#blocktober

I want to post some progress on how the Quake level in Unreal Engine is going.

I have saw that the hard difficulty and tricky positioning of enemies was causing players to fail. Instead of giving up, they tried again. Now I want to experiment with creating a satisfying challenge.

We’re also here! #blocktober revealed already a few people to me and I was really happy to see that happening

Actually #blocktober is also here! Just search the tag and see what people have posted. We’re just getting started I feel like, but it’s getting there

From the very beginning I was set on creating a tower-based level, where player could understand that their goal is to reach the top.

Designing the tower offered to experiment with elevator combat as well as vertical navigation and combat. Progression upwards helped player orientation in tower.

This was some early progress that I made in initial weeks on the grand hall. I designed it to take advantage of verticality and sidepaths.

You can see that I added stairs to the doors at the end. It was a great solution to get player into the room, since the doors are locked without a golden key.

#blocktober

As part of my first assignment during Year 2 at BUas I have to create a Quake level in an Unreal Engine template that replicated the original game.

It is interesting in comparison to Trenchbroom since the freedom of engine allowed me to create breakable columns as a level ingredient.

#blocktober

As blocktober has oficially started I will kick it off for me with WIP bits of a Trenchbroom Quake level that I picked up to learn how to use that tool.

See the level I created for the game here: youtu.be/5IsG_lnKgbU

See the trailer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIsd...

Play game here: buas.itch.io/resonance

For 8 weeks I have been working with 10 other developers to create "Resonance". It was a great experience working with such a talented team that was focused on creating a game we like.

Play as a super-powered girl throwing and smashing fascists against walls and furniture. Links below!

I have entirely forgot to keep posting on Bluesky, there was a lot to do. Now I am back with a summary of the previous project and some blocktober stuff to show.

It has been a fascinating experience discovering what elements of architecture make us feel oppressed, confined and controlled. Research into fascist architecture, psychogeography and design of containment facilities revealed to me how layout can be used both to create secure areas and intimidate.

For the concept art I have to thank Quinn van Gorp and Deborah Nannini from the team.

For the next six weeks I will be working in on a new game as a level designer. It is going to be a bloody beat’em up where the player can throw fascists around using telekinetic powers of a little girl’s voice.

I will be trying to meaningfully create oppressive experience in the levels.

It’s so weird coming back to developing in Unity after a year of working in Unreal Engine. A lot of things are simply different. Nothing necessarily better or worse.

I miss having construction scripts and child game objects (the way blueprints can) though.

Finally got to publishing another project of mine:

piqulsky.itch.io/razem-rpg

For years wanted to create a TTRPG of my own, that could fit my diverse game mastering style.

This is a universal modular card-based TTRPG system. For now there’s barely enough on the page, but it will get updated!

Just published this little thing

itch.io/email2game/3...

It was lying in my drawer for far too long. Reminded me how much fun one page rpgs are to create. It’s sometimes surprisingly freeing to work with constraints.

Following up on modern games fashion when it comes to publish days - here is the Global Game Jam 2025 game. A month late, but let’s not focus on that. It has not been touched since the jam at all so unfortunately it is still bugged at some points.

piqulsky.itch.io/cyberpop-fre...

During the CMGT game jam that happened this week I have refreshed my Godot knowledge and created this simple game "Keep The Keep" where the player builds a fortress out of available buildings and tries to survive for as long as possible.

(had only 5 hours for it even though jam lasted a week)

While resting during my two week „break” between blocks in my course, I have attended some game industry events and suddenly I got an invite to visit Birungi Studio. They are amazing people who work on games that can impact society. On top of that is startup is composed mostly of students. Just wow!

Finally recovered after the GGJ. I was excited to spend 48h jamming in BUas.

Creating Cyberpop: Frequencies was amazing. Inspired by one of the diversifiers posted we even added voice control, where if you yell, you shoot faster.

Check out the trailer for our game: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaWh...