on gamedev adventures!
Posted: 13 Feb 2025
Last updated: 16 Oct 2025
Here's a list of resources I've found useful and/or entertaining over the years. Hope you find something new here!
Alexandru Oprea
A LinkedIn article collection by Alexandru Oprea. All of these are short but mighty for those looking to sharpen their UE mastery.
Ari Arnbjörnsson's Notes
Eclectic yet extremely useful collection of odds and ends. Highlights include best UE practices and practical debugging tips.
Larst Of Us
A blog by Lars Thießen - full of practical tips on wrangling the beast that is Unreal Engine. Approachable and deeply entertaining!
Steve Streeting
An incredible blog that goes into great detail across a wide variety of Unreal Engine topics.
Optimizing TArray Usage for Performance
Even if you don't need to squeeze out every tiny bit of performance out of your arrays (and in most cases you really do not!) this article by Zak Middleton will help you understand what's going on under the hood a lot deeper.
Optimizing TWeakObjectPtr Usage
If you're not using TWeakObjectPtr's you really should start! And this article by George Prosser will give you practical advice on how to do it best.
Unreal Garden
Name a UE topic and I bet you this community has something written about it. Originally Ben UI, this has grown into a huge treasure trove of shared UE knowledge.
Epic for Indies Discord
Epic for Indies is an engine-agnostic initiative by Epic Games to support indie developers. Join this discord for indie dev commiseration and other shenanigans!
Seattle Indies Youtube Channel
Seattle Indies hosts hundreds of events per year. Many of the talks get recorded and posted here. Most of what I know about indie dev I learned from this community.
Creating the Art of ABZU
This YouTube video demonstrates how clever shaders can replace expensive animations with gorgeous, performant results. Blew my entire mind the first time I saw it and I still think of it fairly often.
The Impossible (True) Stories Behind the Making of Clair Obscur Expedition 33
A documentary about the Expedition 33 team: how it was assembled, who they are, and how they made the game of the decade.
Grug Brain
complexity very, very bad
Ken Shirriff
This blog is full of deeply entertaining tech goodies: from hand-woven core rope memory for the Appollo missions to mining bitcoin on a half-century-old IBM mainframe.