Arcane Annihilation

Group Project

March 2023 - May 2023

Role: Technical Game Designer

Software: Unreal Engine 5.1 (Blueprint)

Key Features:

- Created base enemy class to hold base functions and components to be overridden

- Created 2 different enemy types with separate and unique behaviour trees

- Created a wave manager that handles spawning enemies and progression of the game

- Created a rounds system using data assets that contain set numbers of waves

- Created a difficulty system that based on the stage of the game picks appropriate round and wave data assets so that the difficulty increases the longer the game goes on

- Created a combat manager that picks the enemy in a swarm that is closest to the player to attack first

This game is available to download on Itch.IO:

https://orion920.itch.io/arcane

This project was part of another assignment for my Masters degree, this time the focus was on collaborating with peers on two separate 6 week projects. This was the second project I worked on with an entirely new team.

For this project I worked in a team of 9 people alongside 3 other technical designers so the workload was split between us. I worked on all things enemy related which include the base enemy class, the two enemy sub classes, the behaviour trees for both enemy types, a wave manager, a round system and a combat manager.