Gwizzard (WIP)
Goblin’s are a slave race, held in captivity and bred for labor by the wizards. The Goblins are held in an underground megastructure, doomed forever. Unless the Gwizzard can save them.
Timeframe: Ongoing since March 2025 - Currently a Proof of Concept
Team Size: 5 people
Roles: Sole Programmer
Scope (Proof of Concept): 30-minute experience with 3 unique guns, 2 levels, elemental synergy, enemy AI, and a lot of jokes
Weapons and Damage System
As a boomer shooter, multiple guns with unique feels are the backbone of our game. To allow us to take full advantage of this, I created a weapon and damage system that supports varied input structures (like automatic, charge, and semi-automatic), and allows different code to be written while managed by one logic system.
Player Controller Rework
Halfway through production, our player controller wasn’t organized. States were defined only by booleans, making it difficult to the player controller because we need to read each if-statement.
I decided to refactor the controller to follow an enum state machine, to make debugging easier and clearly define states, while allowing non-programmers to be able to understand what they’re editing
Growth
Gwizzard was a big jump for me as I had never used C++ in Unreal before, but using Blueprint prototypes helped greatly. I was able to create prototypes and ensure functionality before swapping over to C++, greatly speeding up our prototyping process while allowing us to recieve the performance benefits of C++.