Long time no update again, there goes my promise of updating more regularly :) It is quite hard to find the time with all the other things I am doing. I made some changes to the site. I removed a directory with images that were normally no longer used (I hope) and I fixed a few broken images and bits of text that messed up when it got ported over to Wordpress. I also moved all large images back from the secondary host to the host the website itself is on too, after someone complained he could not see the externally referenced images. They should also load faster now. Let me know if some images ported over incorrectly. I am currently working on… Read More

I finally found time again to write a new tutorial, on Eastern of all days. The new tutorial is about Texture Optimization and talks about lowering the memory footprint of your 2D assets in the UE3/UDK. I intend to finally go over the 3 material tutorials whenever I find time again, as those are desperately in need of an update. I also wrote up a post mortem on the things we did for the Portal 2 ARG/Potato Sack. There is quite a big section in it about the level we did. Read More

Sorry, long time since the last update. There goes my idea of updating regularly :) I also still got those interviews around I have still yet to post. Too many other things to do. I have recently held two talks on UDK at Stockholm University, and I have also held one at Nacka Highschool, south Stockholm. Two fellow Dutchmen, both from the Renegade X team, have also spent a few days at my place to get some more in-depth knowledge on Unreal. Furthermore my website has known some problems over the past two weeks but those have now all been resolved. The site has moved servers, and I now finally have… Read More

Over the past few months I have been teaching at Future Games in central Stockholm, and after a three months of introductory classes the students got to make their first game, using the UDK. The students had some serious limitations imposed on them:

Five students a team. 3 Artists. 2 Designers. No programmers!These games were done with no or very little UnrealScript and it shows how powerful and artist-friendly the Unreal Engine is!

For many this was the very first game they made. Most of them had no or very little prior experience with game development.

They had only… Read More