Development Log.1

Starting this project roles were decided upon throughout our team such as; Level designer, Programmer, Artist, Team Leader, Assistant level designer and Narrative designer. My role in the team is Lead Programmer as I am the only one who has knowledge on blueprint scripting so am the only Programmer in the team. The first thing I- started working on in the game was the character we would be using for testing purposes and for that I used the Third Person Template in the unreal engine itself to have a solid starting point.



From this template I used just the character itself and any assets directly associated with the character. With this character in the world I started with some of the basic mechanics which we need within the game so I got to work on a Sprint mechanic and Interaction mechanic. 



Using a blueprint interface I am able to utilize the interaction code through many different actors and characters. This is such a main feature of the game as throughout the game you need to pick up items to help solve different items and piece together the story bit by bit. The sprint mechanic was not too hard took a few minutes to implement a simple but effective stamina system. Whilst I was focusing on these the rest of my team were hard at work creating lore, level and art for the game so that the first map could come together nicely. 

For these bits of code there wasn't much variation to them after they were made they were made as they are simple but effective bits of code which can be utilized in many ways as they are. This is the reason why I started with these bits of code as they were versatile throughout the project and didn't need and additions until anything in the game changed.

Overall I would say that I could have came up with a better stamina and run system as this one was rushed and just plain and simple it just done the job for the time being. I believe that going forward with this project the stamina system will do just fine and same with the interaction system. Although there is always room for improvement and there is many other ways to make these systems more efficient.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Norwich game festival talk

Image
Friday's Meeting Write-up: What happened - My team and I created a PowerPoint presentation with a section for each of us to speak about individually and multiple sections which apply to all of us. Over a teams call we presented the presentation to Ellie Buchan showing the progress of our game where the idea came from how its changed and what are future plans for it are. Evan spoke about his section on level design the idea of the game and overall project management, Gemma spoke about 3d design and art which is there section creating different models and menu images for the game as well as a short trailer for the game, Emilia spoke about the story of the game and level concepts and finally I spoke about the programming side of the game as the only programmer. From this we gained lots of useful feedback for our game and its development which has provided us with much benefit for the continuation of this project. (This is my slide of the presentation.) What I learnt from this event - ...
Read more

3d modelling my classroom and games jam

  Introduction Hi everyone, in this post I will be talking about the process and my overall experience with 3d modelling my classroom and completing a games jam. The purpose of this is to share my Games Development journey with others and to look back on this myself. How 3D modelling my classroom went The steps I took to recreate my classroom in UE5   As this was a group project, we both had plenty of time to work hard on our roles making sure the 3d models were as accurate as we could get them and having a map planed out. When it comes to the 3d modelling my teammate got straight on to doing as many models as they could in the time we were given and that was their one goal which they just had to focus throughout the entire project. Most off the steps only affected me as I had to create the project, make world and import 3d models trying to get the map looking as close as we could to the classroom as possible.   The first step we took was knowing what our ro...
Read more

Development Log.4

 Intro/Recap: Continuing on from last time where the symbol puzzle was made and more level additions were made, I have created a pickaxe item which can be picked up and stored in your inventory as well as boulders that can be destroyed with it. Another thing I made was an elevator and a key and lever panel so that you have to put in key to turn on elevator which will take you into the first level underground. What has changed/added to the game: I added a elevator into the game just a simple one which will take you down with a nice camera fade and shake, In addition to this I made a control panel that goes with the elevator where you have to find the key insert it and pull down a lever, I also added ambient noises around the levels as well as creating the door to the next level. How the rest of the team is doing: A lot of what i have been doing has been the same process over d over again mainly just being me adding another puzzle so with the project nearing its end there's also a lo...
Read more