stevie (she/her)

A screenshot of a work in progress UE5 game showing a 90s desk and a beige crt terminal with moody lighting.

It's not Saturday, but I'm trying. Here's a little "beauty lighting" I've been experimenting with on the terminal. A nice little bloom there giving it a bit of nostalgic glow.

Btw, this is the first screenshot since I switched to Forward+!

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what the heck, everything in this clip looks incredible!!

These drawings are gorgeous!

I know!! I've noticed people react really strangely to you featuring them in a feed that has 300+ followers!

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I forgot that you can see the current game time in the top left of the screenshot even!

A screenshot of Project Data Mind from in Unreal Engine. It shows a mockup level with a placeholder gray grid material on all the 3D objects. In the foreground is a cabinet of input decks on a shelf against the wall, beyond it is a switch with screens above it, and further beyond that is some large open windows with yellow light coming out of them. In the background the hallway curves out of sight and some small ceiling lights illuminate the dark part of the hallway.

This week I made a time manager! It's cool for coding reasons, but it also inspired me to add some details to the input decks. The screens, bars, & locks will all animate in conjunction with the larger system!

These decks are inspired by AV equipment racks!

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Ohhh interesting. I'd expect a tone a bit more formal, perhaps even a bit stuffy or antiquated. It almost makes me think of a rich non-adventuring wealthy author writing about their disconnected notion of what a traveling adventurer might experience.

Thank you soo much! That's just what I was aiming for (in a kind of NASA photography way)

Awh thanks, Sylar! It means a lot coming from someone whose WIP is breathtaking 😍 I can't wait to eventually make mine aesthetic, too!

A screenshot of a graybox room with a placeholder grid material. It is shaped like some sort of living room with a big widow showing outer space outside. The dev left several lines of debug text on screen in the top left corner.

There's not much to see in project data mind yet, but the starbox is one thing worth sharing. (However, everything you see is subject to change!) Consider this my first (and belated) #screenshotsaturday

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😍😍😍 Unfortunately I love the outcome, so you wont hear me discouraging the practice.

"I have to make things easy for myself, but I'm constantly making design decisions that complicate it!" I need this printed on a shirt with a big "guilty" stamp. If I find anything (other than long term mindfulness) that helps, I promise to share it.

I hope you get to realize your idea, I'm obsessed and I'd definitely enjoy playing an overnight mall game.

My problem is I'm a sucker for the punishment and what I enjoy is the racks and racks of unique plausible looking packaged products in different shapes and sizes. (Just like those amazing items you designed in the vending machine!)

I relate to this on the 2D art side. One painting takes easily 40-50 hours, depending on the content. I wonder if to make a mall there are some procedural tricks one could use to recombine some mesh or texture elements.

Also, I think all the logos were so worth it. I often want to make mall or shop scenes, and I think the visual noise of products adds a certain pleasing aesthetic to those sorts of scenes.

Your work is so gorgeous. Not just this one, but all the pixel 3d models you've shared. So glad I stumbled across you!!

This is awesome! I'm always searching for fellow UE devs! I'm building in UE5 myself, but I haven't started posting about it much here yet. If you'll have me, I'd love to join!

UGH this turned out sooo good!!!!!

Yours when?

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A black background with 12 pie slices of art arranged in a circle. Each slice has a thumbnail of original art starting from red at the top and following the rainbow around until it returns to red. In the center it says "stevieraedrawn" with a logo and #The_Color_Wheel

What I've learned today is that I've failed one of the best colors: warm green. I'm really looking forward to experimenting in that range.

Template linked in the replies!
#the_color_wheel

This visual roadmap that @pebloop.dev made has been on my mind for the past two days. It's a great tool for sharing with the public, but doubles as an accountability tool.

Do any of you other solo devs out there have roadmaps like this that you share publicly?

Yeah completely! And the most enthralling part of concept art for me is the actually thought process behind it. Coming from a place of curiousity and with a bit of a spark!

This this this!!

Game making is the yes where novel writing was the thing I thought I wanted.

I relate to this so much. In fact, learning Unreal and coding has been so healing for me, an artist who definitely struggled(s) with perfectionism.