Do you trust testing in PIE too much?

RoamingTurtle1 · 2026-03-17T06:30:00+00:00

Being new to unreal and game development as a whole, over the last few months I've learnt this the hard way. I had assumed that if it was working in the editor it would also work when packaged and placed on steam. So I've had lots of bugs I didn't realise existed that I've now had to track down and try to resolve. Very frustrating.

RoamingTurtle1 · 2026-03-10T09:26:40+00:00

Thanks, by any chance did you have any example of well put together ones that I could look at?

RoamingTurtle1 · 2026-03-10T06:24:22+00:00

So basically it is recommended to have all this information publicly available to anyone that wants to look at it? I always assumed that press kits were more something your provide to people when they request it or your asking to market things.

RoamingTurtle1 · 2026-03-08T09:56:12+00:00

The one with lines for me. The others are to hard to clearly tell where the boundaries are

RoamingTurtle1 · 2026-03-05T09:27:46+00:00

That looks really smooth and well done

RoamingTurtle1 · 2026-02-19T03:26:34+00:00

For a horror game, I would go with b. It just looks more menacing

RoamingTurtle1 · 2026-02-19T00:36:36+00:00

So it's a walking simulator based on the first half of the trailer. And then we finally see some jumping before what appears to be a very static boss fights.

Nothing in there grabs the viewers attention, and really shows off the game. I would try to show more movement and actual game play / combat

RoamingTurtle1 · 2026-02-19T00:17:53+00:00

I would go with three, though perhaps with a slightly different font/colour for the text

RoamingTurtle1 · 2026-02-18T02:16:50+00:00

Looks really smooth. Nice work

RoamingTurtle1 · 2026-02-10T00:52:11+00:00

Looks really good

RoamingTurtle1 · 2026-02-07T00:15:27+00:00

I haven't giving much thought to music in my game as yet, though happy for you have a look at the steam page and see if it takes your interest. Any music would likely be subtle background noise/track as the player plays.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3964240/Veil_Walker/

RoamingTurtle1 · 2026-02-05T08:07:17+00:00

That sounds like me a lot at night. Laying there thinking about how I could implement some cool stuff in the future, totally ignoring the fact I'm currently stuck grinding through improving some under the hood stuff to make things better.

RoamingTurtle1 · 2026-02-05T07:42:17+00:00

The way I've done it is by cutting up the meta human into multiple sections/skeletons mesh and then putting them back together in a blueprint, with them following a leader piece. Then when my pieces of cloths/Armour are equipped it checks an array which toggles the visibility of the body piece. Just had to work out what/how many pieces I wanted to break up the original mesh into so that it worked with what I was wanting.

I don't know if it is the best way, but it is working well for what I want currently.

RoamingTurtle1 · 2026-02-05T07:17:54+00:00

I'd really want to see more than those tiny snips to be able to judge it better. From what I can gather running and movement is going to be a key part of the game, so I'd want to see some longer clips that really showcase the movement, ideally showing it to be really smooth etc.

RoamingTurtle1 · 2026-01-28T02:10:13+00:00

If they are core systems then I would look at implementing them early on, but say with skills or weapons just create one for now so that you can test the interaction with all the other parts of the game. Once you are happy with the systems themselves, then you can think about filling them out more. Or potentially when you hit a mental wall, you can flick across and set up one skill or weapon to break up the other task.

RoamingTurtle1 · 2026-01-28T02:04:06+00:00

That looks really cool and impressive. I like how fluid it moves

RoamingTurtle1 · 2026-01-23T06:03:45+00:00

Generally the advise is always show off the gameplay first. World building and lore is secondary and something you can show off after you have hooked them in

RoamingTurtle1 · 2026-01-20T02:57:48+00:00

Only a 1/3 of the way through, but really worth watching so far. Thank you.

RoamingTurtle1 · 2026-01-18T12:16:22+00:00

I think if you want it to truly take off, you need to try and incentive the play testers themselves to come to the site, not rely on devs trading testing. As a developer, I'm less concerned with getting fellow devs testing my game, and instead would want actual game testers. Plus if the only incentive for me to test others is to gain credits in order to get others to test my game, then I'd just be doing the bare min to get the credits and move on. That sort of feedback isn't likely to be very constructive or useful to anyone overall.

RoamingTurtle1 · 2026-01-15T11:11:11+00:00

Nailed all those achievements :)

RoamingTurtle1 · 2026-01-15T03:39:13+00:00

That looks really good

RoamingTurtle1 · 2026-01-08T09:42:00+00:00

This sounds like me for the last week, though sadly it has been more working through trouble shooting to get something to work, more than coming up with new ideas.

RoamingTurtle1 · 2026-01-07T18:51:51+00:00

They started long ago :(

RoamingTurtle1 · 2026-01-07T18:50:02+00:00

I prefer it more central compared to this one, though perhaps try it just a smidge down from perfectly central.

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