MMO development devlog — Unreal Engine, Java backend, ongoing build of Aarkun.https://unreal-mmo-dev.com/https://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2026/04/28/aarkun-devlog-indie-mmorpg-april-update-site-launch-patreon/https://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2026/04/28/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…Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:57:50 GMThttps://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2026/04/28/aarkun-devlog-92-indie-mmorpg-march-update-part-3/https://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2026/04/28/aarkun-devlog-92-indie-mmorpg-march-update-part-3/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 and…Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:49:22 GMThttps://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2026/04/28/aarkun-devlog-91-indie-mmorpg-march-update-part-2/https://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2026/04/28/aarkun-devlog-91-indie-mmorpg-march-update-part-2/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 proper…Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:38:49 GMThttps://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2026/04/28/aarkun-devlog-90-indie-mmorpg-march-update-part-1/https://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2026/04/28/aarkun-devlog-90-indie-mmorpg-march-update-part-1/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 together.…Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:31:54 GMThttps://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2026/04/28/ue5-mmo-devlog-87-aarkun-project-environment-and-story-update/https://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2026/04/28/ue5-mmo-devlog-87-aarkun-project-environment-and-story-update/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, a…Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:27:22 GMThttps://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2026/04/28/ue5-mmo-devlog-88-finding-developers-for-your-ue-project/https://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2026/04/28/ue5-mmo-devlog-88-finding-developers-for-your-ue-project/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 two,…Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:22:32 GMThttps://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2026/04/28/ue5-mmo-devlog-87-aarkun-project-faming-weapon-imbue/https://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2026/04/28/ue5-mmo-devlog-87-aarkun-project-faming-weapon-imbue/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 groundwork…Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:18:19 GMThttps://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2026/04/28/ue5-mmo-devlog-86-refactoring-character-to-c/https://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2026/04/28/ue5-mmo-devlog-86-refactoring-character-to-c/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 technical…Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:12:20 GMThttps://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2025/06/20/ue5-mmo-devlog-85-potions-overview/https://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2025/06/20/ue5-mmo-devlog-85-potions-overview/In this update I introduce Potions into the game. These are new ‘Consumable’ Item types. Potions required several considerations: First question is regarding Potion definitions. For this, I slightly adjusted…Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:30:25 GMThttps://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2025/06/20/ue-mmo-devlog-84-introducing-new-fighter-mage-defensive-rages/https://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2025/06/20/ue-mmo-devlog-84-introducing-new-fighter-mage-defensive-rages/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. This…Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:15:05 GMThttps://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2025/06/06/ue-mmo-devlog-83-introducing-better-aoe-handling/https://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2025/06/06/ue-mmo-devlog-83-introducing-better-aoe-handling/This is another progress update, where I added some new AoE skills and the ability to select the location for the AoE effect. In order to achieve this, I used…Fri, 06 Jun 2025 09:10:31 GMThttps://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2025/04/25/ue5-devlog-82-how-to-toggle-selected-target-actor-using-tab-by-distance/https://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2025/04/25/ue5-devlog-82-how-to-toggle-selected-target-actor-using-tab-by-distance/In the previous post, we created an event listener which will allow us to select the target by clicking the target actor. https://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2025/04/25/ue5-devlog-81-how-to-add-left-right-event-click-listener-on-actor/ Now, I want to create a new…Fri, 25 Apr 2025 08:26:26 GMThttps://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2025/04/25/ue5-devlog-81-how-to-add-left-right-event-click-listener-on-actor/https://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2025/04/25/ue5-devlog-81-how-to-add-left-right-event-click-listener-on-actor/You may have noticed that you don’t see native events on your actors to detect left/right click event listeners. You could consider potentially adding something like a Cylinder mesh around…Fri, 25 Apr 2025 07:49:26 GMThttps://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2025/04/24/ue5-devlog-80-introducing-party-system-to-our-mmo-game/https://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2025/04/24/ue5-devlog-80-introducing-party-system-to-our-mmo-game/This is a short progress update video where I showcase a new Party feature for the MMO game in development. The party system will allow users to form a party…Thu, 24 Apr 2025 10:24:12 GMThttps://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2025/04/16/ue5-devlog-79-introducing-chat-system-to-our-mmo-game/https://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2025/04/16/ue5-devlog-79-introducing-chat-system-to-our-mmo-game/This is another update in our MMO development journey. Now, I’ve added new functionality to enable players to communicate to each other using chat. For now its a very basic…Wed, 16 Apr 2025 09:28:53 GMThttps://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2025/04/15/eu5-devlog-78-added-new-fighter-skills-and-a-blink-to-the-mmo-game/https://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2025/04/15/eu5-devlog-78-added-new-fighter-skills-and-a-blink-to-the-mmo-game/The game is progressing smoothly and I’ve started to expand the list of skills available to the players. I’ve now got a relatively scalable skills framework set up and its…Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:15:39 GMThttps://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2025/04/15/ue5-devlog-77-how-the-talent-system-ui-was-made/https://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2025/04/15/ue5-devlog-77-how-the-talent-system-ui-was-made/In this video we took a bit a look at all of the components and widgets which were required to create the talent system in the mmo style game. This…Tue, 15 Apr 2025 06:35:39 GMThttps://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2025/03/12/devlog-76-talent-system-code-deep-dive/https://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2025/03/12/devlog-76-talent-system-code-deep-dive/In this video, I go through some of the code supporting the talent system which is integrated with the Unreal Engine MMO game that I’m developing. The server is written…Wed, 12 Mar 2025 07:30:18 GMThttps://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2025/03/12/devlog-75-progress-update-talent-system-intro/https://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2025/03/12/devlog-75-progress-update-talent-system-intro/The progress update is covered in the video below. It is introducing a new talent system into the MMO game. The talent system allows for passive and augment type talents…Wed, 12 Mar 2025 07:21:05 GMThttps://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2025/02/16/devlog-74-how-to-integrate-als-with-custom-character-mesh/https://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2025/02/16/devlog-74-how-to-integrate-als-with-custom-character-mesh/In this post, we explore how we can integrate a complex custom mesh with ALS. The first part is documented in this video: The video is adding ALS into your…Sun, 16 Feb 2025 08:45:33 GMT