Find Prime - SDGJ24

My teams submission for the San Diego Game Jam 2024. Find Prime (working title!) is a 4-player, couch co-op game that tasks the players with finding and eliminating the correct alien, who's hidden amongst a bunch of imposters.

The game is round-based, starting with only the target alien. Each round afterwards, increases the number of imposters. The aliens can be identified by the hats they're wearing. The player can eliminate the target alien by hitting it with a sausage fired from an RPG. If the player shoots the wrong alien, the player is eliminated for the rest of the round. If the team successfully eliminates the target, all dead players and target alien will respawn, the number of imposter aliens doubles, and the new round starts. The 7th round is the final round.

This project was a lot of fun to make, but was met with an equal amount of stress. I was the programmer for this project, and while I have setup a couple of basic Unreal Projects for local shared-screen multiplayer before, those projects never really became complete games. So I started the project with 100% confidence, that confidence quickly turned to panic as I realized I was a bit out of my element!

The most challenging part for me was the camera, and I realize now that I need to do a proper sit down with learning to make a camera for a shared-screen multiplayer game. While I managed to get one mostly working for this project, it is by no means perfect. The camera moves and zooms according to all of the players positions, but there are a few places where the player can get outside of the camera view, and the are some instances where the camera view isn't ideal.

But overall, the project all came together and we were really pleased with the results. The game is not without it's bugs though!


Itch.IO page:
https://sepehryari.itch.io/where-is-prime