Mike Aprile

The past eight weeks have felt like the busiest of my life, but I’m proud to say I pushed through and accomplished something I’ve had on my list for a long time. I’m a @narrativedept graduate!

got a new HUD UI element hooked up and working in engine, created from scratch it’s a simple fuel gauge that drains as you burn fuel and refills by 10% with an item pickup i’m prototyping a flying mechanic and displaying the player’s current fuel level was a must!

@devsanddorks 🫡🫡

@_maprile That’s always a good feeling. Keep it up! 💪

#indiedev making good progress on your game?

This is one of the reasons I’ll never buy this game.

It’s synced to the Unreal Editor, so my changes submit to the cloud in no time at all. I can sleep better knowing if my PC dies, my project is safe and I won’t lose any progress Now I can get back to the fun stuff, like level design, writing dialogue, and testing new mechanics

I saved backups to external drives, but it took forever to sync, and I wanted to do this the legit way. I knew nothing about setting up cloud servers, virtual machines, revision control, terminal etc a week ago, but after a lot of learning and plenty of roadblocks, it all works!

That little green check might not look like much, but it’s my reward after a crash course on something I knew little about until a week ago in UE5.

that feeling after days of trial and error, troubleshooting, reading documentation, and it finally works. whewwww this is a core gameplay system that the whole game is built around. after getting unstuck, it feels like the floodgates just opened

new dopamine source unlocked: when my non-programmer brain builds a gameplay system in unreal and it actually WORKS in-game

DMs are open 😅

I should have mentioned that this is a paid opportunity 🙏

Where are the concept artists at? 👀 I’m looking for the right person to collaborate with on art direction. Shoot me a DM if you’re interested or want to refer someone!

@UnrealEngine #screenshotsaturday

We're positively beaming because it's time to see what everyone's working on🤩 Share your development diamonds with the #ScreenshotSaturday tag! 📷:Joe Zheng

@UnrealEngine @jay_cgi

Atmosphere is the name of the game this #ScreenshotSaturday Lighting, scale, music and more can create atmosphere and we want to know what atmosphere you're cultivating🌇 📷:@jay_cgi

@Leozyo This is sickkkk

Made a house scene concept. Still wip, will do some sketching on the house in photoshop to fine-tune the design. Still quite cool tho? #UnrealEngine #UnrealEngine5 #gamedev

Excited to share an update on my indie game—some concept art (no AI) made entirely in Unreal! This is a fully 3D environment that captures my idea. Currently the #3 post on reddit indie gaming ❤️

There’s more to come 👀 Excited to share what’s next!

Most of these assets were free! After many iterations, lots of learning and experimentation (UE5 is fun) plenty of roadblocks (my entire scene once got deleted) weird bugs (help) waging war against the perfectionist in me, it’s done (I think) 😅