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THE DEMO IS OUT! Try my game Thunderhawk: Danger Close... it's a 90s arcade-inspired on rails shooter where you fire the guns of an AC-130 gunship. Think Time Crisis + Gunblade NY. Steam link in comments. #retrogaming

@TUKMAKthemakman @thomasbrushdev This was gonna be my question. Floating point precision errors… but I think you’d hav to be REALLY far away from the word origin, and in an on-foot FPS I’m not sure this is likely. I also wondered about a memory leak, which would be fixed by restarting the application.

@thomasbrushdev I think that issues with collisions start popping up the farther you get from the world origin

Calling out into the wilderness for help: why might collision randomly stop working in a Unity build of a game. After about 1 hour of gameplay, certain collision just STOPS working for SOME objects (doors and crates, in my case). The only way for it to start working again is by closing the application entirely. This is significant because: the player controller that has this problem is RESPAWNED entirely fresh and new if you go back to the main menu. So you'd think the issue would fix itself once going back to the main menu. Which makes me think it's something wrong with the render pipeline of physics entirely. Some kind of corruption. Any thoughts?

Download the demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4370960/Th…

THE DEMO IS OUT! Try my game Thunderhawk: Danger Close... it's a 90s arcade-inspired on rails shooter where you fire the guns of an AC-130 gunship. Think Time Crisis + Gunblade NY. Steam link in comments. #retrogaming

@johnstejskal Translation: “No offense, but I’m going to say something I intend to be disparaging anyway because doing so is the only way I can feel good about my lack of talent, discipline, and dedication to anything worthwhile.”

I'll take the quirky charm of a Flash game over a generic low-poly asset kit game anyday!

@lushfoil UE4 is goated! I still work almost exclusively in 4. UE5’s performance just can’t compete, and 4 can still look on-par with 5 if you know what you’re doing.

for 2026 we're back in unreal engine 4

@skx_doom Sorry to dig up an old thread, but I've been searching for exactly how to do this for 2 days! I've worked out writing the G-buffer to a render target, but how did you use Niagara to blur the RT?

Did some tests with blur post process effects and it's expectedly faster instead of sampling PostProcessInput0. And you actually can blur everything right in Niagara before writing to RT. Maybe 'fog scattering' is possible after all... I have to try!

Wow, you actually can write GBuffer to an arbitrary Render Target in Niagara and it's fast. Scene color downsampling hack? There's a big drawback though - it doesn't capture any translucency and there's some jittering, so the usage is still limited.

@gamesyouloved Exactly what I’m going for! The demo is dropping in March. Full game, hopefully a month or two after that.

@FunagenGames this is cool very much a pick up and play retro vibe to it - when are your releasing? :)

Hey 90s kids, miss the excitement of going to the arcade? I'm working on a shooter that's basically Time Crisis but in an AC-130 gunship. Provide #Overwatch to your guys on the ground as they push through the bad guys. Please RT if you like it! Steam link in comments.

@WaterMuseum_ @TheSweaterGal You nailed the look, man. Instant PS2/Dreamcast vibes. As I get older, I find myself more drawn to that era of graphics. 6th gen consoles were what I grew up on!

@TheSweaterGal Appreciate it! And I do agree with you btw, retro graphics are kind of everywhere in the indie space, it’s just for me (and probably others)I just prefer the look. Also it’s an added bonus that asset creation/optimization is much quicker

The first fishing game where you can actually skip your lure

@LabsSkull I frickin love those corny announcer lines 😆

@FunagenGames "Reload, Reload" !

Modern Logo design is so boring. We need to go back.

🚨Attention PSX game devs!🚨 I just launched the first of a series of PSX-style asset packs. If you love classic Silent Hill and need a huge forest with a day/night cycle, fully dynamic weather, and fun effects like dithering and vertex snapping, this is for you! Link in comments. #UnrealEngine #PSX #horror #gamedevs #gamedev #Assets #UE5 #retro #silenthill

Demo coming soon! Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/4353530/Th…

BREAKING📣 Our NEW TRAILER just landed! Cleared Hot is a nostalgic helicopter shooter with satisfying physics! 🚁 RTs appreciated ♻️ Wishlist below! 👇 #pitchyagame

@bmfshow Yessss!!! I’ve been waiting so long for a game like this 😁

Brand new trailer for Alien Incursion! Can't wait to play this. Looks great!

@bmfshow @Survios Yes!! I’ve been waiting so long for an Alien VR game. Isolation was one of my favorite flatscreen games, and I tried the VR mod but it had a bug with head tracking being off and made me too dizzy to keep playing.

Dang I can't wait for this! @Survios hopefully will hit it out of the park! This holiday season! Maybe gameplay at the Gaming Showcase this year?

@bmfshow Are you getting a GPU crashed/d3d device removed error? What graphics card are you using?

I'm trying to launch a preview of VR project in UE5 but every time I do it crashed the entire software. Anybody have any idea why it might be doing that? I tested it in just the template project as well and it does the same thing. Thanks!

I'm stoked to announce the game I've been working on: Cleared Hot, a top-down helicopter shooter with unscripted physics and light tactical elements. Saturday morning nostalgia with modern game-feel. Please wishlist it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1710820/Cl… RTs much appreciated💖

@bmfshow Hey Matt, I make VR games in Unreal 4 & 5 (check my pinned post to see my AC-130 gunner game for example). Would love to help you out if you’re interested! I love sharing game dev… there’s just nothing like it!

Anybody looking to sharpen their VR dev skills and have some fun? I'm trying to learn a bit about VR dev, I'm terrible at it 😅. I would love to create short proof of concept experiences for the channel as simple as possible but still done well of AAA games or properties. Not to be shared publicly just to be shared in videos on the channel so as not to get in trouble haha. I don't want to take advantage of anyone but I have no idea what I'm doing so figured I would ask 😅. Thanks!

@ModernVintageG your video on Wave Race 64’s water has kicked off my obsessive months-long journey to recreate the wave behavior and buoyancy physics in Unreal 😅 (so far with mediocre success). I’m curious if you suspect WR64’s waves are dynamically generated or precomputed?