{"id":442,"date":"2017-03-01T02:16:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T02:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gameswahlquist.com\/portfolio\/?page_id=442"},"modified":"2021-09-27T02:40:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T02:40:59","slug":"personal-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gameswahlquist.com\/portfolio\/personal-projects","title":{"rendered":"Personal Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve had a lot of fun making some games for my daughters to play. I started this “Blue Witch” project a couple of years ago. It’s based on characters that they came up with for bedtime stories when they were even younger than they are now.<\/p>\n

I used RPG Maker XP to make a retro-looking game that involves some of the characters they came up with.<\/p>\n

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For the second part of the game, I added a new environment and some mini-games. The scripting in RPG Maker is mostly built around the RPG formula, but I found I could change the monster combat into a math game.<\/p>\n

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A few years ago I decided the game needed a full remake. My kids initially said they didn’t imagine their characters to be as cartoony as I’d made them in RPG Maker. Using Unreal4, I tried making a hub for a new game.\u00a0 It was buggy, hacky, over-scoped and a lot of fun to work on.<\/p>\n

I tried out some multiple cameras that track the player, a CSV-driven dialogue branching choice system, hooking up animations to events, and listeners for contextual events.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Note: the initial screen is just a randomizer to determine who’s turn it is. It turned out to be the game’s best feature. (Once they’d played the very-unfinished game a few times, it was more fun for them to just see who’s face the randomizer would land on.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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