Guides for indie game devs
Practical, no-fluff guides on shipping your game — making your Steam page convert, building gameplay systems in UE5 Blueprints, sculpting environments, crafting materials, and getting characters rigged — written by the team building Cosindra’s dev tools.
AI in your UE5 workflow
The big-picture questions — what AI genuinely does in a UE5 pipeline today, and how in-editor assistants work.
AI Tools for Unreal Engine 5: What Actually Works
What AI and automation genuinely do in a UE5 workflow today — Blueprints, materials, environments, rigging, store pages — and how to evaluate any tool.
What Is an AI Assistant for Unreal Engine?
How in-editor AI assistants for UE5 work — the Model Context Protocol, tool calling, what they can and cannot do in your project, and how to try one free.
Steam page & marketing guides
The things that decide whether a store page converts — capsules, descriptions, tags and wishlists.
Steam Capsule Sizes and Design: The Complete Guide
Every Steam capsule size in one table — header, small, main, vertical and library capsules — plus the design rules that make a capsule readable at thumbnail size.
The Steam Store Page Checklist: Everything Before You Hit Publish
A practical, ordered checklist for your Steam store page — capsule, screenshots, trailer, short description, tags, and the above-the-fold priorities that drive wishlists.
How to Choose Steam Tags (and Why the Order Matters)
Steam gives you 20 tag slots that drive search, More Like This, and discovery queues. How to pick them, order them, and the tagging mistakes that put your game in front of the wrong audience.
How Many Wishlists Do You Need on Steam?
What Steam wishlists actually do for your launch, the Popular Upcoming threshold, realistic indie benchmarks, and the levers that reliably grow wishlists before release.
How to Write a Steam Short Description (With a Formula)
The 300-character blurb under your capsule decides whether browsers keep reading. A concrete formula, good and bad examples, and the clichés to cut.
Steam page tips by genre
What buyers of each genre actually scan for — capsule, hook, screenshots and tags, per genre.
Character & rigging guides
From a raw mesh — modeled or AI-generated — to a character that plays UE5 animations.
How to Rig a Character for Unreal Engine 5 (Three Ways Compared)
Manual rigging in Blender, auto-rigging with Mixamo, or a Manny-native auto-rigger — what each path costs you in time, control, and retargeting pain, and how to pick.
Mixamo to Unreal Engine 5: The Workflow, the Gotchas, and When to Skip It
The full Mixamo → UE5 pipeline: export settings that work, the import-scale gotcha, retargeting Mixamo rigs to UE animations with the IK Retargeter, and the alternative that skips retargeting.
From AI-Generated Model to Playable UE5 Character (Meshy, Tripo & Co.)
You generated a character with Meshy, Tripo or another AI tool — now what? Mesh checks, rigging options, import settings, and the fastest route to a character that runs around in UE5.
The UE5 Manny Skeleton, Explained
What Manny and Quinn actually are, how the UE5 mannequin skeleton is structured, why "Manny-compatible" is the property that decides whether animations just work, and how to get a compatible rig.
UE5 Blueprint guides
The anatomy of a Blueprint system plus node-by-node breakdowns of 10 classic gameplay systems.
UE5 environment guides
The anatomy of a UE5 environment plus layer-by-layer guides for 10 settings, from dense forests to alien planets.
UE5 material guides
PBR basics plus channel-by-channel recipes for 15 common surfaces.
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