Wage Thrall

A short interactive story project created with Tansu Ergene's Horror Engine asset pack. Most gameplay was made by using the tools in the Horror Engine but some functionality was developed in simple BPs. 

Our goal was to tell a short, silly, linear story (with a few fail states) and play around with some UE5 features. (This was also our first UE5 project, so we kept it simple)

This project was build as our final for an Visual Story Telling course at CDM.

Personal contributions:

This project was more of using a set of built tools to cobble together a game, but I worked on:

• Gameplay flow and story
• Creating simple timers (BPs)
• Creating simple interactables (BPs)
• Integrating audio

Team:

Micklen, Sid and Pete

Built in: Unreal Engine 5.3.2

Unreal Assets Pack

• Tansu Ergene. (2018). Horror Engine, Unreal Market Place. Retrieved from https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/horror-engine?sessionInvalidated=true
• Unreal Online Learning. (2021). Build a Detective’s Office Game Environment. Unreal Market Place https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/getting-the-detectives-office-started

Assets

• "Uncle" Photo, OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT [Large language model]. /g/g-pmuQfob8d-image-generator

Music & SFX:

• Pro Tunes. (2024). Stock Waves - Peaceful Corporate. YouTube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I34bTKW8ud0&list=PLQtpqy3zeTGB7V5lkhkfBVaiZyrysv_fG&ab_channel=ProTunes-CopyrightSafeMusic
  • Plays when the player starts pressing the button:
• Snownic. (2023). Happy happy happy. YouTube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0G-SThjW0c&ab_channel=snownic
  • (Plays when lawyer sends the 1st letter stating the inheritance)
• Gaming Sound FX. (2014). Sad Violin - Sound Effect(HD) Retrieved from https://youtu.be/7ODcC5z6Ca0?si=f56_0PIu5SCkXk3a
  • (Plays when the lawyer sends the 2nd letter stating there was a mistake in your uncle’s will)
• Samuel Kim Music. (2022). Evil Morty Theme but it's CHILL LOFI HIP HOP (Rick and Morty Lofi). Retrieved from https://youtu.be/BvXbqBuNYrc?si=7YsSVewKrKbSh5C- (Plays on the end credits)