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Fixing a Leaderboard That Wouldn’t Update
January 29, 2026
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Luvplaya
Author: Quilliah Smallwood Date: January 29, 2026 The Problem During this week of development, I worked on implementing a personal leaderboard system that tracks and displays a player’s top scores...
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Multiplayer Mayhem, and Why You Should Build With It In Mind Instead Of Adding It In Last Minute
January 29, 2026
by
kealsoft
The Setup: One of the stretch goals for this project was adding some form of local multiplayer. Something where you could sit down next to someone and enjoy the stress of managing the lines at your tr...
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Dessert Pileup
January 29, 2026
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Roxythe (Rocky) Harding
Author: Roxythe Harding Posted On: 1/29/2026 The Problem We were having a big problem with dessert models overlapping each other on the conveyor belt and creating weird behavior as well as just being...
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A Tale of Twin Receivers
January 23, 2026
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Roxythe (Rocky) Harding
Author: Roxythe Harding Posted: 1/23/2026 The Problem One of the tasks I worked on this week was integrating different features from the team into a cohesive and interconnected system that would be ea...
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Fixing UI Input and Save State Issues in a Tutorial System
January 23, 2026
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Luvplaya
Author: Quilliah Smallwood Date: Jan 23, 2026 Problem: During this week of production, I was responsible for implementing the tutorial system for Sweet Treat Factory . The tutorial needed to display o...
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From Blueprint To Code: A Much Longer Story Than It Has Any Right To Be
January 22, 2026
by
kealsoft
I had a mission, I was going to convert the player blueprint over to C++ code. Should have been easy, you would think, and normally you would be right. But due to a detail I missed, I caused myself ho...
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The Control Conundrum
January 17, 2026
by
kealsoft
#game dev
I had an issue, the controls in the game were unintuitive, janky, and worst of all not fun. I had the character moving directionally with the WASD/Left Stick, and rotating with Mouse/Right Stick. In t...
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Conveyor Belt Issues
January 16, 2026
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Roxythe (Rocky) Harding
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Author: Roxythe Harding Posted: 1/16/2026 The Problem One of the biggest issues I faced during our first sprint was finding a suitable model to use for our conveyor belt. Since it was such a key compo...
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Fixing the Pause Menu Input Issue
January 16, 2026
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Luvplaya
Author: Quilliah Smallwood Posted on: January 16, 2026 The Problem This week, I ran into an issue while setting up the Pause Menu for our game. The original goal was to allow players to press the Esca...
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Sweet Treat Factory Game Blog 01
January 08, 2026
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HotfixHeroes
#Pre-Production
Welcome to Sweet Treat Factory, a high speed dessert sorting game where precision and multitasking are the keys to survival. As the factory ramps up production, you must juggle multiple conveyor belts...
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