MONSTER SAFARI
DESCRIPTION
"Monster Safari" is an action packed game that takes you on a thrilling journey through exotic lands teeming with ferocious beasts. As a skilled hunter, your job is to capture these fearsome creatures and add them to your collection. The gameplay focuses on driving across a vast desert landscape chasing down wild beast that will flee, and fight in unpredictable ways. To capture them the player must make used of their jeeps mounted turret as well as their capture balls to seal the monsters within.
ROLE: DESIGNER AND PROGRAMMER
This prototype was a two weeks solo project. It was developed using Unreal Engine 5. I handled all programming tasks using Blueprints, including the AI, shooting systems, and monster capture mechanics. The art assets were sourced from the Unreal asset store and integrated into the project. The AI was the feature I spent the most time working on for this project. The game monsters will follow a simple patrolling behavior but will detect the player through various stimuli. This stimuli include sight, but also sound which tracks the volume of sound from the players jeep engine, and projectiles. After detecting the player they will follow a more randomized behavior, to match the behavior of a panicked animal. This can lead to the enemies at times charging directly at the player rather than fleeing.
YEAR
2023
PLATFORM
GENRE
PC
ACTION/DRIVING
