Game Development

World Down Stops Working on a Planet

April 25 2026 Jubaleth ASHES OF THE UNBOUND, UNREAL ENGINE, SPACEFLIGHT, GAME DEVELOPMENT

Most character code gets to assume that down means negative Z. Ashes of the Unbound lost that luxury as soon as a character needed to stand on a spherical world. On a planet or moon, down points toward the local body’s …

Giving Ashes of the Unbound a Visual Language

April 22 2026 Jubaleth ASHES OF THE UNBOUND, UNREAL ENGINE, UI, GAME DEVELOPMENT

The early Ashes of the Unbound interfaces could expose systems, but they did not yet belong to the same world. During 20–22 April I built the first shared UI language: a weathered-arcane presentation that could sit …

Adding Dedicated-Server Persistence to Ashes of the Unbound

April 17 2026 Jubaleth ASHES OF THE UNBOUND, UNREAL ENGINE, MULTIPLAYER, DEDICATED SERVERS

A single-player save can pretend the local process is the whole truth. A persistent multiplayer game cannot. The moment Ashes of the Unbound gained a dedicated server, every convenient assumption about identity, …

Building Ashes of the Unbound's Gameplay Framework

April 14 2026 Jubaleth ASHES OF THE UNBOUND, UNREAL ENGINE, GAME DEVELOPMENT, ARCHITECTURE

I started Ashes of the Unbound as a survival factory RPG. By the middle of April, the project already looked less like a single game and more like a small operating system whose processes happened to include combat, …