Oscar Skinner
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RatNTackle
Location
Melbourne
Date
Development took place from the 6th of Feb to 2nd of May 2024
Role
Lead Programmer, involving myself with Gameplay, UI, Cinematic, Physics, Tools and Audio programming
Project type
Video Game Demo
Skills obtained from project
Unreal Engine blueprinting and navigation, Widget blueprinting, Audio blueprinting, Cinematic camera manipulation and blueprinting, Animating within Unreal, Documentation writing, QA testing, Progress reporting, Managing git repository, Tools programming, UI programming, Gameplay programming, NPC creation within Unreal engine, Scoping for deadline.
Rat-n-Tackle is an 2.5 D peaceful exploration game following a small rat called Spud living the life of an angler in the sewers. Created in a small group, we recieved 13 weeks to develop this demo. The demo created process included, development, documentation writing, QA testing, debugging, cross-disciplinary working and showcasing product at an expodition.
This was my first exploration into programming in Unreal as I had only ever experienced and learnt programming with Unity's C#. This posed as a challenge but with dedication and daily work, I became proficient with Unreal navigation and utilisation.
For this project I worked on gameplay, UI, physics, cinematic, tools and audio programming. As I was Lead programmer for the group, I worked across the whole project, interacting with every member of the group thoroughly to ensure the elements were used as intended by those creators, and suited to the games direction.
