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Game Summary

Deep Diver is a single-player, 3D, first-person, underwater, horror game with light management, created by a team of 6 artists and programmers using the Unreal Engine. The gameplay involves the player being sent on a suicide mission deep underwater to collect fish and complete tasks while only being given a flashlight that is used to attract fish and see but exposes you to a monster lurking in the dark.

What I Did

I was one of the programmers and the idea lead for the team. I created and designed the in-game mission system, the player's interact controls, the map, and the underwater effect. I also made the idea for the game and most of the concepts for features.

The in-game mission system is made of 3 main components: the mission handler, a mission spot, and a mission type. The missions are randomized to add replayability, so I created the mission handler to deal with it. It takes in a vector of mission spots and tells a certain amount of them to randomly activate and become full missions; all other mission spots are then marked inactive. The handler also keeps track of how many missions are still active. A mission spot allows me to control the randomization of the mission to certain locations; the mission spot is then placed there in the world. When the handler calls the spot, the mission spot will randomly choose a mission type to spawn on itself. These mission types can either be a repair mission, an artifact mission, or a fish collection mission, and when spawned, it will also spawn any necessary actors, props, or AI it needs. When the mission is completed by the player, it then alerts the mission handler.