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Visual Impact: Enhancing Player Feedback
February 03, 2024 by TheCodeCollective#Unreal Engine, #Cyber Siege, #Gameplay, #HUD, #Minimap, #Visual Cues, #SFX
Author: Daniel Ben Zvi Date: 02/03/2024 EST Blog Entry Part 1: The Suggestion This week's focus was on elevating player experience through enhanced visual cues. Acting on the suggestion from our instr... Continue reading
Revamping Reticles: Adding Specific Dynamics
February 02, 2024 by TheCodeCollective#Unreal Engine, #Cyber Siege, #Reticle, #Dynamic, #Widget, #Material
Author: Daniel Ben Zvi Date: 02/01/2024 EST Blog Entry Part 1: The Problem This week, my focus was on the reticle system in our game's user interface. Originally a static element, the reticle lacked t... Continue reading
Spider Enemy Dying in the Air
February 01, 2024 by TheCodeCollective
Author: Austin Anderson Date: 2/1/24 Problem: The biggest problem I had this week was that the spider enemy would stay suspended in the air if they died while jumping over a barrier. It seems like a s... Continue reading
Small Changes: Beginning vs End of development
January 27, 2024 by TheCodeCollective#Blueprint, #C++
Author: Matthew Pacheco Date: 01/27/2024 EST This month, I have been working on multiple smaller changes for the defenses that will give them more life. Things like an idle animation, better materials... Continue reading
Airstrike Timer
January 25, 2024 by TheCodeCollective
Author: Austin Anderson Date: 1/25/24 Problem: If you have been following along, you know that last week I got the airstrike working. This week I needed to create a timer for the airstrike. Essentiall... Continue reading
Overcoming Code Mazes: Transitioning to Radial Progress Bars in Unreal Engine
January 20, 2024 by TheCodeCollective#Unreal Engine, #CyberSiege, #Progress Bar, #Widgets, #Material
Author: Daniel Ben Zvi Date: 01/19/2024 EST Blog Entry Part 1: Navigating the Code Labyrinth This week's journey led me through the intricate codebase as I sought to replace the text-based countdown t... Continue reading
Airstrike Power-Up
January 18, 2024 by TheCodeCollective
Author: Austin Anderson Date: 1/18/24 Problems: The most significant accomplishment this week was the implementation of the airstrike power-up feature. The development process involved the creation of... Continue reading
Resuming the Journey: Maintenance & Planning
January 13, 2024 by TheCodeCollective#Unreal Engine, #CyberSiege, #C++, #Interface, #Maintenance, #Winter Break
Author: Daniel Ben Zvi Date: 01/13/2024 EST Blog Entry Part 1: Back from Break This week marked our return from a three-week winter break. While it was a refreshing hiatus, it came with the challenge... Continue reading
Drone Enemy Particle Effect Bug
January 11, 2024 by TheCodeCollective
Author: Austin Anderson Date: 1/11/23 Problem: The problem this week came with the drone enemy's laser particle effect. It would play correctly when attacking the turret, but it would continue to play... Continue reading
Bug Busting and Mapping Adventures
December 15, 2023 by TheCodeCollective#Unreal Engine, #Cyber Siege, #Headshot, #Collider, #AI, #Navigation, #Map, #Map Marker, #Component
Author: Daniel Ben Zvi Date: 12/14/2023 EST Blog Entry Part 1: The Headshot Headache This week's journey in game development kicked off with a puzzling bug affecting AI navigation tied to the headshot... Continue reading
Mech enemy stomp attack
December 14, 2023 by TheCodeCollective
Author: Austin Anderson Date: 12/14/23 Problems: My problem this week was that when the mech enemy got close to the player it would shoot over the player. The mech enemy would still damage the player,... Continue reading
Dynamic Main Menu Using Cinematics
December 09, 2023 by TheCodeCollective#Unreal Engine, #CyberSiege, #Cinematics, #Dynamic, #Main Menu, #Sequencer, #Camera
Author: Daniel Ben Zvi Date: 12/08/2023 EST Blog Entry Part 1: The Problem During this week's endeavors, I delved into the intricate world of Unreal Engine's cinematics feature to construct a dynamic... Continue reading
Level Design
December 07, 2023 by TheCodeCollective
Author: Austin Anderson Date: 12/7/23 Problems: There wasn't much of a problem this week, just that the level design needed some more work. I had the outline of the level created, I just needed to sta... Continue reading
Crafting a Dynamic Scoring System
December 02, 2023 by TheCodeCollective#Unreal Engine, #CyberSiege, #Scoring System
Author: Daniel Ben Zvi Date: 12/01/2023 EST Blog Entry Part 1: The Week's Focus This week, my journey in game development didn't present any formidable challenges, but it was a week of refining and en... Continue reading
Level Design
November 30, 2023 by TheCodeCollective#Level Design, #Game Dev
Author: Austin Anderson Date: 11/30/23 Problems: The "problem" this week was level design. More specifically, there were certain things on the level that needed level design attention. The castle, for... Continue reading
Mastering Unreal’s Unpredictability
November 25, 2023 by TheCodeCollective#Unreal Engine, #Cyber Siege, #Lazy Initialization, #Execution Order
Author: Daniel Ben Zvi Date: 11/24/2023 EST Blog Entry Part 1: The Problem Navigating the landscape of Unreal Engine, while my implementations required access to update external resource, I encountere... Continue reading
Attaching the Mech Enemy's hand to the Weapon
November 22, 2023 by TheCodeCollective
Author: Austin Anderson Date: 11/22/23 Problem: The main problem I had this week was with the mech enemy. The mech enemy's left hand was not attached to the weapon as it should have been. Instead, it... Continue reading
Turret Tracking
November 17, 2023 by TheCodeCollective
Author: Matthew Pacheco As we are getting closer to the finished product of the game, I am working less on new defenses, and more on improving/ adding functionality to existing ones. There are a lot o... Continue reading
Streamlining HUD: A Journey in Refactoring and Domain Separation
November 16, 2023 by TheCodeCollective#Unreal Engine, #Cyber Siege, #HUD, #Refactoring, #Centralizing, #Defragmentation, #Domain of Responsibility
Author: Daniel Ben Zvi Date: 11/16/2023 EST Introduction: During this week's sprint, a significant focus was dedicated to the intricate task of refactoring and centralizing the HUD elements in our gam... Continue reading
Each enemy has their own separate behavior
November 16, 2023 by TheCodeCollective
Author: Austin Anderson Date: 11/16/23 Problems: Each of the enemies needed their own separate behaviors. As it was, each enemy behaved exactly the same. However, it would make the game more engaging... Continue reading
Navigating the Game Map: A Minimap Odyssey
November 10, 2023 by TheCodeCollective#Unreal Engine, #Cyber Siege, #Blueprint, #Map, #Minimap, #HUD, #Calculations
Author: Daniel Ben Zvi Date: 11/10/2023 EST Part 1: The Challenge This week, my focus shifted to one of the critical elements in our game - the minimap. While the process seemed straightforward, ensur... Continue reading
Creating the Drone Enemy
November 09, 2023 by TheCodeCollective#Cyber Siege, #Tower Defense, #Third Person, #First person, #Drone, #Enemy, #AI
Author: Austin Anderson Date: 11/9/23 Problems: Creating the drone enemy presented many challenges. I realized that flying enemies is something that is particularly difficult. Most of the tutorials I... Continue reading
Navigating Unreal Engine: Cheat Manager & Blueprint Challenges
November 04, 2023 by TheCodeCollective#Unreal Engine, #Cyber Siege, #Consistency, #C/C++, #Blueprint, #Cheat Manager, #Cheat Extension, #Planning, #Game Development
Author: Daniel Ben Zvi Date: 11/03/2023 EST Part 1: The Problem This week, I encountered a unique challenge in the development of our project. The issue revolved around the use of Unreal Engine's Chea... Continue reading
Referencing Blueprints in C++
November 03, 2023 by TheCodeCollective#Blueprints, #C++, #UE4
Author: Matthew Pacheco As I worked on implementing two more turrets and a barricade, I began running into issues that couldn't be easily solved due to variables and functions being strictly in bluepr... Continue reading
UPROPERTY Components Hierarchy
November 02, 2023 by TheCodeCollective
Author: Matthew Pacheco This week, I worked on getting the defenses set up with navigation and a bounds box. Doing this through C++ should have been relatively easy, as it is just a component getting... Continue reading
Mech Enemy
November 02, 2023 by TheCodeCollective
Author: Austin Anderson Date: 11/2/23 Problems: This week I created a mech enemy. While creating the mech enemy, I had multiple things that needed to get done. First, I needed to create the animations... Continue reading
Optimizing UI Implementation: Merging Menus for Efficiency
October 28, 2023 by TheCodeCollective#Unreal Engine, #Cyber Siege, #GUI, #Refactoring, #Consistency, #Redundancy
Author: Daniel Ben Zvi Date: 10/27/2023 EST Part 1: The Problem In my game development journey this week, I encountered a significant UI challenge. My UI elements, residing in both the Main Menu and i... Continue reading
Spawners spawning enemies on top of each other
October 26, 2023 by TheCodeCollective#Unreal, #unreal engine, #game dev, #spawners, #bugs, #Prototype, #early development, #glitch
Author: Austin Anderson Date: 10/26/23 Problems: The biggest problem I had this week was the enemy spawning. Originally, it would only spawn one at a time, no matter how many times I looped the spawn,... Continue reading
Enemies moving to the Castle
October 24, 2023 by TheCodeCollective
Author: Austin Anderson Date: 10/20/23 Problems: I again had multiple problems with the AI this week. My first issue was that the enemies would not move towards the castle. I implemented the functiona... Continue reading
Slider Nuisance in "Cheats" Menu
October 20, 2023 by TheCodeCollective#Unreal Engine, #Cyber Siege, #GUI, #Input, #Spin Box, #Slider, #Events
Author: Daniel Ben Zvi Date: 10/20/2023 EST Part 1: The Problem This week, my primary task revolved around the development of the "Cheats" menu within our game. One of the menu's essential components... Continue reading
UTimelineComponent C++ errors
October 20, 2023 by TheCodeCollective#Timelines, #FloatCurve, #UE4, #C++
Author: Matthew Pacheco This week I had to add feedback to the turrets, vfx and sfx. For the base laser turret, I went with a red laser for visual, click and zap for sounds. The biggest issue I had wa... Continue reading
Addressing Audio Manipulation in Unreal Engine
October 14, 2023 by TheCodeCollective#Unreal Engine, #CyberSiege, #Audio, #Sound Class, #Sound Class Mix, #GUI
Author: Daniel Ben Zvi Date: 10/13/2023 EST Part 1: The Problem As a team member working on our game project, I encountered a challenge related to audio manipulation through the game's user interface... Continue reading
Ray Trace Parameters and Components
October 13, 2023 by TheCodeCollective#Devlog, #Ray Tracing, #Components
Author: Matthew Pacheco We completed the system build this week. I worked on the defenses, primarily the turrets. In order for the turrets to stay locked onto the enemies, they had to have an overlap... Continue reading
Enemy AI Attacking
October 13, 2023 by TheCodeCollective#AI, #Artificial Intelligence, #enemies, #system build, #build, #attack, #delegate, #unreal, #state machine, #death
Author: Austin Anderson Posted on: 10/13/23 For the system build, one of the requirements was to have a game loop. Obviously, to complete a game loop, the enemies would have to be able to attack the p... Continue reading
Cyber Siege Setup Build
October 13, 2023 by TheCodeCollective#Setup Build, #Third Person, #First Person, #Castle Defense, #Robots, #Futuristic, #Horde AI
In Cyber Siege the player will be defending their castle from a horde of robots. The player will be able to place and upgrade mobile defense turrets, and temporarily slow and reroute the enemies with... Continue reading