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Just learning the whole Actor framework is being deprecated as well lmao. Just so much knowledge base and educational resource for Unreal being killed off in favour of Ai Sloppified Roblox metaverse dollars

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 17/06/2026

The thought of having to learn all this prompt generation shit for level design/game mechanics prototyping is nauseating. The reality that I might have to learn that awful workflow in a couple of years to keep a designer industry job using Unreal is fucked. What a shitshow

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as predicted! There will be literally no point in anyone installing UE6 I would say "unless they roll back the AI and Verse shit", but that's the whole thing. We're only 8 versions into UE5, UE4 got to 27. UE6 is illegitimate, it's not anything *but* a product of ai psychosis

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Aura @aurahack.ca · 17/06/2026

all of the UE6 stuff is really exciting news if your idea of a videogame is turning it into shitty Roblox-core slurry for Fortnite otherwise it's a pretty catastrophic misreading of the room, after indies successfully jumping ship from unity with the promise you actually care about developers

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Guess all of us who hate this path will just never upgrade beyond 5.8 lol

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I know this is all a big push towards their plans to chase the shitty genAI/LLM prompt pipeline money, but it really fucking sucks that enshittification or straight up removal of beloved features has reached all middleware game engines

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Blueprints have been probably one of the defining features of the engine that’s made it extremely accessible for artists and designers to build things themselves, and I’d argue allowed it to become the most popular mainstream engine. Baffling to remove that and drive people away

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Arran Seaton @arranseaton.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

UE6 deprecating Blueprints really is a fucking dumb move. It’s been a core skill for designers using the engine for the last 10+ years. No one is currently using Verse for full production and training everyone up is going to be time consuming and costly. Just really stupid

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Scythe continues to be one of the best plugins you can get for Unreal as a designer!

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Kronok @kronok.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I've just released the newest update to my Unreal Engine level editor called Scythe. Here's what's new... 🧵

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Arran Seaton @arranseaton.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I’ve been dying to get a Steam Deck, but I’m glad I held out for this thing because the ergonomic grips make it sooo comfy. Also I’ll be installing Bazzite on it, so best of both worlds 😊

Arran Seaton @arranseaton.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Scythe just keeps getting better! Texture/UV locking whilst transforming meshes, face nudging, rotating and scaling edges while extruding! youtu.be/60oCCLF9MBo?... #gamedev #indiedev #UE5 #unrealengine

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What's New in Scythe 0.7.0

YouTube video by Scythe Editor

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Arran Seaton @arranseaton.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I’m simply too tired of waiting for whatever Your Party is. They fumbled the bag so unbelievably badly and I fear they’ll never sort their shit out

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Arran Seaton @arranseaton.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Only a matter of time this happened

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Arran Seaton @arranseaton.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Sand boarding is much harder than skateboarding, at least initially, stacked it loads trying to stand up going down the dunes lol

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Arran Seaton @arranseaton.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I am having fun in Australia 😎

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Arran Seaton @arranseaton.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Life is good. I met some Quokkas

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Arran Seaton @arranseaton.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

The ravens in Australia sound like weirdos

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Arran Seaton @arranseaton.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Turns out this hotel is very close by to the famous Holiday Inn photos that always get circulated (Heathrow T4). This didn’t have a fake ceiling tho

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Arran Seaton @arranseaton.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Just dripping in style, genuinely sold on playing it even though traditional MOBAs aren’t my thing

Arran Seaton @arranseaton.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Deadlock has some of the most wonderful UI and character presentation I’ve ever seen youtu.be/3Dq5iYw0TWQ?...

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Deadlock - New Character Select Screen

YouTube video by FullSelfGaming

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Arran Seaton @arranseaton.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

By popular demand (me, I demanded it!!) you can now kick enemies through windows/into breakables #gamedev #indiedev #UE5

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Arran Seaton @arranseaton.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

It’s so fun! That’s been a huge motivation for me, to add silly fun things that keeps players entertained

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Arran Seaton @arranseaton.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Getting to a point where it’s really fun to mess with the AI in silly ways! #gamedev #indiedev #UE5

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Arran Seaton @arranseaton.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Just found out Geowizard who does the lovely ‘cross this place in a straight line’ videos has kind of openly voiced support for Reform. Wtf dude

Arran Seaton @arranseaton.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Immediately looks better with the forward movement and better screenshake! Getting there! (The combo can be done quicker, just doing it slow to demo 😎)

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Arran Seaton @arranseaton.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Haha yeah, one of their first things I added in was diving destroying breakables! Gotta make diving through windows cool of course 😎

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Arran Seaton @arranseaton.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Will eventually add a sprinting melee attack that instantly knocks them off their feet, and have it so diving into them knocks them over too!

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Arran Seaton @arranseaton.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Still need to add a bunch of things like forward movement, camera work and specific impact sounds but it’s fun already!

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Arran Seaton @arranseaton.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Have finally got a very rudimentary 3-hit melee combo for another non-lethal option! #gamedev #indiedev #UE5

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Arran Seaton @arranseaton.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Very funny you can see the absolute void in my GitHub submissions for my stealth project in the summer because it’s been actually nice weather in the UK lol

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Arran Seaton @arranseaton.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

The Minecraft x Superman DLC is out today! I did a bunch of design work on this - primarily the LuthorCorp mission - when I was freelancing with Oreville Studios! Final product looks great 😻 youtu.be/E4Ba84ak570?...

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Minecraft x Superman DLC

YouTube video by Minecraft

Arran Seaton @arranseaton.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

@kronok.bsky.social has managed to create with Scythe so far, easily the best UE5 level design tool around. It’s so good I have purchased a bunch of 1 month’s Patreon access to Scythe for other Designers to try! Please get in touch if you’d like to try it out! #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev

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Showing a little more of the clipping tool to get you thinking about the possibilities. (4/6)

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Scythe is still heavily in development, but you can get the latest build on my Patreon as I develop it: scytheeditor.com (It'll be a paid plugin on Fab on release) Special thanks to @rms80.bsky.social for guiding me in the right direction when trying to figure this new update out. (6/6)

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Clipping Tool! If you've ever used a classic level editor, you've used something like this. Cuts through stuff (multiple meshes or just the selected face(s) of a mesh). Once again, dynamic mesh operators are the real winner here. Super fun to play with. (3/6)

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Mirror Tool! I created a new "drag out a line" mechanic that acts as the mirror plane. You can manipulate the points or drag the whole mirror around. What I love about the mirror dynamic mesh operator in UE is you can have merge the meshes together along the mirror line. (2/6)

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