This is my first Unreal Engine 4 game and I made it as a part of the 7DFPS game jam. Before that I released a game called Last Knight with the UDK. (Still doing stuff on that now and then).
In Shootmephrenia you have to shoot no one but yourself. Basically you have to ricochet your bullet over panels back to you and then you have to catch it. The visuals are pretty glitchy, and the gameplay pretty tricky. There are just a few small levels in it since I had only 7 days time and I learned of UE4 while making it.
There is lots of material fx going on, like transparent distorted masking based on world position which is also animated, glitchy vertex movement, wavey vertex movements, pixels that seems to move over the surfaces etc. With the material system and deferred rendering it is just a little sad that you can’t do that heavy stylized stuff with custom lighting. Metals are very nice and shiny though!
With the ragdoll animation I had my problems, I still don’t know if it is my fault or there is something wrong with the engine. I at least never had these problems in the UDK or UT3. The solution I ended up with is to just use the basic ragdoll of the third person example skeleton. It is also a bit glitchy but that fits at least to the game, if you happen to know more here is the thread I made on it: https://.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?51902-Ragdoll-Physics-Broken
Blueprint was a bit of a shock for me where I came from Kismet scripting (Blueprints communication, variables transformation, hundreds of different nodes etc.). It is definitely much more programmer orientated but also allows for much more possibilities. But in the end I managed to get everything done plus some cool fancy things which I also have to thank the people here and on Answerhub for! I might put up a thread in the Feedback section on what I think could be better with Blueprint, especially easier. I also miss using Matinee for all kinds of stuff while these BP “value over time animations” are a good addition. Oh and thank god for quickly compiling and jumping in the game, well, thanks Epic! Lots of try and error is what I made.
With the new animation system I still have to look in more, because that was pretty confusing and because of time constraints I just hijacked the animations of the examples.
Overall I’m really loving UE4 but it still has a lot of rough edges, at least from my point of view.
Here is a cool turnaround that shows the concept of the game pretty well:
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Shootmephrenia Scene by TocoGamescom on Sketchfab
You can download the game for free here: Shootmephrenia by Toco Games
If you happen to be too lazy to kill yourself in a game (or have any other reason) you can also watch Shea do it in this video:
That exploit is fixed plus some fancy picture-in-picture views added: http://giphy.com/gifs/shootmephrenia-5xaOcLu2P8qm6jx1RRK?tc=1