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The ongoing blog of development in Unreal Engine 4 proved to be more of a distraction and time-sink than I'd anticipated, especially once I got rolling on a really neat project. I just wanted to keep going and not stop to document the steps of everything.

There is now a portfolio page that showcases some of the work I did since I last posted here.

I'll be moving onto something different soon and I think I'll post images and gifs instead of documenting tutorials.

- Matthew

Location: Longmont, CO, USA

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