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Alan
@alanteachesthings.bsky.social
Educator & Game Designer with crippling ADHD.

Follow me for insightful takes, terrible jokes and occasional rants into the aether.
Weird #UnrealEngine / @unrealengine.bsky.social #GameDev #Programming quirk that I kinda need to understand ...

If I "Get All Actors of Class" after loading a streaming level, then it takes around 1s *after* OnLevelLoaded before the objects in the new level register.

Anyone know what's up?
October 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Weird, dumb little "I wonder if ..." experiment in @unrealengine.bsky.social.

Yes, you can isolate the top vertices of a cylinder and rotate them relative to the world rotation of the cylinder for a very cheap fake water level!

Not sure why you'd ever do this but hey - it can be done!

#gamedev
September 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Dusted off an old idea and rebuilt my @unrealengine.bsky.social prototype from scratch, with a few new additions under the hood ...
#gamedesign #gamedev
September 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Contemplating a new #UnrealEngine #GameDesign / #GameDev tutorial, teaching how to use the Physics Constraint/Physics Asset by making a Hot Dog.

Not sure if I'll be going to hell for using this as the opening sequence.
August 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I swear I've been achieving things in my ACTUAL job the past week ... but I've also been making Otters hold hands in space!

<3

Not sure where I'm headed with this, open to suggestions and ideas ...

#gamedev #gamedesign #UnrealEngine #cuteanimals
August 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I've really needed to cheer myself up recently, so to kill some time in between work tasks I started working on something I call "Otter Reaches"

#GameDev #GameDesign #UnrealEngine
August 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Anyone got any clue what's happening here with this #UnrealEngine setup?

Somehow I've managed to get it so the mesh is slightly offset from the collision, which is really weird ...
July 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Noodling on an old idea ... it's a bit glitchy but it's a lot better than it was the last time I built it, so I assume the next time I build it it'll be amazing ...

#UnrealEngine #GeometryScript #GameDev #GameDesign
June 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM