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Role: Group Lead, Technical Designer
Engine: Unreal Engine
Year: 2022

About:
Gold Cubed is a single/multiplayer mini-golf game developed over 12 weeks with two requirements:​
Main playable character taking the form of a cube
​Contain at least 1 accessibility feature

I took the role of Team Lead which involved:

  • Directing the game and team

  • Delegating and tracking tasks given to team members

  • Making key decisions in relation to the projects direction and production

  • Organise Play-testing sessions with feedback forms upon completion

  • Presenting progress of project at quarterly presentations in-front of other teams and members of industry

During the course of the project, my engine contributions consisted of:

  • Blueprint Visual Scripting

  • Gameplay Mechanics

  • Accessibility Mechanics

  • Sound

  • UI Design

What I learnt during the project:

  • Further development of management and leadership skills

  • Enhanced inter-team collaboration skills by getting formulative feedback which was then disseminated to the team, further enhancing my liaison skills. 

  • Improved public speaking and presentation skills to convey relevant information and current progress to other groups and members of industry

Gameplay Video

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Let's Get Technical

Multiplayer

Local multiplayer is achieved once the "Choose The Number Of Players" option is completed and is saved as an integer to the games instance.
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This single integer is then used as the number of players to spawn, player icons to display on the mini-map & participants to display on the Overall Scorecard.
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Shot Types

There are 2 Shot Types the player's may choose from, "Linear" and "Chip."
Linear restricts players to only shoot horizontally whereas Chip allows for the addition of shooting vertically.
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Accessibility

Mulligan

A "Mulligan" is an unofficial golf rule that allows players to retake a bad shot. Players can use the Mulligan system to return to the spot before their most recent shot, the first use of the system will not affect their stroke count but all subsequent use will. This system is paired with the Out Of Bounds function to optimise the reuse of functionality.
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Unlit Materials

The use of unlit materials was applied to each player to ensure clear visibility of the player's chosen colour and helps to stand-out against darker courses.
Example of difference in visibility with unlit materials in darker courses
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Dice

A solution was created to overcome players still struggling to identify different players during multiplayer and keeping with the "cube" requirement known as "Dice."

During multiplayer matches, displayed on each player's cube is a number of dots that correlate to the player's assigned number e.g. Player 1 will have 1 dot on their cube.
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