CONTRIBUTION

Making organic level design in Unreal Engine 4 Editor

• Building an immersive post apocalyptic world with mother nature who has taken back his rights.
   

• Sculpting terrain to have a natural organic look and have interesting framing for player guidance.
   

• Finding interesting way to play with avatar abilities (Climbing, Gliding, Jumping) in this world.
   

• Making level design documents to organized environments, difficulties step up and mechanics introductions.
   

Designing, programming and integrating game systems

• Prototyping avatar (3Cs) with walking, jumping, climbing (on trees), gliding navigation.
   

• Designing and programming complex fire propagation system to create a fast paced level who the player have to escape a forest in fire.
  - The system is constructed with firable objects (ex : trees) and fire trigger.
  - When fire trigger expands & reaches firable object(s), then firable object(s) become another fire trigger.
  - With this main logic, the level designer can build pacing and interesting fire propagation.
   

• Making a Complex checkpoint system with a respawn logic. Work with open space associate with linear storyline.
  (have to connect events to have a full game flow with saving system)

Setting up workflow in the engine project and design documents.

• Setting up game wiki structure and documentations for teammates needs.
   

• Finding solutions to have best practices for our small team (stay organized).
  - Working on a naming convention.
  - Working on level composition and assets organization to allow working access to other developers at the same time.
  - Finding methods and best practices with past failure analysis. (Studio was at his starting)

The player can go up/down and go left/right and is on the back of the beast. He have to avoid some dangerous obstacles on his way. 

GAME DESIGN

• Design and script Character/Control/Camera in VR from prototype. The challenge was the motion sickness and  have intuitive control to everyone.

• Program controls in blueprint with roomscale position to get real movements of the player.

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LEVEL DESIGN

• Design from the forest beginning to fire transition. I made more than one path with difficulty variation.

• Intentions was to feel lost to the player but always on the right track with trees density and the vulture companion.

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SCRIPTING

• Visual ambiance transition : blend fogs/lightning parameters in blueprint

• Gameflow (cinematics integrations, restart at the end, etc)

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