A third-person arena combat game against the AI with custom vehicle physics. Personal project.

Overview

• Written in C++
• Engine: Unreal Engine
• Platform: PC
• Camera: third-person
• Character: tank with independent barrel and turret
• Controls: keyboard & mouse, game pad

Details

• Developed a tank API in C++ that is shared by the player and the AI to constrain the AI to the same capabilities as the player for a balanced and natural experience
  • Used the component pattern for the tank to decouple the architecture, interfacing with blueprints for input and asset referencing
    • Implemented an aiming component utilizing projectile calculation
  • Used the observer pattern with dynamic multicast delegates to handle “death” of a tank
  • Customized Unreal Engine’s gameplay framework for damage handling
• Implemented custom vehicle physics with suspension based on physics contraints
  • Created re-usable srungwheel component that gets spawned at runtime at predefined locations of the tank
• Set up particle effects for projectile trails and impacts