Our indie game, The Drifting Crown is now on Unreal 5.8.2. Most of the upgrade was routine. Three engine changes caused nearly all of the work, and one of them broke three things that looked completely unrelated to each other. What stopped the build...
I had a bit of time last week and wanted to see how Unreal's new MCP works. Mainly, I wanted to get a better understanding and some first-hand experience of the current state of this kind of AI workflow in video games. The idea was fairly simple: make a quick...
There is a particular kind of frustration that only appears late in development. You package your Unreal project. You look at the output folder. And something feels wrong. The build is bigger than you expected. Not dramatically. Not catastrophically. Just…...
Sometimes you need an automatic solution for sanity-checking your project content. In our case, we wanted a quick way to make sure none of our maps accidentally included a specific level in their sub-level list — a simple rule, but one that can quietly break builds if...
As a programmer transitioning from other languages to Unreal Engine's C++, or a designer wanting to understand how robust game systems are built, the inventory system presents a perfect case study. It touches on data management, component architecture, Blueprint...
This week, I learned a lesson in UE5. I knew blueprints were slow compared to C++, but I didn't realise how slow. I wrote some functionality that performed sphere casts every x frames. When I integrated it into the game, I lost between 10 and 15 frames. I converted...
This is a note from our game dev journey. Every indie game team knows the pain (or will know it): you wrap up a big playtest or team review, and suddenly there’s a pile of feedback—emails, Word docs, random tables, Slack posts. You need these comments turned...
This is a note from our game dev journey. Recently, I found myself deep in Unreal Engine, working on a system using custom C++ data assets. I wanted to display some key properties—like enums with nice, readable names—directly in the Content Browser’s Columns View.I...
This is a note from our game dev journey. If you’re building a library of reusable materials, node groups, or geometry nodes setups in Blender, the new Asset Browser (introduced in Blender 3.0) is a game-changer. It lets you mark any data block (like a node group or...
This is a note from our game dev journey. Have you ever spent time crafting a beautiful mesh in Blender—only for its topology to look completely wrong in Unreal Engine 5? I recently hit this exact snag: I made a nice, clean bent pipe section in Blender, but when I...
