Blueprints, Unreal Engine
The aim of this project was to create a Battleships game in Unreal Engine. The primary goals were to buils a complete gameplay loop and gain experience in Unreal Engine.
This project was part of my first-year game programming modules, and was a chance for me to practice using Unreal Engine.
The largest obstacle in this project was to create an object oriented, tile-based grid. Building object oriented code is an essential skill for industry work, and was one of the reasons why I chose this project.
For this project, I wanted the game to be played by two people on the same device. As a result, I also had to store the state of the board each time a turn ended. Without any explicit 2D array structures in blueprints, I ended up having to store each tile object, including x,y coordinates and status in a 1-Dimensional array. Doing so allowed me to work around this issue.
A review of the project can be found here.