In Plain Sight

Devlog

• Death And Rebirth
  June 01, 2024 by wunt

  Dramatic right? Anyway, as the last week before the alpha build, this was an interesting sprint. The I didn't run into a ton of problems with any one thing, but as far as new features, I Implemented a... Continue reading
• Missing Projectiles - Jonathan Kohl
  May 31, 2024 by Jonathan Kohl

  This week I worked heavily in creating a town bell that villagers can interact with to notify their region of a threat. Everything quickly started to come together, and AI were reacting as intended. A... Continue reading

  
• Town Alarm
  May 31, 2024 by TrayCoats

  Author: Trayvion Coats Date: 5-312024 Blog Entry Part 1: The Problem This week, our development team encountered a significant challenge with the "base alarm" system, also referred to as the "tower al... Continue reading
• Opening back up the Opening.
  May 31, 2024 by Kyu

  author: Luna Hugdahl Posted on 5/30/2024 In the previous week, one of my teammates and I made the opening for the game. We didn't have much experience with using sequencer and we were also trying to c... Continue reading

  
• Try, Try, Again
  May 30, 2024 by DeltaCompany

  Author: Riley Darling Posted on 5/30/2024 In my last blog post I mentioned making an opening cutscene, but with the little experience I had with Unreal's sequencer it ended up being choppy, too fast,... Continue reading
• When the hint shop scammed the player
  May 26, 2024 by Glitch

  During Development of the shop that sold hints to the key item locations, if the player closed and re-opened the shop and tried to buy something, the shop would try to sell the player that hint multip... Continue reading
• Town Alarm Collision Detection
  May 25, 2024 by TrayCoats

  Author: Trayvion Coats Posted on: 5-25-2024 Part 1: The Problem During this week's production on our project in Unreal Engine 5, a challenge emerged concerning collision detection for the "Town Alarm"... Continue reading
• Grappling hook and Shifting priorities
  May 25, 2024 by wunt

  The ability I added this week was the grappling hook. Getting this ability to work exactly how I wanted ended up being more difficult that I expected. Essentially, the ability shoots out a raycast to... Continue reading
• Making Cutscene is Time Consuming
  May 24, 2024 by DeltaCompany

  Author: Riley Darling Posted on 5/24/2024 Many times during game development, we will plan the general amount of time we will take on a problem and sometimes think about the maximum time we are willin... Continue reading
• Trouble Returning Ritual Items – Jonathan Kohl
  May 24, 2024 by Jonathan Kohl

  Overall returning ritual items was a card that was deceptively challenging. I surpassed the expected time I thought I would need to work on this by several hours. What sounds somewhat mundane took a g... Continue reading

  
• Guard Patrol and Chase Mechanics
  May 18, 2024 by TrayCoats

  Author: Trayvion Coats Blog Entry Part 1: The Problem This week, I faced significant challenges in developing the guard patrol and chase mechanics for our game. The guards are designed to patrol speci... Continue reading
• Ability Icons and fighting with Unreal Widgets
  May 18, 2024 by wunt

  This week I updated the ability system so that it can now support ability icons. I also added two, well more like one and half, new abilities. The ability class now has places for an icon, a greyed ou... Continue reading
• Blueprints or code?
  May 17, 2024 by DeltaCompany

  Author: Riley Darling Posted on 5/17/2024 Adding a save and load system to a game seems relatively easy at first, especially since Unreal has a built in system so you don't have to read or write from... Continue reading

  
• Missing Assets - Jonathan Kohl
  May 17, 2024 by Jonathan Kohl

  During this week I spent much time working on a new ranged guard character. This character required all new assets, animations, and materials that I imported into the project from the Unreal Engine st... Continue reading

  
• The Tedious work of making the Video Settings
  May 17, 2024 by Glitch

  Work this week went very smoothly for my parts. Only a couple of issues occured that were quickly fixed. The longest thing I did that took way too long was setting up the video settings for the player... Continue reading

  
• New ability & VFX woes
  May 11, 2024 by wunt

  For this sprint I was able to mostly stick to my own thing, that being the new ability system, and the development of the first new ability, smoke form. I had a head start from last month on the new a... Continue reading
• Trouble With Pathing - Jonathan Kohl
  May 11, 2024 by Jonathan Kohl

  Pathing is something that I never needed to do before in Unreal Engine. Due to this inexperience, I estimated this task would take me about six hours. I seem to have grossly underestimated the amount... Continue reading
• The Priest AI Spawning Bug
  May 11, 2024 by TrayCoats

  Author: Trayvion Coats Date: 05/10/2024 Part 1: The Problem This week, I encountered a frustrating bug in our game project. I had developed an AI system for a priest character that was supposed to spa... Continue reading

  
• Problems with Sound Groups
  May 10, 2024 by DeltaCompany

  Author: Riley Darling Posted on 5/10/2024 This week I tried to make volume sliders to adjust the sound quality and in doing so I realized some problems with the Unreal Engine's default sound options... Continue reading

  
• Unreal's Audio Sliders
  May 10, 2024 by Glitch

  When creating the options menu, I needed sliders for audio, and there was exactly that, a widget called Audio Slider. I threw them in and they looked cool because on the side, it displayed the decible... Continue reading

  
• """Finishing""" touches, and getting started on what's next
  May 03, 2024 by wunt

  This week was mostly just clean up. I separated out the audio from the player so the NPCs could have custom sounds, finally got animations working, made a custom animation for the player attack and gu... Continue reading
• Audio Implementation
  May 02, 2024 by DeltaCompany

  author: Riley Darling Posted on 5/2/2024 Almost always a video game developer uses tools that were made by someone else, an engine of which to make their game for example. Most of the time when using... Continue reading

  
• Detecting Player Actions - Jonathan Kohl
  May 02, 2024 by Jonathan Kohl

  One piece of functionality that proved to be moderately challenging was the implementation of the Ai being able to detect player action. This took nearly a day of work to get accomplished. A major fac... Continue reading

  
• Player progress and Animation troubles
  April 27, 2024 by wunt

  My main task this week was getting the basics of all the player's core actions done, and going into it, I was expecting it to be more self contained that it really was. I set up an interact ray for th... Continue reading

  
• Chaos Physics - Jonathan Kohl
  April 27, 2024 by Jonathan Kohl

  Instead of a boring death animation I wanted the player to experience more satisfaction in killing AI. I began looking into Chaos Physics and how to use a geometry collection. I first ran into problem... Continue reading

  
• Working with a team.
  April 27, 2024 by DeltaCompany

  author: Riley Darling Posted on 4/26/2024 This week was a lot more team focused than last week, I didn't realized when we started just how much we were going to have to work with each other to impleme... Continue reading
• Optimizing AI Attack Animation
  April 27, 2024 by TrayCoats

  Author: Trayvion Coats Posted on: 04/26/2024 Part 1: The Problem During this week's development cycle, I encountered a perplexing issue with the AI animation system: the attack animation wasn't playin... Continue reading
• Widget Creation can easily go wrong
  April 26, 2024 by Glitch

  Making the Widgets themselves were fine. I had no problems there. Coding functions for the different elements in the widget that needs them were also fine, though with a few bugs that we learned of th... Continue reading
• Perforce is a PROBLEM!
  April 20, 2024 by DeltaCompany

  author: Riley Darling Posted on 4/19/2024 Perforce is a consistent problem in my and my team's project. There were many issues that caused the process to take double or triple the time it should have... Continue reading
• Learning curve with UE5 - Jonathan Kohl
  April 20, 2024 by Jonathan Kohl

  A major issue with production this week is becoming familiar with Unreal Engine 5. This version has been particularly challenging with getting AI to work. Also becoming familiar with the interface suc... Continue reading
• We love Perforce!!! And the Player.
  April 20, 2024 by wunt#Player

  Woohoo. Plain sight has started development. So far the main thing to talk about is source control and general technical difficulties. Moving to both Unreal 5 (instead of unity, and UE4) and Perforce... Continue reading
• Perilous Perforce Problems - Luna
  April 20, 2024 by Kyu

  author: Luna Hugdahl Posted on 4/19/2024 Perforce has been my main antagonist thorough this project. Seemingly nothing I did with it was going correctly, there were errors constantly stopping me from... Continue reading

  
• Problems Learning Source Control
  April 20, 2024 by TrayCoats

  This week, our team encountered a significant obstacle in our game development process related to pushing scripts to Perforce. Due to a lack of understanding about the correct procedures for integrati... Continue reading
• Source Control is hard to Learn
  April 19, 2024 by Glitch

  Throughout the first sprint, our setup build, we had to learn a new source control application called Perforce. We were taught some basics about it, but we kept running into issues. Some of them were... Continue reading
• Our Vision
  April 13, 2024 by Glitch

  Our Vision statement for In Plain Sight: In Plain Sight is a First person Stealth/Puzzle game where the player plays as a monster that possesses one random townsperson each night In a medieval town. T... Continue reading