And yeah of course I could hire a professional voice actor. For a hobby; a hobby which will probably never return any money. Not feeling it atm
#Gamedev #IndiDev

I’m not comfortable using my real voice on the internet, therefore I use text to speech for some of my videos. Mainly try to avoid voice altogether but sometimes I wanna emphasise something.
I’m forced to listen to some TTS for my day job… no more TTS for my prop.
#Solodev

Screenshot of a MetaHuman Face. It is a Woman with short dark read and violett Hair

Screenshot of a MetaHuman Face. It is a Woman with short dark read and violett Hair. Half her face is covered in Shadows.

Not making much progress at the moment with #Odium. Before digging into the next level I need a feature which displays the state of the depression. For this I need to refine the Player Character. Not my strongest skill. But practice makes perfect.
#UnrealEngine #IndiDev #GameDev #ScreenshotSaturday

Feel you; NASA or ESA where always my dream. I cried tears this morning reading news of the Artemis 2 mission

Thank you. The same to you.
Looking forward to your next games.

When I gushed about the game to my girlfriend, she mentioned it would be exactly the game I would like to make too. And yes it reminds me a lot of #Odium, but made with skill.
In my wildest dreams I couldn't image creating a game this good.

Screenshot of my gog review, giving 5/5 Stars, reading: This game is just superb. First of all the art style is so good. The graphic conveys so much, and does a lot of heavy lifting for the mood. Combined with an unnatural good sound design the atmosphere really caught me and kept me engulfed until the end. The playtime for a play through is not the longest, but every second is well spend, with just the perfect pacing And the story is very dark but incredible well written and believable. 10 out of 10 and 3 bonus points because the Protagonists wears a Penguin Shirt

finally @jessemakkonen.com 's Without A Dawn is available on @gog.com .
not only did I promised him to leave a review, I wanted to share it here.
If you like a dark, psychological, and philosophical visual horror novel this is a must buy. I enjoyed every minute playing it

Das deutsche Gesundheitssystem ist definitiv nicht dafür gemacht krank zu sein… Aber hey sonst würde es ja nicht Gesundheitssystem heißen

Wanted to increase the size of the Tiny World in #QuatschQuartett but I’m so unsatisfied with the movement, that I have to fix this first. And with changes in the movement the environment has to take it into account.
The clean and up should have only lasted for couple of weeks. #ScopeCreep is real

[1.3.3] Random Plushie Placement Hey, another week another update. Being predictable is not really the strong suit of the Quatsch Quartett. So I implemented the Random Plushie Placement For now only the 4 different spots are availabl...

[1.3.3] Random Plushie Placement - Quatsch Quartett - Pingu to the Rescue
d3f4c3r.itch.io/quatsch-quar...

#GameDev #SoloDev #IndiDev #UnrealEngine5

Geordi LaForge Meme where he doesn’t like USING THE DRAKE VERSION OF THIS MEME And very much likes USING THIS VERSION OFTHIS MEME

I always preferred this one over the Drake version:

c++ code Snipped in VSCode reading void AQuatschController::EndLevelUi(int endContext) { // due to being too stupid to make those enums work, we are now using ints // 0 = win // 1 = lose // 2 = pause

Throwback to this unhinged comment I wrote during the Game Jam where I developed #QuatschQuartett No idea why I used "we".
Still not able to use Enums without help in #UnrealEngine, but I got better. Just for the sake of it, I probably wont refactor this.
#GameDev #SoloDev #c++ #ScreenshotSaturday

Timberborn 1.0 goes live in exactly a week. Wishlist now and spread the word! #shorts #citybuilder YouTube video by Timberborn

Last time I was so hyped for a game release, was #Anno117
Next week #Timberborn will be released.
I play this in early access for years. Can’t wait for the full release
youtube.com/shorts/tiVh1...

QuatschQuartett Random Plushie Placement #unrealengine5 #plushie #leveldesign #niagara #effect YouTube video by d3f4c3r

Fifth week in a row where I created a YouTube video.
Somehow trying to create one every week is a nice motivation boost.
#GameDev #UnrealEngine

QuatschQuartett Random Plushie Placement #unrealengine5 #plushie #leveldesign #niagara #effect
youtube.com/shorts/MmsXz...

Ich hätte nie gedacht das ich mir Merkel zurück“wünsche“ langsam hab ich den Eindruck das ist die bestes Bundeskanzlerin die ich je erlebt habe (Kind aus den 90er aber Kohl hab ich nicht wirklich mitgekriegt)

Pretty disappointed by the Ryzen 9950x3D; still not able to count to infinity.
And found out #UnrealEngine doesn’t break during an infinite loop. Fun stuff. Happy to have some material for the next video
#GameDev #Solodev #IndiDev

Complete Random, without any Context: I HATE AGENTIC LLMs! Fuck that shit!

TBH LLMs can really be helpful as an AutoComplete, or searching Documentations, but: Build x y z only results in Slop!

Unreal Engine Screenshot. A MetaHuman Woman infront of some Rocks. 5 Plushies cling to the Player. The QuatschQuartett and Pingu

Another Update for #QuattschQuartett. This time something very cute:

[1.2.6] No more disappearing Plushies - Quatsch Quartett - Pingu to the Rescue
d3f4c3r.itch.io/quatsch-quar...

and a small preview for the Featurefor #ScreenshotSaturday

#IndiDev #SoloDev #UnrealEngine #GameDev

As mentioned:
youtube.com/shorts/v3tP6...
Sauce me a follow for more chaotic development Updates.
#Promo #GameDev #SoloDev

Making some plushies cling to the player sounds easy? Right? Right?! WRONG!
Not only was live coding a nightmare again (why did I even try?). I somehow made some funny mistakes… still not working but I got some material for my next video.
#GameDev #SoloDev #UnrealEngine

As an additional thought; I have 7 followers on YouTube and every time I get a comment from a random person it is a nice interaction, either a respectful question or encouragement.

Again no growth=bliss & poverty

To achieve success anytime in the future with my Games I would need a follower/subscriber, but not having them keeps annoying bullshit away. So not having success is the recipe for bliss. Poverty but bliss

#SoloDev #IndiDev

[1.1.0] First Update after the Jam Hey, after the release of the Dream of Odium , I had to take a break and finally add some of the long planed features for Quatsch Quartett. Here are the main changes: Enemies disappear when they catch...

[1.1.0] First Update after the Jam - Quatsch Quartett - Pingu to the Rescue
d3f4c3r.itch.io/quatsch-quar...

First new Feature implemented, also migrated to #UnrealEngine 5.7.

Other then #Odium I intend to create a new release every time a major feature is ready.

#GameDev #SoloDev #IndiDev #Cute

[1.1.0] First Update after the Jam Hey, after the release of the Dream of Odium , I had to take a break and finally add some of the long planed features for Quatsch Quartett. Here are the main changes: Enemies disappear when they catch...

[1.1.0] First Update after the Jam - Quatsch Quartett - Pingu to the Rescue
d3f4c3r.itch.io/quatsch-quar...

First new Feature implemented, also migrated to #UnrealEngine 5.7.

Other then #Odium I intend to create a new release every time a major feature is ready.

#GameDev #SoloDev #IndiDev #Cute

Same. Musste köstlich lachen.

List of tasks for Quatsch Quartett -Children clings to player when found -Random position of children -Enemy despawns when getting caught -Skill changes when finding the children -Music based on enemy pursuit

Need a break from the grim dark setting of #Odium, always wanted to refine #QuatschQuartett my first GameJam game.
Already got some ideas:
#GameDev #IndiDev

d3f4c3r.itch.io/quatsch-quar...

This game really displays some duality in my interests

Screenshot from OCCT; displays the Outcome of the CPU Benchmark with SSE Multiple Threads. The chart displays the Users CPU with 1109,69 Intel Core i9-12900K right below the highest Intel Core i9-12900K 1226,42 Score and above the Average Intel Core i9-12900K with 944,46 Score. other CPUs are worse displayed here are worse (Ryzen 9 5900X with 942,64 is on the next rank)

Time to upgrade my Rig. Did some Benchmarking with my old PC. m34nMachine as I call her. I'm by far not an Overclocker but damn am I happy with the results. hell yeah

Odium Game Trailer - #unrealengine5 second #dream YouTube video by d3f4c3r

I created another trailer for #Odium. This time no screen captures, only #UnrealEngine renders. Pretty proud how the music turned out. Only possible with great package provided by Ovani Sounds.
Odium Game Trailer - #unrealengine5 second #dream #GameDev #IndiDev
youtu.be/-8vXuvh3Kac

For the promotion I created two YouTube videos. And working on two more. It is some nice distraction. Something different, but by far not my favourite #SoloDev thing.

Second Dream Release Trailer #odium #indigames
youtu.be/08EKU1SK81Q

Second Level #dream #unrealengine5 #gamedev #releasedate #freegame YouTube video by d3f4c3r

Yes there are two videos on YouTube
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youtu.be/08EKU1SK81Q

Also a playlist with the all updates

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