New week and now the question arises: starting another #Anno1800 round before the sequel or going full on #Gamedev and work on #Odium?
Little more then a month left until i need to be off for while.
Decisions decisions…

Playing Avowed kept me from opening #UnrealEngine Editor for more then a week (nearly two). And I don't regret it!
Developing Games is one of the best Hobby, playing exceptional games is another one.

Only downside are the performance issues. Manageable but still annoying

* = not because it took me to long, but bad time management and a broken PC came in the way

Finally* finished #Avowed. It was a blast. The Story was great, I didn't expected nothing less from @obsidian.net And the Living lands looked so beautiful. And the fighting with its flexibility made so much fun. Spellcasting Rogue Fighter FTW!

Can't wait for the next Adventure in Eora

That looks impressive. Great job.

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
Would really be interested in fiction where a devil uses GenAI to create a cult.
When became reality so fictional?
Neuromancer will be a happy bedtime story in the future. And Cyberpunk2077 a cozy game.

When I created the first cutscene for #Odium I only moved a camera, try to mimic head movement and avoid looking at angles where a body should be. Now working on the second one I animate a #Metahuman Due to First person still have a lot of possibilities to cut corners.
Looking forward to share

When I opened the main project again I had news aspects and could finally solve the issue.
I know this probably won’t help you that much.
Sorry. I wish zoo all the best and hopefully see some of you updates.

For this I take a break, best at every major accomplishment or roadblock (disclaimer I don’t develop games as my main profession.)
I had this huge GC bug right when I wanted to release the first level. Had to take nearly a month of not working on the game. Experimented a little bit somewhere else.

Thank you.
This also is kind of a motivation. Sometimes you have to trick your self.

I feel you. There were so many times I fell into total despair. Working on the same project now for over a year now. The good thing as solo dev is, the project itself has a lot of different aspects so I get my fix of new stuff. But every time I need to polish smth, it feels like an agonising chore

Es braucht in Deutschland Schutz für Frauen vor ekeligen Schmier und Diffarmierungskampagnen.

Wenn nicht einmal eine Juristin eine Möglichkeit hat sich zu wehren, wie soll das sonst irgendwer können?

Main routes are established for the second level of #Odium. Even though there is a lot of stuff missing it is time to play test. And I hate it. Testing my own games is just a date with imposter syndrome and regretting what I did in the past.
#SoloDev
#GameDev
Found first nullptr in under 30 min #UE5

Screenshot of the Game Odium: a small water stream runs trough some rocks, beside a forest ground. In a little distance is a pole decorated with a skeleton, also a Human Skeleton with some fire in it lies on the ground beside it

Screenshot of the Game Odium: You see the Dreamer Metahuman, She looks at a heavy fog cloud.

Screenshot of the Game Odium: The Dreamer Metahuman looks at some rocks. She stands between some tombstones and Trees

Screenshot of the Game Odium: A Dungeon with some red fog in the distance.

If you are to lazy to read the #Devlog here are some Screenshots for #ScreenshotSaturday

What ever I estimate, I should double it “I built a maze and be done with it” only a maze felt way to easy to solve. So I implemented some riddles similar to the first level. this increased the work exponential. The open space of the For...

What ever I estimate, I should double it - #Odium d3f4c3r.itch.io/odium/devlog...

Still working hard on the second Level. #ADHD doesn't help a lot. Find a lot of rabbit holes to lose track.
2.5 out of 4 routes are now done. Takes waaaaay longer then anticipated.

#SoloDev
#GameDev
#UnrealEngine

either the last one or the one before. There is also a third Person shooter, which gives a nice insight into AI Controller. So much fun stuff.

All the best. Have fun developing.
I use the Dungeon Crawler as Base Concept for my game I'm developing right now.

This blueprint reminds me also of my first game I made in Unreal. I watched/followed a tutorial from @gamedevtv.bsky.social helped me a lot and gave me a strong foundation to develop myself further.

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Sign it and share it!
#stopkilinggames #webDev #indiegame #indiedev #web3 #buildinpublic #AI #gamedev

Many thanks
To be honest, after I forced me to work on it the hate became a little less severe. Still, animations are something which have to be perfect. Not much wiggle room.

Created my first animation in #UnrealEngine5
Nothing special, but I’m proud of it.
It also showed me, some errors in my #Metahuman
Somehow, the Mesh it is retargeted to is approx 10cm taller. Now it has a z-scale of 0.9 while the body 1.1 due to being a child.
#Gamedev
#IndiDev

Citizens' initiative from "Stop Killing Games" threatens to fail EU citizens only have until the end of July 2025 to sign a petition to ban the shutdown of games.

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✒️You can sign the initiative here: citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/...

@stopkillinggames.bsky.social

European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

Passed 600k. Over 100k new signatures in less than a week. This is very much doable! Don't stop now! #StopKillingGames

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Again, dipped my feet into animations in #UnrealEngine5 same as the last times… I hate it. I learned so many different aspects of the engine, but animation is something which brings me to desperation.

Not something we normally post about, but as game devs - we are all about people getting to preserve and play our games.

So please, if you're a EU or UK citizen, sign this petition. Otherwise signal boost it for your Europe friends.
www.stopkillinggames.com #gamedev #fangame #videogame

Garbage Collection in Unreal Engine was one of my hardest boss battle for the initial reales of #Odium. Really curious about the presentation.

YouTube video by d3f4c3r Odium Level Design Time Lapse - How a challenge is designed in Unreal Engine 5

I created a small time lapse video which shows the work I did: youtu.be/D_Evh0mWKFM

Screenshot of Odium in Unreal Engine Editor. Unusual for the Game you see the dreamer from behind. She stands in front of some vines, which blocks her way. behind the vines you can see a building and some torches on Stone Pillars. The Building is below the Dreamer

Finally got some drive back to work on #Odium. Last couple of weeks wasn't really as planned, but the Forest starts to become the hellish environment it is meant to be. #ADHD be like work on everything a little bit. At least one ending riddle is finished.

#UnrealEngine
#GameDev
#ScreenshotSaturday

Avowed and Split Fiction are equally great. Looking forward to play South of Midnight.

For basic boilerplating it can be a timesaver but if you write something which isn’t written a hundred times, it can suck pretty fast.