Music Boxes

ECSGS Winter Jam 2022 (3 weeks)

Unreal Engine 5 C++

Game Description

Music Boxes was for the ECSGS Winter Jam 2022 - 2023, which was 3 weeks long. This was original idea by myself, and I led a team of myself and one other student. The goal of the game is to solve a series of puzzles which unlocks components to fix your old music box. There are hints throughout the house on how this can be done, although much of it is a search for missing pieces.

I did the original ideation and all of the programming for this project which included:

Player movement
Player object interaction and pickups
Clock puzzle mechanics and design
Puzzle logic and completion status
Camera transitions
Game Menu and UI

Roles

Takeaways

This is probably one of the game jams I'm most proud of in the end. I feel I learned a lot from it, and really enjoyed seeing it all come together. Through this project I learned a lot about object interactions, including creating my own trace channel for linecasts in Unreal. The clock puzzle was my proudest part as that took a lot of messing around with and figuring out the math behind it as the pivot points for the hands are not on the hands but at the base of the clock. This was also my first time using the Unreal Engine Enhanced Input System so I learned a lot about that. In the end I feel my team made a really solid and fun game.