Hi welcome to the Dev log for Soul Bound. This was a quick 6 week Student led project. It was a 2.5D Metroidvania where I took the position of lead programmer, in one of my rare ventures into Unreal Engine
Since I was one of 2 programmers on this assignment I though I would highlight some of the simple node based programming and the logic behind for this project. The first week of this assignment was everyone starting to feel out what they could provide to this project, and the very first task to get out of the way was the wall jump. This provided most of the movement for our game and getting this locked in early gave my level designers a lot of time to tweak and test their designs
These two scripts go hand in hand, one of them acts a checkpoint system that players revert back to when they die from things, The other makes sure that death happens, and you revert to a check point. If there is no checkpoint for you to revert to it, checks the entry position for the level and assigns that as the default checkpoint.
This pair of scripts encompasses the damage portion of our project. Our player is set to start gathering crystal shards, and as the game progresses and you collect all the shards, you gain a shield ability. The take damage function needs to take into account the shield health, and the shield needs to regen after a certain period of time.
This section of script is for a laser hazard that I designed. The laser can move along a set path and has a charging animation, after which it shoots a laser for a sustained period of time. This is really where some of our level design stated to come together. Up until this point all we had were jumping hazards and a simple enemy. Once lasers were up and running we had a moveable hazard, and since our project was in 2.5 it could function in several dimensions increasing the complexity of our level design and challenge that we could provide the player.