Travis England-Hewlett

Robotics Charging Coordinator

Extended Engines Project, FDSC Games Design & Development Level 5

11th October 2021 – 29th April 2022

Download From: https://travisenglandhewlett.itch.io/robotics-charging-coordinator

For this extended engines project I was tasked with producing a polished game that closely resembles an industry standard product, while in keeping with the theme of ‘power’. The theme of power I interpreted as electrical power, as a result of which I created a top down, real-time strategy game, focused towards the directing of robots to specified charging locations. Additionally, I included multiple option settings, level themes and difficulties to make the game feel as complete as possible. Overall, this game turned out to be very fun and challenging to play.

Solo Project

My Role(s): Programmer, Asset & Audio Implementation

Created In Unreal Engine 4.26.2

Along with: Photoshop, GIMP 2.10

A fleet of usually automated robots are returning home however they are all severely low on power and as a result their more advanced systems have been disabled, including their inter-robot communications and collision avoidance. It is therefore your job to safely coordinate the recharging and redeployment of every robot, without incident.

‘Robotics Charging Coordinator’ is a 3D strategic game, played from a top down perspective. As the player you are tasked with directing a plethora of robots to their respective charging locations (specified by colour), while ensuring that the robots never collide with each other. Once a robot has been charged it will exit the play area in a predetermined direction. Robot type will be designated by scale, with their respective speed decreasing as the types increase in size. A counter will display the value of remaining robots, which will decrease with every robot that the player successfully charges; throughout the game the spawn rate of the robots will increase until the player is either overwhelmed or has managed to successfully charge every robot.

Sourced Assets

3D Assets: Polyart Studio. (2020) Dreamscape Nature : Meadows – Stylized Open World Environment in Environments – UE Marketplace. Available at: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/dreamscape-nature-meadows [Accessed 19 February 2022].

3D Assets: TomkaGS. (2020) Stylized Forest in Environments – UE Marketplace. Available at: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/stylized-forest-03 [Accessed 19 February 2022].

3D Assets: UDevLemon. (2019) Modular Low Poly Robots in Characters – UE Marketplace. Available at: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/modular-low-poly-robots [Accessed 20 October 2021].

Text Font: fontspace. (2006) Free Fonts | 90,000+ Font Downloads | FontSpace. Available at: https://www.fontspace.com [Accessed 7 March 2022].

Textures: Textures.com. (2005) Textures for 3D, graphic design and Photoshop!. Available at: https://www.textures.com [Accessed 22 March 2022].

VFX: SoerGame. (2020) VFX Bundle 2 in Visual Effects – UE Marketplace. Available at: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/vfx-bundle-01 [Accessed 19 February 2022].

Sourced Audio

Music: BootStrapMade. (2006) Free Sound Clips | SoundBible. Available at: https://soundbible.com [Accessed 28 February 2022].

Effects: Looperman. (2012) Looperman : Free Loops Beats Samples Acapellas Vocals VST Plugins VSTi Downloads. Available at: https://www.looperman.com [Accessed 28 February 2022].