Unreal's World Partition: Internals

By Sam Bloomberg in unreal engine on

This is a sort of stream-of-consciousness document explaining how world partition works under the hood. This is not a general overview of world partition, nor is it an explanation of how to use world partition or terms used in the user-facing parts of it. See Epic's own docs…

Been Busy

By Sam Bloomberg in self on

Despite my desires to continue building out the various projects I work on in my free time, the reality is that I simply don't have the desire or drive to do so these days. That sounds like the lead-up to a post about depression (something I certainly have…

"Visual Horror": coming soon...

By Sam Bloomberg in project: visual horror on

This will be a very short experimental game. I originally built it to prototype an idea for a "monster" in a horror game that would try to get you to look at it, as it would only attack if it was visible. That turned into some puzzles that…

"Visual Horror" Prototype

By Sam Bloomberg in project: visual horror on

I've been working on a prototype for a horror game, based on the idea that you aren't allowed to look at the "monster". Some technical and design info after the video. CW for a jumpscare/loud noise at the very end of the video…

The importance of preset saves

By Sam Bloomberg in project: untitled-ue5 on

When building a game with any sort of progression you need a quick way to jump to various points of said progression. For a multiplayer FPS that might be having the ability to debug-drop weapons. For a 2d platformer that might just involve a level select. For some games it…