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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Today I crested 10K titles viewed in my Steam discovery queue. 💪

Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Fun with spooky lighting for #screenshotsaturday. Fun fact: I made a component that causes any actor -- like this lighting rig -- to follow the viewport camera. No need to fiddle with un/possessing or piloting an actor. :) #unrealengine #procgen #usability #dungeoncrawler

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

This is a pretty big hobby milestone for me-- a real corridor & chamber solution that works with PCG partitions. Now I can experiment with more interesting generators for the corridors and chambers themselves, and interior/exterior features. #PCGEx #procgen #UnrealEngine #dungeoncrawler

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

💡 Today's insight: "timberpunk." I don't know why this didn't occur to me earlier but it captures in one word much of the #Thief adjacent aesthetic I've had in my head for my dungeon crawling game. And it gets #ChatGPT closer to my target than anything else I've tried.

An AI-generated concept screenshot depicting a "timberpunk" dungeon crawling game.

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Maybe the name of my future video game studio. Vault Alarm Games.

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

I've spent SO much longer on this than I thought I would, mostly 'cause I'm braindead by the time I find time to work on this during the week. Behold: a web generated with #PCG hierarchical generation. Thanks to @nebukam.bsky.social for the quick turnaround on a #PCGEx bugfix! ❤️ #UnrealEngine

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I think maybe you have an over-aggressive robots.txt file preventing BlueSky from grabbing snippets?

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

#Witcher in Concert at the Colonial Theater in Boston! 🎻

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

So many books have questions for titles. Why don't games?

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Different take: This photo reminds me of using #UnrealEngine.

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Too many productivity apps design their menus like bookstores arrange books.

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

More fun with #procgen in #UnrealEngine. Getting a feel for using high-order grid data to drive low-order grid data. This started as me wanting a way to create corridors in my #dungeoncrawler.

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Late for #ScreenshotSaturday but I realized a way to redesign my "hull builder" to be much simpler and performant. #UnrealEngine #dungeoncrawler #procgen

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Low-key #DungeonCrawler inspiration: robotic vacuumming. 🧹

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

This week on the highway signs in Albany. 🤣 #MayThe4th

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Pleasantly simple graph. :)

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Been playing around with hierarchical generation. This is ~4hrs work. It's pretty simple; every cell has a chance of spawning a) zero-to-two walls with optional torches, and b) a floor. Had to tweak the fog *hard* to get it to hide the pop-in/out. 😇 #UnrealEngine #PCG #DungeonCrawler

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

In today's episode of "ChatGPT helps me figure out a home networking setup"...

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

#Oblivion dungeon crawling inspired me to play with #UnrealEngine a bit. I now understand what point lights' "Source Radius" property does. This path tracing render is good, but looks a little plastic compared to the noise I'm used to from real-time rendering. :)

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I got it in my head that I wanted to visualize #UnrealEngine #PCG hierarchical generation volumes. It was trickier than I thought and educational about some rookie mistakes you can make that overwhelm the system with unneeded data.

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Share your favorite facial expressions in film.

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

If you could commission one fictional character to fix the current US political problems, who would it be?

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Today I learned you can automatically de-optimize works in progress when building code in #UnrealEngine by adding some flags to UnrealBuildTool's BuildConfiguration.xml. See dev.epicgames.com/documentatio... for more detail.

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I'm tinkering with an idea for a data field that represents the overall directionality of nearby geometry. The idea is to allow PCG graphs to sample any point in space and use the data to create content with a similar directional "tension" as surrounding geometry. #UnrealEngine #procgen #techart

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I think I stopped blinking around hour 4. #DiggingAHole

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

@jitspoe.bsky.social #KOOK vibes in the weirdest places. (Cafe Madison in Albany, NY)

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

A friend of mine and I once finished the T2 arcade game. We probably spent $50 in quarters on that achievement.

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

In high school my favorite greasy spoon had a Galaga cocktail cabinet on which I became a rather competent Galaga player.

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I remember Strider's graphics and gameplay captivating me whenever I saw it in an arcade.

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Just posted SimpleSurface, a quality-of-life plugin for #UnrealEngine that makes it easier to apply simple colors to mesh actors. (I've always wanted an easier way to simply change a blockout mesh's color without the plumbing of throwaway materials.) github.com/object01/Sim...

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I'm at an event full of influencers, and it occurs to me, we probably inhabit different social apps.

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

This is the first time I've ever gotten #VampireSurvivors to hitch on my phone. Using the Cave Troll of all things. I feel like this ought to unlock something.

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Uhh... fuck off and back on again?

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I'm using some of my free time to see how I feel about maybe doing some #voiceover work. Enough people have suggested I try it that I feel the universe is trying to tell me something. 🤔 Today I got a basic setup going with Audacity and a condenser mic I got for my kiddo years ago. 🎙️

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

This makes me think more about Spaceballs than Pokemon.

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Jeff Stewart @object01.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Gamedevs, post your first shipped game and your latest shipped game.

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