David Shaw

A collection of my work in Unreal Engine.

Scraptory is a sandbox strategy roguelite in a feudal sci-fi open world. store.steampowered.com/app/3877880?ut…

Time to explore the wastelands in your walking castle. Wishlist Scraptory on Steam. #screenshotsaturday

Wishlist Scraptory on Steam. store.steampowered.com/app/3877880?ut…

An open-world sandbox strategy where you are the lord of a walking castle built from a crashed spaceship.

@clemmygames Open-world sandbox strategy where you are the lord of a walking castle built from a crashed spaceship.

Looking for awesome indie games! Who's making one?

@kiaran_ritchie I'm pretty sure this is actually photogrammetry.

Insane. We're doing LIDAR scans with webcams now.

@earth__sophie Thanks! It has taken a crazy amount of work to get it to this point.

@ThatDavidShaw Absolutely justified. I love the feudal sci-fi style here. This looks seriously impressive for solo development.

Can I finally justify making one of these? Here is a year of solo game development on Scraptory, an open-world feudal sci-fi sandbox strategy roguelite.

@Intrakyt_Gaming @igdmag Thanks, and nice!

@ThatDavidShaw @igdmag Wow! That looks amazing. I'm about 6 months into my game.

Check out the updated Steam page and give it a wishlist! store.steampowered.com/app/3877880?ut…

Made some alien trees this weekend. And YES, you can knock them down and crush them with the walking castle, and YES they are super efficient hierarchical instanced static meshes that get dynamically swapped with physics actors by a multi-threaded pooling system only when needed!

I'm Bryan, and this is some of my art.

@pmarca What about prompt injection?

Every security flaw discovered by AI was there before AI, waiting to be discovered either by people or by AI. The world has never been good at securing computer systems; finally with AI we are going to get good.

@sweriko Looks awesome

gonna make a surfing game for this year's #vibejam a breaking/barrel wave is impossible with traditional ocean shaders alone, so it took me a few days to get this (breakdown below)

@Jonathan_Blow Not really... Backrooms was invented in a twenty teens 4Chan thread and the original idea was basically that you could, like in a video game, no-clip or glitch into and get trapped in empty or unfinished locations you shouldn't be in.

So Backrooms is House of Leaves but on the internet? I guess?

@MachinePix Lol, its backward. Very obvious AI video.

@squishybanan @80Level @hibi_kaihatsu Yeah, takes less than 5 minutes to make this material.

@80Level @hibi_kaihatsu Gradient, dithered opacity with a relatively high pixel depth offset. Done.

.@hibi_kaihatsu showcased an effect for creating invisible cavities in Unreal Engine 5. The effect was achieved with a custom material: 80.lv/articles/check…

@DNSLprojects I hate it.

@McCarthy_JT @AHomelyHouse There is no need to be so confrontational. And no, he did not say anything about everyone being "kept safe" or about violence being lower in general. His post only specifically mentions participation in battle and combat by elites.

Is that everything he said, or did he talk about everyone else being kept safe by those warring aristocrats? Did I say anything about aristocrats fighting wars being fantasy, or are you making a strawman argument? Why don't you read my comments and then get back to me. I'm trying to have a serious discussion with serious people

I think you can basically track history as a wave-form movement of warfare, cresting where combat is the domain of the nobility and the elites, then a degradation down to troughs where it becomes the domain of the everyman, democratized. In these troughs the so-called "elites" are not to be seen anywhere near the battlefield. The highpoints of civilization are not necessarily where the power and prestige of the states and institutions are at their apogee, but rather where the warrior nobility find their maximal domain and all the rest of human society finds it shelter and flourishing under the canopy of their martial arete. This is the thread that binds the Christian chivalry of the knight to the heroic prowess of Sigurd and Beowulf and to the valor of Achilles and Hector.

@McCarthy_JT @AHomelyHouse Even up until the world wars, at least in Europe, aristocrats disproportionatly fought and died in combat for their nations. We have a very ancient tradition of warrior aristocrats and nobles going back to ancient Roman and Greek history. There is nothing fantasy about it.

Nice idea for a fantasy fiction setting, but nothing like that ever existed in the real world. The rates of violence suffered by the average individual are at a historic low by a wide margin. There was never any period of human history where there was anything particularly noble about the martial class. When professional soldiers have the highest status in society, they are treated the same way actors and businessmen are in ours. Songs and stories are marketing. There seems to be an important ratio between the consumption of fantasy fiction and actual history. Beyond a certain ratio, fantasy fiction seems to have the same effect as too much television or too much social media. That's not a dig, but an observation. You're clearly an intelligent person articulating your ideology well. It's just that if you're unaware that the source of your beliefs is fiction, then you're dwelling in the same imaginal utopianism as someone who thinks they're a cat or a tree. Themselves often very intelligent people. We live in the age of hyperreality, characterized by the majority of people discovering the world through fiction prior to discovering it through direct experience, the world of Tolkien vs anime. I'll tell you, though. Missouri, through North Carolina, is going to be a wild place a few years after the lights go out. If I'd the money for a hobbit-hole, I might like to live to see that. Where would the Gondor be?