Boxed Up

Introduction

This project was a fun and challenging endeavor, where I had my first opportunity to work within a large team of differing disciplines to develop a vertical slice of a game. During this project I focused on the player and their interactions with both boxes and machines, alongside optimization and bug fixes.

This was also my second adventure within Unreal Engine, so I wanted to challenge my self to focus solely on the core aspects of the game that would be used the most and would require the most optimization.

Additionally, I spent a great amount of time bug fixing, both to get more experience with Unreal Engine and how different tasks are achieved within it, and to improve my understanding of various features i have less experience implementing.

Player

To enable interaction with the world and the required mechanics, as specified by the design team, I primarily focused on:

• Player Grabbing and Moving Objects

• Rotation of Grabbed Objects - keeping objects locked to multiples of 90 on all axis

• Automatic Object Positioning

• Player Settings

Machines

Extra Additions

Optimizations

For any systems I worked on that required constant events, rather than using a Tick event, I opted to use Timers, set to either 60fps or 30fps depending on the task and its importance. This significantly improved performance on lower end systems and provided a smoother experience.

What I Learned

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