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UE4 - list blueprint assets by type

I'm busy working on a project in unreal lately, and ran into the desire to enumerate a list of blueprint assets from a folder. This post has a simple solution.

new game+ / Celeste launches tomorrow!

Celeste is a game I had the privilege of working on, and it launches tomorrow (25th Jan) on Switch, PS4, Steam and the day after (26th Jan) for Xbox One!
All the details are here

game designer's bench: Golf Story

I've been playing Golf Story on the Switch and was pleasantly surprised. It's weird but in a good way, and I like a lot of things about it. Some things about it mechanically and overall bother me, so I brought it to the bench to ponder why!

note: there are very minor (but not really) spoilers.
also note: you don't have to have played to find this interesting reading, I hope.
also note note: If you want to enjoy it without me whispering "this is weird?" while you play, play it first!

game engines: using ALL the languages

In the 1.0/long term version of my engine, I designed the core runtime to expose it's API in such a way that it would be agnostic to a scripting language. This is a short post on how that looks, when you connect the dots.

announcing 'errent' & album release

Today is another day to talk about things I've done since I was a kid, but haven't put much out there publicly! I've been playing and making music since I was young, but it's always been instruments and done live. Today I can say different.

Sky Rogue 1.0 (I did a thing!)

Sky Rogue is a fun fast paced rogue-lite flight simulator that oozes with style. I knew the developer for some time and enjoyed playing the game, but was also fortunate enough to have the opportunity to do some writing for it as well! The release of V1.0 is out today too.

OBJ parser: easy parse time triangulation

For some reason whenever I wrote a quick obj parser, I never bothered to think about the case where the faces in the file had more than 3 points. It was easier in the moment to just triangulate the meshes before loading them in the 3D app. In practice on

c++11 constexpr fnv1a compile time hash

I've been working with some c++ lately and had previously been using static hash values for strings (similar to this from the Bitsquid blog) but the one thing that bothered me was the lack of ability to use them in switch statements, where I often want to use them. With constexpr in c++11, I can.