Echoes Descent
About the Project
Echoes Descent is a 2 player asymmetrical Co-op horde shooter game. The players are tasked with navigating the mental dungeons of a depressed individual and make their way to 'bliss'. We have used Epic Online Services for server discovery and connecting users to spawn in the same level. It was made as part of our 4th game project and took 4 weeks of development.
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My Primary Role was that of a Network Programmer. I was tasked with the Player Controllers, Room Joining, Replication of events and variables, Setting up the player spawn process, Server Travelling and Respawning. Additionally I also worked on Abilities, a responsive Health component for the players and some shader work. I also took on the role of a Scrum Master on this Project.
Creating and Joining Rooms
We use Epic Online Services for server discovery. The game uses a session code based join system. The clients are shown a randomly generated session string that their friend can use to join the session. We set the session string as a property in the session settings which is then queried whenever we are finding sessions to join.
Controller Architecture
The architecture we went with operated through the server's replicated controller of clients. All the actions the clients took were called on the server and then the necessary events and state of the player were replicated to the clients. It treated the Server as a true version of the game in all senses and the controller on the clients never interacts directly with the character it possesses. This was also created to make it easy to validate actions on the server should we need to in the future.
