A solo Narrative and Level Design 15 week project across the months of January - May 2025 in Unreal 5.4 inspired by Greek Mythology. The player takes the role of a more cecent child of the elder Titan Kronos, who's sole purpose in this world was to be the catalyst for the rule of titans. In this experience, the war of Titan's and God's has come and gone, leaving the player to search through their memories for assistance in their journey.
The early stages of the project had consisted of making early documentation and roadmapping to help pave the way through an intependent project. My structure for the roadmap helped develop my MVP (Minimum Viable Product) of: 6 Narrative Artifacts achieved by interacting with NPC's that allow the player to learn more about this world. This MVP has adapted over the course of the semester, but has remained true for the most important parts.
I initially had followed the dual-development process of developing both art assets and reworking the narrative system at the same time. While this had allowed for even development across multiple disciplines, this ended up taking away from the more tedious system development that would scope creep later in development. However, this work style had allowed for all necessary art assets to be made at a functional in the first few weeks.
The narrative system is adapted from Master Dinochan: Dialogue Tree and Quest System. Using the features from this system, I was able to create interactive quest lines that allow for progression through dialogue choises. This system allows for the player to view what the quest details are in relation to each NPC, which is based off of different Greek Gods.
Initially the plan for the quest lines for the gods were to be structured as "walk and talk" quests. The idea behind these is that the player would be able to walk along side each NPC during their quest and communicate through predetermiend dialogue. Though through rescoping issues, this was changed to there being 2 environments that house 3 God NPC's each which allowed me more time to continue developing the system.
The final product of this project was set to being more of a proof of concept for the interactive dialogue quest working. After having to make cuts due to rescoping, having 6 unique interactive dialogue quests with 2 rough landscaped and set dressed environments I feel was enough to help grow my experience in both of my desiered sub-disciplines.