.studio/blog/unreal-...