The map was split up into a grid of tiles with a large gap down the middle, the terrain of each tile was randomly generated each match. The match would consist of several rounds where players would fight and steal tiles from each other by connecting enemy tiles to their own spawn. At the end of each round the tiles that had been “Threaded” in this way would be claimed by the opposite team and pulled across the gap in the middle, causing the map to change between each round.

The players could choose from 3 classes that were each specialized to fill a role. One class was capable of stealing tiles via threading. Another was capable of severing enemy threads during the process of threading, before they were connected to the spool. Finally the last class was a support class with ranged attacks.

I was mainly in charge of the ranged class. It was mostly implemented in blueprint, sharing a base class with the other player classes that had been implemented in C++. This class utilized slow arcing projectiles which had to be replicated across a network to ensure collision. The projectiles would also embed themselves in whatever they hit and remain embedded for a short time. I also helped out a small amount with the 3D modelling for this class as well as combat based collisions across the other two classes.

This class and project was my first real step towards being a game developer, and I learned a lot during that class. In retrospect I think I could have taken even more advantage of it and learned more about networking and the native side of Unreal Engine, but its always one step at a time.

Regretfully I have lost access to the source code for the game, and all I have now is the demo video above to show for it.