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@aguycalledrevive

Paid to design games, born to watch videos on where the power lines go Technical Designer, will try to keep this about personal dev stuff. Obviously all opinions are my own…

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Here is my recent snapshot, Fortnite.gg is great at telling me where in discovery No Safe Passage is. The Red is in the "New Updates" section which is mostly buried where the blue is in the more prominant "New and Updated" section. Wonder what CTR would have been in a "New/Up Roguelike" section?

09.06.2025 18:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

More #Fortnite #UEFN stuff.

Epics push to give new content (Maps and major updates) a chance in their discovery queue is pretty great. I do question if they use their knowlege of players to focus maps when pushing? NSP got roughly 320k impressions and wonder how many of those were useful?

09.06.2025 18:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I should probably change my 1 month in #UEFN challenge to 1 year in #uefn challenge

07.06.2025 11:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Also, while I am here.

I got nominated and now a finalist for an award! Crazy right?

Super cool to say that I am a finalist in the Rising Star catagory for the 2025 #GameDevHeros awards! If you are at #Develop this year say hello to me!

25.05.2025 18:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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So I have been away for nearly 4 months. That month in #uefn challange I was doing? Well I finished it today!

Check out my first proper release. An extraction/roguelike game called No Safe Passage. Check it out here 6498-0432-3945

Enjoy this trailer (it's bad, if you can make one better, msg me!)

25.05.2025 18:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Crazy to say it, but i'd love another Starcraft game. 9 years this year since any content was released. Could say a decade since the last major content. That universe is so great

16.02.2025 16:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

so honored to have won the coveted anti woke game awards best racing game category. as a trans woman, its so comforting to see them prioritize diversity, equality and inclusion 😍🥳

to celebrate im going to have gay sex with my faggot transgender dog girl

25.01.2025 12:44 👍 12308 🔁 2468 💬 198 📌 96

As I am on the home stretch of my #uefn month challenge, I want to shout out Fortnite creators who wake up every day to their extremely creative and inventive islands that get little plays while looking at yet another "*InsertGun* ONLY! ONE SHOT" map get 50k concurrent.

23.01.2025 14:25 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

More of a real post than my normal antics.

I am finding the current state of creative ultra depressing. From creators utlising drama/rage culure to push their own agendas to the reliance of working within an evershifting algo to gain any hope of survivablity. It's not good for the mind. Carry on

19.01.2025 18:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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If you have gotten this far, I might as well give you more info. Trying new platforms is my 2025 so UEFN is first on my list. I made an "island" which is a continuation of one of the tutorials. Remaking CS's 1v1 servers. fortnite.gg/island?code=...

14.01.2025 10:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just over a week since I opened up #UEFN and started to learn. I am both floored by the ability for rapid creation that UEFN allows and also baffled by some of the restrictions of Verse.

If you wanna try what I made in a week grab some friends and play 0346-4187-5468. #fortnite #gamedev #indiegame

14.01.2025 09:58 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

So I’ve taken a week out of my personal dev stuff to try out UEFN and make something. I am not sure if I have been truly humbled or the platform is super unbaked. Very impressed with some of the people doing large projects on it!

10.01.2025 10:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Don’t bait me here! Share the post my Fart

06.01.2025 23:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This be a niche reference but personally I like to think that Chef Carl Casper wouldn't have gotten so angry if he was using bluesky.

06.01.2025 19:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My personal opinion is that GDC will just become a very insular event filled with recruitment and senior staffers networking. The growing price of entry leads to an entrenched class system. Which sucks

01.01.2025 15:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Send me an encrypted zip of your current project. I wanna help you speedrun this

01.01.2025 09:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’ll start

By the end of this year I would like to stay employed as a designer.

I would like to release a playable demo of at least one personal project I am working on

01.01.2025 09:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Okay New Year’s resolution thread

One realistic one, one unrealistic one. Reply to this post

#newyear #gamedev #indiegame

01.01.2025 09:31 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

Last year I was given a free ticket for GDC through one of their programs. Issue was it was given to me so close to the time it became impossible to take time off, get flight and accommodation.

I wish they brought back their Europe event too. San Fran is expensive on any European on their own dime

01.01.2025 08:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Today is the deadline I set for myself for releasing a demo of my game. I'm happy to say...that I am absolutely no where near that milestone but I have learnt a lot along the way.

I can't wait to come up with a new milestone and miss that one too #gamedev

31.12.2024 13:08 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Complete non #gamedev related. Someone convince me not to buy the Mariah Carey skin on Fornite and become the utter #fortnite troll and do the orange justice dance after every kill?

oh yeah... Use my creator code IanJames63 on epic

31.12.2024 13:44 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy New Years Eve to everyone who today is a crunch day to finish all the projects you said you would finish in 2024 #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

31.12.2024 08:38 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Really curious, what’s your opinion of selling on FAB compared to the older marketplaces?

27.12.2024 23:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Complete tangent, for years I though “Snapple” had to be a fake drink (for TV and Film purposes) as there was no way a marketing team would name a drink that dumb

It’s like if Fanta was called Jorange or Zerange

27.12.2024 23:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

First time watching Home Alone 2.

How are the bandits alive? Spoiler alert. Marv takes 4 bricks to the face at speed.

25.12.2024 21:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Dust off your projects day 7: For my last day, here is the example 3D platformer I made for a course I taught. Birb the Bird.

For the last day of Dust Off Your Projects, who wants to share one of their abandoned/finished projects?? #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegame

24.12.2024 17:13 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you! It was directly inspired by on of the store screenshots from Planet of Lana! Just a little more painted Mostly done in post processing.

Yeah the concept I still think is interesting but if I went back to it, maybe not using UE for it either

23.12.2024 21:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Dust off your projects day 6: Bit of a strange one but this was a little experiment into attempting to create a small window game. Like a mixture of an idle game and a Tamagotchi. It would also play YouTube livestreams through an in game radio while your guy fishes

#gamedev
#indiegamedev
#indiegame

23.12.2024 21:18 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

89 cloud assets + 10 texture sets = infinite skies ☁️✨
Here's my last tool aimed to craft stylized clouds and entire skies effortlessly!
It's out now with a 30% discount until the end of Christmas! Show me your dreamy skies! ☺️
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#bnpr #b3d #geometrynodes

18.12.2024 22:24 👍 287 🔁 51 💬 5 📌 2

Best soundtrack in gaming, hands down...

maybe apart from Chris Christodoulou's work

22.12.2024 22:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0