For my first school project, the brief was to create a 3D game for Unreal Engine, with the following conditions:

• No budget
• 3-week time limit (not including planning, which we were given 2 weeks for)
• Player controller
• Must be a “horror environment”

What I decided to make was a little more complicated than we were instructed to:

• Random spawn location
• Procedurally generated map
• 11 endings
• 7 sets of dialogue
• Tutorial

The game was very “plain” looking, in all honesty, until I added the shader. It is a post-processing effect, if I remember correctly. This means it renders after everything else, which makes it apply the effect to everything.

There are multiple ways to die/lose, but in the video, you can only see one of them. For example, a randomly spawning gnome will follow you and eventually kill you, or you can run out of time (a random time limit is set between 300 and 420 seconds).

• Grades:
  • Pass
  • Merit
  • Merit
  • Merit
  • Distinction

I really feel like this deserved better.