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The Inflection Point Earlier this year I started work on an Unreal Engine 5 plugin with the goal of making development of deep systemic games and worlds as easy and editor-time-friendly as I could; more recently, I started making a little “God Game” sandb…

Cross-posted to Medium.

Ever since I picked up solo dev again, I’ve been far more active in analyzing how I work and more meticulous in reading the news outside my core circle and finding new ways to work smarter or more efficiently.

I have a pretty decent size collection of low-poly assets in my project base that, really, don’t need textures weighing them down as I haul them from program to program.

I’ve got another blog post in the queue but I’m trying to maintain a cadence so this one’s a hail mary for routine. workflows One of my main goals with my Unity setup — and I wish I could share it but I just rely on way too much non-open source content —…

You may have noticed a flurry of activity around the site the last couple of months.

“Git is great.

I’m currently converting a few dozen Megascan packages over to the format for my project and it made me realize my overwhelming desire for a tool that specializes in categorizing texture data and doing texture packing where it makes sense.

The Collection Search bar collection; I did little to nothing on most of these other than the organization and this post and all the work that went into discerning which Search Bars made the cut.

It’s been about seven years since I wrote-up a blog post so, but updates!

Rambles and Tangents on How I Quit Programming, Started Again, Quit Again, and Beyond Part one of this origin story can be found here.

A campfire story-time with Trent on learning C++ in Kalkaska, Michigan.

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