Unreal 4 - Dungeon Crawler

SamuelDV · Mar 2016

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Hi guys!

Starting this forum to showcase the progress on a dungeon crawler project in Unreal 4. This project is to learn node based scripting in Unreal 4. Here's a WIP Mock-up of what I have in my head. This will change very soon to a more finished mock-up, but I'm tight on time atm.

Quick info:

You (the player) have lost your swimmy pants, and have recieved intel that King Selassie of mount Zion has it in his possesion! You find your way into the Danjans (dungeons) of mt. Zion, to reach King Selassie, and trade your Respect/Vibes for your swimmy pants!

The whole vibe of the game is very chilled out / rasta. (that explains the names)

I'll be back soon!
S.

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SamuelDV · Mar 2016

Update:

this is a thing I'm woring on for the floor:

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also made a quick character blockout, and a basic walking animation:

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S.

SamuelDV · Mar 2016

Decided to make a clean version of my game production sheet/todo list:

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This is a small concept sheet for my m ain character:

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S.

GoossensJohan · Mar 2016

Looks nice

What's the respect for though? Bit confused about that part in your mock-up. Love the story ^^

Shiverspine · Mar 2016

Haha I really like this idea, its like a chilled out version of every dungeon explorer ever.
With some nice art and gameplay, and then some atmosphere to fill it up I think this could be an amazingly fun game

I would like to see some more pre production or just some faster block outs depicting all those assets and mechanics you are talking about. Its kinda hard to see a full picture right now.

Digging the tiles and the light underneath, the colour feels very demonic tho!

Gonna keep a watch on this, keep us up to date!

Infandum · Mar 2016

loving the style man am curious how the attacks will look, if there are attacks. or those he win by vibing the enemy into submision?

dDissAa · Mar 2016

Although im a bit unsure how the gameplay will work, it looks like a cool concept. So how are these vibes and respect things going to work?

SamuelDV · Apr 2016

GoossensJohan said:

Looks nice What's the respect for though? Bit confused about that part in your mock-up. Love the story ^^

I left out the respect part, for now I'm keeping it very simple: the big number on the mockup are the vibes, other objects are displayed above with a simple icon. I also left out the minimap, because of the chill-ness, I like to keep it very simple.

Shiverspine said:

Haha I really like this idea, its like a chilled out version of every dungeon explorer ever.
With some nice art and gameplay, and then some atmosphere to fill it up I think this could be an amazingly fun game

I would like to see some more pre production or just some faster block outs depicting all those assets and mechanics you are talking about. Its kinda hard to see a full picture right now.

Digging the tiles and the light underneath, the colour feels very demonic tho!

Gonna keep a watch on this, keep us up to date!

I'm back in preproduction and I'll post another update on that on friday, thanks for the kind words!

Infandum said:

loving the style man am curious how the attacks will look, if there are attacks. or those he win by vibing the enemy into submision?

There won't be attacks in the game - #chill - , you will though try to distract or avoid your enemies by hiding or throwing torches to distract them.
There will be more assests that create opportunity to hide in, more on that later this week + friday.

dDissAa said:

Although im a bit unsure how the gameplay will work, it looks like a cool concept. So how are these vibes and respect things going to work?

I left respect out, good vibes only, thanks for the feedback! The vibes are basicly the main currency in the game, the end boss wants loads of them to trade for your swimmy pants, but you'll be able to buy items with them, but that though isn't really detailed yet

Thanks for the feedback guys, the mockup I included is a simplyfied and cleaner version, I'm aiming to make this game chilled out and relaxed, and I think a UI that's easy on the eyes helps

SamuelDV · Apr 2016

Blueprint update:

I implemented basic click to move movement. The player right clicks on the map, character moves towards that position.

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UI popup that shows an interaction when the player is close to an interactable object, and is looking at it.

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Blade113 · Apr 2016

Fancy to see the progress, good luck!

SamuelDV · Apr 2016

Implemented a UI patrolling system that follows a path. The player can get seen by the AI when in vision. When the player hides in a box, the enemy loses the player and goes back to patrolling.