Deliverance

“Solve the puzzles around you and escape the room with the secret formula”

Our fifth project at The Game Assembly was a small puzzle game. Deliverance was made over the span of 4 weeks in our own custom game engine that we decided to call Aurora.

Deliverance was inspired heavily by the puzzle game called The Room. Deliverance may have been one of our most intense projects since we had to develop a game and an engine in the span of just 4 weeks.

My Responsibilities

  • Implementation of GameObject and Component system

  • Loading of Unreal Engine scenes into our own engine

  • Animation system

  • FMOD implementation

  • Menu System

  • Pause Menu

  • Splash Screen

  • Trailer

Level Loading

Since we were making a game engine from scratch we didn’t have any easy way to create, save and load levels. And with this project only being four weeks long we didn’t really have the time to develop a level editor for our game, this meant that our level designers ended up designing their levels in Unreal Engine and then exporting the levels as .json files.

I took on the responsibility to load these .json files into our game and make them work with our engine.

Animator Component

After getting the levels to load i sat down and created a Animator Component. I built upon the skinned mesh rendering system written by Isak Morand-Homqvist and David Nilsson, I refactored their system to work with my GameObject and Component system.

I then collaborated with our level designers to get the models to correctly load. We pulled it off by having strings like “cup” and “blackboard” as properties in Unreal Engine, I could then try to find these properties and load in the corresponding meshes and animations.