Sergey Balanin 🐝
@sergeyvol.bsky.social
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Sergey Balanin 🐝
@sergeyvol.bsky.social
· Mar 19
Hello, I’m developing a VR/non-VR game about bee breeding where players revive forgotten bee species and restore their populations! Today, I’ve launched the Steam page please wishlist the game and support with shares! Link below
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My function handling ALL edge cases between player inventory and building drag and drop interactions has reached its ULTIMATE FORM!
Waiting for me to do a cleanup?
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Waiting for me to do a cleanup?
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August 23, 2025 at 12:36 AM
My function handling ALL edge cases between player inventory and building drag and drop interactions has reached its ULTIMATE FORM!
Waiting for me to do a cleanup?
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday
Waiting for me to do a cleanup?
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Today I'm pushing further into the new gameplay loop! 🐝 My game will feature a bee hotel where you can release bees back into the wild to restore populations of specific species. For now, I've made a blocky prototype so you can at least place it down!
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August 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Today I'm pushing further into the new gameplay loop! 🐝 My game will feature a bee hotel where you can release bees back into the wild to restore populations of specific species. For now, I've made a blocky prototype so you can at least place it down!
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev
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Hey! Long time no game-dev updates, huh? Right now I'm knee-deep in the building system structures finally cost resources to place, AND you get refunds when destroying them!
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August 6, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Hey! Long time no game-dev updates, huh? Right now I'm knee-deep in the building system structures finally cost resources to place, AND you get refunds when destroying them!
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Nailed full item output from the centrifuge today! Now you can actually spot ’em in the items tab! Zero proper icons yet though, so everything’s just sporting these shiny star placeholders ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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July 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Nailed full item output from the centrifuge today! Now you can actually spot ’em in the items tab! Zero proper icons yet though, so everything’s just sporting these shiny star placeholders ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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July 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Day 149 of dev streak! Still polishing the inventory now pagination and selection highlights work perfectly when switching between Bee and Frame tabs! 💅💅💅
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July 14, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Day 149 of dev streak! Still polishing the inventory now pagination and selection highlights work perfectly when switching between Bee and Frame tabs! 💅💅💅
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Just wrapped up the player-frame interaction loop in the hive! Now we’ve got this slick animation for inserting frames right before closing the hive lid! 🐝✨
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July 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Just wrapped up the player-frame interaction loop in the hive! Now we’ve got this slick animation for inserting frames right before closing the hive lid! 🐝✨
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Today I learned that Unreal's Select node calculate ALL input nodes... 💀💀💀
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July 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Today I learned that Unreal's Select node calculate ALL input nodes... 💀💀💀
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Hive covers can now be closed! Tried using Gameplay Tags for this turned out pretty sleek! Only downside: realized mid-process that I wanted to rename them, and it's non-trivial to change. So... better guess tag names right on the first try!
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July 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Hive covers can now be closed! Tried using Gameplay Tags for this turned out pretty sleek! Only downside: realized mid-process that I wanted to rename them, and it's non-trivial to change. So... better guess tag names right on the first try!
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Decided to animate the cover opening using splines... what could possibly go wrong? 🙃
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July 2, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Decided to animate the cover opening using splines... what could possibly go wrong? 🙃
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Just implemented a super rough draft of bee frame filling in the hive! Currently, it works like this: each bee picks a free frame and fills it by a % based on their speed value. Every bee in the hive does this independently.
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June 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Just implemented a super rough draft of bee frame filling in the hive! Currently, it works like this: each bee picks a free frame and fills it by a % based on their speed value. Every bee in the hive does this independently.
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Frame progress continues! Got the UI to display live data from frames now For colors, I just plugged in the main bee color as a placeholder I'll add proper colors when I make a custom icon later. Next up: finally writing the logic to actually fill these frames!
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June 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Frame progress continues! Got the UI to display live data from frames now For colors, I just plugged in the main bee color as a placeholder I'll add proper colors when I make a custom icon later. Next up: finally writing the logic to actually fill these frames!
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Decided to tweak the hive frame UI some more ended up settling on a cleaner approach that feels much nicer!
Also made cells generate dynamically at runtime with proper spacing based on cell index!
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Also made cells generate dynamically at runtime with proper spacing based on cell index!
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June 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Decided to tweak the hive frame UI some more ended up settling on a cleaner approach that feels much nicer!
Also made cells generate dynamically at runtime with proper spacing based on cell index!
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Also made cells generate dynamically at runtime with proper spacing based on cell index!
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Well, looks like some loop is finally closed! Today I made frames load directly into the centrifuge from the inventory!
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June 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Well, looks like some loop is finally closed! Today I made frames load directly into the centrifuge from the inventory!
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Started working on the new hive model! Of course, I didn’t export it correctly on the first try had to wrestle with it for a bit! Temporarily disabled hive collision and set up frame spawning. This is the current WIP state.
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June 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Started working on the new hive model! Of course, I didn’t export it correctly on the first try had to wrestle with it for a bit! Temporarily disabled hive collision and set up frame spawning. This is the current WIP state.
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Today I'm wrapping up frame animations for the centrifuge! Finally covered all edge cases for inserting/removing frames. Everything works like a charm now! I also moved the frame model's pivot to its center I'll need clean scaling for it anyway.
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June 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Today I'm wrapping up frame animations for the centrifuge! Finally covered all edge cases for inserting/removing frames. Everything works like a charm now! I also moved the frame model's pivot to its center I'll need clean scaling for it anyway.
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Felt kinda burnt out today, but still pushed through and made a stand for the centrifuges! Reimported it with corrected orientation did the same for the hive too. Also dumped the frames into the centrifuge just to see how it looks visually.
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June 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Felt kinda burnt out today, but still pushed through and made a stand for the centrifuges! Reimported it with corrected orientation did the same for the hive too. Also dumped the frames into the centrifuge just to see how it looks visually.
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Today I made the centrifuge baskets spin when you turn the crank handle! Looks and feels really smooth! I'm also thinking about adding a brake mechanism when rotating counter-clockwise.
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May 30, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Today I made the centrifuge baskets spin when you turn the crank handle! Looks and feels really smooth! I'm also thinking about adding a brake mechanism when rotating counter-clockwise.
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Today I worked on the VR version to add a crankable handle! I followed one of the guide templates, but I feel I’ll need to rethink how to optimize it the hand position interpolation seems a bit off. Still, it’s a solid starting point!
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May 29, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Today I worked on the VR version to add a crankable handle! I followed one of the guide templates, but I feel I’ll need to rethink how to optimize it the hand position interpolation seems a bit off. Still, it’s a solid starting point!
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Well, well—we’ve finally hit the honest 100-day mark! A full hundred days in a row of working on the game!
Today, I tweaked parameters to make the rotation look correct. Learned that honey extractors run at around 150-300 RPM.
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Today, I tweaked parameters to make the rotation look correct. Learned that honey extractors run at around 150-300 RPM.
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May 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Well, well—we’ve finally hit the honest 100-day mark! A full hundred days in a row of working on the game!
Today, I tweaked parameters to make the rotation look correct. Learned that honey extractors run at around 150-300 RPM.
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev
Today, I tweaked parameters to make the rotation look correct. Learned that honey extractors run at around 150-300 RPM.
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I added a spin function to the centrifuge that activates with a button press! It even has a cool damping effect, and at certain RPMs, it locks in the maximum speed no need to boost it again, and it can spin at that rate for up to 2 minutes!
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May 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I added a spin function to the centrifuge that activates with a button press! It even has a cool damping effect, and at certain RPMs, it locks in the maximum speed no need to boost it again, and it can spin at that rate for up to 2 minutes!
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May 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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