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Dec 27 '25

🕹️ Game Designer or Game Developer? Don’t Decide Too Early

#beginners #gamedev #gamechallenge #design

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Dec 28 '25

🎮 Day 2 – Foundation for Game Designers

#design #gamedev #computerscience #gamechallenge

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Dec 29 '25

🎮 Day 3 – Understanding GDD (Game Design Document)

#design #documentation #opensource #gamedev

1 min read

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Dec 30 '25

🎮 Learning Game Development – Day 4

#webdev #cpp #gamedev #devops

2 min read

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Dec 31 '25

🎮 Learning Game Development – Day 5 Basics of Color Theory

#gamedev #devplusplus #beginners #design

2 min read

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Jan 1

I thought materials in Unreal Engine were just about colors. I was wrong. They’re more about logic than visuals.

#gamedev #computerscience #resources #gamechallenge

2 min read

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Jan 2

🎮 Learning Game Development – Day 7

#gamedev #developer #programming #godotengine

2 min read

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Jan 3

🎮 Learning Game Development – Day 8

#gamedev #software #cpp #gamechallenge

2 min read

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Jan 4

🎮 Learning Game Development – Day 9

#gamedev #cpp #webdev #beginners

2 min read

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Jan 5

Understanding Starter Content and Selection Mode in Unreal Engine (Day 10)

#beginners #devjournal #gamedev

2 min read

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Jan 6

Actor Panel and Landscape Tool Basics in Unreal Engine (Day 11)

#gamedev #unrealengine #beginners #learning

2 min read

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Jan 7

Learning Landscape Heightmaps and Sculpting Tools in Unreal Engine (Day 12)

#gamedev #unrealengine #beginners #learning

2 min read

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Jan 8

Learning the Foliage Tool in Unreal Engine (Day 13)

#gamedev #unrealengine #beginners #learning

2 min read

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Jan 9

Creating Materials in Unreal Engine 5 and Understanding ORM Textures (Day 14)

#gamedev #unrealengine #beginners #learning

2 min read

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Jan 10

How I Turned a Static Character into a Moving One in Unreal Engine

#gamedev #unrealengine #beginners #animation

2 min read

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Jan 11

Why My First Animation Blueprint Didn’t Work in Unreal Engine

#gamedev #unrealengine #beginners #animation

2 min read

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Jan 12

How Speed Finally Made My Character Feel Alive

#gamedev #unrealengine #beginners #animation

2 min read

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Jan 17

Material vs Material Instance: My Beginner Realization

#gamedev #unrealengine #beginners #resources

2 min read

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Jan 18

Why My Video Screen Was Black in Unreal Engine

#gamedev #unrealengine #beginners #learning

2 min read

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Jan 19

Why My Landscape Textures Looked Repetitive in Unreal Engine

#gamedev #unrealengine #resources #learning

2 min read

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Jan 20

Migrate vs Import in Unreal Engine Finally Made Sense

#gamedev #unrealengine #learning #beginners

2 min read

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Jan 22

Unreal Engine Lighting Confused Me Until I Saw the Big Picture

#gamedev #unrealengine #learning #beginners

2 min read

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Jan 23

PCG Looked Complex Until I Understood This One Thing

#gamedev #unrealengine #learning #beginners

2 min read

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Jan 26

I Thought Optimization Was Hard — Turns Out It’s About Cleanup

#gamedev #beginners #learning #unrealengine

2 min read

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Jan 27

Print String Saved Me More Than Any Other Debug Tool

#gamedev #unrealengine #beginners #learning

2 min read