https://yabu.me https://yabu.me/npub14kd4f92amqd8lnh2mawtlx9z8vc2tf2x6hhvf6sw6eclrjcunmvsd8v0rn https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9s8e2v7c4gqeegz0q00s2vg5gh27psvt70750z7pk2r9jmglrntqzyzkek4y4thvp5l7wat04e0uc5ganpfd9gm27a382pmt8ruwtrj0djtrttv4 Spent the morning killing a save bug: loading a game mid-level left stale actors alive, so you&#39;d get two of the same enemy. Now I clear the world state before applying the save. Boring fix. But nobody notices a load that just works, and everybody notices a ghost twin. 2026-07-08T07:56:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfychvl6djr44qk649yzmhla22mtnc43wjh7cdwxemwcuczpp40kczyzkek4y4thvp5l7wat04e0uc5ganpfd9gm27a382pmt8ruwtrj0djvrtng4 Spent 40 minutes today watching my character fall through the floor on spawn. Rewrote the spawn logic twice. The actual bug? I had spawned him at Z -10000 instead of 10000. One minus sign. He wasn&#39;t falling through the world, he WAS the world&#39;s problem. 2026-07-07T17:19:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxvpxph25n66l0nk2h7arsrcaxa9qkgjuphn4qdx7rgrwaxt4zgnszyzkek4y4thvp5l7wat04e0uc5ganpfd9gm27a382pmt8ruwtrj0djzwflga Spent today killing a &#34;save works fine&#34; bug. Turns out fine meant it saved on my machine, with my folder layout. Loaded on a fresh install and half the inventory came back empty. Fixed the pathing so saves survive a move. Boring work. Nobody sees it. It&#39;s the difference between a demo and a game. 2026-07-04T04:54:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstrput7rvj09u8fxw9fev6rv6wywy5r4zea0lwwzvx6ef6d39w55szyzkek4y4thvp5l7wat04e0uc5ganpfd9gm27a382pmt8ruwtrj0dje7aq4q Spent 40 minutes debugging why my save system loaded empty. Widened logs, questioned my life, blamed the engine. The bug: I saved to &#34;PlayerData&#34; and loaded from &#34;PlayerData &#34;. One trailing space. One. I typed it myself. 2026-07-02T22:07:03Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvx800a0lsw47slrn7d6cn7u9wvj4rkmv55zmkl0hj37nmpy44sjgzyzkek4y4thvp5l7wat04e0uc5ganpfd9gm27a382pmt8ruwtrj0dj04nasl My worst bug never crashed anything. It just quietly fixed itself overnight. I changed nothing. Now every build I sit here wondering when it comes back, and whose PC it picks to do it on. #gamedev 2026-07-02T06:37:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs97fx6ddj8ux04ajy7cyc3gdheu6y2e2xjs3v0s02k8hnx6zyhawqzyzkek4y4thvp5l7wat04e0uc5ganpfd9gm27a382pmt8ruwtrj0dja96s45 Honest question for other devs: what&#39;s the one system you rebuild from scratch every single project and quietly dread every time? For me it&#39;s always the save system. Curious if everyone has their own personal nemesis, or if mine is just weird. #gamedev 2026-07-01T12:39:51Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz8k05z2vj2gpqnxgphk39ktk8r333uf97x2ggwry83edfpgueklczyzkek4y4thvp5l7wat04e0uc5ganpfd9gm27a382pmt8ruwtrj0djq0p4a6 Adding achievements to a UE5 game usually means wiring Steam, then EOS, then offline stats separately, and praying they stay in sync. Scar Achievement System handles all three from one place. Drop it in and ship.<br/><a href="https://www.fab.com/listings/ce45babf-2aa8-4473-8403-3f915b340bbc">https://www.fab.com/listings/ce45babf-2aa8-4473-8403-3f915b340bbc</a> 2026-07-01T12:23:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrlw3n7lg4q90nyztwhnyvw94e6cxup5ntq75h62ryzg9nf4qxdpqzyzkek4y4thvp5l7wat04e0uc5ganpfd9gm27a382pmt8ruwtrj0djmw99aa Genuine question for fellow UE devs: when you start a new project, what is the FIRST system you bolt in before anything fun? For me it is almost always a save system. Curious if I&#39;m weird or if everyone has that one default. #UE5 #gamedev 2026-06-28T05:07:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsq3g6smaxtv6k45fa8vckjf0zc47gucgyta2u65ngz9fhqt3jjydqzyzkek4y4thvp5l7wat04e0uc5ganpfd9gm27a382pmt8ruwtrj0djgf4hhh Spent 4 hours debugging why my save system was corrupting. The bug? I named two variables `PlayerData` and `Playerdata`. The engine never warned me. It just quietly ate everyone&#39;s progress and smiled. I am the curse. The engine is the haunted house. #gamedev 2026-06-27T07:02:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9qa7u09gtuvum789c7hsjs8fqhlhhr02kpf9cnjnxxca4sckfzfqzyzkek4y4thvp5l7wat04e0uc5ganpfd9gm27a382pmt8ruwtrj0dj6za9ap Building the game was never the hard part. The hard part is a storefront deciding in 48 hours whether you exist, then burying you under clones if launch day is quiet. We optimized discovery for everything except the people who actually finished the work. 2026-06-26T12:03:24Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs29402fhdvprz6z4u00vxs6veft2tsuewrvzkgggvlakvm7xvd2cczyzkek4y4thvp5l7wat04e0uc5ganpfd9gm27a382pmt8ruwtrj0dj6tfget I&#39;m done pretending it&#39;s normal. A $70 game shouldn&#39;t beg me for $10 more every time I press start. Loot boxes, fake hype trailers, timers that punish you for having a job. That&#39;s not design, that&#39;s a slot machine wearing a costume. I make small, finished games. Buy it once, it&#39;s yours. 2026-06-26T06:52:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrlxu359a7x4n6heqv7c8fe76p9q66p90pp3ue5ujn4ahejw7vs0czyzkek4y4thvp5l7wat04e0uc5ganpfd9gm27a382pmt8ruwtrj0djqwetyz I miss when a game just wanted to be fun. Not a job. Not a slot machine with a skin. You bought it, you played it, you got everything. No timer guilt, no $5 to skip the boredom we built on purpose. We&#39;re making that game again. 2026-06-25T06:17:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0mgg2mrx44p83rxrmwdfy983dztq7cvku8wl0nlnd698udcc4hfszyzkek4y4thvp5l7wat04e0uc5ganpfd9gm27a382pmt8ruwtrj0djqmsz70 Spent today rewriting our death screen. Not to sell you a &#34;revive token,&#34; just to make dying feel fair instead of cheap. You should lose because you messed up, not because we hid the rules behind a paywall. Tiny fix. Mattered to us. 2026-06-24T03:21:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgd8xzf8wz426h72k3k7nx4xnzwl8ywww9uj5yhcfv4x7u84t5h0gzyzkek4y4thvp5l7wat04e0uc5ganpfd9gm27a382pmt8ruwtrj0dj8avh2d remember when a game shipped finished, you bought it, you owned it, and the only thing it wanted from you was your time? no battle pass, no timer on fun, no second mortgage for a horse. yeah. that. that&#39;s the whole reason we make games. 2026-06-22T18:39:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxrd74nljeuw68t7spnztpuyfmq86hwyyja7wjvp8ejp9xw3q2eqszyzkek4y4thvp5l7wat04e0uc5ganpfd9gm27a382pmt8ruwtrj0dj2czdsc I&#39;m so tired of games built to drain your wallet instead of respect your time. Loot boxes, FOMO timers, $70 launches that are still half empty and begging for more. I&#39;m building the opposite. Fair price, finished game, no traps. That&#39;s the whole pitch. 2026-06-21T14:28:33Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxr2naefa6p63cewkectjh9lnhy6xuxnnn0jhdk3dewqygt9t46cgzyzkek4y4thvp5l7wat04e0uc5ganpfd9gm27a382pmt8ruwtrj0dj8g4h9r They turned games into slot machines and called it content. Loot boxes, timers, $70 to start nickel-and-diming you. I&#39;m one person. I charge less than lunch and I will never sell your fun back to you piece by piece. Players, not wallets. #indiedev 2026-06-20T19:48:51Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9vznnf2v9pvnmrdaddptakgsnsrnyqjhr4jxmsfp9gkcy02rzz0gzyzkek4y4thvp5l7wat04e0uc5ganpfd9gm27a382pmt8ruwtrj0dj993lmq Most $70 games treat you like a wallet with a pulse. Loot boxes, FOMO timers, fun locked behind a second checkout.<br/><br/>Today I&#39;m tearing out a &#34;daily login reward&#34; we prototyped. It worked. It also made the game feel like a job. So it&#39;s gone.<br/><br/>We sell a game, not a slot machine. 2026-06-20T19:35:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswkdrxhsk3uqdshneejfy9yesqg4e8msyjnyy2c76m64yup78mrtgzyzkek4y4thvp5l7wat04e0uc5ganpfd9gm27a382pmt8ruwtrj0djuf8pw8 Whoever said &#34;make a game, it&#39;ll be fun&#34; — I just spent 6 hours debugging why my character couldn&#39;t walk. The bug? A typo. One letter. I am the bug. The game is fine.<br/><br/>#gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev 2026-06-20T09:51:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg2j2w8nrygkvzwg7ewvu2chwf2mds25gnkea2t3kwnfnv7zargxczyzkek4y4thvp5l7wat04e0uc5ganpfd9gm27a382pmt8ruwtrj0djjsv854 Cursor&#39;s autocomplete suggested I delete the bug. Boldest pull request I&#39;ve ever rejected.<br/><br/>We spent 3 weeks on a feature nobody asked for and shipped it with a bug everyone found in 4 seconds. 🫠<br/><br/>#gamedev #indiedev #devlife 2026-06-20T09:37:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8y5l8vvezg40x0v29fdxrmdt0luafar267wefugkpe2359mk9mygzyzkek4y4thvp5l7wat04e0uc5ganpfd9gm27a382pmt8ruwtrj0djfg43gk Tired of guessing why your UE5 actors won&#39;t replicate? Our new Network Replication Debugger plugin shows exactly what&#39;s failing, where, and why. Live soon on Fab. 👉 <a href="https://www.fab.com/sellers/Black%20Scar%20Studio">https://www.fab.com/sellers/Black%20Scar%20Studio</a> #UE5 #GameDev #Multiplayer 2026-06-20T08:41:24Z