Unreal "Typewriter" text block effect

I've spent way too long getting this right. It seems so simple to just have a letter appear every fraction of a second in a text block... and it is. At least until you start caring about details like line wrapping not breaking mid-effect and rich text support.…

Realtime turn-based AI

You know how in most forms of media (games, comics, movies, whatever) if a group of people gang up on the "hero" or player, they tend to attack one at a time? It's a pretty common trope [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MookChivalry], but…

Scripted Dialogue Sequences

I've been working on a prototype for a game in Unreal as a personal endeavor for around 8-9 months now. One of the systems I setup pretty early on was a way to very easily script cutscenes through blueprint. It's primarily based around writing textual dialogue,…

Complex dungeon generation

This was a post from my old blog. Some links/formatting/images may be out of date. I can't release the original source used for this (which was written in C++), but I have a very similar implementation in C# from a different project that I've…