Overview
Grim is a first person survival horror game, heavily inspired by Amnesia The Bunker, developed during the third group project in my Game Programming education at FutureGames Malmö. It was developed over 7 weeks with a team of 4 programmers and 6 artists. I acted as scrum master for the duration of the project, helping my teammates communicate, ensuring that tasks were finished on time and solving blockers for them. I wrote about half of the game’s system, including but not limited to the ones highlighted below, and I made most of the sound effects :).
All the code for Grim has been written in C++, exposing functionality to the editor through custom DataAssets.
Sanity system
I took care of the game's sanity system: sanity is a resource that depleted as the player stayed in the dark or witnessed disturbing events. I tried to make this system as flexible and designer-facing as possible.
Sanity Event Data Asset
This is an example of a Sanity Event Data Asset, that a designer can define a sanity even with. It allows a simple way to select a series of conditions for said event to trigger, including the possibility to make the event re-trigger after a cooldown, and various randomization to keep it varied, without needing to write any extra code.
Inventory system
All the widgets for the inventory systems were made from scratch in C++, while exposing the inventory size and item descriptions to the editor to allow for easy customization without any further code required.
Sanity Event Data Asset
The inventory slots they support stackable items, key items that cannot be lose, and single-use items like displayed here. Each item will display a name and a brief description when hovered. Items that reach their stack cap get split automatically in new inventory slot, ensuring to fully fill the current slot if possible. The data for each item is contained in a data asset as shown below.
Links
You can check out the game on itch.io :)
Written by Jo Colomban
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