Big news: I’ve been hired to build a game.
The Last Safehouse did its job. They were impressed with what I managed to build, to that quality, within the time limit - and now I’m making them a simple multiplayer game based on the same premise.
No updates or jams for a while 🙁
So far this week its been UI after UI.
Menus, HUD systems, widgets, layouts, polish, bugs, and then bugs caused by the polish.
I have officially had enough. No more UI please.
I need to go make doors, guns, or explosions do something stupid. 😅
Wow, blast from the past…
Been digging through some old UE4 work while gathering ideas for HUD development. It’s wild seeing how much the interface changed going into UE5… and now UE6 has been announced.
And just look at the resource difference between the two editors 👀
Reverse parking makes perfect sense.
Easier and safer to leave, better visibility when pulling out, and some sites prefer it for fire/emergency planning when cars face buildings.
And if you reverse in cleanly? That’s when passers-by give the silent nod: "that dude can park."
Why do people reverse into parking spaces?
At first it was one or two misdirected fools, now it's spreading like a disease.
It makes no sense. You are only making it so much harder for yourself, and everyone hates you as you block the road trying to get into the space.
Today is one of them days:
Low mood, in a lot of pain, feel like everything is pointless... Honestly feel like giving up 😔
When will life give me a break - just please 🙏 ...
My ultimate goal with this game is actually really simple: I just want at least one person to play it and genuinely enjoy it. Not millions of downloads, just one person who has loves what I made. That would already mean the world to me🙏
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I hate spiders with a vengeance.
Show me a house spider and I'll evacuate the building and potentially burn it down...
Show me a jumping spider and suddenly I'm its personal bodyguard. "Careful, little buddy, don't fall off that leaf." 🕷️😂
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Survival Needs System is now 70% OFF on Fab!
Health, hunger, thirst, starvation, dehydration, regen, events, configs, save/load support - all the survival basics without the usual “why is this broken at 2am?” nonsense.
Grab it here:
fab.com/listings/63f1eb83-8b…#UnrealEngine#UE5
New @fab assets are here.
Sci-fi station. Grid inventory. Survival tools.
So now the dangerous question begins:
what can I turn this into for the 2-week game challenge?
Abandoned station repair sim? Salvage run? Space survival chaos?
Hmmm… 😅
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In a 2-week game jam, spending days making promo art means half the jam disappears into polishing pixels instead of building.
AI lets me move faster.
For proper key art or unique polished work, I’d hire/work with an artist. For throwaway promo art?
Ehhh. Tools are tools.
Creators have always used tools. Cameras, Photoshop, Canva, templates, plugins, engines, presets and yet somehow civilisation survived.
The disrespect isn’t using AI.
The disrespect is pretending workflow matters more than the final work.
New @fab drop day.
Three new free assets are coming, which means it’s time to turn whatever chaos appears into another game.
I’ve done it twice now.
One was built in 4 days.
One actually turned out decent.
So naturally… we go again. 😅
Let’s see what today brings.
Also - if you want to be part of this one, join the Northfall Games Discord..
Everyone who joins during the jam gets their name added somewhere in the game.
Credits, supporter wall, suspicious graffiti on a toilet door… depends what the assets give me.
discord.gg/BaBpQDJQhe
Milestone unlocked.
Epic Account Services is now configured, linked, and published for Northfall Games.
Not the flashy side of game dev, but these are the systems that quietly make everything else possible.
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Whatever you’re working on, no matter how difficult it feels, keep going. Keep learning, keep improving, and don’t lose sight of why you started. Even when the world feels heavy or progress feels slow, every step you take is still building something in you. Stay encouraged - it’s all shaping you for your own growth and benefit.
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New devlog is up:
The Last Safehouse - Learning Journey Log.
The 2-week jam is complete, the game is shipped, and this is an honest look at what I learned building it around real life, scope creep, messy Blueprints, and all.
northfall-games.itch.io/the-…#Gamedev#SoloDev#IndieDev
The First Safehouse Survivors reward is now live🧟
Early supporters can have their chosen name added as graffiti-style writing inside the safehouse in a planned future update - a little mark that says you survived here.
20 spots available.
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