Beacon Manor

Devlog

• Improving the Eye Wall Puzzle with Texture Masking and Flashlight Feedback
  July 03, 2026 by chromestorms#player feedback, #unreal engine, #game design, #asset development, #game development

  This week I worked on improving one of Beacon Manor’s puzzle hazards: the Eye Wall . The original version of the puzzle technically worked, but it was not giving the player enough feedback. The play... Continue reading

  
• World Partitioning
  July 03, 2026 by Nythanox

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  #World Partitioning, #Game Development, #Development, #Horror, #Unreal Engine

  What I've Been Working On. World Partitioning - One of the first things I learned about World Partitioning in Unreal is that if you decided to do World Partitioning for your game you should decided to... Continue reading
• Audio: Bringing the Ghosts to Life Through State-Based Audio
  June 25, 2026 by Justin Henry#Cartoon, #Horror, #Thriller, #LowPoly

  The Problem As Beacon Manor continued to evolve, our ghost AI became capable of chasing the player, becoming stunned by the flashlight, recovering from the stun effect, attacking the player, and event... Continue reading

  
• The Keybinding Conundrum
  June 25, 2026 by JohnMCollins

  Author: John Collins Posted on: June 25, 2026 The Problem Due to the way I had designed the key bind menu the four movement keys were not grouped together. The ones that were together would also split... Continue reading

  
• Building Rimlight Feedback for Interactables, Enemies, Hazards, and Puzzles
  June 22, 2026 by chromestorms#feedback, #gamedev, #rimlight

  Today I worked on improving how interactable objects and flashlight targets are communicated to the player in Beacon Manor. One issue we noticed during testing was that some objects were technically w... Continue reading

  
• Flashlight Collision Causing Player Movement issues
  June 20, 2026 by Nythanox

  The Problem So I had just finished Retargeting the flashlight holding animation to work with our current skeleton, when testing the player did not like the right direction, the side the flashlight was... Continue reading

  
• Learning a save system
  June 20, 2026 by Doktorrxmz

  The Problem This being my first time implementing a save system in unreal has been fun, but also made things harder to figure out. I originally saw stuff online about implementing the save system thro... Continue reading
• Audio: Food Consumption
  June 19, 2026 by Justin Henry#Cartoon, #Horror, #Thriller

  The Problem As development on Beacon Manor continued, I began implementing additional health item pickups that players can collect and consume throughout the game. While the health restoration systems... Continue reading

  
• Rebinding Keys
  June 19, 2026 by JohnMCollins

  Author: John Collins Posted on: June 18, 2026 The Problem One of the main problems I had to solve this week was creating a menu for the player to rebind their keys. I figured I would start by adding a... Continue reading

  
• Retargeting Ghost Animations for Beacon Manor
  June 18, 2026 by chromestorms#Animation, #Retargeting, #IK, #AnimDev, #Development

  -Jeffrey Hill / Chromestorms Today I worked on getting a new ghost animation pack usable with our Beacon Manor ghost character. The pack came with several animation sequences that fit the direction we... Continue reading

  
• Problem with animations
  June 13, 2026 by Nythanox

  Animations Messed with Player Controls So I'll be honest my biggest problem with this was just my lack of knowledge in the animation department. So when I first started i just went to my old code in t... Continue reading

  
• Creating a Pause Menu
  June 13, 2026 by Doktorrxmz

  The Problem My first production challenge I encountered was never having built a pause menu. It was a simple fix. Just did some research and was off to the races. Pretty straight forward on everything... Continue reading

  
• Building a Centralized Audio System
  June 12, 2026 by Justin Henry#Beacon Manor, #Devlog, #Game Development, #Unreal Engine, #Audio, #Sound Design, #Horror, #Indie Game, #Danger Noodle

  The Problem One of the first production challenges I encountered on Beacon Manor was creating an audio system that could support music, ambience, sound effects, and UI feedback while remaining easy to... Continue reading

  
• Making the Manor Dangerous
  June 12, 2026 by JohnMCollins

  Author: John Collins Posted on: June 12, 2026 The Problem One of the main problems I had to solve this week was creating the traps and damage sources we would be adding to our game map. I had a good i... Continue reading

  
• Making Key and Door Interaction Readable in the Build
  June 12, 2026 by chromestorms#Object Interaction, #HUD, #Pickups, #Conditionals

  Author: Jeffrey Hill Posted on: June 11, 2026 The Problem One of the main problems I had to solve this week was making our key and locked door interaction clear to the player. The underlying gameplay... Continue reading