Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦
@alienmax.bsky.social
Game developer from Ukraine, now working on Sci-Fi (Unreal Engine 5), before created Erra: Exordium (Unity) + porting to PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch
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I slept very little today, I'm working on a bunch of different Unreal Engine materials. The main task for the next days is to make an Sci-Fi HUD, I'm trying to do something I haven't done before, but I realized that I need a scanner based on a decal #scifi #games #gamedev
December 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
A new day, a new exercise with Unreal Engine materials to be smarter. I call it "block" one of the UV thanks to nodes ScreenPosition * ScreenResolution. Random node this is my function, what I did in previous examples
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #uetips #indiedev #shader
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #uetips #indiedev #shader
December 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
How to create a path gradient along a spline in Gimp? I'm not an artist, I'm a programmer, but sometimes I like to create test textures for experiments in Unreal Engine. When I was looking for how to do it, I couldn't find any video examples, so I decided to show how to do it #gamedev #gimp
December 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I thought you could guess. I've shown this material before, maybe a few times, and this is where the demonstration of what is the basis for moving from 1 to 0, or 0 to 1. So here's how you create a cube with moving pixel by path
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev
December 24, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I thought you could guess. I've shown this material before, maybe a few times, and this is where the demonstration of what is the basis for moving from 1 to 0, or 0 to 1. So here's how you create a cube with moving pixel by path
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev
I decided to complicate the task, create another version of the Unreal Engine material that will process one texture that has 3 paths. I created a small 256х256 pixel texture in Gimp, so the quality was affected. Anyway, it's brilliant and fantastic
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev #shader
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev #shader
December 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I decided to complicate the task, create another version of the Unreal Engine material that will process one texture that has 3 paths. I created a small 256х256 pixel texture in Gimp, so the quality was affected. Anyway, it's brilliant and fantastic
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev #shader
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev #shader
If you've seen my mysterious swarm, you haven't seen this state yet. What happens if you try to hit it with energy? Yes, I've created another effect, the loss of the swarm's integrity and its restoration. Fantastic? Did the survivors have this opportunity in the Lost series?
#indiegame #scifi
#indiegame #scifi
December 23, 2025 at 6:22 AM
If you've seen my mysterious swarm, you haven't seen this state yet. What happens if you try to hit it with energy? Yes, I've created another effect, the loss of the swarm's integrity and its restoration. Fantastic? Did the survivors have this opportunity in the Lost series?
#indiegame #scifi
#indiegame #scifi
How change the weight of materials in the camera or the post process volume in Unreal Engine at runtime? I couldn't find a simple solution, so I decided to share mine. I don't want to use components, I want to have the materials in one place
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #uetips #indiedev
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #uetips #indiedev
December 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
How change the weight of materials in the camera or the post process volume in Unreal Engine at runtime? I couldn't find a simple solution, so I decided to share mine. I don't want to use components, I want to have the materials in one place
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #uetips #indiedev
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #uetips #indiedev
A little gameplay with a mysterious swarm! Now it has different states, such as birth, movement along splines, and reaction to some objects. Does it have intelligence? Maybe over time. I have big plans for him, this entity will give the player surprises in different ways.
December 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A little gameplay with a mysterious swarm! Now it has different states, such as birth, movement along splines, and reaction to some objects. Does it have intelligence? Maybe over time. I have big plans for him, this entity will give the player surprises in different ways.
I called this Unreal Engine material "Simple liquid for the bottle". What is simplicity or better to say optimization? This is not transparency, this is a mask and an example of using DitherTemporalAA
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #uetips #indiedev
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #uetips #indiedev
December 22, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I called this Unreal Engine material "Simple liquid for the bottle". What is simplicity or better to say optimization? This is not transparency, this is a mask and an example of using DitherTemporalAA
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #uetips #indiedev
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #uetips #indiedev
I can't stop experimenting with this approach to creating texture-based motion, here's another Unreal Engine material I created. I want to animate a lot of technology in my sci-fi game environment now (I don't know if this is a joke or not)
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev #vfx #scifi
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev #vfx #scifi
December 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I finally did what I imagined. Post-processing material that the player will see when they enter the field of the mystical swarm. I love glitch effects, but I wanted to do something strange, a combination between underwater and electronic
#scifi #gaming #puzzle #videogame #indiegame
#scifi #gaming #puzzle #videogame #indiegame
December 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I finally did what I imagined. Post-processing material that the player will see when they enter the field of the mystical swarm. I love glitch effects, but I wanted to do something strange, a combination between underwater and electronic
#scifi #gaming #puzzle #videogame #indiegame
#scifi #gaming #puzzle #videogame #indiegame
I finally learned something in the image editor, and created a test texture for which I created a material in Unreal Engine, and this is what came out of it. I hope there will be many reposts and I will show the code. Because M - motivation
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #uetips #indiedev #shader
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #uetips #indiedev #shader
December 21, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Vignette or old TV in Material, Unreal Engine. You can do even more such variations and not just by swapping nodes because it's mathematics (like the last 2). But even this will be enough #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev
December 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Vignette or old TV in Material, Unreal Engine. You can do even more such variations and not just by swapping nodes because it's mathematics (like the last 2). But even this will be enough #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev
Good morning Material! My Saturday morning with Unreal Engine and coffee is a Step towards a successful working day, even though I didn't sleep all night. Step, do you understand? This is such a joke #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #indiedev
December 20, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Good morning Material! My Saturday morning with Unreal Engine and coffee is a Step towards a successful working day, even though I didn't sleep all night. Step, do you understand? This is such a joke #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #indiedev
This is one of the Unreal Engine materials I made, I'm trying to come up with a post-processing as a reaction to a collision in a mystical swarm, when the main character (robot) gets into the swarm field and what the player will see. Keep your distance, android! #scifi #videogame
December 19, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This is one of the Unreal Engine materials I made, I'm trying to come up with a post-processing as a reaction to a collision in a mystical swarm, when the main character (robot) gets into the swarm field and what the player will see. Keep your distance, android! #scifi #videogame
Friday's Unreal Engine. Here is an example of a random number and the basis for the function random grid, custom node and PseudoRandom(); #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #uetips #indiedev
December 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Friday's Unreal Engine. Here is an example of a random number and the basis for the function random grid, custom node and PseudoRandom(); #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #uetips #indiedev
Thursday game dev, a moment of learning, because not everything has to be funny. Unreal Engine material, 4 nodes = 100500 variations (just kidding): Dot -> Sine -> * -> Frac
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #uetips #indiedev
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #uetips #indiedev
December 18, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Thursday game dev, a moment of learning, because not everything has to be funny. Unreal Engine material, 4 nodes = 100500 variations (just kidding): Dot -> Sine -> * -> Frac
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #uetips #indiedev
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #uetips #indiedev
Now my mystical character has smooth movements and jumps to pick up an object that protagonist can also interact with. I think if an astronaut sees this in the porthole, NASA will say that he has glitches and needs to drink a sedative, it's all imagination and cosmic paranoia
December 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Now my mystical character has smooth movements and jumps to pick up an object that protagonist can also interact with. I think if an astronaut sees this in the porthole, NASA will say that he has glitches and needs to drink a sedative, it's all imagination and cosmic paranoia
Kate Bush, Tina Turner, Cher, Billie Holiday, Sade, Alannah Myles, NINA, Yota... This is my tonight music playlist. Am I old? And yes, these are all female voices, beautiful and wonderful. Lately, I've been ignoring my gender. An introvert who only wants to hear from women
December 17, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Kate Bush, Tina Turner, Cher, Billie Holiday, Sade, Alannah Myles, NINA, Yota... This is my tonight music playlist. Am I old? And yes, these are all female voices, beautiful and wonderful. Lately, I've been ignoring my gender. An introvert who only wants to hear from women
4 am, it's dark and foggy outside, quiet because everyone around is sleeping. My mode is to work with Unreal Engine when there is electricity, on-off schedule is different everyday. I feel like in the old days, when the night was perfect for programming
December 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
4 am, it's dark and foggy outside, quiet because everyone around is sleeping. My mode is to work with Unreal Engine when there is electricity, on-off schedule is different everyday. I feel like in the old days, when the night was perfect for programming
Night Unreal Engine. I spent half of night experimenting with Niagara, trying to find something visually unusual that would look like a flow vibration of energy from a swarm... this is the first prototype
#scifi #UnrealEngine #gamedev #indiedev #vfx
#scifi #UnrealEngine #gamedev #indiedev #vfx
December 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Night Unreal Engine. I spent half of night experimenting with Niagara, trying to find something visually unusual that would look like a flow vibration of energy from a swarm... this is the first prototype
#scifi #UnrealEngine #gamedev #indiedev #vfx
#scifi #UnrealEngine #gamedev #indiedev #vfx
I worked on a fantastic prototype over the weekend. I'll show you just a small part of it - mysterious swarm will have a lot of mechanics, I want to use it to raise the level of gameplay, make it more dynamic #gaming #scifi #UnrealEngine #gamedev #indiedev
December 16, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I worked on a fantastic prototype over the weekend. I'll show you just a small part of it - mysterious swarm will have a lot of mechanics, I want to use it to raise the level of gameplay, make it more dynamic #gaming #scifi #UnrealEngine #gamedev #indiedev
I need to make particles that stick to walls. So, Niagara is easy peasy lemon squeezy. GPU Collision, when there is a HasCollided, you can use this parameter for Gravity Force or Scale Velocity. Green - stick, yellow - slips, lilac is bouncing
#UnrealEngine #gamedev #UE5 #vfx #indiedev
#UnrealEngine #gamedev #UE5 #vfx #indiedev
December 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I need to make particles that stick to walls. So, Niagara is easy peasy lemon squeezy. GPU Collision, when there is a HasCollided, you can use this parameter for Gravity Force or Scale Velocity. Green - stick, yellow - slips, lilac is bouncing
#UnrealEngine #gamedev #UE5 #vfx #indiedev
#UnrealEngine #gamedev #UE5 #vfx #indiedev
I love corn. Saw it in Fallout 76 (which I also love), lots of skeletons with cameras, people taking pictures there, big corn and now I want to take pictures there as a player. Cool example of level design #fallout76 #gamedev
December 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I love corn. Saw it in Fallout 76 (which I also love), lots of skeletons with cameras, people taking pictures there, big corn and now I want to take pictures there as a player. Cool example of level design #fallout76 #gamedev