UE4 Dev Stream: Characters Live

Bitner Games spent the past week streaming a fantasy game prototype live, including sessions focused on building and testing a main character inside Unreal Engine 4. (youtube.com) A YouTube stream published on April 11, 2026 said the episode “created and built the main character” and tested whether the style fit the game. An earlier April 4 stream said Kamil Bitner designed the main character for a hack-and-slash game and built the head mesh. (youtube.com) Bitner’s channel description says “The Gamedev Process” is a daily livestream series where he builds a game prototype from the ground up using Blender and Unreal Engine 4. The channel says the work includes 3D models, gameplay, scripts and artwork made live rather than from a finished plan. (youtube.com) That workflow turns character creation into a public iteration loop. Viewers can see the rough sculpt, the style test and the in-engine check happen as separate steps instead of only seeing a finished hero model at the end. (youtube.com) Unreal Engine is Epic Games’ real-time 3D tool for building games and other interactive projects, and its community hubs are built around tutorials, showcases and workflow discussion. That gives solo developers a ready-made audience for process-heavy streams like Bitner’s. (dev.epicgames.com) The streams also show a common indie production pattern: model work in Blender, then assembly and testing in Unreal Engine 4. Bitner’s Twitch page uses the same description for the series and says he creates games live across modeling, gameplay and art. (twitch.tv) Community discussion around Unreal Engine still includes active sections for character work, animation and solo-project showcases, including posts for Unreal Engine 4.27 projects in April 2026. That means older Unreal Engine 4 pipelines remain in use even as Epic’s newer tools dominate much of its messaging. (forums.unrealengine.com) For viewers, the appeal is less a reveal than a record: a character goes from head mesh to style test to playable prototype on dated public streams. For Bitner, that makes the build log itself part of the project. (youtube.com)