Digital Shark Expo

Ameera Salam

Project title

Paw & Order

Project outline

Paw & Order is a 3D first-person role-playing mystery game created in Unreal Engine 5 using C++ and Blueprints.

You play as Detective Paws, who has been sent to a village (inhabited completely by talking animals) to locate belongings misplaced by the villagers and return them.

Explore the interactive game world as you complete your assigned missions.

The project aim is to include aspects of advanced lighting, physics, a fully working character control system, use of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and navigation meshes in a working game.

A combination of C++ and Blueprints was utilised to take advantage of Unreal Engine 5’s capabilities.

The game mechanics include:

  1. First-person character movement.
  2. Dialogue with NPCs.
  3. Completing missions set by the NPCs.
  4. Acquiring items and storing them in an inventory.
  5. Exploring and interacting with the game world and objects.

This project was well received and achieved a first in marking.

Images

A screenshot of the menu in the Paw and Order game. It features the test Paw and Order over an illustration of a pond and three paw print illustrations each containing a menu option to click on.

A screenshot of the gameplay with a black and white dog in the centre. Dialogue appears across the screen reading 'oh no...where's my ball?

A screenshot from the Paw and Order game. It shows a village green with an arm reaching in from the right holding a magnifying glass.