Mike Dolan

@mikedolan.bsky.social

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Making games using Unreal Engine. Working on gamedev is my primary focus, but I also work in Blender for 3D modeling and Aseprite for pixelart! Current projects: Retro FPS ImSim-lite sci-fi series, and an isometric samurai slasher.

The 3d hacking scene from the movie hackers
a ps1 style aesthetic - looking out an observation window over a control panel in a dark and strange facility
walking around a big cement room with foggy sewer vibes and cylindrical towers and wires
a concrete room with tall cylindrical structures and wires.
server connection fail
3 cpu controlled enemy space craft circle the player in loops in this space game
a cockpit view where enemy fighter ships fly with orange trails behind them and the player dodges between a space stating
homeworld ship exhaust trail in the editor view
a spiral galaxy filled with yellow stars rotates over a blue purple nebula space
a screenshot of unreal engine editor. on the left is an interactive tutorial explaining features of the engine. on the right is a welcome level to play through.
My dog PB on a rug refusing to go for a walk.
An itchio jame score - Ranked 25th with 13 ratings (Score: 3.154) - 16th in paceing, 18 in audio, visuals 46, fear factor 47!
parasitic worms being removed with salad tongs in a ps one style game
a pulsating horror worm animated in blender
a psx style first person perspective where the player is exploring a mine tunnel
a gray box of a level in unreal engine - its a mine / cave level
A pixelated PSX style first person game where the player begins exploring an abandoned mine.
a grey box of the next level of the mine. there are no walls yet in the main hall way. and the gate you must get through is just in the center and you could walk around it...
a grey box showing the elevator shaft and the beginning of then next level i am designing
a pixelated ps1 style horror game starts at a campfire and then the player walked into an abandoned mine, crawls through a tunnel and finds an elevator.
a ps1 style horror game where the player is using a flashlight in a mine and finds a cave in with an overturned mine cart.
an unlit scene showing a storage room with a wood pallet, fuel cans and barrels. The way is blocked by an old iron bar door and a padlock.
a flash light illuminates a danger keepout sign of an abandon mine...
view of a game level from above with the wireframe one. its a forest and a cave - the cave looks like its just been cut out of the mountain - thats not how caves work!
a first person perspective walking through a lowpoly playstation era textured cave and finally reaching the exit and a campfire surrounded by friends.
a grey box map laying out a mine level I am work on. the map is decorated with key gameplay points and notes explaining what is going on in certain rooms.
An overview of my mine blockout in greybox
a top view of a greybox small maze, a green navmesh coats the floor - there is a white cube moving towards a player character
Glowing pc
Modeling tool plugin settings
A pile of fresh ground coffee mounds up below the coffee grinder and all over the counter. The container thats supposed to catch the coffee was never placed to catch coffee and sits right next to the machine. Now theres a mess to clean and still no coffee.
a low poly fps player running on a roof top and vaulting over air ducts
a lowpoly cyber punk city where the player it jump to a balcony and grabbing on and then looking down at the bottomless fall below
Guy looking at the girl in the red dress which says Bass Phishing while Eternal Skies girl looks appalled
a cyberpunk lowpoly scene with flying cars as the player jumps across a gap
a low poly movement shooter clip showing the player wall run and double jump to balconies followed by jumping between air conditioners and pipes in a cyberpunk style city
an unreal engine state tree that defines enemy shooter ai - includes attacking, finding a sniping position, investigating and searching
an official Unreal blueprint with a blueprint graph that is not neat and tidy and hurts my brain - its not spaghetti but still feels disorganized due to node placement
A parkour section in a cyber punk city where the player muat jump to different balconies.
A lowpoly first person shooter scene where the player shoots some enemies behind boxes on an open courtyard in a cyberpunk city that seems to stretch both above and below the player. The player in the end executes a big double jump over a large gap between platforms.
a low poly cyber punk scene mockup for my movement shooter game
Demo showing a static enemy get hit by a laser and switch to a dead version of the mesh
a prototype of a parkour shooter with white grid walls and some enemies. the player wall runs as they dispatch enemies and demonstrates some wall jumps and double jumps too
Me in front of a big unreal logo
Sleep Fight Games in a dot matrix style font
a thirdperson character explores a flat shaded desert mountain path
Photo of the book An Architectual Approach to Level Design
a grey box level of different sized buildings arranged into winding streets
a low poly pixelized scene with little green aliens in a desert planet cantina drinking blue milk - vats of it are behind the bar tender
a cockpit view of a lowpoly space ship with a radar image in the bottom left that tracks an enemy fighter. the video shows the player chasing the enemy using the new radar to help track the enemy.
a blueprint that finds a point on the edge of a radar circle
a blueprint for calculating a point on the edge of a radar circle
a screen shot of a print string in unreal that says Normal Vector x CosSin X: -82.365 vs -82.365 Y: 125.364 vs 125.364
a blue print to place a blip on the edge of a front facing radar when an enemy is behind the player
tom hanks saying i have made fire
getting a point on the circumference of a circle using unreal blueprints.