Experiance
This was by far the longest project I've worked on. It was a 7 week project with 12 total members in it. It was one chaotic project since there was so much that we needed to do. Everything that I worked on was; All of the UI, reusable Save system, contributed to the Item pick up and made a stone Grab a key component for half of the puzzles, change of levels(part of the save system).
I also tried experimenting with UI animations for example when the player dies the screen goes fades out and than fades in when the player respawns masking out the teleportation of the player.
UI and Save system
In this project save system was a key point in making the gameplay more immersive and not as punishing. And since we had menus that let you restart the level or respawn you to a checkpoint the save system was directly connected with the UI.
I first begun with making Save_BP living in the folders, and let it constantly to be updated by the GameMode(our game manager).
When a player walks into a checkpoint it gives the x, y, z position of the checkpoint to the Game Manager and applies it to the player next time they die or decide to respawn. Than if they player wants to start over I simply clear the Game To Slot save and they player starts from the begining.
Rock Grab
From the start the rock grab was made in blue prints and you could simply push it from different sides and make it slide. But since they group had decided that they want a rock that can be grabbed I decided to just use the blueprints that we had already and just change them up so that I can grab the rock only from the middle of the sides. Working with physics in blueprints gave me a headache since many times when I had picked up a rock and walk near another trigger box the player would lose his reference to the rock and would glitch out. But it took a while till I figured out how to solve that.
