Kra-Ken

Role: Gameplay/Tools Programmer

Time: September 2018 - July 2019

Team Size: 18 Developers

Platform: PC (Steam)

Engine: Unreal Engine 4

Built using Unreal Engine 4, Kra-Ken is a 1v1 fighting game released on Steam.

Contributions

My main work on this project was:

Creating an easy-to-use motion input system.
Handling player states and physics.
Making the combo system.
Making tools to allow for hitbox editing within character animations.
The entire training mode (input display, hitbox display, training AI behavior). Sadly, it never got a UI pass.

Challenges

Fighting games work in a very specific way, and are notoriously hard to make. Animation and gameplay work very tightly together, a single character has many moves that each need hitboxes and effects, you are creating a lot of content for a single character.