Aarkun | Devlog | Indie MMORPG | April Update — Site Launch & Patreon
This update is a shorter one and steps away from systems and code for a moment. April brought two things I've been planning for a while: Aarkun finally has its…
Aarkun | Devlog #92 | Indie MMORPG | March Update (Part 3)
https://youtu.be/nNxURcmmMWM?si=9x_SL6vO5hLxzuWx Another small update, in early April we also created the primary site for Aarkun! About | Aarkun Welcome to Part 3 of the March update. After the crafting demo…
Aarkun | Devlog #91 | Indie MMORPG | March Update (Part 2)
https://youtu.be/OOqYl4ac8ak?si=7apTOyEGhZBITZBl Welcome back to another Aarkun dev log. In Part 2 of the March update, we're diving into three big areas of progress: the new smithing and crafting system, a…
Aarkun | Devlog #90 | Indie MMORPG | March Update (Part 1)
https://youtu.be/Y4q2ZnjARSw?si=4ebZJKdN0x0X9zaS This update covers the current state of the project, what’s been worked on over the past couple of months, and some of the systems that are starting to come…
UE5 MMO Devlog 89 – Aarkun project – Environment and story update
https://youtu.be/dYMEojW1RQI?si=ltVm-Lniti4XUQhj This update focuses on the environment and narrative progression of the game, specifically the development of the starter island where players begin their journey. Over the past few months,…
UE5 MMO Devlog 88 – Finding developers for your UE project
https://youtu.be/9uH0YEk96iA?si=X27H6aPAzzLBcBKV In this update, I wanted to step away from pure gameplay systems and talk about something equally important when building a project: finding developers. Over the past month or…
UE5 MMO Devlog 87 – Aarkun project – Faming weapon imbue
https://youtu.be/Oiwrcq0sqxI?si=YeBKPmE35QYRh3Sg In this update, I’ve been working on introducing a new system for weapon imbues. This is one of several features developed over the past month, and it lays the…
UE5 MMO Devlog 86 – Refactoring character to C++
https://youtu.be/3DFn_mfCq2A?si=c32ygZ_hrasbdLaG Hey everyone — it’s been about a month since the last update, and quite a lot has changed behind the scenes. This post focuses on one of the biggest…
UE5 MMO Devlog 85: Potions overview
https://youtu.be/2LR6Np7vEmQ?si=5aszKURVsEM0rMrd In this update I introduce Potions into the game. These are new 'Consumable' Item types. Potions required several considerations: how to define potion effects in scalable manner enable stacking…
UE MMO Devlog 84: Introducing new fighter/mage defensive rages
https://youtu.be/05IXXKQYgcM?si=741NwHpQ7f5bQeW8 Over the past few weeks, I was working on removing the kafka dependency from the custom server solution. Instead I am starting to use GRPC to communicate between nodes.…