Group Games project

About the game

This is the last school project we'll be doing before graduation.

Instead of doing the tech part this time i was a Gameplay designer and also a QA, as part of the training to be employable.

This game is about Timéo, who's been shrunk to a little size because of his timepiece was activated and then broke into multiple piece. The goal's to find all those piece into various "biome" which all have differents gameplay style and ambience.

QA Testing

I first used Google Sheet as a report bug tool, it was no automatical.

I set every column to be the closest to a real bug report software with the "Bug category", "Bug type", "Severity", "Description", "Step to reproduce". And also added "Biome" for a project purpose.

It is simply made with choice list nearly every column that i define myself and also colored a bit because why not.

We then with the help of one our teacher had access to Mantis, he set it up all for us, creating profile and stuff.

Since we're using it, we only used that software to report each and all bug we could possibly met during our session.

It is i think more professional that what i've done with my Sheets document and easier / accurate.

Gameplay Design

Brainstorming :

We used Figma to put all our ideas and conception of the gameplay we wanted.

Through a lot of brainstorming and also alone moment of reflexion.

Using that way to do was a good way for us all (GA / GD) to have a quick look at what could be a possibility of implement to our game.

Here's some screen of my works (two of them aren't mine but shown as exemple, i marked mine with that icon )

Features lock :

Once we had an overall idea of what we wanted, that was pleasing everyone on the group we got to work, and as time pass by, some minor change as been made to meet the needs that arise during production

First screen was the first final version of what we implemented.

Once we were done with figma (used for brainstorming purpose), we put it all in Coda, clean and tidy so we have everything to know within a click

Dialogues :

One guys and I were on charge to write the dialogue of our PNJ, we gave them all a different trait and mimics of their own, making them all differents from each other.

Our shérif is a rock and can do nothing but stand still, but he won't aknowledge it

Our farmer is kind of the "i don't care of everything" guys

The banker is as you would expect someone who got his money close to him, and he's no willing to share that easly

We had also a spider, but he got strabismus making him funny to hear and watch

About the game

This is a school project where we were asked to reproduce the Jedi Fallen Order game.

Our goal was to create a new level design for this game and to implement basic tech to it

Here is what i've done

This code is for the wall ride

Its works by having a permanent raycast on each side of the character (left / right) with a small distance of ray.

When the player hit a ridable wall, it set is rotation to 90 degrees to the wall and set a constraint plane normal.

When the player is on the states of wall riding we get his animation blueprint and set a bool to true or false depending if he is doing the thing or not so the animation is smooth and working

Code

First the hang, allow the character to stay on the hanging position by getting wall location and ledge location so it fit to the right place. Some adjustment has to be made so his hand fit perfectly on the wall.

Then we got the climb up part who move the character up and a bit futher so he's not falling right away. Once this is done we reset his climb code so he can do it multiple times.

We're doing that by playing the animation while moving the character to a certains location and then set back his movement mode to walking.

And last we got our climb down part, wich allow the player to drop from the state of hanging if he don't want to climb some specific wall.

We're doing that by setting his movement mode to falling, we stop the animation and set his rotation back to normal

Code

The wall climb and works by having a forward line trace constantly in front of the player.

I set that line trace to only detect climbable wall who got the tag "climbable".

If it is a climbable wall we set the actor rotation to be facing the wall and set his movement to flying, then we stop his orientation to movement so even if he move his mouse it wont rotate the character.

I also change the character movement input depending of the state of the player, whether he's climbing, walking or sliding so each states got his own input axis parameters.

There's no animation for this feature, i couldnt find one

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This code is for slide feature.

What is does is simple, it get the walkable floor angle and then depending to our need we set the player to falling states when the angle is less than a certains ammount so the character proceed a slide.

The animation is automated whith the animation blueprint and switch states with a bool

Code

This is the Rope Hanging, it works by attaching the player once he hit the capsule collider to the end rope location.

Once you're attached input axis add velocity to whatever direction you want to go.

Then when the jump input action is pressed it detach the player from the rope and add force to make him jump away.

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This is the Force features.

It works by having a raycast that go from the character to the forward direction.

If it touch an IA it will set it to simulate physics and add an impulse to pulse it away.

Then it set his collision to disable so you can't collide with the dead body.

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This is the attack action.

We have a raycast that goes from the top of the sword to the bottom so only when this part hit they're taking damage.

We set health on the IA and damage on the player with the function Apply Damage.

Everytime the IA is hit we play an animation.

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Extra Code

Input Axis

About the game

End of first year project. This is an horror game in first person where we embody a young boy trying to escape a crazy guys, by solving some enigma.

Took 3 weeks of development

(This isn't my youtube channel, someone from my group)

This is the code that's on the door who needs a key.

It simply set visible the lock widget at begin of the game so the player can get a feedback of the locked door.

Open/Close3 is what is called by the player when the interraction button is pressed. It will only work if the player have picked the key.

If he have the key a simple animation on an axis is made and the door can be now opened/closed as much as we want. The widget is also set to invisible once its unlock.

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What that code do is to bind every button that's on the pad to check what code as been entered. Once 4 digits are on, we either reset the password or validate it so the door can be opened.

I made the widget invisible (exept the part where you see what you've been typing) so it looks like we're actually interracting with the pad fbx.

Code

This code is meant to do the tumbling by using the mouse to rotate the desired object

It works by getting mouse Y and X to make a rotator combined with the actual world rotation of the static mesh

This code will only work if the condition TumbleActive is True, meaning we're interacting with the object

We also got the float variable TumbleSpeed wich set the speed of the rotation when moving the mouse

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