WHAT I MADE

This game features Parkour as one of it main components. I needed to make a hurdling mechanic that reacted smoothly at a high velocity. Finding the right hit point to trigger hurdles was also a challenge. These actions had to take place as the player character moved rapidly through the world sticking the rotation on his landing. The player character needed the strength to vault over both high and low obstacles.

HOW I MADE IT

To get the right strength for the direction and pitch of the player character, we modified the rotator by converting it to a vector and multiplying by an adjustable float. I found the edge of the obstacles with a line trace that queried the collision with an action triggered by a key binding. I used Unreal's function launch character to execeute the hop over the obstacles.

RESULTS

The final result was a satisfying hurdle that looks good even when hitting the edges of the wall. With more time, we could have made this even better by removing visual gaps. Still, the final speed running game combined the hurdle mechanic and air control to great effect.

WHAT I MADE

The puzzles in Hrafninn requires the the player character to mimic taking hold of crates and boxes in order to reach spots around the level. I created a Grabbing component to do just that. This required ensuring hitting the grabbed object at the correct edge before attaching it to the player character to be pushed or pulled. Once attached I wanted to simulate real friction while the player character slid the crates in different directions across the floor.

HOW I MADE IT

Using a physics handler to attach objects to the player character solved the problem of grabbing the boxes. A bool available to the designers in the inspector made it easy to reference which items in the scene were grabble. A tricky part of grabbing, was simulating pushing and dragging rather than carrying. I solved this by adjusting the character's linetrace height origin. Once attached faking drag friction was done by lowering the player's acceleration, after a item-held bool check.

RESULTS

We achieved through close collaboration and feedback the Little Nightmare-light feeling when moving objects around. Fine tuning over a longer period of time may have avoided a few clipping issues while pushing and the gap between the hands and object while pulling. Gliding over the floor after a couple iterations felt much smoother while building up momentum. 

Kung Funked is a whimsical take on the arcade classic Kung Master. The mission is simple karate chop and kick your way through the White House challenging President Trump and his minions.

Challenges, Cooperations and Whats Next

• Used the Unity animator to create the hero's smooth transitions from walking to fighting to taking damage.
• Made a adjustable following camera system to work in conjunction with the parallax effect to fake a dynamic background.
  
• Created a pooling system to avoid uneccesary garbage while instantiating enemies or projectiles.
• I want to challenge myself to replace the pooling system with a ECS.
  

WHAT I MADE

KungFunked, is an on-going attempt to release from start to finish. I gave the player character the task of punching, kicking, jumping, crouching and taking damage (I made the animations as welll). The player character also needed to display thru UI the effects of dfferent items, such as inivincibilty and health boost. I wanted to make walking through the scene feel urgent while not suffering from too much force physics gliding.

HOW I MADE IT

To solve the rigidbody glliding after applying addforce I did a check on the player character's vector on the x-axis, if exceeding a fractional number I can adjust the angular drag to a desired amount in the inspector. I made the player's response to the boss belly attack by checking if the boss attack animation triggered after that I applied a new vector2 location subtracting the boss' position from the player's. I then normalized it and added force to the rigid body, by passing the subtracted difference.

RESULTS

There is still plenty of work to be done on KungFunked. The fighting feels a lot like the arcade classic I based it upon. It still lacks the umph of it's original, but with some tweaking it is getting closer. The walking reminds me of the mega man gliding, but it's not over powered. The point of this personal exercise, was to push myself to discover what it takes to see a project through from scratch to publishing on itch.io or GameJolt.

I am learning a lot along the way.

Challenges, Cooperations and Whats Next

• Created a  new editor window.
  
• Adjustable fields for number of objects and distance between each objects.
• Bound On click function to mouse using cursor as a guide for object placement.
• Next step is too extend the tool to drop assorted objects at once.

WHAT I MADE

The object dropper tool was thought of while I was placing prefabs into a scene and I wanted to just click them in the scene instead of dragging each one into the scene. The tool required visual queues to make it easier to see where to place them. I put a constraint of how many can be placed at once and made the distance between object adjust with tool.

HOW I MADE IT

In order to place prefabs or any object ouut into Unity's sceneview I first had to have a origin point to destination point Raycasting from the Sceneview's camera fit the job. That ray then loop through an array of vectors in which to draw points in the scene adding a check for a mouse click inside the loop created an instance or instances of objects set in the custom editor's window. To limit how many objects could be dropped I used serialized properties to clamp the value's min and max.

RESULTS

The object dropper worked exactly as expected I could easily add an object, set the total count objects to drop into the scene as adjust the distance between eacch object dropped. It saved me time that would normally clicking through folder in the Unity and nitpicking with where to place them. Going further I would like to expand the tool to include different types of objects as well toggle how the placed ie on line or within a circle.

Challenges, Cooperations and Whats Next

• Health and Fuel UI system to update according to character interactions and usage
  
• Start and Pause menu using Unity's gui system
  
• Initiated into the world of daily standups
  
• Worked closely with and was tutored on  c# Singletons by fellow Future Games student and concept artist Marcus Quarfordt
• Continue to learn more about various design patterns