ZOMBIES THAT PUNCH YOU
Zombies That Punch You is a project I worked on during my spare time. I had wanted to make a game where the player simply needed to survive as waves of zombies would try to eat you (in this case, punch you). This project was developed in Unreal Engine 4, using free assets also provided. I used both a mix of C++ and Unreals Blueprints to develop this project, with most of the focus being on developing my Blueprint Skills.
Along with the blueprints, I concentrated on making the game visually appealing. I spent the majority of time working with the animations for the characters, implementing little aesthetic details, such as rotating bones to bones to face the player, so the zombies would be able to punch the player while crouching.
I built this core mechanics of this game with inheritance in mind, which allowed me to utilize Blueprints effective by simply making templates that were derived from the base. The game has pickups, power ups and purchase stands that can be easily made by making templates of the base class for each type, with virtual functions and events allowing for easy implementation of these inherited types.
I maintained blueprints to an acceptable standards, making sure it was easy to read for anybody else. I also followed a naming convention for the assets, which would have prefixes and suffixes where necessary.
Zombies rotating spine to hit crouching player
Zombies rotating neck to face the player
Physics based reactions to being hit
