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• Perk System Setup
  March 31, 2024 by Bjornoid

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  Problem: One of our games most important B tier features, was having perks in the game that would boost stats or give you cool abilities. These perks would also be bought with the in game point system... Continue reading

  
• Blog Entry Title: Morale and B features
  March 29, 2024 by StevenCodes#WaveBased, #FPS, #HeroShooter, #Zombies, #Devlog, #Blogpost, #Unreal, #Vendor, #BFeatures, #Action, #Multiplayer, #PC, #Indie

  HELLO WORLD!!!! For this blog, we will be covering the interesting world of development. Specifically team morale and our games B features... This week I will have the privilege of giving you guys som... Continue reading

  
• Class Ability Implementation
  March 29, 2024 by Mystic#BlogPost

  This week I began the much anticipated and planned work on the class abilities. I finally settled on a system that will work for us without disrupting the current state of the project. I started by ge... Continue reading
• Blog Entry: RPG Explosive Projectile: Network Replication and Destruction bug
  March 29, 2024 by LGUAPOJR

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  Author: William DeMayo 3/28/2024 RPG Explosive Projectile: Network Replication and Destruction bug Part 1: The Problem Hey guys, it’s me Will again writing about guess what another projectile that I... Continue reading

  
• Blog Entry: Powerup UI
  March 29, 2024 by Ghost Of Reddus1

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  Author: Austin Pereira 3/28/2024 Powerup UI While working on the UI for the powerups, there have been a few complications that appeared during production. While actually getting the UI to work as inte... Continue reading
• Spectating System
  March 27, 2024 by Bjornoid

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  Problem: One thing that the game was missing after completing the revive system, was a spectator system for when players were not revived in a multiplayer game. Before, you would just be locked in to... Continue reading
• Blog Entry Title: User Interface and Under hood with Unreal Audio
  March 23, 2024 by StevenCodes

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  ##UnrealEngine, ##BlogPost, #Developer, #C++, #Audio, #Mixing, #Mixer, #UserInterface, #UserExperience, #DeadlandsDuel, #ArcadeShooter, #HeroShooter, #Zombies, #WaveBased

  Hello Gamers, Today I am documenting the progress made on our game, Deadlands Duel audio, and user interface. For starters, I spent time assessing the task: creating sound classes and diverting them t... Continue reading

  
• Blog Post: The Miniboss Projectile
  March 23, 2024 by LGUAPOJR

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  William DeMayo 3/22/24 The Mini-boss Projectile Part 1: The Problem The problem that I had at the beginning of this week that carried over from last week was the mini-boss projectiles code conversion... Continue reading

  
• Unique but modular class abilities
  March 23, 2024 by Mystic

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  The Problem The unique character abilities are one of the largest challenges I've faced in this project. I want to create a system for abilities that can be modularly added and taken away from charact... Continue reading
• Blog Entry: Instant Kill Powerup
  March 23, 2024 by Ghost Of Reddus1

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  Author: Austin Pereira 3/22/2024 Instant Kill Powerup Surprisingly, the instant kill power up, or Death Touch as we called it, was the hardest and longest powerup to implement. Initial implementation... Continue reading
• Blog Entry Title: Sound Design and Enriching the User Experience
  March 16, 2024 by StevenCodes

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  Hello World !!! Welcome back, In today's blog post, we have much to cover from zone ambiance, reverb, spatialization, clamping, Interactivity, and all the other fine details that constitute a memorabl... Continue reading

  
• Animation States
  March 16, 2024 by Johncarlos Lillo

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  Johncarlos Lillo 3/15/2024 Part 1: Animation States and the Problem After finishing up the Data table and Inventory for the player, my next task is to tackle the Starter Pistol for the player. However... Continue reading

  
• Blog Entry: Double Points Powerup
  March 16, 2024 by Ghost Of Reddus1

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  Author: Austin Pereira 3/15/2024 Double Points Powerup Current attempts of implementing the double points powerup is in a interesting position due to how I would have to network the system so that eve... Continue reading
• Conversion from blueprints to C++
  March 16, 2024 by Mystic

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  The Problem On my adventure of converting the player systems to code I have ran into a couple problems. First and foremost, we have decided that we are going to handle widgets and animations in bluepr... Continue reading

  
• Blog Post: The Weapon System
  March 16, 2024 by LGUAPOJR

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  William DeMayo 3/15/24 The Weapons System Part 1: The Problem The current challenge we're tackling revolves around the structure of our game's weapon system. Presently, all weapon functionality is int... Continue reading
• Reworking the Base Interactable
  March 16, 2024 by Bjornoid

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  Problem: One thing I tackled this week was to refactor the base interactable class and all its child classes. One of the issues we were having before was that it had bad and messy code because it was... Continue reading
• The Class system Dilemma
  March 09, 2024 by Mystic

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  Benjamin Dixon - Project Lead/Gameplay Programmer The problem This week has been a slow one for me personally. While I've been allowing other people access to the player to finish up their work I have... Continue reading

  
• Blog Post: Weapon Weight System
  March 09, 2024 by Ghost Of Reddus1

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  Author: Austin Pereira 3/8/2024 Weapon Weight System Initial implementations of the Weight system were causing some issues when it came to the players speed. To briefly describe the system, the idea i... Continue reading
• Player Aim Down Sights
  March 09, 2024 by Johncarlos Lillo

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  Johncarlos Lillo 3/8/2024 The Problem: ADS - For the past two weeks, I've have been trying to get down the Aim Down Sights, which has been a struggle for me personally. Some of the first issues I was... Continue reading

  
• Zombie Miniboss Struggles: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
  March 09, 2024 by LGUAPOJR

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  William DeMayo 3/8/24 Part 1: The Problem(s) I encountered three major problems this week two of which I have solved and one that I am still struggling with. For an overview, the mini-boss that I am c... Continue reading

  
• Revive System Interactable
  March 09, 2024 by Bjornoid

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  Problem: This week I decided to get the player down/revive system implemented. In a game with a round based zombie defense game mode, it is crucial to have a down and revive system that allows players... Continue reading

  
• Blog Entry Title: Environmental Cues , C++ Conversion From Blueprints
  March 09, 2024 by StevenCodes

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  ##Unreal5, #C++, #Code, #Development, #Games, #Zombies, #FPS, #Fun, #Realism, #Graphic, #Blood, #Guns, #BlogEntry, ##Devlog, ##Audio, ##Sound, #Systems

  Hello World and welcome back to another Blog Entry! For this week my team and I found many breakthroughs in many different systems so be sure to check out their respective blog posts! Normally we had... Continue reading

  
• Blog Post: Procedural Animation
  March 01, 2024 by Johncarlos Lillo

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  Author - Johncarlos Lillo 2 / 29 / 2024 Problem - Procedural Recoil and Bugs. This week, I was tackling some animations. I decided to go to the Procedural Animation route since I've never done it befo... Continue reading
• Blog Post: Network Integration into player systems
  March 01, 2024 by Mystic

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  Benjamin Dixon - Project Lead/Gameplay Programmer The Problem This sprint I have been having trouble with the networking aspects of the program and was struggling to understand them. I had issues with... Continue reading
• Blog Entry: Blockout Level Scale & Material Conversion
  March 01, 2024 by Ghost Of Reddus1

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  Author: Austin Pereira 2/29/2024 Blockout Level Scale & Material Conversion When I initially imported the Blender .FBX file of the blockout level, both the scale and the materials had issues. When it... Continue reading
• Blog Entry: Console Commands: The Duality of Code and Blueprint
  March 01, 2024 by LGUAPOJR

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  Author: William DeMayo Date: 2/29/2024 Console Commands: The Duality of Code and Blueprint Part 1 The Problem: The problem that I am currently having is I have console commands set up in a custom c++... Continue reading
• Blog Entry Title: Player Sensory Deprivation, and fine Details
  February 29, 2024 by StevenCodes

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  ##Devlog, ##Audio, ##Visual, ##Sound, #Unreal5, #FullSail, #DeadlandDuel, #C++, #VisualScripting, #Perforce

  Hello World! For starters, I want to welcome everyone back to another Devlog!!! This week presented the team and me with interesting challenges. One thing remains true. The player is always the priori... Continue reading

  
• Zombie Targeting in Multiplayer Co-op
  February 29, 2024 by Bjornoid

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  Problem: One problem that I dealt with this week was getting the Zombie AI behavior to be more intuitive and work as intended in a multiplayer co-op game. The zombies behavior is simple, they chase af... Continue reading

  
• Blog Post: Player Shooting & Enemy Death
  February 24, 2024 by Johncarlos Lillo

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  2/23/2024 Author: Johncarlos Lillo Problem - Raycast Calculations Wrong Zombie AI Not able to die. Part 1: The Problem - In this weeks sprint, I encountered a problem correctly outputting a Raycast fr... Continue reading
• Multiplayer Sessions/Lobbies
  February 24, 2024 by Bjornoid

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  Problem : While working on getting multiplayer setup, players were not able to join another devices session through searching for a public match, they were only able to join via direct invite, which i... Continue reading
• Blog Entry: Base Zombie AI
  February 24, 2024 by LGUAPOJR

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  2/23/2024 Author: William DeMayo Problem 1: The Problem The base zombie that I had created initially worked with just running to the player. This is a great start for a zombie given that there are two... Continue reading
• Blog Entry: Health/Stamina Bars Not Updating
  February 24, 2024 by Ghost Of Reddus1

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  Author: Austin Pereira 2/23/2024 Health/Stamina Bars Not Updating Initially, neither the health or stamina bars were updating during gameplay. In the background, all the calculations were correct but... Continue reading
• Player System Modularity
  February 24, 2024 by Mystic

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  Benjamin Dixon - Project Lead/ Gameplay Engineer 2/23/2024 This sprint we had a lot of great progress toward establishing our main game systems. I was primarily tasked with working on the integral pla... Continue reading
• Blog Entry Title: Scaling Woes and Zone Dilemmas
  February 24, 2024 by StevenCodes

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  ENJOY!!! Blog Entry Title: Scaling Woes and Zone Dilemmas Author: [Steven A Low] Posted on: 02/23/2024 Part 1: The Problem This week in our Unreal 5 game development, I grappled with a significant cha... Continue reading