#screenshotsaturday #ue5 #gamedev fixed up and extended Lump, my "Mass for Idiots" system- now you can't see where it switches away from ISM to mesh or actor.

Framerate stays nice and high thanks to object pools, and only using physics where needed.

Next job: use it to make cars and pedestrians.

#screenshotsaturday #ue5 #gamedev Turns out the bits of Mass I wanted to use are dependent on ZoneGraph, and ZG can't be rebuilt at run time, so I can't use it. Mass is also fully C++ and honestly a bit of a headache. So, I nicked the ideas from Mass I wanted and built something a lot simpler. 1/n

#screenshotsaturday #ue5 #gamedev #london- infinite PCG road now features intersections and buildings (well, connection points for intersections and placeholder cubes).

The pop-in is a bit brutal but I can fix that later.

Implementing traffic comes first. And breaking the legs of pedestrians.

#screenshotsaturday The Last Gig is on hold for a bit while I try to find funding, so I'm now cranking out a quick one-month side project, Electric Rental Bike Simulator. Infinite procedural #ue5 road working great, now working on intersections, buildings, and detecting the breakage of traffic laws.

The hardest bit was making them crash without the physics exploding. The #ue5 vehicle plugin wants spherical wheels (!), so there's a bit of smoke and mirrors when you jump off... but it works very well! TBH I might just pivot to making Rental Bike Wanker Simulator. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev 2/2

#screenshotsaturday- needed a break from tech debt and UI so have implemented ridable Lime bikes. It uses the #ue5 vehicle system, plus control rig IK for the hands and feet. Below is an accurate demo of a typical #London Lime bike usage- note the use of proper parking technique. #gamedev 1/2

Yeah I do need to tune the volume a bit! Fun thing about that noise is it's generated on the fly using #ue5 #metasounds - they've got a full programmable synth just sitting there and it's pretty amazing stuff.

#screenshotsaturday and finally, now there's an actual fail state. For fun I added "death quotes" ala *Call of Duty*... but as theme of the game is AI, I'm using dumb pro-AI horseshit from the wankers running AI companies- Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Sundar Pichai and so on #ue5 #gamedev #indiedev 3/3

#screenshotsaturday the other main focus has been on closing the loop on this being a game rather than a bunch of levels, which means UI and saving and loading... again, not exactly glam, but there's now a nicely bleak main menu scene #ue5 #gamedev #indiedev 2/3

Been a while since my last #screenshotsaturday post- fixing AI bugs isn't exactly a visual treat. However now it's a LOT more stable, and even uses the correct escalator when given the option. Plus it can jump if it's sufficiently annoyed. #ue5 #gamedev #indiedev 1/3

#screenshotsaturday - mostly getting rid of tech debt this week so the AI has fewer existential crises, but also some combat tweaks.

Question- should robots care about which way an escalator goes? It's easier if they don't, but I can't decide if it looks "menacing" or "stupid" #ue5 #gamedev

Spline-based escalators were a very quick win- the hardest bit was getting the handrest speed to match the steps.

In the full game there will be chewing gum stuck to the sides, and perhaps to the player's boots. Wishlist 'The Last Gig' today! tinyurl.com/5t2dd6cd

#ue5 #gamedev #wishlistwednesday

It's #wishlistwednesday! So here's a WIP of part of the demo for The Last Gig (store.steampowered.com/app/3680580/...)
Very quick to put together thanks to @kronok.bsky.social's Scythe plugin, and @nebukam.bsky.social's PCGEx to get rid of the need for boring wall / room placement #gamedev #ue5 1/3

So then I did what I really didn't want to do- make a chain of hard physics constraints on the fly. Bit fiddly to set up, but when everything is in the right place and forces transferred it works great. Moral of the story: stupid is fine if you can't see it. 3/3 #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #ue5

Today for #screenshotsaturday something that should be trivial but turned out to be a massive headache: hanging from a rope in The Last Gig (wishlist pls store.steampowered.com/app/3680580/... thx) . Simple right? Well, no- the Character Movement Component doesn't like constraints #gamedev #ue5 1/3