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Full Circle! 😀 This week marks the end of Discovery Park!! There was not a brand-new feature added this week. This project was never really about making the biggest or most content-heavy level possible. It…
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Blog Post #10 (21)
A Spark of Life This week, Discovery Park started to feel like an actually pretty place (even with only a few props). This week was about pushing that further by introducing visual atmosphere and environmental…
Blog Post # 8 (19)
Crunch Time! This week is a little different from previous weeks. I took a pause on Discovery Park to work with my Game Studio class team project. Our team was presenting a build of our…
Blog Post #7 (18)
When a Meteor Hits! Up until this point, Discovery Park had momentum. Systems were working. Lighting was coming together. The project felt like it was moving forward. I was learning, and my Unreal Engine skill…
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LET THERE BE LIGHT! Up until this point in Discovery Park, the project has been focused on systems. Everything was functional and working! However, visually, the world was still… blah. Milestone 4 Week 7 was…
Blog Post #5 (16)
If It Can Walk and Talk Week 5 gave the NPC decision-making power! Up until now, Discovery Park’s characters could decide, patrol, react, change state. The next (ha!) step for Week 6 was to make…
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Giving the World a “Mind“…It’s ALIVE!! Up until this point in Discovery Park, everything responded to the player. Milestone 3 Week 5 was the moment the world began to act on its own. The goal…
Blog Post # 3 (14)
This is Your Objective! After building the player foundations in Milestone 1, it was time to move beyond isolated systems and begin shaping Discovery Park into something that resembles a real game. Up to this…
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A Blank Page For the first milestone of Discovery Park, my focus was on building a clean, professional player foundation and a reusable interaction system from scratch in Unreal Engine 5.7. This meant starting from…
Blog Post #11
Milestone #We Finished This Semesters Project! This week’s post will be short, since we officially wrapped up Milestone 5 last week. I want to give a quick summary of what I accomplished, what’s coming next,…