Kintsugi

Kintsugi is a chill, exploration-focused 3D platformer made by Team Cypress for the University of Utah's Division of Games Undergraduate Capstone.

Engine

Unreal Engine 5
_(Blueprints)

Role

Gameplay Programmer /
Game Designer

Team Size

~13 members

Status

Released on Steam

Contribution

Automatic camera +
character movement

Initial Game Designs

Core Loop · Design Document

Early Build · In-Engine Capture

My design goals I was able to achieve for the camera system I developed:

Robust enough that the player would never have to control the camera manually.
Smooth enough that people who get motion sick would have no issues.
Allow for easy implementation of level tools to enable further control of the camera.
Designed for the controller experience.

A lot of the design was based on a GDC talk by the game-feel engineer for Journey.

During development I took over the movement system and implemented:

Movement State Machine · Architecture