BlueSuburbia

Devlog

• The BlueSuburbia world update is here!
  February 03, 2025 by alienmelon

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  #Dreamcore, #BlueSuburbia, #alienmelon, #poetry, #interactiveliterature

  You can download it here: https://alienmelon.itch.io/bluesuburbia After a year of moving, settling into a new country, and a ton of public speaking, I'm happy to say that I managed to get out this fir... Continue reading

  
• A Butterfly: a short poem and horror about life, death, and overcoming
  December 31, 2024 by alienmelon

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  #horror, #poem, #update, #BlueSuburbia, #surreal

  These ruins of a lighthouse have brittle bones. Ocean once surrounded it. You know the stories... Of a great beautiful oasis where titans came to die. 🦋 https://alienmelon.itch.io/butterfly ✨ Gri... Continue reading

  
• BIMM University Keynote Transcript (“After all the noise settled, what was left was genuine love for what I created.”)
  October 04, 2024 by alienmelon

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  #horror, #gamedev, #design, #arthouse, #bluesuburbia, #unreal

  I was invited to give a keynote and workshop at the BIMM university in Berlin . I’m honored to have been given this opportunity to share. Following is the keynote transcript where I share the journe... Continue reading

  
• Updating BlueSuburbia from 5.1 to 5.4... Logging some of the tedious journey in upgrading to a newer Unreal version
  August 16, 2024 by alienmelon

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  #Unreal, #Unreal Engine, #Upgrading, #3D, #Open World, #GameDev

  So this is exciting news! I'm back to being able to full time work on my projects again. As some of you may know I moved to Europe in March. This was an incredible amount of work that I really don't e... Continue reading

  
• BlueSuburbia out now on Steam Early Access! (and Itch)
  December 29, 2023 by alienmelon

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  #Atmospheric, #horror, #interactive fiction, #experimental, #fiction, #narrative, #unreal engine, #poetry, #interactive poetry, #bluesuburbia, #blue suburbia

  I'm so very proud to finally announce that BlueSuburbia just got released as Early Access on Steam. This is about a year of hard work, learning 3D game development, learning Unreal... and it feels goo... Continue reading

  
• How To Download and Run the Flash Version of BlueSuburbia
  October 25, 2023 by alienmelon

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  #Flash, #FlashPlayer, #BlueSuburbia, #Horror, #Dark, #Poetry, #Goth, #Surreal, #Atmosphere

  BlueSuburbia was a Flash website comprised of a collection of interactive poetry, online from 1999-2020. Each poem was animated in a surrealist, often metaphoric, way to bring the writing to life. The... Continue reading

  
• Packaging your game with AND locally loading Bitsy in Unreal (Or Pocket Platformer, or Decker, or any other HTML project...)
  October 16, 2023 by alienmelon

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  #unreal engine, #gamedev, #unrealengine, #bitsy, #decker, #pocket-platformer, #pocketplatformer, #pocket platformer, #html, #web browser, #tutorial

  So this is niche :) (A screenshot of Bitsy running withing BlueSuburbia, in the opening sequence.) Unreal supports loading web based content using the Web Browser Widget. This is important for BlueSub... Continue reading

  
• BlueSuburbia is an IndieCade 2023 Nominee!
  October 12, 2023 by alienmelon

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  #Unreal5, #UE5, #altgame, #artgame, #art, #explore, #horror, #dream, #indiecade, #dark

  ?*:.?.o So this is amazing! ?.:?*:?' When I submitted BlueSuburbia to IndieCade I had little expectations for anything happening. Submitting to IndieCade is just a thing you do! I was hoping it would... Continue reading

  
• Adventures with Unreal's Niagara Emitters (Particle Meshes, LODs, and Boundary Constraints)
  June 14, 2023 by alienmelon

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  #Unreal5, #UE5, #Niagara, #OpenWorld, #Tutorial

  I've been very busy with building the next intallment to BlueSuburbia which will be the open world part. Building an open world is an extra load of work because you have to put a lot of care into opti... Continue reading

  
• The BlueSuburbia Demo is now on Steam!
  June 02, 2023 by alienmelon

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  #horror, #poetry, #surreal, #demo, #bluesuburbia, #altgame, #artgame, #art, #netart, #writing, #interactivepoetry, #interactivefiction

  the BlueSuburbia demo is now available on Steam! 🌘⭐👁 "Forgotten dreamscapes and open worlds are yours to explore as you venture on your quest to find hope in the darkness." Click " Download De... Continue reading

  
• A better BlueSuburbia demo with the bugs fixed is here!
  May 26, 2023 by alienmelon

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  #horror, #surreal, #demo, #moody, #dark

  Thanks to everyone who gave feedback, I was able to make a bunch of fixes to the demo so that it runs better... and doesn't give people the impression that it's broken. Most notably the quality is aut... Continue reading

  
• The BlueSuburbia demo is live!
  May 17, 2023 by alienmelon

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  #bluesuburbia, #Unreal, #dream, #walking simulator, #explore, #surreal, #experimental, #horror, #3d

  I'm proud to finally be able to say that the demo of the Unreal game that I have been working on since... over a year now... is finally live here on itch.io! It will also be coming soon to Steam. I le... Continue reading