for non-gamers this is like blowing up the Vatican

Sami(14 days til 🎂)@samitron.bsky.social · 4w ago

THIS STUDIO MADE THE FAMOUS IDTECH ENGINE AND YOU'RE FORCING THEM TO USE FUCKING **UNREAL**??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? FUCK YOU

44 patients? Literally 1/3 of attendees??

Linda Holmes@lindaholmes.bsky.social · last mo.

Good grief. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

The guy in charge of Unreal Engine is also the guy in charge of Epic Game Store and it's extremely funny watching him whine and cry that Steam won't let him lie about the use of slop machines in games on their storefront. Like buddy if the people want slop so much they'll just buy it from the Epic

I always add a procedural aim offset in the ABP for my spine bones with Transform (Modify) Bone nodes because I don't really like how traditional animation-based aim offsets work. I suck at IK, and this way it's better for my needs.

@m-blackscarstudio.bsky.social · last mo.

Genuine question for fellow UE devs: when you start a new project, what is the FIRST system you bolt in before anything fun? For me it is almost always a save system. Curious if I'm weird or if everyone has that one default. #UE5 #gamedev

Ugh. I've been an Unreal developer my entire career, but Sweeney's disgusting AI fanboyism is making me want to abandon the engine altogether. Everyone hates AI. Developers hate it. Players hate it. It's driving up hardware prices which is threatening our entire industry. Give it the fuck up, Tim.

Hi, coming back up here to say that while we use Unreal Engine 5 for our as of yet unannounced game in production right now, we DO NOT stand by Epic's recent pivot towards the AI-fuelled metaverse vision for gaming. Make cool stuff, folks. We don't need slop. We're more than capable on our own.

I wrote over 2,300 spiteful, measured, personal, and hopefully-entertaining words on the recent Unreal Engine 6 announcement, from the perspective of a tired computer girl / gamedev. I literally added blog posts on my site for this! That’s how petty I am.

Unreal isn't a tool anymore

My thoughts on the UE6 announcement

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Fucking idiot. Just because two games are written in Unreal Engine does not mean they work the same way. Take a sword, for example. How do you bring a sword into a different game that doesn't have rules for swords, or damage for swords, or interactions for swords? CEO of Epic Games, everybody.

IGN@ign.com · 2mo ago

Tim Sweeney details vision for Unreal Engine 6, hoping to create an open ecosystem where players can carry digital items between different games. #IGNSummerOfGaming https://bit.ly/4uJvA6E

I thought about moving to Source engine from Unreal, but I really like Blueprints and all the cool stuff I can do with them. I probably won't move past 5.8, tbh.

The most annoying part of the UE6 announcement at State of Unreal was that it glossed over how much of a game changer 5.8's Mesh Terrain system is for game dev as a whole. In fact, they basically dismissed 5.8 outright.

Just so y'all know (because we use Unreal Engine 5), fuck Epic Games, UE6, and gen ai. We will NEVER use gen ai in the production of Rad Venture or any future projects. Gen ai is a tool of fascism. Game devs who use gen ai in any capacity should be shamed and ostracized. Have a Rad screenshot

It's been almost a month since I last had the mental energy to work on this. Besides some system stuff, Lucky is now ejected on player HP Zero. In this Down-but-not-out state, Lucky has to crawl back to Clover in the time limit, to which you revive with 1 HP. #CherubDev #UE5

There's a beautiful chekhov's gun moment in the new punisher movie regarding a blue pen that's supposed to be in a basket but it's behind the man's ear, and then it gets called later when Frank uses it and it is in the basket where it's supposed to be. I love a good chekhov's gun

Unreal Engine 5 should be nationalized into a public good and Fortnite should be converted to an employee owned b-corp with a mission similar to PBS Yo Yo Ma Fortnite Festival. Free Smokey the Bear Skin if you visit a state park. Optimized so even older public library computers can run it

I managed to get the Sandwich to run the UE5 editor as high as 30fps (unstable)! Given that it's integrated graphics, there was a lot of settings optimization to get it that high. It's still not great, but it'll run it in editor. The only way to get it higher will be to figure out Vulkan.

Penny Arcade’s June 10th, 2026 comic: Bisexual lighting

Really hate how people complain that Unreal Engine 5 is "unoptimized" based on their experience with the latest AAA slop that uses it and completely ignore other UE5 games that can run on decade-old hardware, e.g. DRG Rouge Core.

This tbh, and I'd go as far as to argue it's not even that new of a problem, especially in AAA. I look back at the 360/PS3 era and you can easily pull screenshots and say "they all look the same." It's kinda weird to use Unreal as a scapegoat when it feels more like "the AAA" look in general.

Justin Oaksford@justinoaksford.bsky.social · 2mo ago

controversial statement; this has far less to do with engine tech and for more to do with what skills are more easily trainable in a broad population. Technical parameterized realism is one of the easiest things to systematize so the labor market for realism is much deeper with lots of documentation

I've also talked with a good amount of people who mistakenly assume the God of War and Horizon games are made in Unreal, which tells me for most people it really is just "realism."

What do you think duke devlin is doing these days. Cause like dungeon dice monsters probably isnt still going on. You think hes doing nfts? He has the vibe of a guy that did nfts when those were a thing.

I've been ("permanently") suspended from Twitter for 2 weeks, and Google already doesn't even know what kind of ads or videos to show me 🤣 That was my last social media besides here, so good luck making me a product.

Microslop's AI vibe coded updates almost bricked my dev rig today, My wifey stabilized it enough that it runs, albeit hobbled, but if I want to do anything heavy on it I'll have to back the HDD up to an external, reformat it, reinstall Windows, and probably get the internals cleaned since that's due

dracula is found footage

parents are like:

I commissioned this from @jacobblackmon.bsky.social a few years ago. If you want to use it in your pro-Pride or similar efforts (even for profit), let us know. We've given out free, nonexclusive royalty-free licenses before, and we're happy to do it again for the appropriate projects.

Work has started on the Banshee! Download: www.playsacrilege.com #Sacrilege #Halo #gamedev #indiedev #gaming #games #UnrealEngine #indiegame #UE5

I just realized BrianD probably watched The Law brutally murder someone 🫪😱 #VGHS

Just got suspended on Twitter and they won't tell me why. Now I don't have anything to doomscroll cuz my front screen is too small for TikTok 🫪

Here is a run-through of how I achieved super cheap GI (bounce lighting) for procedural levels in Unreal without expensive Lumen. Check out Curse of Cards on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4207000/... #screenshotsaturday #techart

I've had a fun day in Unreal Engine today. I made don't super basic character customization system and a basic save game object so the game will remember your chosen outfit between sessions. youtu.be/r3dW5tMgMtg?...

AI Apocalypse Update: Now with character customization!

YouTube video by Epsilon 356

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