SecretService:CV19

Story
Edmund comes to a village in China, hoping to find answers to the location of a secret artefact. The door to the temple is locked. That must be where the answers are. To gain access, he pieces together a torn-up note scattered around the village which contains the combination to and whereabouts of the temple key.

Gameplay
As the player, you must search around the village with Edmund's scanner to find four torn pieces of a note. Once the note pieces have been gathered, it will tell you where to find the key and provide a hint as to the combination of the locks securing it. You can head up to the temple and open the doors to progress with the key obtained.

Controls
WASD - Move
C - Scan
F - Interact
E - Pick-up/Read Note
Q - Toggle Cursor visibility

The Project
I was tasked with developing a single 3D game level from scratch in Unity for my University module.

Initially, I developed the environment and menu which took about two months along with all of the graphics.

Then I spent another two months developing the gameplay mechanics. These included the character movement, scanning mechanic, lock mechanic, interaction systems for picking up objects, camera changing, minimap and triggering events.

There were two character models that I developed for this, being the protagonist and the antagonist. These took about 6 weeks to model and custom rig. The protagonist which you control uses animations and a rig from Mixamo in the gameplay however the model used during the cinematic cutscene sequence I made at the end of the game used a custom rig for both characters. The animations used there are a mix of Mixamo and personal motion capture.

Bugs

• Sometimes the cursor is invisible when it shouldn't be. Click Q to toggle it on.
• Scanning sometimes does not trigger the notes to appear, potentially confusing the player. You may need to repeatedly scan in the same area a few times.
• Players may get stuck in certain areas of the environment.
• Visual bug related to shadows on the character model as well as invisible mesh.
• Visual bug with windows behind trees.