UE4 First person horror demo
Oscar Escamilla
Project Description

This demo is built after finishing an Unreal 4 blueprint course by Carlos Coronado (Infernium, Koral, Mind: Path to Talamus). This course helped me a lot consolidating the knowledge I had acquired in a fragmented way while doing other tutorials. Carlos Coronado is a great teacher, and after ending the course I felt far more confident using Unreal 4.

The demo contains a lot of level events, and since there is a lot of play with lights and fires, I created some functions and blueprints to control the state of multiple electrical lights (on/off/blinking) and fires (starting explosion, amount of fires and their position, etc). It was a matter of adapting what I learned in the course to facilitate building gameplay elements in a more designer friendly way

I also played a bit with with the Sequencer tool to add a small cutscene at the beginning. In general, this demo has given me a lot of confidence coding blueprints and level events, and I can't wait to start working on my next prototype using some of the tricks I have learned

Project Details
  • GenreFirst Person Horror
  • ClientMyself
  • DateDecember-January 2021
  • StatusWIP
  • PlatformPC
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My work

  • Level design: The level design is simple and linear. There are a couple open areas, but it's mostly tight dark corridors: it's just a matter of going from A to B trying not to die. There are some doors that require keys or energy, a small puzzle room in Chapter 2, some jump scares and an explosion-filled final chapter

  • Narrative design: Since it was created while following an online course, the narrative was added after finishing the levels. This was made by changing the order of the maps in a way that made narrative sense, and adding some feedback texts while navigating the levels. The story is simple: A lone engineer aboard a cargo spaceship finds himself trying to avoid an engine meltdown while avoiding some nasty zombies and enviromental challenges in his path.

  • Programming: Being a blueprint course, working in this demo allowed me to work in Save/Checkpoint and Respawn systems. It also helped me to build a versatile menu system with localization support that I will be using on my next games/demos. But these things are more programmer-oriented. It is good to know how to build them, but I reckon what will be most useful for me in the future will be the level blueprint events, and how to call them from other blueprint actors. That is, make interesting things happen while the player is navigating the levels.

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