Caves of Nōḍ
About the Project
Caves of Nōd was our 3rd Game Project & our first using the Unreal Engine. It's a horde shooter with small puzzles set in a cave. I worked as a Gameplay Programmer on this project. I worked on an extensive weapon system, explosives, Health System, Checkpoints, Weapon Switching.
Weapon
Since we planned on multiple different kinds of guns, we worked on gun component where we could tweak many parameters in different instances of the guns. Parameter Examples: Projectile vs Raycast Guns, Fire Modes, Fire rates, Reload Times, Reload Methods, vfx/sounds/animations etc.
Weapon Management
One of the earlier versions of the game had multiple weapons the player could cycle through. The Manager would also take care of the current equipped weapon, holster state and everything related.
Checkpoints
The checkpoints were trigger based in the game. Used to respawn the player in case of death. We added a environmental visual marker for the checkpoints.
Health Component
A Simple Health component which we could use on any and all actors that need to have health. Supports taking damage, Getting Healed, Getting the Health as a fraction of the max health