Wouter De Moor WDM

The core mechanic is the torch: which is attached to a socket on the player's hand. The torch light decreases over time as you move away from safezones, running out of light causes the player to die. The further you move, the faster your light dims.

Upon entering a safezone, light will be drained from the campfire and refilled into the torch decreasing the campfire safezone radius. A decal is projected on the ground to display remaining light.

Using a custom trace channel, the player can interact with items and objects in range. These have some default values and events which made it easy to implement different variations, such as the bridge and item pickups.

All items are kept track off through the GameState, making it simple for the rest of the gameplay to communicate with them if needed.

Since the gameplay lacked some tension I decided to add an AI using behavior tree and blackboard. This AI has a few behaviors:

• Patrol the area using target points
• Alert and chase player
• Flee when attacked by player

To navigate the world, a navmesh is used in combination with the built in A* pathfinding.