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cRUNch

The game was developed for Ludum Dare 55 Game Jam, organized at Behavior Interactive.

GameJam was run for 72 hours. During the first 48 hours, we were at Behavior Interactive Montreal office to develop all the aspects of the game, and for the rest of the 24 hours, we had to polish and submit the game on the Ludum Dare website.

The project was developed by a team of 8.

Intro

The game sets you up as a project manager running to complete the project at hand, and as all projects go, there are bugs that you need to solve along with summoning the correct employee to solve that bug.

Ludum Dare: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/crunch

cRUNch: https://saryatkhan.itch.io/crunch

The theme for this jam was Summoning. We planned to have our twist on the topic.

Where lots of projects were based on magic and rituals for summoning, we went for a different approach and summoned some employees to work for the main character, who's the project manager.

The Gameloop was kept simple with minimal mechanics.

The game also has many pickups, which would help you survive the run.

Game Design Document -

cRUNch was my first attempt at procedural-level generation. I learned a ton about procedural generation rules and techniques.

I was unfamiliar with Unreal's PCG at the time, so being a GameJam, I did not want to experiment and went with the traditional blueprint method to create procedural-generation rules

Player Character

Move Forward and Score This is done using the tick function, as the game is an endless runner, and it seems like a no-brainer to put it on tick and calculate the score off of this as well.
Jump Jump is pretty straight-forward, with some jump values changed for the feel of the game.
Switching Lanes An important function for the game, to move left and right and keeps a check on the variable OnLane.

Procedural Path Generation

GameMode BeginPlay Function Initializes and checks some values for further extension of the office rooms.
Add Room Checks if the room should be random or straight and adds them. generation rules are that if any non-straight room is spawned, it should spawn at least 5 straight rooms
Randomize PathType PathType selected on the basis of chances fed into a datable containing all the path.
Room BeginPlay Builds the piece on the bases of PathType from the GameMode.
Build Piece Used to build walls, stairs and obstacles on the basis of PathType variable passed.
Build Walls Rooms are built on the basis of the information provided, e.g., if straight walls are built on the left and right or if right-turn walls are built on the left and forward.

Employee Spawn

Button Widget This is a button-pressed function for each employee. EmployeeType variable can be edited from the MobilePhone widget.
Try Employee Spawn Function in the player controller that spawns a respective employee based on Button pressed.
Try Destroy Barrier Function in Barrier BP to check if the employee spawned is correct related to the BUG and is spawned on the correct lane.
MobilePhone Widget Assigning an event when any button on mobile is pressed to disable buttons and give a loading time.

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SARYAT KHAN

Technical Game Designer

cRUNch

Intro

Game Design Document -

Player Character

Move Forward and Score

This is done using the tick function, as the game is an endless runner, and it seems like a no-brainer to put it on tick and calculate the score off of this as well.

Jump

Jump is pretty straight-forward, with some jump values changed for the feel of the game.

Switching Lanes

An important function for the game, to move left and right and keeps a check on the variable OnLane.

Procedural Path Generation

GameMode BeginPlay

Function Initializes and checks some values for further extension of the office rooms.

Add Room

Checks if the room should be random or straight and adds them. generation rules are that if any non-straight room is spawned, it should spawn at least 5 straight rooms

Randomize PathType

PathType selected on the basis of chances fed into a datable containing all the path.

Room BeginPlay

Builds the piece on the bases of PathType from the GameMode.

Build Piece

Used to build walls, stairs and obstacles on the basis of PathType variable passed.

Build Walls

Rooms are built on the basis of the information provided, e.g., if straight walls are built on the left and right or if right-turn walls are built on the left and forward.

Employee Spawn

Button Widget

This is a button-pressed function for each employee. EmployeeType variable can be edited from the MobilePhone widget.

Try Employee Spawn

Function in the player controller that spawns a respective employee based on Button pressed.

Try Destroy Barrier

Function in Barrier BP to check if the employee spawned is correct related to the BUG and is spawned on the correct lane.

MobilePhone Widget

Assigning an event when any button on mobile is pressed to disable buttons and give a loading time.