I am really busy with a hundred different things these days. Working on three different games, alternating daily between each of the games. Can't show anything just yet, but by summer it should all be ready, if not released even! Last year was a bit of a slow year, but this year I am getting back up to full speed! I am getting really good at mobile Unreal stuff also lately. I just managed to get large open high poly landscapes going on Ipad at 60 FPS, a mobile foliage system, smooth gradients with absolutely no sign of compression, normal mapping and pseudo specular without dynamic lights and with almost no performance impact, some cool usage… Read More

I've updated the Simple UDK Game tutorial to reflect recent changes in the engine, and I've written an all new tutorial for a brand new Kismet HUD/Interface system! This new system, written by Marko Permanto, and based on James Tan's UI Kismet system allows you to build, control, and animate menus and HUDs through nothing but Kismet!

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Last September I started my annual fall and winter lecturing at Future Games. Normally we start the school year by having the students create a couple of traditional board games, followed by a few months of regular teaching before we let them make their first full games. Contrary to previous years, we decided to throw them in the deep end right away this year and have them make their own games after just 3 days of teaching!

The objective was to create fully functional UDK iPad board games.

Brand new students with no or little prior knowledge.

They had just two… Read More