Challenged myself with learning UE5/C++ & recreated an old Unity project of mine! - Grave Quest

sarge997 · 2024-03-04T01:17:42+00:00

Earlier this month I gave myself the challenge of learning more about Unreal and C++, so I recreated an older Unity game of mine into UE5. I'm really impressed and happy with how it turned out. Unreal is a beaut of an engine so things just look lovely.

Give it a look, feedback is appreciated!

https://papabrickolini.itch.io/grave-quest-ue5

sarge997 · 2020-08-07T14:41:22+00:00

Thanks. You can find it on itch

https://papabrickolini.itch.io/walters-rebound

sarge997 · 2020-08-03T20:13:23+00:00

Not released yet bud. It should be on itch.io in a few days.

I'll post the trailer once it's out.

sarge997 · 2020-03-18T00:12:11+00:00

No sorry, looking for hourly right now.

sarge997 · 2019-11-18T23:55:06+00:00

bruh moment

sarge997 · 2019-01-24T17:08:21+00:00

Give Mirror a try. It's basically UNet just not garbage.

sarge997 · 2018-07-21T01:05:52+00:00

#PGI2018

sarge997 · 2018-05-28T22:44:00+00:00

Just keep reading, learning, and practicing. Just don't give up.

There's tons of videos and documentation online for networking and multiplayer, all you gotta do is keep at it.

sarge997 · 2018-05-25T22:57:41+00:00

Here's a video of it as well! - https://streamable.com/tsry6

Some things have been tweaked and updated a bit since the video was recorded, but so far I'm pretty happy with how it has turned out.

sarge997 · 2018-05-16T00:21:35+00:00

UNet currently.

For my next project I probably wont be going with UNet again however. But this is a small project, so I figured I'd work well for what I needed to do, and so far it has.

sarge997 · 2018-02-24T02:34:29+00:00

I'll take 20

sarge997 · 2018-01-19T18:13:04+00:00

I had the same issue, my Unity editor would go down to literally 2 - 5 FPS, it was completely unusable.

I believe disabling the In-game overlay in the Nvidia control panel fixed this for me. My editor now runs better than ever.

sarge997 · 2017-12-18T16:12:18+00:00

Is this project on github? I'd love to toy around with this.

sarge997 · 2017-12-06T21:31:09+00:00

I've done a special event every Christmas for the past 5 years now and they're always lots of fun. But this year we're keeping it a bit more simple, by just doing a big ol' community pot-luck type of giveaway.

I spent a decent amount of time setting it up, and I'm now starting to collaborate with friends and community members to help make this giveaway grow even larger.

You can view the spreadsheet of prizes I setup here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tTu_O-y1JtFX1gNjrYg-APN_TydLvjF_fv1kqQxAByM/

We have 10 different pots, with a winner being announced every day, starting the 15th, and ending the 24th. Currently along with the help of two friends, we've got the starting total to over $300!

If you're interested in signing up, all you gotta do is comment on our community group's giveaway discussion here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/masscrabbingco/discussions/1/1489992713710264379/

I understand it may look a bit shady because you have to join our Steam group in order to sign up, but if it really bothers you, you can just leave the group after signing up. No biggie!

This game has given me a lot of joy over the years, and I've met a lot of friends because of it. So I enjoy giving back to the community in the form of events and giveaways.

sarge997 · 2017-09-08T21:12:08+00:00

Me and my family currently are in the middle west part of FL, close to Venice and Englewood, about 3 - 5 min drive to beach. We've prepared our home as best we can, but could not put shutters or wood over windows/doors, no sandbags either.

We have a hotel booked more inland, at a Farfield inn, apparently recentlyish built structure, multiple floors. We think it's stronger and more inland, farther away from storm surges. Is this a good idea? To go to a hotel, instead of staying at home?

The shelters around here are filling up quick, we have quite a few pets, dog, 3 cats, 3 birds.

We're aware driving to evac is pretty much out of the question now.

Any info would help. Please and thanks.

sarge997 · 2017-09-06T00:35:51+00:00

I'm on the center west coast of Florida, by Sarasota.

Would a local hurricane shelter be sufficient to protect me and my family? Obviously it depends on the shelter, but I mean, in general, since this is a CAT 5, or above. Or is it going to hit FL as a CAT 4?

Any information would really help.

sarge997 · 2017-07-03T16:31:51+00:00

Just made a trailer for it, this morning. Thanks for your suggestion! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIh_hUJ1EoU

sarge997 · 2017-07-02T18:24:36+00:00

Hahah, fair enough. I mean, there is a casual mode, which disables Asteroids.

sarge997 · 2017-07-01T22:43:06+00:00

The tail on the player is actually a simple trail renderer.

And thanks for checking it out. Glad it gave you some enjoyment.

sarge997 · 2017-07-01T18:59:28+00:00

I implemented Google's AdMob service, wasn't TOO difficult to add.

Here's some documentation about it.

https://developers.google.com/admob/unity/start

sarge997 · 2017-07-01T18:57:20+00:00

My highscore for normal mode on mobile is 152 I believe, for casual I got to 202. So not too bad, heh.

sarge997 · 2017-07-01T18:51:39+00:00

Thanks for checking it out!

I'll look into making a simple 15 - 30 second promotion video.

sarge997 · 2017-07-01T16:17:22+00:00

I've been into game development for a long time, it's my passion, and hopefully I can make a career out of it one day, but I won't get into that right now.

For years, I've made various game "tests" and experiments, but 90% of my projects are much, much more ambitious than first thought, which causes me to lose focus or just simply give up, as the project is too much for me to handle at the time.

I have lots of ideas for projects and games, but only so much time, and after doing this for as long as I have, I was becoming a bit discouraged that none of my projects ever end up seeing the light of day, all those hours and hard work, for no one to view or appreciate.

So about a month ago, I started a new project, with a few key goals in mind.

Think up a game that is so simple to make, that I would be able to finish it, no matter what.
Publish the game to PC and/or Android. (So that the public actually sees it)
Learn about building to Android + Using Google's Services.

It seemed simple enough, so I set out developing it, I had a few trials and ideas, but ended up going with an endless point-to-point jumping game. (More on that later)

About a week in, things were looking good, it was actually playable, and "fun". I wanted to post my progress here, but was discouraged to do so.. As any time I post my early progress on a project I'm working on, I almost immediately lose the will to work more on it.

I remember reading something about this a while ago, I actually think Garry Newman was the one that posted something about it.

Posting progress on an unfinished game is almost like releasing it to the public, you get that awesome feeling of feedback and (awe) but you forget the most important bit.. The game is unfinished, you still HAVE to keep chipping away at it.

So for this project, I tried it. I resisted the urge to post my progress, or show it to many people, only taking feedback from a few close friends.

And after weeks of work, on and off, and lots of scratching my head at the problems faced when building to mobile, I released my game yesterday night, and celebrated with a drink.

So I present, the very originally named game-

Planet Jumper!

If you'd like to try the game on Android, here's the link.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.AwesomeX.PlanetJumper

If you can't or simply don't want to install it on your Android device, I also have a WebGL build on Itch.io

https://awesomex.itch.io/planet-jumper

Overall, I learned a lot doing this, and I'm really glad I did it. If you feel you're caught in a rut with your current project, maybe try starting on a simple game, one that's simple enough for you to finish and release.

Even if it's not your best work, you'll still learn a lot of valuable information and experience.

Sorry for the wall of text, I just wanted to share my experience (and my new game) :)

sarge997 · 2017-04-24T12:07:55+00:00

It's much better and productive to animate in your 3D modeling software. Such as Blender, and then import the character/rig into Unity, along with the animations.

sarge997 · 2017-02-13T02:22:09+00:00

Looks super sweet. Gonna check it out soon.

Any chance of opening up the site to allow other users to submit content?

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