Welcome to part 2 of this series. Check out part 1 if you haven’t already and are curious about how important money is. Today I want to talk about how I’m managing content for Mech Armada. But first, a story. Game engines are Good In the summer of 2004 I was working at Pyro Studios…
The Theory A 9-slice control is a way to render an image that has become very popular when building UI, with widespread support. It comes down to dividing an image in 9 regions and scaling them independently. See this Wikipedia article for more information. Why is this important? Consider this image: If we scale it…
When I started using Unreal I had experience with several in-house engines as well as Unity. There are a number of concepts that are common to almost all engines and, once you understand them, you come to expect them and rely on them. I couldn’t find a good resource that would break down how Unreal…
Why C++ I feel pretty comfortable in C++ and I want to have great performance in the games I make so, for me, using C++ while developing in Unreal Engine 4 was the way to go. I’m very impressed with what can be accomplished by using Blueprints alone: you have almost full access to everything…