Prototype Z

Solo Project

February 2023 - May 2023

Role: Technical Game Designer

Software: Unreal Engine 5.1 (Blueprint)

Key Features:

- Designed, prototyped and iterated upon a weapon using blueprint in Unreal Engine

- Designed, prototyped and iterated upon a vehicle using blueprint in Unreal Engine

- Designed 3 different weapon ideas and created a presentation that was pitched to a group of peers

- Designed 2 different vehicle ideas along with another pitch presentation

- Prototyped and iterated on a Zombie horde AI system

This project was part of an assignment for my Masters degree where the focus was on designing and prototyping both a unique weapon and a unique vehicle. My weapon was heavily inspired by Captain America's shield and also the High Fidelity weapon from Sunset Overdrive.

My weapon is a claw gun that fires a disc made of pure energy. The player is able to charge the weapon 3 times by holding down the fire button, and as the charge level increases the damage amount dealt by the disc drops but the number of bounces increases.

The vehicle I designed is a drone controlled using physics. The drone has 4 hover components that line trace towards the ground and add an appropriate amount of force for the drone to hover. The drone can also shoot a shield projectile that can trap enemies.

I used two separate Synty Store asset packs for the environment assets and enemies.