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Join us as Christopher Main walks through his workflow for creating an “Online Puzzle Extraction Game” in 7 days as a solo developed project. Utilizing many Unreal Engine systems for extremely fast blueprint multiplayer iteration. This session shows quick tips for concept, retro aesthetics, 3D modeling, rigging, animation, textures, audio and more. Check out the game yourself here: https://themainstark.itch.io/spinlock Check out Christopher’s tutorials on their YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheMainStark Timestamps: 0:00 Opening 4:30 Introduction: Christopher Ming & Spin Lock overview 6:00 Game overview: co-op puzzle extraction with Quake vibes, live playtest setup 10:18 Past game jams: Castle Day, Squishems, and lessons learned 12:26 Live playtest begins: killing enemies, collecting codes, solving puzzles 19:18 Goals for Spin Lock: doing all art solo, 90s aesthetic 26:32 Design deep dive: spin-to-win theme & combination lock arena concept 33:39 Playtest wrap-up & general game jam advice (avoid scope creep, have fun) 35:22 Concept & pre-production: using Obsidian for design docs and mood boards 37:02 Brainstorming influences: extraction genre, puzzle design, Maze Runner 48:06 Early pitfalls: abandoning HTML5 export, restarting in UE 5.5 50:41 Day-by-day production breakdown 52:34 Final day polish: oversized weapons & last-minute bug fixes 54:45 Optimizing for low-poly retro aesthetic in Unreal 56:05 In-engine 3D modeling & rigging demo (pickaxe prop) 1:09:05 Linked animation sequences workflow demo 1:14:14 Texturing with Wall-E app for retro pixel art 1:18:14 DIY audio: mouth-made sound effects & Audacity tricks 1:26:47 Blueprint multiplayer philosophy & best practices 1:33:22 Multiplayer fundamentals: replication, net relevancy, RPCs 1:41:47 PlayFab + Unreal dedicated server tutorial overview 1:44:03 Lessons learned & general game jam advice recap 1:48:35 Post-jam expansion: Echo X reveal and playtest 1:55:47 Post-jam advice: pitch decks, vertical slices, portfolio building 1:58:01 Q&A begins 2:03:00 Q&A: PlayFab vs. EOS, learning resources, plugins used 2:11:03 Q&A: C++ vs. Blueprint, performance, in-engine character creation 2:22:17 Closing

Forget baked animations. Software developer Skyreal is bringing scientific real-time physics to Unreal Engine 5. Simulating flexible parts like hoses, wiring harnesses, and complex kinematics in real time has always been the “final boss” of industrial simulation. In this session recorded at Unreal Fest Chicago 2026, you’ll witness a world-first integration of XDE, a scientific-grade physics engine, directly into Unreal Engine. Through live, unscripted demos performed on stage, Skyreal showcases previously impossible scenarios: complex cable routing with precise flexibility, mechanical behavior, snap-fit assembly of non-rigid components, and jitter-free collision handling on massive datasets. Discover how the team pushed the boundaries of UE5 integration to achieve millimeter-accurate interactions for demanding industries including aerospace, automotive, naval, defense, energy, and beyond—turning Unreal Engine into a true engineering lab. If you’re a developer looking to bridge the gap between visual fidelity and physical truth, this session is your proof of concept. Find out more about Unreal Engine for simulation here: unrealengine.com/uses/simulation #PhysicsSimulation, #Skyreal, #XDE, #Aerospace, #Automotive, #Naval, #Defense, #UnrealEngine, #UnrealFestChicago2026

User-generated content (UGC) is becoming a core pillar in game development, backed with industry research showing increased revenue, player retention, and even long-term revenue increases in DLC sales. With the increased adoption by studios across PC, consoles, and mobile, understanding the production and engineering advantages of supporting UGC effectively has never been more important. With over 300 titles shipped across more than a dozen platforms, mod.io has seen these challenges first hand and understands what it takes to deliver scalable, cross-platform UGC support. This talk explores architectural strategies to implement cross-platform UGC support in your own title using Unreal Engine’s native systems. Rather than doing a deep dive into complex code, mod.io focuses on common patterns and structures to make your game easily moddable. Source code and examples are provided to prove these concepts. They look at how the Asset Manager enables data-drive loading of content, how plugins create clean extension points, how subsystems help isolate UGC logic from core gameplay, and how modular gameplay patterns support safe, scalable runtime modifications. They also discuss how to build tools to support your creators across all platforms, and how mod.io has helped studios integrate these patterns into real shipped titles. Finally they dig into what the future of UGC holds as creator expectations grow, and Unreal Engine’s ecosystem continues to expand. Find out more about using Unreal Engine to develop games here: unrealengine.com/uses/games #UserGeneratedContent, #mod.io, #AssetManager, #UnrealEngine, #UnrealFestChicago2026

Collaboration and iteration on Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) projects gets more challenging as teams and roadmaps grow. In this session recorded at Unreal Fest Chicago 2026, we demonstrate Unreal Revision Control basics as well as recently released branching workflows that provide you and your team more flexibility to plan, iterate, and achieve your vision together. We discuss how branching enables safe experimentation, helps teams develop features in parallel, and enables you to plan releases more confidently. Find out more about using UEFN to develop games here: fortnite.com/developer/tools #UnrealRevisionControl, #UnrealEditorForFortnite, #UEFN, #Fortnite, #GameDevelopment, #UnrealFestChicago2026

Watch this video to learn about the debut project from Warsaw-based developer Rebel Wolves and sink your teeth into the reasons Unreal Engine 5 was chosen. ‘The Blood of Dawnwalker’ is an ambitious open world dark fantasy action RPG set in 14th-century Europe. In it, you play as Coen, a human by day and vampire by night, fighting to save your family in a story shaped by your actions and the secrets you uncover. After evaluating their options, Rebel Wolves selected Unreal Engine 5 for key features including World Partition, Lumen, Sequencer, and Blueprints. Press play to discover how UE5’s tools and workflows helped reduce iteration times and improve collaboration between teams. To get the full story, read our interview with Rebel Wolves here: https://epic.gm/dev-interviews-blood-of-dawnwalker #rebelwolves , #TheBloodOfDawnwalker, #GameDevelopment, #UE5. #RPG, #WorldPartition, #Lumen, #Sequencer, #BlueprintVisualScripting, #RPG, #DarkFantasy

Join us for Creating in Fortnite: Template Abilities, a practical livestream exploring how to use Template Abilities to create reusable gameplay abilities more efficiently in UEFN. Template Abilities are part of the Ability System, the framework for building extensible, reusable gameplay abilities in Verse. They give you a timeline-driven path so you don’t have to write custom activation logic from scratch. You get a structured way to define how an ability plays out over time—from targeting and activation to projectiles and gameplay effects—making it easier to build, iterate on, and reuse abilities across your games. Learn more about Fortnite Template Abilities

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Create simple and responsive Fortnite timeline-driven abilities.

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The Technical Developer Relations team at Epic, based on their experience supporting customers and their own work with Unreal Engine, has identified a selection of cross-discipline indicators that often influence the outcomes of real-time projects. Jam-packed with resources, this session recorded at Unreal Fest Chicago 2026 explains what these key indicators are, why they’re important, what types of projects they affect most, where in the lifespan of a project they’re most impactful, and how to implement Epic-recommended best practices. Topics covered include optimization, fidelity, scalability, engine version integration, build health, iteration workflows, project settings, and avenues for additional learning. Although each of these topics touches on a number of features that could (or already have) separate deep dives, we spend our time fitting all these pieces together from an implementation-focused perspective. This session specifies which of the key indicators are set-and-forget or need cadenced reviews; which phases of a project are most practical for implementing each recommendation; and which specialists are needed for implementation. The presentation includes a shortlist of several must-know resources, including recorded talks, templates, articles, and more. It also provides the context and clarity needed for developers to parse the in-depth resources shown and confidently implement these important best practices in their work. Find out more about Unreal Engine here: unrealengine.com #GameOptimization, #UnrealEngine, #UnrealFestChicago2026

By default, Unreal Engine projects fully recook on every invocation: each package to ship is loaded and saved, with partial but not full caching. On large projects, it can take hours for every execution. Since UE3, Unreal Engine has supported opt-in iterative cooking, in which only changed packages are loaded and resaved. The legacy version of iterative cooking does not detect all dependencies, however, so some packages are skipped when they should not be and stale data is used at runtime. In UE5, we’ve added more robust dependencies into the iterative cook; this new version is now the default in 5.7 and is called incremental cooking to distinguish it from the simpler legacy iterative mode. Incremental cooking has some dependencies (ZenServer, TObjectPtr, programmer guidelines for C++ changes) that are required either for it to be enabled or for it to work correctly. In this talk recorded at Unreal Fest Chicago 2026, we present what is necessary to make incremental cook fully enabled on your project, report the results we have seen on our internal projects, and discuss the remaining work still in progress. Find out more about Unreal Engine here: unrealengine.com #IncrementalCooking, #UE5.7, #ZenServer, #UnrealEngine, #UnrealFestChicago2026