ALT.CTRL.GDC 2025 - Finalist

Main Contributions

• Developed player controls and movement physics

• Worked with UX and Hardware teams to test, debug, and refine controls

• Integrated UI elements with various gameplay mechanics

• Designed and implemented a tutorial to quickly teach players the basic controls on their chair

• Created SFX and Soundtrack

Thoughts and Takeaways

This project has been super fun to work on despite the absolute atrocity that is the organization of our blueprints throughout the project.

The biggest takeaway I've had from working on this game on and off over the course of a year (at the time of writing this), is in how I think about blueprints. In general before this project I was content to throw large portions of my logic into the event graph or into a single function creating masses of linked nodes and logic to parse through and refactor when necessary. It was in working on this project that I realized that I need to treat blueprints in the same way I would any non-visual coding language in terms of organization. For some reason in the process of connecting nodes there became some disconnect in how I saw programming in C++ or C# vs Blueprints, and since correcting that I've become much better at not only organizing my blueprints, but also implementing features in a way that allows them to be expanded and modified more easily.