Larry is travelling through a 2D side scrolling environment when he is confronted by a horde of creatures ( slimes, skeletons, etc ).
Based off Design doc on Google Docs. This project is the Larry vs Twitch Chat idea.
Main project - UE4 v4.21.2 Prototype project - Unity 2020.3.18f1
- Download the correct Unity version via Unity Hub.
- Install VSCode to edit the script files, see Unity documentation for setup
- Launch via Unity Hub!
- Download and install Twitchworks plugin via Epic Games Launcher
- Follow the tutorial steps to set up your own project so you can see where the game files need to be copied.
- Clone the repository & put the files in a similar file structure as the sample game
- Note: This repo uses Git LFS, so you must enable that via commandline or use a Git GUI like SourceTree (Recommended) which automatically supports Git LFS
- Open the .uproject file and you'll see the game in the editor
- Open up the Procedural_Level file under
Content\2DSideScrollerBP\Mapsand click the play button to play - If you want it to be full screen, there's an option next to play button to launch in different resolutions
- To Launch game without the editor, right click on UE4/LaunchGame.ps1 and Run in Powershell
- To set resolution adjust the resx & resy commands in the script
See UE4 documentation for more info on how to run a game via the editor and how to publish a game.
Right now this is still a prototype and currently in development. The upcoming tasks are tracked in Trello. Please ask Larry for permission to view it :)
- WASD - Movement
- K - Attack
- F - Activate Powerup
- Spawns on spawn points right now, tries to spawn them every 1 second if there are any in the queue & if Larry is not currently moving
- Spawns enemies at least X units away from Larry, so they spawn off screen
- Pulls enemies off the queue to determine which enemy type to spawn
- Enemies are added to the queue by either RandomEnemyGenerator (for testing) or via Twitch Integration
- RandomEnemyGenerator simulates Twitch Integration by adding to the EnemyQueue random EnemyProfiles at random times
- There can only be one enemy per user alive or in the queue at a time. This logic is handled by the EnemyQueuePermissions
- To enable twitch integration, download the TwitchWorks plugin & follow the instructions to enable it
- It's enabled by default in the build, so if that's not desired there are many classes that can be deleted or cleaned up
- In EnemySpawnerGameMode, turn on the twitch integration boolean
- Please when making changes turn off the twitch integration and use the random enemy spawner instead, twitch integration should only be turned on for publishing
- Each section of the level is represented by a "Tile" Blueprint
- Each Tile blueprint contains a TileMap, which is where the actual art and collision comes from
- Tile blueprint also has volumes that when triggered attempt to spawn the next tile
- Right now tiles are only spawned if the player is moving in that direction and they too close to the edge ( ex. 2 tiles away )
- Tile blueprint also contains spawnpoints for enemies
- Create a UI Widget that handles leveling up the boss's health
- Emojis spammed by the audience fill up the health bar
- After bar is full or X seconds, end the powering up stage & start spawning
- After boss is killed, resume normal gameplay seamlessly
- Boss Spawns when the Boss Tile is touched
- Boss Tile is spawned once the next tile is spawned after X enemies are dead
Currently broken waiting on TwitchWorks plugin update - right now just uses hard coded larry emotes
- When user sends a message, delegate is called
- TODO TwitchEmoteDownloader will bind to the delegate & download the textures
- TwitchEmoteDownloader also starts downloading emotes as soon as the user connects to the channel
- Textures will be stored by Hash of EmoteName -> Texture
- TODO Boss/EmoteSpawner will request a texture from TwitchEmoteDownloader
- TODO If no texture is found a default will be returned
- Only 1 powerup can be active at a time
- Pawn will store refence to currently active powerup
- Pressing F will trigger the powerup, releasing F will deactivate