Josh

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Building the next generation of soccer simulation. ⚽️ Realistic match engine | 🧠 Deep managerial mode

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⚽ Day 55 of building my football game solo in Unreal Engine 5. I spent last night completely overhauling my goalkeeper logic: 🧤 Goalkeeper tracks the ball 🎯 Goalkeeper dives based on the shot trajectory ⚡ Physics-driven animations for saves There is still a lot to improve, but I'm really happy with how the first version of my GK logic turned out. #indiedev #gamedev #football #soccer #unrealengine

⚽ Day 55 of building my football game solo in Unreal Engine 5. I spent last night completely overhauling my goalkeeper logic: 🧤 Goalkeeper tracks the ball 🎯 Goalkeeper dives based on the shot trajectory ⚡ Physics-driven animations for saves There is still a lot to improve, but I'm really happy with how the first version of my GK logic turned out. #indiedev #gamedev #football #soccer #unrealengine

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⚽ Day 41 of building my soccer game solo in Unreal Engine 5. Tonight we added better animation logic to the drag back turn. The sole of the foot rolls the ball back, the ball loses momentum, then a notify state kicks it forward with physics enabled for a more realistic feel. Up next: I'll be developing the same logic for normal dribbling animations, then more turns. I'll need to begin blending animations together which has proved to be quite difficult! #indiedev #gamedev #soccer #football #unrealengine

⚽ Day 41 of building my soccer game solo in Unreal Engine 5. Tonight we added better animation logic to the drag back turn. The sole of the foot rolls the ball back, the ball loses momentum, then a notify state kicks it forward with physics enabled for a more realistic feel. Up next: I'll be developing the same logic for normal dribbling animations, then more turns. I'll need to begin blending animations together which has proved to be quite difficult! #indiedev #gamedev #soccer #football #unrealengine

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⚽ Day 29 of building my football/soccer game solo in Unreal Engine 5. We made major enhancements to the 3D match engine: 👕 The players now wear basic kits 🔵 Kit colors are queried from data in the database 💪The players now have arms and legs 🥅 New scoreboard added instead of plain text 🧠 Yes, the AI scored on me in this clip 🤣 #indiedev #UnrealEngine #soccer #football #gamedev

⚽ Day 29 of building my football/soccer game solo in Unreal Engine 5. We made major enhancements to the 3D match engine: 👕 The players now wear basic kits 🔵 Kit colors are queried from data in the database 💪The players now have arms and legs 🥅 New scoreboard added instead of plain text 🧠 Yes, the AI scored on me in this clip 🤣 #indiedev #UnrealEngine #soccer #football #gamedev

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⚽ Day 56 of building my football game solo in Unreal Engine 5. Shooting now has zero aim assist, and nothing pulls the ball towards goal for you. 🎯The shot fires in the direction your left analog stick is 🔋 Holding longer equals more power and more lift 🚀 Too much power or poor aim results in the ball flying wide, over the bar, or into the stands. #indiedev #gamedev #football #soccer #unrealengine

⚽ Day 56 of building my football game solo in Unreal Engine 5. Shooting now has zero aim assist, and nothing pulls the ball towards goal for you. 🎯The shot fires in the direction your left analog stick is 🔋 Holding longer equals more power and more lift 🚀 Too much power or poor aim results in the ball flying wide, over the bar, or into the stands. #indiedev #gamedev #football #soccer #unrealengine

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⚽ Day 44 of building my soccer/football game solo in Unreal Engine. Tonight, we solved an animation bug that was occuring when blending animations together. Can you spot the difference between the two animation clips (right drag back versus left drag back? 🐛BUG: All animations rotated the player mesh (character body), but the capsule underneath (invisible box) never turned at all. 🎞️At the end of the animation, you'd see the player facing the direction where the animation begun on frame 0, then flick to where I was moving the left analog stick. This was resolved with a tool I built which moves the rotation to the invisible box instead. The same animations play, but now the game knows that the character's capsule has turned with an animation. #indiedev #gamedev #soccer #football #unrealengine

⚽ Day 44 of building my soccer/football game solo in Unreal Engine. Tonight, we solved an animation bug that was occuring when blending animations together. Can you spot the difference between the two animation clips (right drag back versus left drag back? 🐛BUG: All animations rotated the player mesh (character body), but the capsule underneath (invisible box) never turned at all. 🎞️At the end of the animation, you'd see the player facing the direction where the animation begun on frame 0, then flick to where I was moving the left analog stick. This was resolved with a tool I built which moves the rotation to the invisible box instead. The same animations play, but now the game knows that the character's capsule has turned with an animation. #indiedev #gamedev #soccer #football #unrealengine

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I'd like to introduce a new "Bug of the Week" topic every Friday. ⚽️ Late last night, I found a hilarious bug where you can slide tackle the opponent who is taking a throw-in. 🟨 Yellow card? 🟥 Red card? Little things like this are why I love game development. #indiedev #gamedev #soccer #football #unrealengine

I'd like to introduce a new "Bug of the Week" topic every Friday. ⚽️ Late last night, I found a hilarious bug where you can slide tackle the opponent who is taking a throw-in. 🟨 Yellow card? 🟥 Red card? Little things like this are why I love game development. #indiedev #gamedev #soccer #football #unrealengine

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⚽️ Day 51 of building my football/soccer game solo in Unreal Engine 5. Tonight, I'm launching the first phase of dribbling v2.0. Dribbling 2.0 contains new ball physics and dribbling animations: ⚽ New dribble animation with the dribble touch landing on an authored contact event. ⚡ Every touch is a real impulse — the ball surges ahead, slows speed, and the player runs onto it. 🛑 New animation plays when the user stops dribbling where the sole of the boot stops the ball. 🧍 New idle animation where the player stands on the ball and he bounces on his toes. #indiedev #gamedev #football #soccer #unrealengine

⚽️ Day 51 of building my football/soccer game solo in Unreal Engine 5. Tonight, I'm launching the first phase of dribbling v2.0. Dribbling 2.0 contains new ball physics and dribbling animations: ⚽ New dribble animation with the dribble touch landing on an authored contact event. ⚡ Every touch is a real impulse — the ball surges ahead, slows speed, and the player runs onto it. 🛑 New animation plays when the user stops dribbling where the sole of the boot stops the ball. 🧍 New idle animation where the player stands on the ball and he bounces on his toes. #indiedev #gamedev #football #soccer #unrealengine

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⚽ Day 36 of building my football/soccer game solo in Unreal Engine 5. We made major UI/UX enhancements to the 3D match engine last night: 🏟️ 3D Stadium added to the match engine 🖥️ Optimized match engine to 1440p (2K) 🐛 Squashed a rendering bug and gained ~45 fps My focus for next week will be on additional player animations. 🎮 #indiedev #UnrealEngine #soccer #football #gamedev

⚽ Day 36 of building my football/soccer game solo in Unreal Engine 5. We made major UI/UX enhancements to the 3D match engine last night: 🏟️ 3D Stadium added to the match engine 🖥️ Optimized match engine to 1440p (2K) 🐛 Squashed a rendering bug and gained ~45 fps My focus for next week will be on additional player animations. 🎮 #indiedev #UnrealEngine #soccer #football #gamedev

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⚽️ Day 54 of building my football game solo in Unreal Engine 5. I made enhancements to a bug that many in the community have called out for a few weeks: 🥾 A player's boot would plant on the ground and slide a foot or two before lifting off the ground 🎿This made it look like players were ice skating on the pitch. ✔️The fix was a mix of animation playback speed and implementing a technique called stride warping. The plant foot still moves slightly forward once it lands on the ground, but it's not as dramatic as before. The video highlights a few clips in full speed and at 10% of full speed. Nicolas (Sports & eSports) - thanks! #indiedev #gamedev #football #soccer #unrealengine

⚽️ Day 54 of building my football game solo in Unreal Engine 5. I made enhancements to a bug that many in the community have called out for a few weeks: 🥾 A player's boot would plant on the ground and slide a foot or two before lifting off the ground 🎿This made it look like players were ice skating on the pitch. ✔️The fix was a mix of animation playback speed and implementing a technique called stride warping. The plant foot still moves slightly forward once it lands on the ground, but it's not as dramatic as before. The video highlights a few clips in full speed and at 10% of full speed. Nicolas (Sports & eSports) - thanks! #indiedev #gamedev #football #soccer #unrealengine

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Today's Dev Blog includes major enhancements across the entire experience. ⚽️ 🖥️ New Main Menu UI 💾 Career Mode Save System ⏩ Simulate Seasons in One Click 🎥 Broadcast Camera Updates 🏟️ Fan & Environment Improvements Join our Discord! #indiedev #gamedev #football #soccer #unrealengine

Today's Dev Blog includes major enhancements across the entire experience. ⚽️ 🖥️ New Main Menu UI 💾 Career Mode Save System ⏩ Simulate Seasons in One Click 🎥 Broadcast Camera Updates 🏟️ Fan & Environment Improvements Join our Discord! #indiedev #gamedev #football #soccer #unrealengine

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⚽️ Day 72 of building my football game solo in Unreal Engine 5. Tonight, we are introducing three new exciting features to the game: ⚫️ A ball shadow (my most requested feature) 🏟️ Crowd instancing pipeline for stadium crowds 🖼️ A sneak peek and huge shoutout to Kíni - Rémy LANDELLE for the amazing branding he has developed for my video game. Have a great weekend! #indiedev #gamedev #football #soccer #unrealengine

⚽️ Day 72 of building my football game solo in Unreal Engine 5. Tonight, we are introducing three new exciting features to the game: ⚫️ A ball shadow (my most requested feature) 🏟️ Crowd instancing pipeline for stadium crowds 🖼️ A sneak peek and huge shoutout to Kíni - Rémy LANDELLE for the amazing branding he has developed for my video game. Have a great weekend! #indiedev #gamedev #football #soccer #unrealengine

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⚽ Day 45 of building my football/soccer game solo in Unreal Engine 5. Tonight, I gave all players in the database a permanent identity and a visible skin complexion to go along with it. 🧬 Players are beginning to look unique from one another. 🎨 Hair styles and hair colors are next on the road map, then facial hair, then other attributes like height and facial morphs. 🌍 9 regional profiles were created on a global distribution, each containing a continuous range of skin color swatches rather than a fixed number of color swatches. No two players should share the exact same skin tone. 🧠 My c++ code already generates hair, eye color, height and other appearance elements per Player ID. These aren't wired to the visible character meshes yet. 🌐 I built the architecture so during online play, both machines generate the identical squad locally. 🛠️ Mod-ready: Roster packs and appearance packs can ship separately with community support #indiedev #gamedev #soccer #football #unrealengine

⚽ Day 45 of building my football/soccer game solo in Unreal Engine 5. Tonight, I gave all players in the database a permanent identity and a visible skin complexion to go along with it. 🧬 Players are beginning to look unique from one another. 🎨 Hair styles and hair colors are next on the road map, then facial hair, then other attributes like height and facial morphs. 🌍 9 regional profiles were created on a global distribution, each containing a continuous range of skin color swatches rather than a fixed number of color swatches. No two players should share the exact same skin tone. 🧠 My c++ code already generates hair, eye color, height and other appearance elements per Player ID. These aren't wired to the visible character meshes yet. 🌐 I built the architecture so during online play, both machines generate the identical squad locally. 🛠️ Mod-ready: Roster packs and appearance packs can ship separately with community support #indiedev #gamedev #soccer #football #unrealengine

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⚽ Day 39 of building my football/soccer game solo in Unreal Engine 5. Tonight I tore out the old goalkeeper logic and started building a realistic algorithm. This development has been extremely complicated, so please don't mind my yellow debugging logic lines! 🧠 Developed a new C++ goalkeeper state machine 📐 GK cuts off the shooting angle and rushes off his line for central shots, stays home & central for wide attacking areas 🎯 GK positioning driven by real geometry, ball distance, and how central the attacker is Next up: GK movement and diving animations 🧤 #indiedev #gamedev #football #soccer #unrealengine

⚽ Day 39 of building my football/soccer game solo in Unreal Engine 5. Tonight I tore out the old goalkeeper logic and started building a realistic algorithm. This development has been extremely complicated, so please don't mind my yellow debugging logic lines! 🧠 Developed a new C++ goalkeeper state machine 📐 GK cuts off the shooting angle and rushes off his line for central shots, stays home & central for wide attacking areas 🎯 GK positioning driven by real geometry, ball distance, and how central the attacker is Next up: GK movement and diving animations 🧤 #indiedev #gamedev #football #soccer #unrealengine

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⚽️ Day 47 of building my football/soccer game solo in Unreal Engine 5. We made major UI/UX enhancements to the 3D match engine last night: 🪮 Every player ID generates a hair style now 💈 Real strand-based grooms, not flat static meshes 💻 LOD-optimized so 22 players render smoothly 🧑‍🦱 Hairstyle library contains 13 unique styles Up next: Unique hair color by player ID 🎨 #indiedev #gamedev #football #soccer #unrealengine

⚽️ Day 47 of building my football/soccer game solo in Unreal Engine 5. We made major UI/UX enhancements to the 3D match engine last night: 🪮 Every player ID generates a hair style now 💈 Real strand-based grooms, not flat static meshes 💻 LOD-optimized so 22 players render smoothly 🧑‍🦱 Hairstyle library contains 13 unique styles Up next: Unique hair color by player ID 🎨 #indiedev #gamedev #football #soccer #unrealengine

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Day 63 of building my football game solo in Unreal Engine 5. Today's Dev Blog focuses on the implementation of manual passing and improved AI positioning: ⚽ Manual passes go exactly where the user aims 🎯 Through balls unlock naturally with manual control 🚩 AI attackers hold the line instead of drifting unrealistically offsides 📐 Revamped AI positioning to hold a compact block #indiedev #gamedev #football #soccer #unrealengine

Day 63 of building my football game solo in Unreal Engine 5. Today's Dev Blog focuses on the implementation of manual passing and improved AI positioning: ⚽ Manual passes go exactly where the user aims 🎯 Through balls unlock naturally with manual control 🚩 AI attackers hold the line instead of drifting unrealistically offsides 📐 Revamped AI positioning to hold a compact block #indiedev #gamedev #football #soccer #unrealengine

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Dev Blog is LIVE! For the first time ever, I talk about the football game I’ve been building solo for 60 days in Unreal Engine. In this video, I break down the core systems powering the game: - Manager Career Mode - Club Finances - Transfer Market - Squad Management - 3D Match Engine Integration Thank you all for your incredible support over the last 60 days. #indiedev #gamedev #football #soccer #unrealengine

Dev Blog is LIVE! For the first time ever, I talk about the football game I’ve been building solo for 60 days in Unreal Engine. In this video, I break down the core systems powering the game: - Manager Career Mode - Club Finances - Transfer Market - Squad Management - 3D Match Engine Integration Thank you all for your incredible support over the last 60 days. #indiedev #gamedev #football #soccer #unrealengine

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⚽ Day 42 of building my football/soccer game solo in Unreal Engine 5. Tonight, I rebuilt how the ball and the player's feet actually talk to each other while remaining separate meshes. I wanted to get pretty technical with y'all on a Saturday, so enjoy the read if you enjoy this stuff. Otherwise, just watch the video 👍 - Normal dribbling is impulse-based now. The foot arrives, knocks the ball on, the ball is genuinely loose between touches. Stop running and the ball keeps going without you. - We enabled Motion Warping on all 10 turn animations so the montages will now bend the player's path mid-turn so the boot arrives at the ball, instead of the ball being dragged to wherever the animator drew it previously. - Every contact is authored on the animation itself. I track which frame, which foot, which part of the boot, and whether it CARRIES the ball (sole on a drag-back) or STRIKES it (inside-of-the-foot on a 90) - Each contact declares how close the player needs to be. A sole on top of the ball, an inside-foot redirect and an outside-foot push all reach differently — 75 / 63 / 53 units - Touches are credited only to the foot the animation is actually dribbling with - Sideways and forward correction are capped separately. Pushing the ball across your line keeps it. Pushing it forward is how you lose it - Touch strength scales with your speed. The ball has to leave the foot ~1.27× faster than you're running just to stay ahead. This was an annoying bug I kept running into where I overran the ball and left it behind. Have a great weekend. #indiedev #gamedev #soccer #football #unrealengine

⚽ Day 42 of building my football/soccer game solo in Unreal Engine 5. Tonight, I rebuilt how the ball and the player's feet actually talk to each other while remaining separate meshes. I wanted to get pretty technical with y'all on a Saturday, so enjoy the read if you enjoy this stuff. Otherwise, just watch the video 👍 - Normal dribbling is impulse-based now. The foot arrives, knocks the ball on, the ball is genuinely loose between touches. Stop running and the ball keeps going without you. - We enabled Motion Warping on all 10 turn animations so the montages will now bend the player's path mid-turn so the boot arrives at the ball, instead of the ball being dragged to wherever the animator drew it previously. - Every contact is authored on the animation itself. I track which frame, which foot, which part of the boot, and whether it CARRIES the ball (sole on a drag-back) or STRIKES it (inside-of-the-foot on a 90) - Each contact declares how close the player needs to be. A sole on top of the ball, an inside-foot redirect and an outside-foot push all reach differently — 75 / 63 / 53 units - Touches are credited only to the foot the animation is actually dribbling with - Sideways and forward correction are capped separately. Pushing the ball across your line keeps it. Pushing it forward is how you lose it - Touch strength scales with your speed. The ball has to leave the foot ~1.27× faster than you're running just to stay ahead. This was an annoying bug I kept running into where I overran the ball and left it behind. Have a great weekend. #indiedev #gamedev #soccer #football #unrealengine

18,077 views • 1 month ago

⚽ Day 38 of building my football/soccer game solo in Unreal Engine 5. The players no longer run around the pitch barefoot or without proper gear! 🎽 Kits fitted onto the MetaHuman players 🏷️ Player last name + number displayed on the back 🤝 Club sponsor displayed across the front 🎨 Club colors + accent trim 👟 Custom cleats My next focus for the 3D match engine will be adding unique skin complexions, hair styles, facial hair styles, and hair colors for every player in the database. 🎮 #indiedev #gamedev #soccer #football #unrealengine

⚽ Day 38 of building my football/soccer game solo in Unreal Engine 5. The players no longer run around the pitch barefoot or without proper gear! 🎽 Kits fitted onto the MetaHuman players 🏷️ Player last name + number displayed on the back 🤝 Club sponsor displayed across the front 🎨 Club colors + accent trim 👟 Custom cleats My next focus for the 3D match engine will be adding unique skin complexions, hair styles, facial hair styles, and hair colors for every player in the database. 🎮 #indiedev #gamedev #soccer #football #unrealengine

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