Hello, World!

Hi, my name is Dean Caldwell. I have been building AAA games with Unreal Engine and C++ since 2019. I’ve worked on titles like Marvel’s Midnight Suns and Mafia: The Old Country, and I’m somewhat good at game AI programming and design.

I don’t blog often, but when I do, you’ll find what I have to say on this site. If you have any questions or would like advice for your game project, please feel welcome to email me (please enable JS) or message me on LinkedIn. I aim to respond to all reader mail.

Note that all I write about are personal opinions and do not represent any company or any other person.

Posts

• 24 Aug 2025 Lessons from Playtesting Character AI
• 24 Aug 2025 Player Expectations in AAA Character AI
• 23 Aug 2025 Don't Follow Game Design Trends
• 20 Aug 2025 Planning AAA-Style Character AI
• 16 Jul 2025 Memory Management & Garbage Collection in Unreal Engine 5 (Updated)
• 17 Apr 2023 Functions as Data in Unreal Engine 5
• 22 Oct 2022 Easy C++ Latent Functions in Unreal Engine 5 Blueprints
• 17 Jul 2020 Designing Blueprint Function Nodes in C++

Thanks for reading!