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Role: Technical & UI Design
Engine: Unreal Engine
Year: 2023

About:
Finding Your Roots is a platforming game developed during the 2023 Global Game Jam.

The theme to follow was "ROOTS", over 48 hours me and 2 additional designers created this fun little game about a sunflower seed scaling a light post to find somewhere to plant its roots

During the course of the project, I primarily worked with:

  • The initial conceptualisation of the project's design

  • Blueprint Visual Scripting

  • Cutscenes

  • UI Design

  1. Heads-Up Display

  2. Main Menu​

  3. Pause Menu

  4. Level Transitions

What I learnt during the project:

  • Co-operation within a small team

  • Working towards short term deadlines

Finding Your Roots is free on Itch.io

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Gameplay Video

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Let's Get Technical

Character Movement

The creation of the characters movement was achieved by assigning a numerical value (Direction) based on the keys the player is pressing:

Left (A Key)=0    No Key=1    Right (D Key)=2

Depending on how long players are holding the spacebar determines the Power of the jump.
These variables are then calculated in Selected Direction & Velocity to Launch The Player in their chosen direction.

(View Blueprint below for more information) 
 
(Right Mouse Button + Drag to Navigation) (Ctrl + Mouse Wheel to Zoom)
 
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