Game Description

We were 4 programmers in this group, all of which were incredible in their areas of expertise but the challenge of never having used Unreal Engine before was still an obstacle to get used to.

My programming efforts for this project were mostly focused on getting all the fun haptics to work properly for the DualSense controller. This was tougher than I thought, considering that we had no access to any documentation regarding the DualSense, especially with Unreal Engine but in the end, I managed to get both the adaptive triggers to feel really great based on the speed of your vehicle and if you're accelerating or braking but also got some really immersive vibrations that are based on speed and current traction meaning that if you lose grip, like going off-road, drifting, driving up sidewalks or burning out, you got a variety of different vibration strengths.

Another area of mine was collaborating with our sound designers, who were students from another school. I was part of keeping our communications going, giving feedback on sound effects they made and eventually implementing them in a good way.

I'd say that after this project, I got a lot more knowledge over the hardware of both the Playstation 5 and it's DualSense controller which will hopefully make it easier for me to work with said hardware in future endeavours.