UE4 Winter Game Jam 2019

I recently participated in the UE4 winter game jam. The theme was “All is fair in love and war”. The team was composed by Jacob (Game Design + Programming), Dane (Sound Design), Alex (Music Creation), Arturo (Character Artist) and myself as a 3D Environment Artist. We decided to develop a 2-player shared screen game experience that would imply some sabotaging between the players.

However, this game jam was only 5 days and we didn’t agree on a subject until the 2nd day. That\’s why I decided to go for a low poly cartoony style. I used Maya to model and Unwrap, and Photoshop and Substance Painter to develop the textures. Overall though, I tried to keep it simple. Cel-Shading was included in UE4 to help give a cohesive feeling.

You can download and test the game by using this amazing link

Here are some of the assets and textures I produced, although you can try the game to see more:

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This Game Jam was my first time working with a version control software (we used Gitlab) and I had to implement some of the models more than once due to synchronizing issues. However, it was a pretty fun experience.

I also tried to develop some animations for the character using some of the knowledge I gathered in my 3D animation high certificate course back in Barcelona. Although I managed to rig and animate some keyframes for Idle, Walking, Graping and Throwing, I didn’t achieve to export it in a successful way for implementation in UE4. This is something I will need to keep practicing to find the best pipeline.

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Virtus Winter Game Jam 2018

I spent the 2018’s ending working on the Virtus Winter Game Jam. It was my first experience in a game jam (outside of university) and I had the chance to participate with Lewis Fiford ideas\’ of a strategy game inspired in Risk and Catan. My contribution was based mainly in the 3D art, although I also helped out with some 2D icons.

The game got 2^nd in the “Overall Game” category which makes me quite happy.

We decided to title the game “Army-Geddon” as it was fitting both the game and the theme.

This game jam was a good opportunity to start figuring my way out in Substance Painter, tool that I recently purchased taking advantage of the Black Friday week discount.

In terms of modelling I developed some low poly assets (city debris & trees) for when the player would zoom-in the map and the wood frame where the map stands.

I then texturized the wood frame around the map and also the map itself (which was given as a mesh) by using different layers including normal and height map. It was a really good practice to get familiar with the substance painter interface and the painting and blending tools as good as the exporting to UE4 pipeline.

I also developed the 2D assets (icons) for the HUD and the map.

Here are some pictures:

Before and after assigning territories

Zoom-In view

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University Game Jam

For the antagonist I decided to play with the idea of the abdominal tablet for the chocolate bar. I also made him look intimidating with a sort of a bully air with buffy arms. I didn\’t do any concept for this, I had in mind what I wanted so I developed it in Maya straight forward.

For the main character claudiweather helped us with some concepting despite being in another course. She based herself on the “dumb ways to die” characters.

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