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Triangle Circle and Square can represent the characteristics of characters in games. The shapes represent specific personalities in each character.

Circle represents characters who are often seen as approachable, cute, friendly, and harmless. They usually have a circular body shape and are usually used in protagonists, maternal caregivers, young children, and pets., This helps the audience know that these characters are trustworthy.

Square represents characters who are strong, sturdy, reliable, supportive, and stubborn. The design of the character usually has a square-like body. This shape is also seen in protagonists, paternal caregivers, protectors, and any other characters that provide a supportive role.

Finish my game

Add the grabbing mechanic into my game

Change it from third person to first

I have decided that the levels in my game needed numbers in them so the player can remember what level they are on. First I made an actor and put a cube in there and reshaped it and retextured it, then I put a text in and made it the number "1"

Then for the next level I duplicated the blueprint and only replaced the number 1 with 2 and continued to do that making a 3, 4, 5 and 6.

I have decided to do another long level which I have decided to be in 3 sections. The players have to pass each section while carrying the cube to the end of the level, if the player doesn't realize from the beginning they can go back to get the cube. The first section requires the players to have one player stand on the platform while the other player presses the pressure plate to push them up and then they can press the pressure plate at the top to let the other player up.

They can also just use the cube so both get up at once but then they cant get out the exit. The second section requires one of the players to stand on the first platform and the other player has to press the pressure plate to raise them. Then they can jump to the other platform so the other player can let them up. There are buttons at the top so they can let the other player up so they are both up.

The third and final section requires the players to have one player press the pressure plate to open the door while the other player goes onto the moving platform and goes to the other side then they press the first pressure plate which opens the door so that the other player can go onto the moving platform too. If the players fall there is a ramp for them to get back up. Finally, to pass the level the players must put the cube on the final pressure plate. If they do not have a cube because they used it on a previous level, they must go back to get it.

Continue my game

Add more levels

I wanted level 5 to have 4 cubes the players need to get to open the door, and I wanted the player to get one cube then use that to get the next and now they have two cubes so they use them both for the next one. Then they have three and use them to get a fourth cube which then they can open the door. The first cube one player has to stand on the button and stay there so the platform goes up and the other player can get the cube.

The next cube requires one player to put the cube near a platform which can't be reached without one then they have to press the pressure plate which opens a door and it drops another cube

For the third cube the players must put the two cubes they have on two separate plates then they have to press on the other two which then activates a piston which pushes the cube off an elevated platform

Finally to get the fourth cube the players must put three cubes on the buttons and one person has to stay on the last button while the other player gets the last cube

Then finally when they have all four they can press the last four pressure plates to open the door

I have been using the default textures for the objects. I have decided to use Unreal Engine's built in textures and changed them to make them look less bland and fit the theme to my game. I changed the materials for the pressure plate, the opening door, the moving platform, the rising platform, the walls, roof and floor.

Finish level five for my game

Add textures to some objects

For my next puzzle, I want there to be a platform that rises when a player steps on the pressure plate so that the other player can get to the cube at the top. First I used the same nodes I used for the door but changed the timeline so it goes up instead of sideways

I then also made new events for the platform and put them in the . pressure plate blueprint. Then I made a static mesh and changed its shape and tested it in-game

I put the cube that I made into Unreal Engine and changed the materials to make it look like metal and that it emits light from the blue bits.

The blue material is the pattern on it and the white material is the cube itself. Then it made this

It now looks like it's more metal and seems brighter. I didn't think it was bright enough, so I made an actor and put a static mesh and replaced it with the cube, then I put a point light in then set the color to the exact same as the pattern and made the attenuation radius 200, this is it in game before and after I did this

For the game I decided to make a new cube that isn't the default texture and I wanted to make an original one in Maya and try to make it fit in the map.

In my game I have added another 2 levels. They both require the player to press the pressure plate again, but I did make them different. The third level includes two cubes and one pressure plate. One of the cubes is on an unreachable platform so the player has to use the cube on the floor to get to the other cube then move one of them to the side of the other platform to get up to the pressure plate where the player will place the cube on the button

The next level involves a moving platform, a cube and one pressure plate. The player just has to get the cube, get on the moving platform and put it on the plate