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1900 people laid off globally, hundreds from Activision Blizzard. All while planning to launch a new studio in a region where labor is cheaper. Genius.

Activision has established a new internal development studio which is “exclusively focused on creating a new narrative-based and genre-defining AAA franchise”.

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9 minute preview of my game. Slowly looking like an actual game. 🆕 Integrated MetaHumans 🆕 Character selection 🆕 Character customizations (morph targets WIP) 🆕 Various placeholder art replaced with models and materials I recently created #UnrealEngine #UE5 #GameDev #IndieGame youtu.be/JHwpUALRUPA

UE5 Open-world Survival Game - WIP Extended Previewyoutu.be

Long week of crunching on my survival game. Lots of updates to share. For now, here's a preview of my WIP frontend. youtu.be/4j_SyXfi3Ac #UnrealEngine #UE5 #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGameDev #VideoGame

UE5 Open-world Survival Game WIP Main Menuyoutu.be

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A man who rescues games literally forgotten to time and now he wants to stop big companies from deleting game forever. If you love games and want to play them forever instead of seeing them vanish for a bottom line check out Ross and spread the word! #videogames www.youtube.com/watch?v=w70X...

The largest campaign ever to stop publishers destroying gameswww.youtube.com Campaign video to stop games from being destroyed! It's being done in a few ways, owners of the game

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5 more days to the launch of Devil's Hideout's Kickstarter! Follow the promo page to be notified 👇 bit.ly/devils-hideo... Devil's Hideout is a point and click horror adventure. 👻 #horror #horrorgame #indiegame #indiedev #pointandclick #adventuregame #indie #retro #gamedev #pixelart

My latest iteration of crafting, harvesting, resource surveying systems: youtu.be/ntU3O3hhKSQ 🆕Crafting tool with resource requirements 🆕Resources spawning randomly around the world 🆕Ability to survey for resources and collect information 🆕Harvest those resources #GameDev #UnrealEngine #IndieGame

UE5 Open-world Survival Game - Updated Resource Surveying and Harvestingyoutu.be

A simple nice to have feature added to my game, character preview inside the inventory window that also allows view rotation interaction. #gamedev #indiegame #unrealengine #ue5 #videogames #gamedevelopment #indiedev #survivalgame

UE5 Open-world Survival Game - Inventory Preview WIPyoutu.be

Real talk right there. Ask Valve for shit and make them earn it. Brilliant.

The secret to using Steam as a developer is to make Valve earn their 30 percent

The secret to using Steam as a developer is to make Valve earn their 30 percentwww.gamedeveloper.com Chris Zukowski argues that Valve can do a lot to help your game become more visible, which is worth its weight in gold. All you have to do is ask.

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Blood Nova is a space-opera point & click adventure with Princess Love at its center. Think Dune with puzzles. Get Blood Nova for 65% off on Steam 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/1810270/... Please leave a review ❤️🙏 #SteamSpringSale #adventuregame #retro #indie #indiegame #pixelart #gamedev

Another iteration on my resource harvesting system in my open-world survival game, we can now collect the extracted resources from the harvesters! A few bugs to work out but the system at least works. #gamedev #indiegamedev #solodev #unrealengine #ue5 #solodev #videogames youtu.be/1PwsiASty_s

Open-world Survival Game: Resource Harvesting WIPyoutu.be

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HAPPENING NOW: 12-hour livestream marathon hosted by @reziorenji.bsky.social 😺 in support of the Internet Archive www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_jC...

【Internet Archive Charity Marathon】Let's Keep the Archive Alive!!www.youtube.com As promised in my last deep dive, I'm holding a 12-hour charity stream in support of the Internet Archive, who are in the middle of an existential legal batt...

I spent the night creating a radial options menu for the inventory and added some logic for useable items. The radial menu can differentiate between item types. Managing player needs (hunger, thirst, rest, etc.) is next. #unrealengine #ue5 #indiegamedev #gamedev #jobhunting youtu.be/LklZVeFzf-A

UE5 Open-world Survival Game - Radial Menu and Useable Itemsyoutu.be

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Hey everyone, I'm working on Devil's Hideout, a horror game. Explore an old town swarming with devil cultists to find your missing sister. Click here to be notified when the Kickstarter launches in April 👇 bit.ly/devils-hideo... #retro #horrorgame #indiegame #indiedevhour #indiedev #gamedev

Today's development update: showcasing some UI improvements. We can now move, resize, and either collapse or full-screen windows. I designed this to be performant and reusable. Looking more and more like an actual game with each update. 👨‍💻 #gamedev #indiedev #ue5 #unrealengine youtu.be/kA81sPd3PRY

Open-world Survival Game UI Improvementsyoutu.be

Ngl… I’m pretty excited for this show. I’ve been dreaming of movies based on Fallout for decades. #videogames #gamedev #fallout #gameindustry

The new Fallout trailer has got me HYPED youtu.be/V-mugKDQDlg?...

Fallout - Official Trailer | Prime Videoyoutu.be Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to ha...

Short update to my open-world survival game today. Adding drag and drop support for the UI. Resizing windows will be next. Nothing like jamming to some music and finishing a few tasks. 👨‍💻 #unrealengine #ue5 #gamedevelopment #indiedev #solodev #uiux youtu.be/3uuxjmKWOpI

Open-world Survival Game - Draggable UIyoutu.be

Today's open-world survival game update: Harvesters extracting minerals require energy. We now have a wind turbine generating energy to power all those harvesters. #unrealengine #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #ue5 youtu.be/ZQSey_znI1Q

Open-world Survival Game - Powering Harvesters with Windyoutu.be

Sunday dev update for my open-world survival game, we've now got resource harvesters and a basic survey tool to scan the immediate area for resources. Some minor adjustments to the resource spawning logic were added to avoid overlaps. #gamedev #indiedev #unrealengine #videogames youtu.be/buRScZZVPnQ

WIP Resource Harvesting in the Open-world Survival Gameyoutu.be

It’s been quite a rollercoaster of an experience being laid off for the first time in my 24 year career. What makes it worse is that so many others are in the same boat which has saturated the market for jobs.

Reupping for the weekend: I spoke to over 40 game developers impacted by the mass layoffs in the last year about how it's affected their lives: www.ign.com/articles/gam...

'I Stopped Believing in Myself': Game Developers Share the Human Impact of Over a Year of Mass Layoffs - IGNwww.ign.com Mass layoffs happen for all kinds of reasons, be it because of a bad financial bet, a failed game, a deal falling through, poor planning, or any number of other things. But when they do, human beings ...

I finally added something to my open-world survival game that I've wanted to do for years, resource harvesting. Next up will be creating harvesting and surveying tools. #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiedev #gameindustry #unrealengine youtu.be/s87VdpmR0z4

Open-world Survival Game Resource Harvestingyoutu.be

Hashtag don’t seem to do anything #gamedev #indiegames #videogames

Imagine if all the game developers getting laid off decided to make their own games that compete against the very places that let them go. Those places might think twice about purging so much talent for short term gains.

Today's update on the open-world survival game offers a brief look at two aspects I enjoy in game development: blockout (also known as blockmesh or greyboxing) and terrain (world-building). There is still much work to be done. #unrealengine #gamedev #videogames #gameindustry youtu.be/1se4vA5eMDE

WIP Open-world Survival Game - Terrain & Blockoutyoutu.be

So many great games. Never easy deciding which one to play. #pcgames #bigboxgames #videogames

Today's open-world survival game update takes a look at the WIP swimming system I started working on awhile ago. Far from a finished system, but it's functional AND you can drown. #gamedev #unrealengine #solodev #indiedev #gamedeveloper #videogames #ue5 #survivalgame www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAJ6...

WIP Swim System for the Open-world Survival Gamewww.youtube.com

After some trial and error, we've got a working item pickup and drop ability for the inventory system in the game. Next up, allowing the player to use the items. #gamedev #unrealengine #survivalgame #videogames #solodev

Over 4 years ago I started working on an open-world survival game. Since being laid off by Microsoft, I've decided to dust this old project off and upgrade it to the latest Unreal Engine 5.3 version. Let's see where this takes us.

Now that I have all this free time (Thank you, Microsoft) I’m thinking about streaming Unreal Engine game dev again on Twitch.

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Now that BlueSky is kicking open the doors to the world, you might want to remind your followers I exist to help the game dev community find itself. I am an account that simply follows other game devs. Search my follows for accts you might be interested in. And @ me if you want me to follow you.