UnrealBomber

Bomberman demo on Unreal Engine 4 (version 4.16.3). Playable version here (with broken texture on floor plane for some reason).

To the reviewer

Completed Tasks

• Basic bomberman-like gameplay. Fair explosions, allowing bombs chaining, everything is exactly like in the original, except for player movement.
• Basic pickups: speed, bombs, bombs range
• Death with auto-respawn
• Random level generation
• Sounds
• Blasts effects

Not Completed Tasks

• Local Co-Op
• Remote-Controlled Bombs
• No timer, no draw conditions
• No UI
• No score
• No AI

Reasons and stuff

Not that it matters, but still... As I mentioned previously - I don't really have a lot of experience in UE4 because I was working on Unity for the past few years. Basically I was learning the engine while developing the demo, and a lot of time were spent on reading documentation and fixing dumb mistakes. There are no actual technical difficulties for me to complete the tasks, but I've already spent ~10-15 hours on the assignment, and it said "You should not spend more than 15 hours on the test", so I didn't. Well, I don't yet know how to make 2 player controls, because most of the solutions I found on the web look way too hack'ish to be the right ones.

Naming conventions are kinda weird in the assignment. I was jumping between conventions from the official tutorials and from the code I used to write on Unity.

Ownership

• All the code and blueprints were made by me (player movement controller were inspired by standart demo).
• All other assets (textures, models, sounds) were either included with the initial project or downloaded from the web.

TODO

Things to fix

• Add a proper Player Controller so it would be separate form the Pawn class
• Separate GameMode from Match logic into different scripts
• No out of bounds check for bombs and pickups - it shouldn't ever happen right now, but it is one simple function that will save form the crashes
• I little bit of hardcode here and there, sorry

Things to add

• Local multiplayer
• Extra pickups
• Core round logic - timers, death, etc
• UI
• AI (from simple random-like to complex hunter-like)

Probably should do it after i dive a bit into some other examples to get more information about best practices.

Playing

Controls

WASD + Space

Pickups

• Blue: extra speed
• Green: +1 extra bomb
• Red: +1 blast radius

Points of interest

• UnrealBomberGameModeBase c++ class: all the core logic - explosions, generation, game state "managing"
• BP_PlayerPawn blueprint: player controls
• BP_PickupX blueprints: simple pickup logic
• BP_Bomb blueprint: simple bomb logic
• BP_WallDestroyable blueprint: destroyable wall logic - spawning pickups