The Wickerman

This project was my second attempt at utilising the Unreal Engine and Blueprints to produce a game, as I have spent an overwhelming amount of my development education learning Unity and C# it was a slight learning curve, however, I was able to utilise the same key aspects of C# and Unity in this new form. 

Overall, I enjoyed the challenge of learning a new engine and way of scripting and I am not against using Unreal again in the future.  

Interactivity was a key part of this project for me. Most of the environment can be used by the player, for example all trees found on the island can be either pushed with bare hands to produce sticks or cut down with an axe to farm logs, these items can then be used in the scattered crafting tables to produce items. These systems show an advanced level of interactivity, given more time I could have created more objects for the player to farm and collect to enhance the enjoyability of the game. All interactable elements also make the title and a brief description of the object on the players screen, this assists the player and makes sure they understand the object. This is a strength of the game as instead of having lengthy blocks of texts to try and digest, the player can instead have fun learning about the game during gameplay.

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Future of the project...

This game will receive no further development, as it was intended as a vertical slice of a game with a very limited time frame, to facilitate this certain elements were purposefully overlooked, if I decided to revisit this story line I would start over with the lessons I learnt from this project, however I am very glad I completed this task and learnt more about the Unreal Engine and Blueprints.