HELL BREAK

ROLES

Producer, AI Programmer, Tools Programmer, Character Designer

DESCRIPTION

A fast-paced 3D run 'n' gun set in a hellish environment.

I worked on a team of 5 programmers on this project. I was responsible for everything related to enemies: behaviors, assets, and the combat encounter system.

YEAR

2022

GENRE

First-Person Shooter
Student Project

PLATFORM

Windows
Unity 3D

AI BEHAVIOR EDITOR

STATE MACHINE EDITOR

Made using the Unity NodeGraph package. I wrote a custom serialization/deserialization utility which builds the state machine and its data into a runtime-optimized ScriptableObject. Node classes are displayed in the upper left view, using reflection to find the classes. Blackboard variables can be added/removed in the bottom left panel. State data and transitions can be controlled from the main view.

COMBAT ENCOUNTER EDITOR

TIMELINE EDITOR

To handle the task of laying out combat encounters, I whipped up an extension to the Unity Timeline. Each encounter has a number of child volumes (shown in blue) to spawn enemies in. Each of these volumes is given a channel in the timeline, and a custom timeline asset is used to control parameters about the enemy to spawn.

PLAYBACK CONTROL

When the player triggers an encounter by touching the purple volume connected to it, the encounter timeline will start playback. To allow more control over difficulty, a second node type can be used to pause timeline playback until fewer than a target number of enemies remain alive.

CHARACTERS & BEHAVIORS

CRATE MIMIC

A malevolent spirit masquerading as an explosive crate. When the player damages them or gets too close, they will chase them down and explode.

THE SUMMONER

The soul of an ancient sorceress, long since sold away for earthly gains. They blast the player with psionic energy and summon Skirmishers.

SKIRMISHERS

Spectral entities of a foreign dimension. They serve as the goomba-type enemy, moving toward the player and attacking at melee range.

THE TOWER

Monolithic creatures which live on the edge of lava lakes, sustaining themselves on the geothermal energy. They spew lava at the player once in range, which persists on the ground for a few seconds after, serving as an area denial attack.

ARMS OF THE DAMNED

A special enemy type spawned as part of a boss attack. The arms coordinate amongst themselves, choosing the arm best suited to attack the player while also ensuring no more than one arm attacks at a time.

THE BOSS

A Biblically-accurate angel who ended up in this cursed realm. It shoots rings of rock, which bounce around the arena. It will summon pits full of ghostly arms, and use the same area-denial attack as the towers.

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