Pirate Battle Arena

Jul 2015 - Feb 2016

Overview

An Unreal Engine 4 game prototype & proof of concept. Players would play as a pirate ship in a sea-based battle arena.

Keywords: Unreal Engine 4, C++, Ragdoll Physics, Microsoft Visual Studio, Amazon Web Services, OOP, WWise, Jenkins, Flocking AI, Component Architecture

Tasks

• Implemented flocking behaviors for sea life.
• Added obstacle avoidance to enemy AI & sea life.
• Created multi-actor state-based boss AI that would iterate through stages based on health, becoming more violent.
• Worked with blending between animations & ragdoll physics.
• Added GPU accelerated particles that would iterate through bones in a skeletal mesh for spawning.
• Communicated with artists, designers, & programmers to meet deadlines.

Technologies Used

• Unreal Engine 4
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2013
• Perforce
• Amazon Web Services
• WWise
• Jenkins