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Tech Writer at Epic Games. Crafter of Artisanal Text. #GameDev ’s Cool Aunt. Brush your teeth, unwrap your UVs, and fail. Drinks her coffee and loves her job.

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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
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9 months
Now that I’ve reached 2400 followers, I think it’s time for a new intro post! Hi, I’m Jessica and I am a Tech Writer at Epic Games, focusing on Worldbuilding and Art Pipeline tools. Outside of that, I focus on Level Design in my spare time. Prior to the industry I was a teacher.
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@DesignJunkie010
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Use AI to automate CEOs to save money.
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After Warner Bros took various cost-cutting measures including turning movies into tax write-offs and refused to pay actors & writers for months, David Zaslav’s 2023 pay package is now at $49.7M, a 26.5% increase from 2022. (Source: )
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As you can imagine I spend A LOT of time in UE, focused mostly on worldbuilding tools like Landscape and World Partition. Today, I want to share my process for creating alpha brushes using real world height data for sculpting Landscapes that have a very natural look.
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No one prepares you for the survivors guilt that comes with seeing many of your friends and colleagues be laid off.
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Life is all about balance friends.
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I got double treats this morning, so I better take double naps to balance
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Epic friends, if you have been affected by the layoffs, pay attention to my account. I will retweet all opportunities that come my way. Recruiters, Epic folks are top notch. Our loss should be your gain.
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So this is for all you new folks! I’m Jessica, a tech writer on #UE5 at Epic Games. My focus is Worldbuilding tools & Art pipeline docs. This is my personal account but I retweet a lot of tips & cool stuff you can do with UE. Also food and trans stuff. Welcome to my Night Slack
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This right here is literally why I have a job :)
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#gamedev be like
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Most game positions should be apprenticeships. Academia does not move fast enough in most instances to meet the needs of the industry
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This is why I raised in parliament recently that game art should be an apprenticeship not a degree. The government should support studios taking on placements to train them, this benefits everyone.
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Not at GDC because I’m immune compromised by I’m #WhatAGameDevLooksLike ! I’m Jessica, a 43 year old successful transwoman writing docs for the Unreal Engine. I have a wife, a house, and a great life. I want to show all those gals, gays, and theys that success is possible!
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Rainbow Royale is back! It is my absolute honor to work on this initiative for the 3rd time :)
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We are celebrating our community this week with Rainbow Royale! 🌈 Category is…Fanography! Pick up the free Big Fan Emote, Rainbow Royale Emoticon & much more in the Item Shop by August 24, for 10s across the board!
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I am sad to report that as of today I am no longer a teacher for the first time in 15 years. That's because starting next week, I am the newest member of the team at Epic Games and working on @UnrealEngine documentation! #gamedev #indiedev #IndieGameDev
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Makes me happy to see everyone killing their Adobe subscriptions! Here’s the most recent list of alternatives.
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Hey folks! My name is Jessica and this is #WhatAGameDevLooksLike ! I am a successful and thriving trans woman working as a tech writer on Unreal Engine. I help write the docs for some of the features you use every day. I’m not at GDC this year but definitely looking at 2024!
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Today marks 15 years with my beautiful wife. We’ve survived transition, poverty, physical and mental health challenges, and 3 states. It’s important to share with queer folks that happiness is possible no matter what your situation. We’ve built a little family and am so happy!
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Hi, I’m Jessica (she/her)! I’m a bi trans woman working at Epic Games. I’m your friendly neighborhood Tech Writer on Unreal Engine for Worldbuilding and Art Pipeline tools. I am also a Lead in our LGBTQ+ community. In my free time, I’m digging deep in to Level Design!
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🌈📢CALLING ALL LGBTQ+ PEOPLE IN THE GAMES INDUSTRY📢🌈 Are you LGBTQ+? Do you work in games? Reply with your name, pronouns & what you do (pictures optional) Let’s get connected, follow each other & build community🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈✨ 🔁PLEASE RT & SHARE!🔁 #PrideMonth #IndieDev
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So I’m out for the rest of the week resting from a mild case of the Rona (my first). What better time than to start writing my Level Design threads. These threads will be focused on Creators and Level Design beginners who want to learn better methods for level layouts.
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My RA has chosen violence today.
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If you have any open opportunities that someone from Epic might be able to fill, please post them below and I will amplify it. Let’s get folks hired #gamedev
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@delaneykingrox This was the best thread read of my life. My wife things you are amazing and I would love a signed copy of your book when it launches.
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If I had to pick one page that I most proud of in the new UE5 docs, it’s World Partition! #gamedev #UnrealEngine
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Hey everyone! I’m back from my social media detox. What’s the discourse? What did I miss? Oh, oh god…
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The Dev site version of my Level Design Fundamentals tutorials has been updated!
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Level Design Fundamentals | Community tutorial

Level Design encompasses a wide variety of skills. The average level designer thinks about the overall game design, tone, narrative, gameplay goals, lev...

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In Unreal, we have Level Instancing, Packed Level Actors, HLODs, and Mesh Merge tools to help reduce draw calls and combine your meshes together to help with performance.
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Delaney King
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Draw calls are responsible for a good 50 percent of the chugging issues I have helped games with. A draw call is "okay now draw me an apple, and come back when you are done for the next instruction." Then you ask for another apple. Then when they return you ask for another...
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Wow, my recent thread about making mountains in Unreal got over 900 likes and put me over 1k followers!
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Hi! My name is Jessica and I’ve been a Tech Writer at Epic Games for about 4 years. I write docs for Unreal Engine for Worldbuilding and Art Pipeline tools. Outside of that I love Level Design and have an ongoing tutorial series about LD basics in my pinned intro thread!
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Radiant G🌈✨ 🔜 PAX West
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🏳️‍⚧️📢CALLING ALL TRANS PEOPLE IN THE GAMES INDUSTRY📢🏳️‍⚧️ Are you trans? Do you work in games? Reply with your name, pronouns & what you do (pictures optional) Let’s get connected, follow each other & build community🏳️‍⚧️ 🔁PLEASE RT & SHARE!🔁 #TransDayofVisability #IndieDev
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Just reach my 4 year anniversary with Epic this week. This marks 4 years in the industry, previously many years adjacent in education, and I survived my first layoff last year.
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Hey friends, Princess Zelda has a mass on her that has turned ugly and we are off to the vet tomorrow morning to see what we can do about treatment and removal. Can she get some prayers/good vibes/thoughts? I’ve been worried sick about her all day.
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This is really how I felt about Joe’s comments. Burnout is a very real issue in the industry. However, many students tend to believe that just doing the work assigned in class is enough to make a portfolio and apply for a job.
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Anna Hollinrake 🧹 CRESCENT COUNTY
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Conflicting feelings about this one! Two things can be true: 1️⃣ Not resting and taking time for yourself is a recipe for burnout, injury and disaster 2️⃣ This industry is tough and you gotta put time in!
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At this point, capitalism is cancer. Each company seeks to exploit everything around it to create exponential growth. Billionaires gobble up resources meant for others like tumors and then provide nothing in return. It’s time for a new system.
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Del Walker 🇵🇸
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Can someone remind me what you call a Cell that has the primary goal of exponential growth?
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Hey new followers! Just wanted to let you know what you signed up for! I provide/retweet #UnrealEngine resources & opportunities, especially for folks just starting out. I love to lift up folks & celebrate their wins. I’m dedicated to being a visible trans success.
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The secret no one will tell you… no one has it together. Everyone is just making it up as we go. Everyone has at least one part of their life that is completely off the rails.
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This type of shader is excellent for showing off your level blackouts in your portfolio level designers! Grab it while you can.
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And look for new 5.4 docs on the Epic Dev Community! I personally updated docs for: PCG Interchange Some Landscape And more by our amazing docs team! Find an answer to your issue in the docs? Thank a Tech Writer!
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Unreal Engine 5.4 is here!🔔 It’s packed with new features and improvements, including the toolsets we’ve been using internally to make ‘Fortnite Chapter 5,’ ‘Rocket Racing,’ ‘Fortnite Festival,’ and ‘LEGO Fortnite’ the successes they are. Check it out:
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Today marks 14 years with my lovely wife. We’ve been through poverty, transition, and my RA/chronic pain diagnosis. We continue to survive the plague. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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My wife made a great point (one of the many reasons why I love her) that a vast number of people are “temporarily able.” Disability can come at birth or later due to accident, disease, and so on One day you may find yourself need the same accessibility options that you hate now.
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@assumptionprime I too made dinners before and after my transition :) I just now enjoy being barefoot and in the kitchen.
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This is why I don’t watch #TheGameAwards . Devs don’t get time to talk. No mention of worst year for layoffs. Few women speakers. Celebrities?!? I can see all you fine folks and the game trailers the day after. As well as celebrate the wins with the people who won.
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Who’s got two thumbs and is going to be part of a #UEFN #leveldesign AMA on the 15th? This gal! Come with your questions about level design and here from Epic folks on the subject! #gamedev #IndieGameDev
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Fortnite Creators
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What makes a great game? Ask our experts! Learn all about how to take your experiences to the next level. Ask Epic: Level Design is happening February 15 @ 10 AM ET. Submit your questions here >>
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Spent the last hour of the day blocking out a ruined cathedral scene as a sample for the use of Data Layers in UE. The grey box will be one layer and the final Megascans assets will be another. You will be able to switch between them during runtime to see how the level was built.
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Earlier today, a 20 year plus veteran of the industry said he loved my resources and suggested them to others. I’m just going to ride that high all week.
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Excited to do #WhatAGameDevLooksLike this year! My name is Jessica and I am a Trans Tech Writer on the @UnrealEngine at Epic Games. Just started in the industry 2 years ago but have been industry adjacent in Education for many years.
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Now that the event is over, I suppose I can share a few pics :) they certainly fed us well and those Shield Potion drinks went down very easy. Such a great evening!
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No spoilers but that #FortniteBigBang event was amazing. Congrats to all my friends who put their heart and soul into making this wonderful event happen. If you worked on this but are not at Epic anymore, you are missed and deserving of praise for this one :)
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Greed and self interest have really fucked us, haven’t they? We gave the wrong people power at nearly every level of our society. They now look out for their own interests and our expense. Worse yet, they’ve convinced us all that we should too. Fuck that.
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The Why of Level Design Part 1 Possibility Space, Player Verbs, and Shape Language The first thread in my series on Level Design fundamentals! #LevelDesign #gamedev #UEFN
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Leaving for Unreal Fest tonight with complicated feelings. Love the product and still believe in the mission of bringing powerful game dev tools to everyone.
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Today is #WorldPhotoDay I got myself an @UnrealEngine hoodie. It’s not just comfy, it’s what it represents. I told myself I would own one and they are only available to staff and evangelists. This represents a goal met and a promise kept. Keep grinding #gamedev #IndieGameDev
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Something I need to say. I see a lot of my mutuals engaging w/ the recent post from L*bs of TikTok. DO NOT ENGAGE W/ THIS ACCOUNT OR CONTENT. The owner purposely engages in hate content & stochastic terrorism. Their followers are insane. Death & bomb threats follow their posts.
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A lovely community manager told me today that they love my Twitter account and they feel like I do social media right. Folks, I retweet useful stuff but pretty much just shitpost otherwise. Is that what you all want?
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A simple reminder that this exists and is still absolutely delightful :)
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Say hello to MetaPets 🐾 the next-generation of fur-ever friends from Unreal Engine. Creating #MetaPets is as easy as a walk in the park using the new 🐶 MetaPet Creator. #UE4 Unleash your potential and see the pawsibilities 👇
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@UnrealEngine 5.2 launches with the new Procedural Content Generation Framework! Create your own procedurally generated forest with the new documentation:
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To create your own high quality alpha brush based on real world terrain, you’ll need a source of height data. I recommend an online tool called Tangram Heightmapper. This tool gives you access to heightmap data from all over the globe.
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#WhatAGameDevLooksLike has filled my feed with so many wonderful people and shown me just how diverse our industry is. Now let’s get more of these fine folks into leadership positions…
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If overtime had to be paid we would never have crunch. Hey that’s an idea…
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Tomas Tagesson
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Isn't it strange that Game dev is one of the few industries where over time isn't paid at all? If that were to be a thing, leadership would be held accountable for any bad planning and would have to really think about how they structure everything
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What if, maybe just maybe, we monetarily incentivized the business bros GROWING a stable business rather than hitting short term arbitrary targets. Like if their bonus was tied to years in positive cash flow and employees retained?
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After helping do portfolios and mock interviews Tuesday, I wanted to answer some of the most common question I received about #3dart and #leveldesign portfolios. This is coming from my experience in industry and as a HS/college teacher. #gamedev #IndieGameDev
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Survival is paramount. Look for jobs that allow you to be “industry adjacent” and still work on your skills. Neil Gaiman once said that your dream job is a mountain. Any step that gets you closer to the mountain has value. Evaluate jobs by if they are a step forward or back.
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Luca 🔜 PAX West
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Just throwing this out there: getting a “normal” job while looking for game dev work is 100% okay. You’re not giving up on your dream. You just need to be able to pay your bills.
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My daughter makes a good addition to our @helldivers2 fireteam since she likes to snipe. The family that dives together, survives together.
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This LinkedIn post is a great resource of rare #gamedev Junior positions in many disciplines:
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Caitlin Cooke on LinkedIn: 📣 📣 📣 ENTRY LEVEL + JUNIOR GAME OPPORTUNITIES 📣 📣 📣 YES, there...

📣 📣 📣 ENTRY LEVEL + JUNIOR GAME OPPORTUNITIES 📣 📣 📣 YES, there are junior game jobs! NO, the industry is not dead! RESHARE to spread the word to… | 123 comments on LinkedIn

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And this is why I will always have a job :) Don’t do docs? Your knowledge will be lost. Engineer writes them? See below. Hire a tech writer? Beautiful documentation like this:
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Words, my biggest enemy. #gamedev #gamedevjobs #comics #devteam #videogamestudios #documents
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My wife literally just said to me “our daughter can’t see you because you’re her TRANSPARENT.”
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If you liked this #UnrealEngine #gamedev thread and would like me to do more, comment below!
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
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I have made another trip around the sun and I am lucky to want for very little at this stage in my life. For my birthday, hug a trans person and tell them they are loved, needed, and so important to this world.
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
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So here’s a question from me for the #gamedev collective: I writing a game design doc for something at work. I learned how to write them ages ago and it’s been awhile since I taught students how. It’s time to check/update my knowledge! What are the must haves in a GDD?
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
7 months
Got my first ever Victory Royale this evening. I’m actually enjoying this season. My former students would make fun of me so much for how much Fortnite I play now lol.
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
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All this instability reminds me how lucky I am to work at Epic. We are still privately owned (though we do have investors) and that insulates us from some of the instability. Yes, we had layoffs but I feel it was done as a last resort due to the downturn.
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
9 months
When I am being asked to evaluate someone for a job on my team, I am definitely looking up your social media. Team fit is important.
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Chris Radsby
@chrisradsby
9 months
Just a reminder to graduates, aspiring artists trying to break into the industry. Your social media presence & impression of you matters. It's been the same since the days of Polycount & other forums. People get remembered for being troublesome. #gamedev
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
1 year
I’ve been thinking about what to say for #TransDayOfVisibility & it’s been hard. I don’t think our community has faced this level of hate in my lifetime. I have despaired. I have cried. Each time my family, friends, & community have rallied around me. #TDOV2023
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
5 months
Curious about UE Docs? Myself, Mike, and @Katstodian_ will be on Inside Unreal today at 2pm EST. I will be talking about working with PCG and the challenges of writing for a feature that is currently in active development! #gamedev
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
1 year
Tonight I made a choice my younger self might not have made. My wife and I both have chronic health issues. She was having a rough night and needed me. My RA is also flaring. However, I had a deadline tonight for an LD class I was taking. I decided to put the work down.
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
9 months
If this is a record year for amazing game experiences, why is it a record year for layoffs across the industry? Even devs that we thought were solid. There has to be a better way.
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
1 year
So this beautiful boy needs a $6k surgery to fix his knee. Thank god I get paid well. The doc acted like we would need to talk about it and get back to them. No, this is my baby. No cost is too big.
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
12 days
Maybe… but that’s because I wrote about them :)
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Logan Pinney
@HollowsWoodsman
12 days
Did you know you can use World Partition and Data Layers to control your #UnrealEngine5 cinematics and game play features/mechanics?
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
1 year
@kchironis At this point, seeing it even from inside the industry, I still believe that game devs are a cabal of sorcerers chanting the blackest of sorcery. There’s just more pizza and snacks than I expected.
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
7 months
Scale is really hard y’all
@AaronWStump
Aaron
@AaronWStump
7 months
Your first blockout ever. #leveldesign
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
8 months
The Why of Level Design Part 4 Cognitive Mapping Cognitive mapping is the mental process that people use to understand and memorize a space. People use it every day when they travel somewhere unfamiliar or enter a space they have never been in before.
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
7 months
I’m going to put some positivity out there today. Zelda got her stitches out today! We also got her biopsy report back. The doctor said that he was able to get all of it with a very small chance of recurrence. Also… 0% CHANCE IT IS CANCER.
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
4 months
So it’s time for a call to action. If this idea resonated with you then be the change you want to see: - start mentoring an industry hopeful - Reach out to a local game dev program as an advisor. - work with your studio to start an apprenticeship program. I promise it’s worth it
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
4 months
Most game positions should be apprenticeships. Academia does not move fast enough in most instances to meet the needs of the industry
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
6 months
This was my first day back in my home office in a week. I believe my manager missed me.
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
8 months
Are we doing this again? QA are game devs. Docs writers are game devs. Producers are game devs. Many QA folks have the same amount of technical knowledge as the engineers. If you make games or support the process of making games then you are a game dev.
@SPVCEVVITCH
✨🍉Donny "Space Witch" Torrey 🍉✨|| (They/Them)
@SPVCEVVITCH
8 months
If every Games QA person just decided to suddenly stop working, Game Studios would collapse. Yet we are constantly treated by executives and decision makers as expendable and lesser.
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
9 months
Hey friends, there are many women and NBs in game dev that aren’t as visible in the lists I’m seeing so I want to give them some recognition! These folks are helping build communities on here every day: @KaliShane @TheUnWiseTina @Flak @Codekitten0 @heatherldstorm @hayley_fail
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
4 months
You don’t know how happy it makes me to see people use my learning content and make their own masterpieces. So incredibly happy #gamedev
@wdavis81x
William Davis
@wdavis81x
4 months
Procedural forest tutorial included in the UE 5.3 documentation is nice. Took only a few minutes to get a 7x7 landscape layer to randomly populate 4 varieties of tree.
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
8 months
The highest endorsement of Lego Fortnite I could find.
@CanYouPetTheDog
Can You Pet the Dog?
@CanYouPetTheDog
8 months
In Lego Fortnite, petting friendly wildlife rewards the player with crafting materials.
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
2 years
@Sizigyy As a former game dev teacher, I lost count of the number of gamers who went to school for development, only to quit after year one because it’s “hard”
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
4 months
I’m thinking my next tutorial will be about Player Economy. This is the idea of what currency players bring to the game, such as skill, time, and attention, and how they choose to spend it interacting in our levels. Would this be helpful #uefn #gamedev ?
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
10 months
#UnrealFest Day 1: I went with colorful to hopefully standout so others can find me. See you all soon!
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
2 years
New office is coming along but I think I need another display case already…
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
9 months
Hey friends! If you work at a tech company, game dev, or publisher, I would love to ask you a question. Does your company have a policy regarding pronoun usage and could you share some general details? Feel free to DM me if you don't want to publicly share!
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
2 months
My wife’s mental health improved dramatically when we had secure housing, medicine, food, and healthcare.
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Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈
@theBrianaMills
2 months
Therapy can only do so much if you’re not able to get your basic needs met. Mental health is affordable housing. Mental health is free healthcare. Mental health is free education. Mental health is food security. Mental health is financial stability. Therapy can’t fix the system.
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
9 months
My #LevelDesign Fundamentals thread now exists on the @EpicGames Dev site! I will update it there after I post here: Original thread: #gamedev #UEFN
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
10 months
So I’m out for the rest of the week resting from a mild case of the Rona (my first). What better time than to start writing my Level Design threads. These threads will be focused on Creators and Level Design beginners who want to learn better methods for level layouts.
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
2 years
America is just a sad state of affairs right now.
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
1 month
Started my Epic Summer Break right w/ a short vacation w/ the wife’s family to Frankenmuth MI. I’ve been blackmithing, mini golfing, and hanging with the niece and nephews :)
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
5 months
I am using breathing techniques, nature sounds, and anything I can to keep my anxiety down today. The closer we get to the election this year. The higher it will be. My life in this country is on the line.
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
29 days
This template has great documentation, though I may be a little bias :) Go check it out!
@FNCreate
Fortnite Creators
@FNCreate
29 days
Learn how to take your islands to the next level with our Talisman Environment and MetaHuman Templates. From creating dynamically clothed MetaHumans, to realistic environments, to clever optimization techniques. Learn more:
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
7 months
Update on Zelda: the meds we got for her have shrunk the swelling of the mass and tackled any kind of infection. It’s a Mass Cell tumor which is common in dogs but we won’t know more until the biopsy it after removal. She has surgery Monday.
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
7 months
I have FINALLY made it to Montreal! Good lord what an ordeal.
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Jessica Plowman (she/her)
@DesignJunkie010
6 months
Let me preface this #gamedev take with advice given to me by a mentor long ago “You do what you have to do to take care of you and your family.” Now read on for slightly spicy take. I also say this as I am a layoff survivor. Here we go: Band together and do passion projects.
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