Leyline Knights

Genre: Top-down Character Action
Engine: Unreal Engine 4
Team Size: 16
Project Duration: 26 Weeks
Contribution: Creation of the narrative system, outfits system and hazards. Implemented sound and music.

Leyline Knights: Welcome

Narrative System

The Narrative System required dialogue to be locked by gameplay events, dialogue to be the same until starting another run and the system to be built to help create the quest system. The biggest obstacle was managing all the dialogue data.

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Sample Hub Dialogue Tree

An example of behavior trees being used for dialogue. With this choice dialogue systems and prerequiste dialogue systems can implemented while being designer friendly.

Quest Behavior Tree

Quest using behaviors and ideas from the dialogue system. This checks if a quest is underway, completed and checks if a different quest is accepted.

Dialogue AI Snippet

To easily handle the most of the dialogue systems behavior trees are required. This AI blueprint handles all behaviors related to dialogue data, starting dialogue and ending it.

Dialogue Data Asset

The Data Asset template designer/writers use for each conversation in the game. Through the creation of this I gained a deep understanding of how to use data assets and how to manage them.

Dialogue Data Table

Data Table to hold all references to each dialogue data asset organized via topics and where these conversation happen. Learning about these data table saved many headaches trying to get and edit each asset in an organized manner.

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Outfit System

The outfit widget needed to update player stats appropriately and apply additional effects to the player such as an aoe upgrade and heal regen. Widget itself needed to be flexible to allow designers to add more outfits if needed.

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Outfit Data Asset

Outfit information the widget will read for information. This is where one could easily add another outfit to the widget.

Outfit Shop Code Snippet

Code that grabs the information in the outfit data asset to read for each struct in it.

Outfit Stat Changing

This is called when an outfit is equipped, changing the stats of the player based on the equpped outfit. Each outfit added needed to have the right stats edited in the player blueprint and the player stat struct.

Leyline Knights: Work

Leyline Knights

Narrative System

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Outfit System

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