ukanwat
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- ▌ Game AI · ukanwat bundleDesign NPC and enemy decision-making with finite state machines, behavior trees, steering behaviors, and A* pathfinding — engine-neutral algorithms that pair with the detected engine's navigation API. Use when building enemy AI, an FSM or behavior tree, steering/flocking, or pathfinding, or when the user mentions state machine, behavior tree, blackboard, A*, navmesh, seek, or patrol/chase.
- ▌ Game Feel · ukanwat bundleAdd "juice" and game feel that makes actions satisfying — screen shake, hit-stop/freeze frames, tweened/eased motion, squash & stretch, knockback, and layered audio-visual feedback — as engine-neutral techniques that pair with the detected engine's tween, particle, and camera APIs. Use when the user mentions game feel, juice, "make it feel good/punchy", screen shake, hit stop, screen freeze, easing, squash and stretch, impact frames, or feedback/polish on hits, jumps, pickups, and deaths.
- ▌ Game UI UX · ukanwat bundleDesign and build game UI/UX — HUDs, menus, and overlays — that survive every screen: anchor- based responsive layout, resolution/aspect scaling and safe areas, keyboard/gamepad focus navigation, a screen/menu state stack, and event-driven (not polled) HUD updates. Engine- neutral patterns that pair with the detected engine's UI skill. Use when the user mentions HUD, health bar, main menu, pause menu, settings screen, UI layout, anchors, UI scaling, aspect ratio, safe area, controller/keyboard menu navigation, or wiring UI to game state.
- ▌ Audio Design · ukanwat bundleImplement game audio practice — bus/mixer architecture and gain in decibels, ducking (sidechain), adaptive/dynamic music via layering and re-sequencing, SFX variation, and beat synchronization. Engine-neutral. Use when the user mentions audio mixing, audio buses, adaptive/dynamic music, ducking, SFX variation, music layers, or syncing gameplay to the beat.
- ▌ Level Design · ukanwat bundleDesign and build playable levels — the blockout/whitebox-to-playable workflow, player metrics and grid layout, pacing and flow (tension/rest curve), gating and the critical path, and encounter design. Engine-neutral practice. Use when the user mentions level design, blockout/whitebox/greybox, level layout, level pacing, encounter design, or the critical path through a level.
- ▌ Save Systems · ukanwat bundleDesign save/load for game state — choosing what to serialize, file formats, save slots, atomic crash-safe writes, schema versioning and migration, and autosave. Engine-neutral. Use when the user mentions save system, save/load, game state persistence, save slots, autosave, save file corruption, or migrating old saves to a new version.
- ▌ Input Systems · ukanwat bundleArchitect game input — action mapping (abstracting keys into named actions), rebinding with conflict detection and persistence, multi-device support (keyboard, gamepad, touch), analog deadzones, and feel features like input buffering and coyote time, plus accessibility. Engine-neutral. Use when the user mentions input mapping, rebind controls, gamepad support, deadzone, input buffering, coyote time, or accessible controls.
- ▌ Camera Systems · ukanwat bundleBuild game cameras that feel good — 2D follow with a deadzone, look-ahead, smoothing, and level-bounds clamping; 3D third-person orbit with collision and first-person look; plus multi-target framing and a shake hook. Engine-neutral techniques that pair with the engine's camera node and rigs like Unity Cinemachine or Godot Camera2D/PhantomCamera. Use when the user mentions camera follow, follow camera, deadzone, look-ahead, camera smoothing, camera bounds/ limits, third-person camera, orbit camera, first-person look, Cinemachine, or camera jitter.
- ▌ Physics Tuning · ukanwat bundleTune game physics for stable, good-feeling motion — fixed vs variable timestep, render interpolation, mass/gravity/drag, continuous collision detection (CCD) to stop tunneling, fixing jitter, and collision layers/masks. Engine-neutral. Use when the user mentions physics feel, jitter, tunneling, fixed timestep, FixedUpdate, CCD, bouncing/unstable physics, or collision layers.
- ▌ Procedural Gen · ukanwat bundleGenerate game content procedurally — seeded deterministic RNG, value/Perlin/ Simplex noise for terrain and heightmaps, grid dungeon generation (rooms + corridors, BSP, random walk), and weighted loot/drop tables. Engine-neutral algorithms. Use when the user mentions procedural generation, perlin/simplex noise, random seed, dungeon generator, heightmap/terrain, or loot tables.
- ▌ Unreal Niagara · ukanwatCreate and control VFX in Unreal Engine 5 with Niagara: systems and emitters, modules and the spawn/update stages, exposed User parameters, and spawning or driving effects from Blueprints or C++. Use when building particle effects, NS_/NE_ assets, spawning a Niagara system at runtime, setting User parameters, or when the user mentions Niagara, VFX, or a particle system in Unreal.
- ▌ Dialogue Systems · ukanwat bundleBuild branching dialogue and narrative — a node/choice graph with conditions, variables, and localization hooks — and choose between authoring tools Ink and Yarn Spinner or a custom data-driven runner. Engine-neutral. Use when the user mentions dialogue system, branching dialogue, conversation tree, choices, Ink (.ink), Yarn Spinner (.yarn), or NPC dialogue.
- ▌ Reference Images · ukanwatFind and actually LOOK at real photographs — keyless image-search APIs, downloaded to disk so they render as images. Use before building any place, material, vehicle, sky or lighting condition, and again when judging your own screenshots.
- ▌ Unreal Packaging · ukanwatPackage and ship an Unreal Engine 5 project: the Platforms menu Package Project flow, build configurations (Development vs Shipping), cooking content, packaging settings and the Game Default Map, and command-line builds with RunUAT BuildCookRun. Use when packaging a build, making a shipping build, cooking content, configuring packaging settings, or when the user mentions package Unreal, cook content, shipping build, or BuildCookRun.
- ▌ Unreal Blueprints · ukanwat bundleBuild Unreal Engine 5 gameplay with Blueprint visual scripting: Blueprint Classes, the Event Graph and Construction Script, variables/functions/macros, and Blueprint communication (Cast, Interfaces, Event Dispatchers). Use when working in Blueprints, wiring an event graph, deciding how Blueprints talk to each other, or when the user mentions Blueprint, BP, event graph, construction script, or a Blueprint .uasset.
- ▌ Shader Programming · ukanwat bundleWrite game shaders from cross-engine fundamentals — the vertex→fragment pipeline, coordinate spaces, UV math, and common 2D/3D effects (tint, UV scroll, dissolve, outline, fresnel rim, vignette) in GLSL with HLSL equivalents. Use when the user mentions shaders, fragment/pixel shader, vertex shader, UV, GLSL, HLSL, or effects like dissolve, outline, or rim light.
- ▌ Unreal Cpp Gameplay · ukanwat bundleWrite Unreal Engine 5 C++ gameplay code: the UCLASS/UPROPERTY/UFUNCTION reflection macros, the Gameplay Framework (GameMode, Pawn, Character, PlayerController, Actor components), and the module Build.cs. Use when writing or debugging UE C++, deriving from AActor/ACharacter/ AGameModeBase, exposing properties to the editor or Blueprints, or when the user mentions Unreal C++, UCLASS, GENERATED_BODY, GameMode, ACharacter, or .Build.cs.
- ▌ Unreal Behavior Trees · ukanwat bundleBuild NPC AI in Unreal Engine 5 with Behavior Trees and Blackboards: composites (Selector/Sequence), tasks, decorators, services, and running the tree from an AIController. Use when creating enemy/NPC AI, BT_/BB_ assets, custom BTTask or BTService nodes, or when the user mentions Behavior Tree, Blackboard, AIController, BTTask, decorator, or service.
- ▌ Unreal Enhanced Input · ukanwat bundleSet up player input in Unreal Engine 5 with Enhanced Input: Input Actions, Input Mapping Contexts, modifiers and triggers, adding the mapping context, and binding actions by ETriggerEvent. Use when wiring movement/look/jump input, creating IA_/IMC_ assets, binding in C++ or Blueprints, or when the user mentions Enhanced Input, Input Mapping Context, Input Action, IA_/IMC_, or ETriggerEvent.
- ▌ Performance Optimization · ukanwat bundleFind and fix game performance problems methodically — measure with the engine profiler first, reason about the frame-time budget, locate the CPU-vs-GPU bottleneck, then apply the right fix: object pooling, draw-call batching, fewer allocations/GC spikes, and asset budgets. Engine- neutral method that pairs with each engine's profiler. Use when the user mentions performance, optimize, low/dropping FPS, frame drops, stutter, lag, profiler, frame budget, draw calls, batching, garbage collection/GC spikes, object pooling, or "the game runs slow".