How it feels using Unreal Engine sometimes 😞 #unrealengine #gamedev

Thats nuts i just found an embed bug on bluesky #qa

Despite best efforts level design is heavily undocumented and done less now than previously to the point where most people that would read this post think Unreal engine and Unity have built in level editors. The built in tools do not facilitate the needs of a level editor

Nearly done with RocketJump 1.0 just need to refactor the entire player controller to improve a fundamental performance flaw, redo the entire steam integration leaderboard, redo all 12 levels because they suck, adjust the 23 different movement knobs to refine away the stupid floaty feeling, and th

so I just setup arch linux...

Broken In Production Driven Development is my new dev plan ☠️

I have been working more on my tetridle game where you passively gain pieces to play tetr*s and it includes a rest mode idle mechanic and a path of exile level skill tree.
Spent some time adding the hover piece and unlocking the hold button. Also extending to implement more passive currencies

Something I was discussing with a friend is that I think level design is underrated in the sense of it being seen as only a design aspect. You engineer the game and then design the levels but level design to an extent is also engineering just for the spaces you inhabit in the game. It is hella macro

My most preferred engine of all time is making a game

My engine still sucks fuck

HammUEr dev is the absolute goat and even 6 months later fixed a specific problem with my imported maps that required him to change the format to import doubles. Now I have a ton of backlogged maps that i couldn't import into UE because of crashing that now load perfectly

I am starting to reach a point where I think grayboxing might actually just make things take longer. It’s a necessary step in unreal because of its high dependence on bespoke models. If you work in source 2 you can just have a less pretty fully textured wip

In efforts to hone the level design and make it faster for RocketJump™️ i have moved all textures into a gameconfig. Previously i would need to texture after importing into Unreal. Now i can do it all straight from Trenchbroom.

I just don’t understand how level design isn’t more focused in the unreal editor. I don’t feel any of the other engines focus it either. The only one is hammer. The other editors are a viewport for managing scripts that are placed in the world. You have to roll your own blueprint for most ld tasks

I know a big thing is to not build your dream game but I feel that each game has its own learning process and you are delaying learning the lessons that project would teach you. More important to narrow the scope early and extend the scope into your dream game

My game rocketjump is $2.49 if you want to support development store.steampowered.com/app/2082420/...

Have a really terrible version of wallrun added.
I decided to just go insane and throw every movement mechanic in cause of Echo Point being insanely fun.

Currently I have Source engine accel and bhop + abh
and quake autohop. Added a dash and now I will have wallrun on top of all the rockets

Try my RocketJump platformer with source movement mechanics and rocket jump speedrunning

WIP as I teach myself unreal engine while building fun speedurn movement game. The demo is completely free to try and message me any feedback.
store.steampowered.com/app/2082420/...