Unreal Engine

World-Building Intro

An introduction to creating a 3D environment in Unreal Engine with the end-goal of a player being able to progress through a controlled environment and creating intrigue. It seems simple enough, but this assignment helped me get used to the Unreal development environment, and begin thinking deeper about user experiences.

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Narrative-Driven Puzzle Game

Built in Unreal Engine 4.14, this is a physics-based puzzle game that progresses via narrative elements.This was an open ended final project in a brand new course (at the time) offered by the school. Essentially, the course was for teaching students how to build levels to communicate story and establish a world simply through a 3D environment.

Using Unreal Engine for the first time was a challenge, but turned out to be an enjoyable experience. Focusing on building with user experience in mind carried over from previous classes, but constructing worlds instead of apps was new. Playing with the huge assortment of tools and assets at my disposal in Unreal was a treat, and expanded my experience using similar tools like Unity and GameMaker Studio 2.

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Virtual Reality Puzzle Level

This was made in Unreal Engine 4.21.2, and using Windows Mixed Reality as our VR controller. This was another several week project built gradually. Much of the early process was the group catching up and learning Unreal, its general capabilities, and its virtual reality components. The early stages were deciding on what puzzles we wanted our users to solve, and then how to implement them in the game. Our prototype environment housed various tests for us to nail down in-game interactions with the level ultimately being built around it later once we had everything we needed working. This was mostly a challenge to learn more about a development environment no one was very familiar with, and to create a user experience that facilitated virtual reality, mostly to not make someone sick by playing our game.