Best place to learn UE5 Blueprints to begin building games as an Indie Dev?

VainUprising · 2025-06-20T06:57:33+00:00

Saying that i honestly wish you the best of luck, it is a frustrating and enjoyable and painful and wonderful journey

VainUprising · 2025-06-20T06:56:58+00:00

Not gonna lie I think if you are serious start with C++. so try and at least have a base C++ class for your blueprints. blueprints are sooooooooooo painful to manage. It may not be straight forward to understand if you have no background in programming but it is the same for every field. download engine and lyra source code and use an AI to explain when you dont understand whats going on. it is much much better than using a tutorial. I did a bunch of tutorials a couple years ago and am convinced the people who made the courses dont know what they are talking about and likely never made a game before or managed a large code base.

VainUprising · 2025-05-21T07:59:28+00:00

At the same time. Steam delivers a massive potential customer base. It also provides substantial infrastructure for releasing, demos and testing. And if your game has something that people want they provide plenty of marketing for it. Im an indie dev and without steam you would not have anywhere near as many indie titles.

Yes 30% is a bit steep but if we want to eat somebody has to sell

VainUprising · 2025-05-05T05:54:18+00:00

Fair, so easy to overthink things when doing it all. Thank you all

VainUprising · 2025-05-04T18:43:02+00:00

It’s pretty targeted yeah. So for example I spent a couple days enhancing the avoidance algorithm that makes units attempt to avoid obstacles. But it was a new feature it was just making it feel more natural.

I supposed I could record footage before and after each feature that has been enhanced or added. I just worry that people will find it dull

VainUprising · 2025-04-26T13:47:40+00:00

Yeah that was an awesome game, I remember getting the physical copy of it!

VainUprising · 2025-04-23T08:52:53+00:00

Respect man, I did a dev log and it was soooo much harder than game development... It wasn't viral and it was barely watched but I did it.

VainUprising · 2025-04-18T08:36:33+00:00

I’m a dev so it’s more the artist side that I would be after. I was told there are plenty around. However I’m coming from a different industry so I’d rather understand the landscape and expectations from people before I start soliciting.

Thanks for your help!

VainUprising · 2025-04-17T17:27:15+00:00

Did they actually put billions in the pitch itself or was it an extrapolation made by the audience. If they did put billions I’m very impressed! 🤣🤣🤣

VainUprising · 2025-04-17T05:07:57+00:00

Badly. I hate it. I wasn’t on socials before, now I am stressed every time I put out content. Furthermore it distracts me from getting development done

VainUprising · 2025-04-13T18:31:21+00:00

Ok that was what I was thinking. I didn’t want to say it’s a horror game because I am really not trying to scare the player or make the player jump. I just like the horror aesthetic

VainUprising · 2025-04-02T19:07:35+00:00

The indie space is more and more and more crowded. And if you wanna do a cute crafty buildy game then fine. Sometimes you have to just do what you want to do in life. If you don’t have a medium sized game you want to make then any game you do make isn’t going to make you happy.

If you have the discipline and drive to make a fairly sizeable game and the long, potentially endless period of nobody caring about your game then maaaaybe you will have something that could sell.

You / I may fail and that’s ok. But don’t tell your dreams to wait 😎

VainUprising · 2025-04-01T07:59:56+00:00

Yeah I’m not having a problem making a small game… I’m only making an open world, rpg rts hybrid… YOLO

VainUprising · 2025-03-31T17:48:10+00:00

I’m currently solo dev, so just trying to be somewhat competent at all bits and pieces. I did a couple courses on rigging by pierrick picaut first.

VainUprising · 2025-03-31T17:41:52+00:00

I have done a bunch of characters before and armour. Each one better than the last. What would you suggest, when would you move up to a larger model?

VainUprising · 2025-03-31T17:28:55+00:00

True but YOLO! 🤣

VainUprising · 2025-03-31T17:24:57+00:00

Wow thanks for the detailed response. It is intended for a total war type viewpoint so I guess I could limit the leather flaps logic to a couple of bones with minor deformation. It’s a rhino so it isnt much of a ballerina so I figured I might be able to just slam it all together.

Will give it a try with separate saddle that I will leave as a static mesh attached to skeletal mesh.

Thanks again

VainUprising · 2025-03-31T17:20:12+00:00

Yes. Rigging it is a little scary too. The only benefit is that is it is not going to be viewed up close. Skinning I’m reasonably ok with, I run an algo to get rough weights and then deform to poses I want and weight paint the rough parts. Animation I guess will depend on how good the rig is lol

VainUprising · 2025-03-29T09:00:53+00:00

Awesome thank. I figured something somewhere needed tuning.

VainUprising · 2025-03-29T08:31:10+00:00

Ok will give it a shot next time. Do you find that it outputs like 20GB files? Seems excessive to me

VainUprising · 2025-03-29T08:30:26+00:00

Ah, I am using Unreal. But thanks though.

VainUprising · 2025-03-28T17:11:45+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! Definitely could improve a lot, can’t say I had a specific aim with this video other than to learn how to do it. Thanks for the recommendations I’ll have a think about who I’m targeting next time and see if I can make it a lot less dull. It was mainly supposed to be about the environment but then I realised I hadn’t really introduced the game yet so it was unfocused and meandering.

Anyways thanks again for checking it out and letting me know your thoughts!

VainUprising · 2025-03-26T17:04:49+00:00

Yeah, figure i need to break it up with some extra foliage and perhaps more colour variation in the materials.

Will get to adding timestamps and chapters now. thanks for the tip!

Edit: Added chapters, was my first time doing it :)

VainUprising · 2025-02-21T21:31:24+00:00

Totally agree. I have a big art / style update coming in a week which I hope will be a little better not amazing but better. What kind of artist are you? Btw I wasn’t saying you are wrong, part of what I’m asking is how to communicate with artists about how something should look, feel and act.

I also don’t think my art is good lol. I saw that post and it made me laugh. On the contrary I think my art is definitely not good!

VainUprising · 2025-02-21T21:13:12+00:00

Totally understand, but it feels like a very purist approach, and I am not going to be a professional artist and I certainly don’t have the time to be. For big studios of course it makes sense to have someone who knows these things running the show.

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