gameplay video goals an exterior and interior level focused on a consistant artstyle. a fully...

Gameplay Video

Goals• An exterior and interior level focused on a consistant artstyle.

• A fully animated character • A theatrical experience through sound, light and in-game

triggers.

• An AI that hunts the player and reacts to its surroundings.

• A playable game prototype

Concept - Interior• Focus on a grand style

• Large rooms to make the player less likely to see everything

Concept - Exterior• Focus on atmosphere and a sense of place

Concept - Character

Deformed and asymetricalcharacter

Modeling – Interior• Focus on modular set pieces

• Lots of furniture needed to fill the house

Modeling – Exterior• Again a focus on modular piecesfor the house• Terrain, large scale

Modeling – Character• Animateable character – edgeflow

• Sculpting

UV / Texturing• Works as usual for texture maps

• Shadowmaps was different

Rigging / Animation• Simple rig versus IK rig in game characters

• Key animations only

Gameplay• Started out with ”everything through programming”

• Ended up with alot more done with UDK Kismet scripting

Programming• Reusing existing code

• AI

Engine• UDK isn’t very user friendly – at least not at first.

• Odd problems when importing things.

• Had we used unity it would have been faster at the start – but gameplay would have been lacking.

What went well• A functioning game• Both artists and the programmer learnt a lot about working

towards an engine and its limitations• Went through the whole pipeline for several objects;

modeling, uv/texturing, animation, rigging and so on.• Finished alot of props• Optimization• Scripting worked well once used to it

What went wrong• Interior and exterior lacking in variation, even though

workrate was really high.• Hardly any game testing• Legacy code in the UDK engine that isn’t supported but still

exists• Not enough polish• AI is still simple• Hardly any effects implemented yet• Most of the game is inside the house, much more should have

been outside.• Project was a bit to ambitious for four people.

Conclusion• Gameplay is easily created in Kismet, even by a non

programmer.

• We should have used our resources more, forums, contacts etc.

• Planning tileable pieces out with shadowmaps in mind in an early stage is important.

• One additional programmer would have made a huge difference

• In short – we should have researched more on all ends.

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