https://www.landnavgame.com/home daily 1.0 2023-12-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/d679c378-c1c7-4074-854c-e1229e7a8a5b/Screenshot+%2810%29.png LANDNAV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/db2ba344-94a7-42cb-959d-73e59b9b7eb4/20220112211955_1.jpg LANDNAV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/4aca4966-e4cd-4990-8b12-91e19f8bf6ef/20220112211853_1.jpg LANDNAV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/86e4b6c7-9c52-4f33-817e-78673f91d8ed/screen+%289%29.jpg LANDNAV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/312a6bf3-4292-458e-a457-ff855080a6b4/Screenshot+%2855%29.png LANDNAV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/5f34ab64-a36a-4c91-a4b3-655ec17b236a/20220112212259_1.jpg LANDNAV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/1abea211-a94b-4704-ba57-ccdbcd64d5c9/HighresScreenshot00000.png LANDNAV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/e64b610a-3133-410b-92f2-2a065e3d1a20/ScreenShot00018.png LANDNAV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/d9446818-1839-47c7-ba13-1b8ed6c7b3d4/ScreenShot00015.png LANDNAV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/4addaf25-a2a2-46fd-9658-b06d9efbb8f8/ScreenShot00008.png LANDNAV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/677340ad-55da-4401-96e0-c07ff3948e53/ScreenShot00039.png LANDNAV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/6fe38df1-b63f-4bb0-96ca-47d05f870faf/ScreenShot00035.png LANDNAV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/6680064b-b903-4d7e-bf95-6fe419c58518/ScreenShot00034.png LANDNAV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/607efab4-da9a-49de-a629-d5469caab5ce/ScreenShot00025.png LANDNAV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/1d6523d5-de09-42d0-bc9f-1858724149c0/ScreenShot00017.png LANDNAV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/d4737b47-56f7-45b7-8e7f-f4b2b6ee7955/ScreenShot00023.png LANDNAV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/a2c30a8f-5132-4741-bbc5-5908e7628f2c/ScreenShot00027.png LANDNAV https://www.landnavgame.com/unityvsunreal daily 0.75 2022-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/b95ca3db-8a9f-471f-a7ce-3e00c032574d/alex-javor-campaign-screen.jpg One Game, Two Engines - Unity Versus Unreal - Make it stand out My first game: “To Battle! Hell’s Crusade”, a turn based wargame with medieval flair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/8c383980-8a9e-4d46-a29e-2511e2a0eecc/screen+%28112%29.png One Game, Two Engines - Unity Versus Unreal - Make it stand out Early development in Unreal 4. Very quickly the graphics looked nice and performance never became an issue. Compromises that previously had to be made were no longer a concern. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/e5c50ddd-ff87-441d-8894-5d3c75bfa689/Screenshot+2021-12-21+185810.jpg One Game, Two Engines - Unity Versus Unreal - Make it stand out My After Action Review Sequence logic in Unreal Blueprint. Some people don’t like visual scripting. They complain that you end up with spaghetti code. Not if you are organized. And even if you are a bit messy, you still can click a noodle and it highlights to show where it is going. This is what makes visual scripting so powerful. You don’t have to waste any mental energy holding a complex architecture in your head. You can see it in a physical, easy to understand way. It’s like the difference between memorizing books and having a library. This empowers you to rapidly create game logic so that you can get in the creative zone faster and stay there longer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/78175530-02e5-467d-ae23-4f3f16abc6ad/Annotation+2020-01-19+190843.jpg One Game, Two Engines - Unity Versus Unreal - Make it stand out In Unity I could make the game look good. But if it looked good, performance tanked. https://www.landnavgame.com/creating-a-compass daily 0.75 2022-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/408e2957-dd6e-456e-8c46-9b8815082089/ScreenShot00006.png Creating a Compass - Make it stand out My original compass model in game. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/a2500a6d-569c-416c-b09d-b55da29f21c0/IMG-0607.jpg Creating a Compass - Make it stand out The reference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/23c0e980-4673-45ce-972c-f90aff6f1981/frank-oczus-jr-lensaticcompass-5.jpg Creating a Compass - Make it stand out Franks improved model. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/e2a1519e-9962-4cf5-b464-91d14ee72802/Screenshot+2021-12-21+112306.jpg Creating a Compass - Make it stand out My solution in Unreal blueprint https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/2ea93efa-2220-4227-b60b-635ce7d303fa/screen+%28208%29.png Creating a Compass - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.landnavgame.com/creating-an-accurate-topographic-map daily 0.75 2022-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/6a2ef0e5-b89f-4267-9547-0ce132fb1891/Annotation+2020-04-29+181737.jpg Creating an accurate topographic map - Make it stand out A manually sliced up mesh terrain, baked with a material ID map in Marmoset Toolbag. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/aac6343f-85df-4b43-9f6c-043adb018a46/color+map+with+elevation.png Creating an accurate topographic map - Make it stand out Processing in Photoshop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/4a5fc635-58c1-4971-8c8e-86bc9e883d40/Screenshot+%2824%29.png Creating an accurate topographic map - Make it stand out The playable area of the game world is 4x4km. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/5b7612da-716a-41fc-a967-d4d3c19dba46/topomap.png Creating an accurate topographic map - Make it stand out Contour lines processed in photoshop from the rainbow image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/0458eab8-b236-4001-930d-623cf41a8f50/topomapColor.png Creating an accurate topographic map - Make it stand out Rainbow topology image output from World Creator. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/e40b0612-35ea-4a43-84bf-3c4b64531e30/Screenshot+%2825%29.png Creating an accurate topographic map - Make it stand out I scale the same map player uses to match the terrain size. Then I can ensure that everything is perfectly accurate. https://www.landnavgame.com/the-character-controller daily 0.75 2022-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/a2fcc074-48b4-4ecc-b998-8eab0c4ce3f0/Screenshot+%2829%29.png The Character Controller - Make it stand out The new third person character is modeled with the same gear I used when I did landnav training in the Army (mid 2000’s). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/d6f9c799-c08e-40c2-b3a0-d876caee7ffa/Screenshot+%2836%29.png The Character Controller - Make it stand out The Debugger function prints updates to the screen which allow me to see how the Stamina and Imperfect Movement System are operating at run time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/83d276af-4f48-4634-be03-4adfd28f3385/Screenshot+%2833%29.png The Character Controller - Make it stand out Parts of the Imperfect Movement System in Unreal Blueprint. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/c7761a4b-f08e-4bf3-8d4d-b7129e048ceb/ScreenShot00019.jpg The Character Controller - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/73fa996a-8851-4e7d-a1f4-27114e885fca/Screenshot+%2834%29.png The Character Controller - Make it stand out The “Test Zone” map features all sorts of obstacles I use to quickly test new features. Here a giant ramp lets me debug the Stamina System. https://www.landnavgame.com/gamedevdecisiontemplate daily 0.75 2022-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/bca167fc-5ce4-4314-84a6-1a2590e5f878/Screenshot+2022-01-13+120639.png GameDev Decision Making template - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/fd76ce88-13b3-4b74-ad6c-ee19b1ed0efa/Screenshot+2022-01-13+122549.png GameDev Decision Making template - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/7a53579c-e835-4626-89be-6487a0298c5b/Screenshot+2022-01-13+130506.png GameDev Decision Making template - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/705ae115-c10b-4680-8482-64482641c954/Screenshot+2022-01-13+132609.png GameDev Decision Making template - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.landnavgame.com/turning-it-into-a-game daily 0.75 2022-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/9066094d-069a-43f6-a16a-f8f02f25f1d2/Screenshot+%2855%29.png Turning it into a Game - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/b7fca702-2201-4368-b216-4d22ee6211e6/Screenshot+%2861%29.png Turning it into a Game - Make it stand out The mountains are an extreme place. You live, or you die. There is no inbetween. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/e05ae71b-cab9-43c1-94ae-e9b3de013a84/Screenshot+%28107%29.png Turning it into a Game - Make it stand out First test of new Dolomites environment, which is a total of 256 square kilometers, in preparation for longer, survival focused gameplay. https://www.landnavgame.com/refactoring-and-streamlining daily 0.75 2022-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/442a2e51-253a-42eb-89d2-e3913d68e370/Screenshot+2022-05-10+220150.png Refactoring and Streamlining - Make it stand out Work-in-progress of new UI layouts for orienteering style events. The Map will be automatically marked making this a bit easier to get into for newcomers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c0dcc59a4f8649c627bd5b/279cd87b-8f78-4500-8710-6a525e357583/Screenshot+2022-05-10+220107.png Refactoring and Streamlining - Make it stand out Work-in-progress on the Quick Menu. You’ll press SPACEBAR to toggle it, so getting around to use your tools or change equipment or check timers, etc, should be fast and not require memorization of any controls. https://www.landnavgame.com/update-september-2022 daily 0.75 2022-09-19 https://www.landnavgame.com/player-progression daily 0.75 2022-09-29