JedDevs Blog

[Mini-Blog] My modelling process # roblox # gamedev # modelling JedDevs March 30th ・5 min read For the last few months it’s been a pain importing a piece of work from Maya/Blender into whatever development engine i’m using and seeing it looks completely different from what I had, this is down to Rendering, the real time rendering systems in Unreal/Roblox/Unity all have different looks. Unreal looks great, Roblox looks bad and unity looks unity. This is an issue as it makes it much harder to easily reach your desired look. Due to these issues I have started using my own way of handling the design process, which allows for more incremental changes: (I’ll use an example to explain.) 1. Research , I knew I wanted a low poly look as Robloxs graphics is lagging behind other market leaders until they release their massive overhaul...

My thoughts on skill trees # roblox # gamedev # discuss JedDevs  23 Mar 2020 ・3 min read Skills have long since become and essential part of many games, used in may different ways for many different reasons to offer a sense of progression and to stagger the game and it’s difficulty curve, personalise it. That said a lot of games use it for the wrong reason, just because it’s what games have. I’d hate to make a habit fo picking of Skyrim as it’s done so much right but their Skill Tree system lends to allowing players to farm points by using repetitiv...

The importance of Human Code. # roblox # gamedev # discuss JedDevs 24 Jan 2020 ・5 min read ------------------------------------------  This post was originally hosted on Roblox DevForum: https://dev forum.roblox.com/t/the-importance-of-human-code/441496 ------------------------------------------      I recently read a blog post that really resonated with me, my struggles and experiences which was later expanded via tweet by Daniel Irvine 7 who said: You’re conflating two separate things. One is the desire to write clear, well-structured code. Another is your belief that your code is more valuable than that of your colleagues. I fear you’re missing the more important lesson. In both education and wo...

What's Roblox and why you should care. # roblox # gamedev # career JedDevs 16 Dec 2019 ・5 min read Edit Manage Writers Note: I've allowed this post to sit in drafts for over two month, hardly being touched and I think it's because while I love roblox and there's a lot of reasons you should to, I just didn't have the level of experience with other engines to make an informed review and now I'm several months into my Game Design and Development course at college and have actively been using Unreal Engine and Unity coupled with Maya and the entir...