Survival Game

Survival Game

Here is my 4-month work ride in my last year at Side Academy in Italy, where I put into practice my learning. My goal was to have a solid base of coding and an environment for a survival RPG game. I have grown up and learned so much in the process, so thanks for viewing my work!

Landscape Creation

First of all, I decided to focus on creating the environment. My idea was to create an abandoned island, so i opened up Gaea and started playing with the nodes. I wanted a rocky island with flat zones and a big mountain in the middle.

Result with Materials

Environment Creation - Abandoned City

After that, I started work on the ambients, where I wanted to make a military base, a city and a swamp. I wanted the areas to feel abandoned, dirty and destroyed.

I used decals but mostly I had to change the materials to make everything feel rough and dirty.

Environment Creation - Abandoned Park

Environment Creation - Military Base

In the military base i decided to make a big parable, a tower and a few more things

Coding - Movements

Then I decided to stop with the environment for the moment and started making a Blueprint of a player. My obiective was, as I already said, to have all the basics of a 3d first person survival game. So I started working on the movements. I got a Mixamo mesh and started retargheting and creating the Abp. these are the results.

Fixing and debugging crouch part

Coding - Stats

After this, I played around with fun and easy parts as health, stamina, food and thirst systems and bars. I used a BPC to stack all the functions that can be  called and used easier.

Also here debugging part was a lot to do, everything has to perfectly interact with the coding workflow.

Wheel Material

It changes with the mouse movement/rotation.

Gun linetrace functions checking to have pistol, reload, to have bullets and debugging, as well as doing damage, playing montages-sounds-vfx and getting some recoil.

Coding - Menu

I then made the menu with all the functions a normal game has, like sounds, changing keys and resolutions, saving, having achievements, starting a new game, the pause function, and respawning.

AI behaviour three

This is the try on the shooting-hiding-healing bot AI behaviour three

This is the wolf AI

It can patrol, attack and run away randomly.

In conclusion, this was a very fun and challenging experience that made me really proud of myself and confident in how fast I could learn. It was also a hard time, especially with just one month to code everything.

Almost all assets, other than those showed, were from Unreal Marketplace and Quixel Bridge.

A special thank to Ali Elzoheiry, from who I took all my inspiration for the AI bot systems. Here's his YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AliElZoheiry