#gamesdesign

Another addition to my deity project! This is a Justice Deity. I definitely wanted him to look almost like an executioner, with medieval inspiration for the armour.

I really enjoyed playing around with a more painterly style and not worry so much about blending everything together to look super smooth!

For todays work (and also a few hours last night) I wanted to focus on ensuring my mechanics worked properly.

Starting off, I deleted some of my camera angles to make working with everything easier. I also set the walls, ceiling and floor to be a lighter colour - once again, just to see things easier. I then imported all of the models that I had created.

I wanted to make sure that I could only open the door to exit the level after interacting with multiple objects, to do this, I replicated the blueprint from within my Pickup Example to my Mug. I then changed the requirement for the door to open only when both objects are interacted with.

The following is my Mug Blueprint followed by the change I made to the Door Blueprint.

I also remodelled the curtains as they didn't import correctly, but this was a great opportunity to make them look nicer.

I started working on having the plant update as the player interacted with items. I tried multiple different ways and this definitely took up most of my day trying to figure it out.

Eventually I was able to create the blueprint by creating a Switch Actor Blueprint. Allowing me to set a number to switch between each model. I managed to make it so the plant will update to the first plant if one of the items has been interacted with. Then, once both have been interacted with, it will update further.

I used a similar type of blueprint when getting the curtains to be movable, like the plant, I wanted the curtains to gradually open with each object interacted with.

As I had two sides to the curtain, I duplicated the blueprint for one half, just changing the location it needed to move to in the lerp.

And that was everything I got through today and for a few hours last night. Below is a video showing these mechanics functioning as needed.

The idea is the base a level design around the idea of light funnily enough, and here are a few of the ideas I came up with.

1. “The Projector” The idea is that you explore a mansion and its many dark rooms eventually finding a room which in its centre holds a projector facing a blank wall and around the room 3 portals. Each portal takes you to a different room of the mansion holding different puzzles and traps rewarding you with a different coloured light for each room. After you retrieve all the lights you find your way back to the project room and place them inside the projector. After this the projector projects the lights on the wall blending them all into a white light and creating a transparent material you can walk through. This leads into a long dark corridor with a very well lit room at the end. This end room holds another final puzzle which is lots of mirrors you must rotate to beam the light back at the projector down the hallway. When both lights finally meet you create a final portal taking you to the end of the game.

‘Neon Odyssey’ is finally done and dusted its time to do a little marketing, check out this little trailer of the game I whipped up!

Today I tasked myself with a little exercise of recreating a landscape image I’d been sitting on for a while. It was an interesting one due to the perspective and the high level of detail present in the image, for more images and a breakdown 

with the testing module all wrapped up and in the bag we move onto the next module. Production. where ill be trying my hand at a producer role, while not my strong suit I’m hoping ill have expanded my skill set a little more by the end of the next two months. Ive been paired up with the talented game designer LockyLAB for the project. Tomorrow we’ll be Introduced to our artists and programmers and if I’m to be honest I can’t wait.

watch this space people, awesome games coming!

So today we started learning the basics of Twine.