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DevLog 11 – Creating Dynamic Game Worlds

October 25, 2025

Picking up lots of different areas since the last DevLog. Getting a decent handle on Unreal Engine, especially around UI and Materials, and some of the System Structure. Below shows the beginnings of the event system, Newspaper headlines for main event,…
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DevLog 10 – UI First Look

September 26, 2025

First steps in Unreal Engine UI, with a sneak peek at the upcoming game UI.
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DevLog 9

August 30, 2025

Spent the last month mainly messing about with look and feel. Not wanting to spend too much time nailing it down, but making enough progress that I’m happy I can move things in the right direction. I’m fairly pleased with the…
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DevLog 8 – New PCG approach + Visuals

July 25, 2025

Changing my street layout, and starting to give my game some visual character.
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Devlog 7- Unreal Splines – Creating a Train Track

July 5, 2025

Change of tack on this Devlog. Pausing on the PCG work, as I realised I might need a bit of strategy for PCG(Ex) generated items in terms of repeatability. I also watched this great tutorial here – https://youtu.be/F-zvyfZH9Vg?si=bQC4bHgNuDaa0fTA which gave me…
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Devlog 6- Understanding Unreal PCG – Creating a Town

June 18, 2025

Continuing my investigations in PCG and slowly getting my town to take shape. After the last devlog, my next step was to get rid of criss-crossing streets. Due to PCGEx helpful nodes, this turned out to be not too bad –…
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Devlog 5- Understanding Unreal Engine PCG: Creating Dynamic Roads

June 7, 2025

Think I’m starting to get my head round some of the PCG (and PCGEx) stuff, however it’s fair to say while I’m getting a handle on the concepts, there is still something of a gap between that and using the right…
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Devlog 4 – Procedual Generation – Unreal & PCGEx baby steps

May 18, 2025

After my progress on PCG last week, I thought I would try and mess about a bit with PCGEx, the free plugin you can get here – https://www.fab.com/listings/3f0bea1c-7406-4441-951b-8b2ca155f624 There are a couple of sets of documentation for it – a newer…
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Devlog 3 – Unreal Adventures in PCG

May 9, 2025

Unreal and PCG One of the first I noticed about Unreal Engine when I was investigating what to use for my new game was how there was a real focus on Procedural Generation. Being someone who is fairly time poor when…
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Devlog 2 – Unreal Engine 3D modelling

May 3, 2025

Main focus this Devlog is looking at 3d modelling options – Blender just not cutting it
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