Gilbert Vs Goblins
Gilbert Vs Goblins is third person tower defence game in which the player must defend their home from goblins and slimes with the twist being that the player only has 3 turrets to use. However, they are able to pick up and move the turrets around.
Role: Technical Designer
Project size: Mixed Year Group Student Project
Team Size 15 Students
Engine: Unreal Engine 4
Platform: PC
Duration: June 2021-August 2021
Role & Responsibility
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Designed, Prototyped and implement all 3 turret types accurate enemy tracking
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Created the wave spawning system using data tables as to be easily accessible for other designers to implement enemy spawn rates, directions and enemy type
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Created the save and load system
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Implemented animations for Gilbert and Goblin characters using animation state machines
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​Manged a team of six 2nd year students as a 3rd year student assigning tasks which benefited from their strengths but which challenged them to learn new skills
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Created Documentation for create systems which allowed the art and animation students to easily integrate their creations and assets into the project
Below is a excerpt of the code for the turret tracking in blueprint visual scripting. On event tick, as long as the turret was not being held and was still alive, it would check all enemies in range before determining the closest one. It would then rotate the head so that the gun is correctly facing the enemy before firing.
Below is a excerpt of the code for the game manager and spawn system in blueprint visual scripting. When initialised the manager will first spawn the selected turrets before loading the wave data from the data tables. It would then assign the spawning data to the appropriate spawner with all relevant information, such as enemy type and direction they are to follow. It would then go through and inform the spawners to spawn the apropriate enemy