Game Dev
The 5 Golden Rules of Input
Imagine for a moment that you are out car shopping. As you reach out to open a car door you realize there’s no handle?!? The salesman says “oh yeah, you have to crawl through the […]
Reverse Engineering
Mr. Robot Episode 1 Analysis
Mr. Robot was recommended to me and I finally got around to checking out the pilot episode. I dig the show, I really dig that they made an effort to use real stuff for the […]
Replication
Character Movement Replication in UE4
There’s a piece of documentation on the official UE4 site that briefly discusses different methods for replicating Character Movement over the network. It explains 4 different methods for replicating new movement abilities and goes on […]
Unreal Engine 4
Using Animation Blueprints with Matinee
I recently did some matinee scenes in UE4 and came away feeling like I was using the tools wrong. That’s probably because I’m a programmer with no animation skills trying to use tools meant for […]
Shaders
Nebulas, Stars, Random Numbers and UE4
For the last week I’ve been catching up on ways to render stars, nebulas and space in general. The learning curve is quite steep and I’ve absorbed enough to finally feel like the firehose has […]
Creative
GameDev Barbie
My own contribution to the Feminist Hacker Barbie Movement.
Perforce
How to use Perforce in UE4
Intro Perforce is a source control repository used to track and control changes to files. You should read the official perforce docs for UE4 first. Then come back here for more details. The benefits of […]
Game Dev
11 Random ShiVa Projects
I needed to free up some disk space so I started going through my project folder of about 85 projects. I’ll be the first to say that I make a lot of junk and most […]
Perforce
Setting up Perforce on Azure for UE4
Today is one of those fun days where I get to wear a few different hats in my independent game development career. We’re bringing some interns on and we need a better way of collaborating […]
Reverse Engineering
UE4 Platformer Game Analysis
My journal from the dissection of the platformer game sample. PlatformerGameMode.h Contains a custom state enum for tracking the states of the game. Also exposes this through a getter but there’s no setter, the state […]