The Psychopomp GameDev

I am primarily a programmer by trade, but have gotten decent at 3D modeling as well. VFX is a bit of a new frontier for me, so all fundamentals are good for how to build into bigger and better VFX.

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Subscribed! Looks great and looking forward to the channel's future! Thanks!

Are you doing the Raytracing Challenge? Or something different?

Heyy! Yes, else Heart.Break() was the first game to make me think about getting into gamedev, and it's a hobby I've had now for years. Thank you!

I'll do this I suppose, as a way of getting back into BlueSky after moving!

The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you.
One game per day, for 20 days.

#GameChallenge
#Games
#GameDev
#PromoSky

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Day 1: Else Heart.Break() by @eriksvedang.com

(and EpicGames.UHT/Exporters/CodeGen)

UhtPropertyParser.cs holds the secret btw

Today someone asked me how UPROPERTY in #UnrealEngine worked. I was like "How hard could it be to go find the macro" -- but the macro is just ... in C++, it's ignored. Then I ended up in the C# UBT plugins and code generation. What a ride! That's a wild toolchain but was also a very interesting trip

I am back from Las Vegas! I had to take a break from gamedev because of my job. I lost $40 to a slot machine. Can't afford rent anymore. #indie #gamedev #UnrealEngine

@unrealdev.bsky.social thanks for bringing up StateTrees! I gave them a test run last night and this morning and they are great. When I was working in Unity I had a nice state machine I'd written, and this totally takes the place of that. I haven't tried replacing my enemy BT with it yet, but I will

Was a great game! I worked on SWGEmu and SWG:R some but just not the same :( Definitely a game worth taking some RPG inspiration from though!

Former Star Wars Galaxies player spotted? :P

StateTrees are probably actually ideal for what I'm doing :) I will try it both ways.

Right now I am doing what would be an "old" approach--state machine, BT, BB, EQS, etc. I have not used StateTrees yet but I will check them out! The Learning Agents I probably don't have a great use-case for at the moment. In my horror game, the AI only needs to be good at looking around and chase.

Finnish Cottage 8 is in #SteamNextFest Feb (only 4 more days!)
If you're looking for a new indie horror game, you can already try our free demo now on Steam: https://buff.ly/40LYtTX
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Hello #FollowFriday! I am the developer (pro SWE) portion of a 2-person team called Autumn Court Games! We are currently working on a first-person horror game, and then on to an RPG. Everything we do is #MadeWithUnreal #UnrealEngine #UE5 -- I also plan to make courses, publish assets, and do YT.

Just starting on implementing AI in #UnrealEngine. In the finished game, escape will not be possible via just hopping off the level, but here extreme measures were necessary. #indie #gamedev #MadeWithUnreal On a later title, I plan to write a GOAP system, but [sadly] not necessary for this title.

When #Unity3d laid off their Behavior team, I almost just took 2-3 days to write my own BT implementation and carry on instead of hopping back over to #UnrealEngine. I'm very glad I didn't! Unreal has so much on top of its BTs like EQS, the Gameplay Debugger, it's absolutely amazing. #gamedev

I see you have made a bunch of levels in a bunch of different styles. Are you generally building an LD portfolio, or are all of these going into the same project? They all look really great :) Just curious as to how they connect lol

I like! More realistic as well to just slap the bolt while not moving from scope.

Blueprint Assist FeaturesFor a full overview of features, please have a look at this page on the wiki which contains animated gifs for each feature of the pluginNode formatting: When a user places a node on the graph,...

Hey guys! Blueprint Assist is on sale. It'll help you format your blueprints and in general work faster. Give it a try!

#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev

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Also I will still have videos coming out, they will just focus on code architecture from the perspective of Unreal now instead of Unity.

Spoiler alert, I went a little radio silent because I've switched back to #UE5 #UnrealEngine. TIL how to use the C++ testing framework and the Testing Automation with BP to test gameplay behaviors. Absolutely incredible for making sure my #gamedev works as expected. Way too much to playtest alone.

In case you wanted to immerse yourself in Jurassic Park. Looks dino-spooky :)

I use Miro for roadmapping, mindmapping, and task planning. Miro is an awesome tool and you get 3 boards for free which is more than enough to plan out several games.

So I've been starting from scratch in #Unity3d (from UE5). I'm making a player controller, a state machine that auto-loads states you make, and an ability system that handles actions, abilities, and traits/stats/perks. All of it follows good SOLID principles. Would this make a good edu vid? #gamedev

I am aware of things like Odin, but being this project is fairly small and we do not yet generate revenue as a studio, I opted against.

I suppose as good a first post on BlueSky as any: I wanted to do my stats as ScriptableObjects in Autumn Court's first game... I have a tendency of keeping everything in code where my girlfriend can't get at it. Slowly building tools that allow her as a fellow designer to participate.