Game 1

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Evaluation

What I think went well in my project is that my first time drawing pixel when pretty well. I was able to make some sort of a game that does work and play. I thought unreal coding was a bit less confusing than I imagined it to be. I thought I did quite well at pixel art for my first time round. And that I understood most of the coding without real struggle.

I could have done more work on the aminations and spent more time trying to develop my skills. I could have added more mechanics to the game which I was playing but ran out of time. And definitely added some sounds to the game which I didn't even begin to start and try.

Next time I want to improve my drawing skills and level design and definitely start to do sound design and improve animation. I want to start doing more mechanics. But overall I think the project went well for my first game my pixel art was pretty okay and the game does work and there is something to play and I'm ready for the next project which I think ill do better in.

start screen

First I made a start screen widget added a purple image then a button over it. I added a start text box on top of the button. Then i coded the button and added the widget to view port.

Start screen only showing at the start of the game

First you make a new level.

Then you open level blueprint

Then in the level blueprint I added my start widget to the display port. Which then opens the actual game level. I've done it this way because I feel like the player having to press play every time they die would be very frustrating and no enjoyable to play.

Checkpoint

First I went to blueprint and then gone to all classes and typed in game instance.

Then in game instance I made a vector called Respawn Location.

After I went into project settings and typed instance to get the classes and selected checkpoint instance which is what I called my blueprint. The game instance keeps the characters location saved.

Then in my character I casted to checkpoint instance then had to set actor location. Then I went to cast checkpoint instance and go set respawn location then I plugged it into select vector. In that I typed in the number of my character spawn. And of set respawn location i typed == and plugged that into A.

Then in the checkpoint blueprint I made a box collision on the box collision I got begin overlap. Then I cast to my character which goes into the instance and set the vector.

Import fonts

I used a site called dafonts to then I picked a font that I wanted. Then downloaded it. And had to extract all to unzip the file . Them after saving I dragged and dropped it into photoshop. Then I was able to use it.

Health bar

First I made a widget display which I put a progress bar on. I then changed the progress bar to a custom health I made on photoshop> Then I binded the progress bar to my character. Then I needed to change the health from being a integer to a float. Because an integer is a whole number it would mean the health bar is either full or empty. So by changing it to a float it then allows decimals so the health bar can work.

At the end I added the the widget to viewport.

Game feedback

Overall I got helpful feedback. It seems like the speed of the character needs to be changed as that's a large problem people are having with the movement. And overall adding details to the map and a background. Make a slide mechanic which might be a good addition to the game. I don't think ill add a double jump as I think it wont fit the game and it'll change the flow of the game. I need to make a lot of tiles to fill in odd gaps and to add more to the level as currently is looks bland and boring. I do plan on adding enemies to the game and a weapon like a gun and maybe even a boss fight.

How a HUD can be displayed

I would put the health bar on the bottom left as that's the most common place for it so a player will automatically know where is is same as the magic and ammo as they are the more important information they are in a place where a player I will recognize. The map is top right as that's also a place where a player will find it. The top left is the level which isn't super important it's just extra information. And the bottom right just reminds the player the buttons.

HUDs

A HUD is a head-up display is what tells you any information you need on screen playing a game. It can have health, information, ammunition and anything the game wants to tell up.

Dead space

When playing dead space you don't have a health bar in the typical area like bottom left or how much amo you have bottom right. The game tells you those in a interesting way you can see your characters health on their back a amo display in the middle of the screen and the reticle show by laser. Any inventory and map appears as a hologram. I like how everything is this futurist vibe which fits the theme of the game.

Persona 5

Persona 5 is a turn based game where the hub is a large part of the game play. The HUD is used to do anything in the game

Mirrors edge has a very minimal HUD. Only really showing you speed and time when doing a challenge other than that the HUD is completely empty allowing the player to fully take in the surroundings.

Celeste also follows the no HUD gameplay allowing the player to fully dive into the art and concentrate on the hard jumps. Any information the game has to tell you are little pop ups or text boxes by characters.

State machines

A state machines is a bunch rules that decide what your character is doing. Like is your character walking, falling or dead. An event tick is used at the start to consistently check what state the character is in then is chooses through the branch if its true then it'll play the flipbook if not then it'll go to the next one and so on.

Badland

Original a mobile game Badland is a platfromer game where you control this character called Clony. The aim of the game is to fly with character through levels filled with lots of things trying to kill your character. The player has to skilfully navigate through all the traps and solve fast paced puzzles to keep going. The developer is Frogmind and Blitworks. The art was done by Juhana Myllys.

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Hollow knight

Hollow knight is a 2d platformer boss heavy game developed by Team cherry this is their only published game hover it is a huge success especially as the team is made from just three people. The lead artist for hollow knight is Ari Gibson who has done tonnes with games, movies and music videos he's also one of the co-directors of Team cherry. I really like the art style of the game. Its very minimal however there is tonnes of detail and thought behind every single part of the game. The game play is simple making it a very enjoy able but also challenging against the large amount of bosses. The game also features different modes. For players that are the best of the best for players who want a really difficult challenge there is a boss rush mode where you have to beat every boss in the game in a row without stopping.

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Pixel art start

2 bit, 4bit, 8bit, 16bit, 32bit, 64bit,

The one for my game will mostly likely be 32 bit as its not tones of details it wont take ages to redraw when animating and it will give me an area with a good space of detail.

Tile map in unreal

The tile map I've got so far I dragged and dropped into unreal. Then added a 2D paper texture. The crated a tile set in that I added collisions. Then created a tile map and started to draw out a level.

Animations

I created a test walk, jump and idle animation. Turned them into flipbooks . Them using event tick which will consistently check the state of the character . Then using branches which are a true or false. They tell the code if something is done or not. If character is still it'll play idle. If character is falling it'll play jump.

This piece of code is a test to see if the idle animation can be random. Meaning the coin flip will play after a random time then the character will return to a still position inside of the character consistently flipping the coin over and over.

First Flipbook

On photoshop I split up my idle animation and create a sprite sheet then dragged it into unreal. Then applied a 2D texture and extracted sprites and combined them into a flip book.

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