Author: Steven Raven

Welcome to week 7 of the Indie Development project. Previously, I started developing the game’s project by creating the landscape using the mechanic made when testing them before development and then creating the collectable that the player can get and the mechanics that the player has to use while playing. After that, the user interface… Continue reading Indie Development Diary Week 7

Welcome to week 6 of the Indie Development Project. Previously, I had explored using Unreal Engine 5 to experiment with the new version to help in the future when I later transferred to after this project. During my experiment, I had a go toward creating landscape and setting complex collisions with a mesh and then… Continue reading Indie Development Diary Week 6

As the Games Industry has grown over the years, the climate has also changed alongside this to where the industry growth has affected environmental impacts from new emerging technology. The new technology includes new console hardware, cloud-based tech and, more recently, blockchain tech through introducing NFT (Non-Fungible Token) to games. The first impact that the… Continue reading Sustainability in The Games Industry

Welcome to week 5 of the Indie Development Project. Previously, I worked on developing a user interface for Unreal Engine 4 by creating a Widget Blueprint to display a coin counter and health bar. After that was to set a trigger of a custom event that allows updating the user interface to display the current… Continue reading Indie Development Diary Week 5

Welcome to week 4 of the Indie Development Project. Previously, I worked on more Unreal Engine 4 by implementing new ideas to test out for the project. These ideas were developing a teleporter that would teleport the player to another location in the game world, a jump pad that can bounce the player upwards and… Continue reading Indie Development Diary Week 4

Welcome to week 3 of the Indie Development Project. Previously, I continued working around Unreal Engine 4 Blueprint by implementing several different ideas to help with developing my skills. I had made collectable coins that the player could collect during the game, a box that can be destroyed through the player’s bullets and then drop… Continue reading Indie Development Diary Week 3

Welcome to week 2 of the Indie Development Project. Previously, I began working with Unreal Engine 4 by implementing blueprint actors that would do specific actions such as movement or changing an object when the player approaches it and then adding these to the game’s world. Also, I experimented on several different blueprint ideas, such… Continue reading Indie Development Diary Week 2

Welcome to week 1 on an entirely new project called Indie Development. Throughout the next couple of weeks, I will start to develop skills around using the Unreal Engine 4 Blueprint system to develop a prototype by coming up with ideas on what to do. The start of the project was first getting familiar with… Continue reading Indie Development Diary Week 1

Welcome to week 2 on the Industry Awareness project. Last week, I developed a career toward the company and the job position I would want to work with after NUA. This was done by researching various games companies and looking at the entry-level jobs they offer. Once I found something, I then wrote a plan… Continue reading Industry Awareness Development Diary Week 2

Welcome to week 1 on an entirely new project called Industry Awareness. During the next two weeks with the project, I will be looking into a research career in the games industry and creating a career plan around what I will do before leaving NUA and then delivering a group presentation about an entry-level job.… Continue reading Industry Awareness Development Diary Week 1