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C++ Unreal Developer making Games + Plugins
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Helm Boy @helmboy.bsky.social · Aug 12
3 major updates to Sweep City! ✨ True spline meshes, proper road generation, and GPU optimization🧹
Have a read of the full update for the breakdown

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Sweep City Development Update 4 | Helm Boy
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helmboy.bsky.social
Had an idea on a cleaning/power wash system that was surprisingly simple and works quite well for how quick it was to make.
Power Washing in Sweep City Maybe?🤔
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October 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
helmboy.bsky.social
Chunk Stream plugin is now on FAB. This plugin is purpose built to download and stream data to storage, removing any download size limits in Unreal. Dosnt fill up your device RAM either!

www.fab.com/listings/334...
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Chunk Stream
🚀 True Chunk-Based File Downloading for Unreal EngineDownload large files at runtime without running out of memory! Chunk Stream writes data directly to disk as it arrives, making it perfect for downl...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Quantum Sleeper is on 20% off on Steam autumn sale!
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Save 20% on Quantum Sleeper on Steam
Research Facility G-1-6 has gone dark. Your mission: reestablish contact and investigate the communication blackout. Equipped with AEGIS-scanner and a flashlight, uncover what is really going on here.
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September 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM
helmboy.bsky.social
Experimenting with some GPU instancing in Unreal, ended up with a nice Dyson Swarm
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September 21, 2025 at 3:58 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
3 major updates to Sweep City! ✨ True spline meshes, proper road generation, and GPU optimization🧹
Have a read of the full update for the breakdown

www.patreon.com/posts/sweep-...

#UnrealEngine #IndieGameDev #GameDev #IndieDev
Sweep City Development Update 4 | Helm Boy
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August 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
The dreaded road generation I kept putting off...
A lot of boring math later...
Solved the intersections with a generated polygon between the 2 roads, look at those clean lines.
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August 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
helmboy.bsky.social
guess its time to use linux, sick of #microsoft bricking my drivers with steal updates while im working
August 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Been building a tool for Sweep City for true spline meshes that can repeat and deform the mesh in the spline while resulting in only 1 draw call, not hundreds of components+draws like the standard method.
Super useful in level design!
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August 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Trying out some lite cel shading for Sweep City, how do you think it fits the theme and mood?
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July 30, 2025 at 4:33 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
PSA: Beware Unreals Spline system, it doesn't covert tangents to the requested coordinate space, if your using their tangents and not getting a expect result you have to convert them yourself
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July 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Error the task completed successfully...

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June 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
helmboy.bsky.social
Turns out spinning is a good trick, new turn table to unload your trash.
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June 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Think i flicked too hard..
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June 9, 2025 at 4:12 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Big Development update for Sweep City, Custom colors ✅ Depot redesign ✅ Wide sweep upgrade ✅
Steam demo is also live now! for Next Fest
Full breakdown:

www.patreon.com/posts/sweep-...

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Sweep City Development Update 3 | Helm Boy
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June 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Added sweep head colors customizable separately from the body
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May 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
First pass of Sweeper color customization is working nicely
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May 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
helmboy.bsky.social
POV: You just unlocked the Ben Swolo upgrade for your street sweeper 💪
New wide sweep attachment hits different when you're built different 🧹✨
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May 18, 2025 at 3:18 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Finally got SVO controlled LIDAR points working, plugged it into Quantum sleepers system rather easily now it has indefinite living points that can be moved.What a nightmare to make a simple instance quad draw in unreal,unity is 60lines, 800+ W/unreal

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April 15, 2025 at 6:13 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
The wonders of #unrealEngine ... change a line in a shader, now wait half a day to recompile every permutation
April 7, 2025 at 7:22 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Thanks @landfall.se Now im addicted to Haste
April 3, 2025 at 12:33 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
We got curb generation going, now to take out the trash on it
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April 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Starsector 0.98a is out! Fight new enemies, acquire new ships and weapons, and much more, featuring new story missions, autosave, a revamped combat simulator and Codex, and other UI improvements!

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March 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
helmboy.bsky.social
First patch for Sweep City is up

store.steampowered.com/news/app/350...
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Sweep City Playtest - Update 1 - Steam News
Thank you to all who have played so far. We've received some great feedback and implemented several changes in this build: Added feedback link buttons to menu Implemented storage capacity for the Swee...
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March 26, 2025 at 4:44 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Alright hear me out.... prototype idea for storage capacity display
Bit of Noita inspiration

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March 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Sweep City Development Update 2 is up
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Sweep City Development Update 2 | Helm Boy
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March 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM