ArtStation is enabling default NoAI protections and partnering with Cloudflare to limit AI crawlers and content scraping.

After writing one article on how to speed up Unreal’s editor launch by not spawning 38000 tooltips and one on how to speed it up further by not opening 5500 files and getting the described fi…

NextBroom, your trusty idtechx Map editor.

Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’...

Normally, if a developer complains that “naming stuff is hard,” they are talking about the difficulty of finding a good name that is descriptive, clear, and unambiguous. But sometimes, …

One of the quirks that Unreal beginners are often irritated by is the fact that the Unreal editor has not only one, but two log windows. The more commonly used one is called ‘Output Log&#8217…

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We've been working on replacing the Asset Library with something built for the present and future. Here's what's coming.

Normally, if a developer complains that “naming stuff is hard,” they are talking about the difficulty of finding a good name that is descriptive, clear, and unambiguous. But sometimes, …

Reverse engineering the traffic system from Pizza Tycoon (1994): how the original devs drove dozens of cars through a city with almost no CPU budget.

Due to some lucky circumstances, I recently had the chance to appear in one of the biggest German gaming podcasts, Stay Forever, to talk about the technology of RollerCoaster Tycoon (1999). It was …

A system freeze led us deep into Linux spinlock internals, where we helped find not one but three bugs in the kernel's resilient locking code used by eBPF.

Unreal plugin to save energy by reducing max fps and screen percentage when no input is detected or the window loses focus. Based on https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/reducing-fortnites-power-consumpti...