Project Details

  • Type: Wholesome, Third Person
  • Players: Solo
  • Engine: Unreal Engine 5.1
  • Team Project (15 people)
  • Devellopped over: 4 month

Introduction

During the production of Hellvest, tools for NPCs were created because the game requires NPCs which have common parameters and NPCs which have particular parameters.

I had to work in close cooperation with student programmers to develop a tool with an interface and a design procedure that allows me to iterate quickly.

What did i do ?

  • Writing specifications for the tools
  • Define general needs of NPCs
  • Define needs based on NPC type
  • Iterate on the design and the problems encountered
  • Provide feedback on the user experience and propose improvements

Tool

Each NPC has a Dialog Component assigned
This Dialog Component has two Main elements.

Camera : Each NPC has its own camera, the objectives was
to create a different ambiance for each NPC.

Dialog: Each NPC can give a quest or not. He can therefore
have a dialogue in the case where he has a quest, in the case
where he does not have one and in the case where it is in progress.

Camera

Each camera need to have some informations to work :

 

    • Where the player would be ?

    • Where to look ?

    • Where is the camera ?

Quest (FEDX)

Each quest need to have some informations to work :

 

    • Item needed for the quest

    • Item Reward

    • Money Reward

    • Quest Title / Description

    • Did the player will unlock a new type of seed or not ?

Dialog

Each Dialogs need to have some informations to work :

  • Did the Bubble has response ?
  • The Response will open wich bubble
  • Wich bubble is the first
  • Wich PNJ will say that ?
  • If it’s a Quest Bubble, did the player have the requierments ?

Movement

Some NPCs need to move, they have a Spline Movement Component.
When the Spline is set, we can choose if the NPC will Loop the Spline
or moves back and forth

At each Spline Point the NPC can wait an editable time.