I like to do personal journaling ‘out in the open’, so in case anyone is feeling archaeological in the future (as I’ve been with lowlight, the creator of Arknights, as well as the CEOs of MiHoYo) when I hopefully make a legacy for myself, people can come to these obscure areas and get to know more about me from the start of my journey to build that very same legacy.
I have to use UE5 because it’s a requirement to be comfortable with for my game design course I’ll be doing in college, but I’ve already done 2 years previously in Unity and UE4 after high school while I still wasn’t sure this was the path I wanted to take in life.
It took a couple of years of being lost and losing everything I learned, but I’m back to start from pretty much scratch and finally get my dream job.
(PS, I’ll probably include details of my progress using other programs like blender, not just UE5.)
I enjoy making YT videos, so I’ll probably journal that way too, and livestreaming is also a good way of playing a numbers game of watching the amount of time spent streaming being equal to the amount of time self-studying, so I want that number to go up a lot.
I say this as if I have experience with going through a journey from start to finish to know how I like to attempt it, but honestly I have started and failed so many attempts without a single one succeeding - so, I’m only really experienced with just startings.
Anyways, my dream is to one day work in a gacha game company and write my own compendium for my lifelong franchise.
Although I live and breathe storytelling, it’s often easy to forget that life isn’t just about art. Art is a depiction of real things, so it in itself isn’t real. My ultimate goal is to make something truly real, to turn these dreams into a reality. I know I’m saying a lot for someone who just began, but I want to get my thoughts down now so I don’t feel like I have to explain the same thing again in the future behind why I make certain decisions that may not be ‘reasonable’ but are without a doubt sensible.
This is my personal/alt Epic Games account where I hope to just learn how the engine works and do attempts at mechanics that I’ll later copy over to more serious projects on my main account that includes my main portfolio pieces.
My first major project goal is intended to be vertical slice of the combat system inspired by Wuthering Waves (WuWa), I don’t know how long it’s going to take, but I want to go through the entire A-Z at least once on my own before I entire college again.
I want to organise this thread for giving daily updates on whatever it is I did in the day. The larger the list of dot points, the better.
So far, since it was the start of night when I began this OVER 9000th attempt to get a life, today I did:
- The “Introduction to Unreal Engine” tutorial project
