What I have achieved:

Developed a fully responsive dynamic camera that responds to the player’s actions,

Recreated a traditional targeting system with visual cinematic bars,

Recreated a playable character, by making use of a hero character from Epic Games’ cancelled project: ‘Paragon’,

Implemented several abilities:

• Dodge that spawns a decoy
• Dash attack
• Area of effect attack
• Mid-air attack.

Implemented visual effects, such as particles and trails, that communicate the abilities’ feedback

Created a complete animation system through the use of Unreal Blueprints for a playable combat character

Blending between various animations, by making use of BlendSpaces, e.g. Idle blending towards one of the four walking directions.

What I learned:

Recreating a character based on gameplay footage and project development documentation

Using C++ for the base structure of classes and Blueprints for implementing the game logic

Improving my knowledge with Animation Blueprints for characters, with focus on general movement- and combat specific animations

Using Slot/Montage animations to play inserts that blends with the animation tree.

Development Tools:

Unreal Engine 4

Unreal Blueprints

Visual Studio

C++

Character asset used:

Unreal/Epic Games’ Paragon character: Aurora. (link)

Future plans:

Add an opponent which is driven by AI, to battle against

The opponent has the ability to adapt to the playstyle of the player

The player and the opponent have their own unique abilities.