Why Solo Developers Should Use Unreal

as an indie dev, its great to hear im not the only one who just tries to get things to work and not make everything perfect

Wow, blueprints only

I’m a new solo game dev using ue5. Started about a week ago. Already have a player controller, basic hit detection and combat animations for the player. I have a map and new sky boxes. I also just got the beginnings of some NPCs working. And this is just within a week starting with zero prior knowledge. It’s easy to learn if you are willing to fix something 200times before it works the right way!

What about Godot?

Damn bro has 4 locks and 2 boards nailed to the door what kinda shitty neighborhoods are indie devs living in??

Spline meshes are awesome. Also why does his door have so many locks 👀

Found out Horror Train was a ripoff game

The gatekeepers nearly stopped me from building the game I have wanted to for quite a while. So glad I found this video when I did, I was very close to making the wrong decision. Great video thank you 💗

Beautiful work dude so talented and congrats on releasing the game

Well, i would recommend solo devs to use unity. :D

Dude what is wrong with your door

I just want to know if that door in the background was for real or a prop because if it's for real he must live near a zombie outbreak!

The right way is whatever works for you!

Why so many door locks?

What's up with the door? Is my man in danger?

You are talking so much about blueprints, but from where are they and how did you use them in a right way for what

Where does this guy live, what's up with his door?

why not use Godot ? Unreal is owned by the company "Epic". It's gonna backfire using it at some point.

Unreal not support 2D

Why is nobody talking about the amount of boards and locks on this mans doors? this gotta be an inside joke, or are all Devs insane?

worst optimized games use unreal

Unreal and Unity both have bloatware, Unreal is the worse of the 2. No.

lol you dont know object oriented programming?

What is with the door, is this guy living in New York City, Los Angelos, or some other woke socialist hell hole?

I wonder if you guys could clear something up for me. So the reason I moved away from unreal to unity was for 2 reasons: 1. Unreal games take up 10x the file size for the exact same mechanics 2. Blueprints work, but they bog down the cpu so hard that it isnt worth putting more than 1 mechanic on blueprints. Are these things true still?

I think that Unity is just a better engine for indie devs. Unreal is great, but Unity has some advantages over it that make it a better choice

I'm a beginner game dev, still trying to find my path and my style for games. The spline comment really got me. It is possible in blueprints, I have done it many times, so those forums who say it's not possible are not true. I have done it many times and it works as fine as it would as if made in C++. (I never used C++ but I believe the results would be the same)

Unreal is love❤

What about html games? 😊

What's is going on with his door? Why so many locks

I feel like, when someone offers advice on how to do something. They are not telling you for the single usecase you are looking at. They are telling you, because if you were to do it again, you could run into issues later because of it, be it the limitations of the method, or it could be too open-ended, and really hard to debug.
So saying, "I don't really care." when someone offers the correct way to do something is wrong. If it is correct, you can always ask for the reasons why. Say "Thank you." and move on. I think its just a good way to build a knowledge base off of other peoples experience.
You will have bad apples, but that doesn't mean all apples are bad, or even most of them.

uhhhh why is his door boarded up lol?

Getting into Unreal. I am a C# developer(not game programmer), trying to learn C++ as I go.

My issue with blueprints is that when they're simple, they're fine. You see em, see the flow simply and you're done. But it looks like to build complex thing, you have these exponentially scaling blueprint designs that are so chaotic and sprawling.

It is infinitely easier for me to scroll vertically in the code of something, occasionally jumping to a different file (which again, just scrolls vertically when you're in it), than it is for me to wrap my head around the logic of blueprints that have lines flowing all over the place, with tons of used and unused nodes. isolating the signal from all the noise is difficult for me and my ADHD brain.

Wait...why is his door that way? Who is he keeping out? LOL

My spline

Dude, you have to let the guess talk.

I don't get the hate/fear of C++. It's not actually that bad - nobody forces anyone to use the advanced and/or complicated concepts

Welcome to the gun show!

Guy looks like a youg David Fincher.

I've always seen blueprints as C++, but in visual form. I'm working on a game and I only know a bit of python, not even C++, and I was able to get a full working demo

I found 5 Artists:
The 1st one draw a lion by his foot
The 2nd one draw a lion by his hand
The 3rd one draw a lion by his elbow
The 4th one draw a lion by his mouth
The 5th one stole a monkey from his mother and teach him how to draw a lion

🦁 in the end they all ended up with the same result No body asked them what part of the your body were you using when you draw or what type of animal did you force to draw something for you ? 😂

We dont care what engine you use just programmer and delivery something playable 🎮

I really like the message about "just make progress", and who cares if it's the right or wrong way, etc. But... blueprints? Really? C++ is the master language.

nice locks on that door in the background. paranoid much?

oh,god,make indie game is so damn hard.i barely cant do it anymore after 6 months struggle.thank you for this video,it makes me feel better.

I love this video keep slaying lads one day at a time!!

It encouraged me 😂 that sure is funny and it seems easy. ty

Super talk that is appliable to other domain of development too.