Party Panic!

Devlog

• Game Over! Continue?
  June 24, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  I want to start off this post by thanking my team and my mentors for an amazing four months. This project would not have been the same without them, and I'm very happy I got stuck with the people I di... Continue reading
• Reflecting on the Journey: The Finale of Party Panic's Development... or IS it?
  June 22, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Hey Party Panic! fans, Chris here! Graduation week is here! School is over! Well, almost. We're submitting this project tonight, and from an academic standpoint, we're done! So what happens now to Par... Continue reading

  
• New UI, same old us
  June 17, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team#devlog

  They're here! It feels like the holidays around December time, when you were a kid, and you'd rush downstairs to open your new toys. With a special thank you to our UI designer, we have new assets to... Continue reading

  
• Animating A Mesh Without a Skeleton by Whitaker
  June 16, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Hitting you guys with a double post today! So, I was working on setting up a spring board tile that would launch the player back to the start of the board. The logic was very simple. If player lands o... Continue reading

  
• Animating Text in a Widget By Whitaker
  June 16, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Hello, and welcome back to another wonderful post on PARTY PANIC!!! I have been working on making a mini game selection wheel animation and decided to add some text to the animation so that it looks l... Continue reading

  
• Final Stages and Future Prospects: Party Panic Devlog
  June 15, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Chris here, As we approach the end of the project, I've been meticulous in going through all systems to ensure they are polished and functioning optimally. This week was about caution and precision; w... Continue reading

  
• The Volcano is active!
  June 10, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team#devlog

  Have you ever wanted to travel to an active volcano and stand over the peak in a floating platform where temperatures can reach 750 °F just hovering over the peak? Yes? I thought so! So without furth... Continue reading

  
• Devlog: Conquering the Challenges in 'Crash'em Karts' - New Kart Racing Mini-game for Party Panic!
  June 09, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Hey Party Panic! fans, Chris here! This week, I'm excited to announce the completion of "Crash'em Karts," a fast-paced, high-adrenaline kart racer mini-game. This project presented a fair share of cha... Continue reading

  
• Camera Angles and using new Cameras
  June 08, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Welcome back! As you can see in the attached images and title we are going to be discussing camera controls!! very exciting stuff. Now I already went over the Set View Target with Blend node in a prev... Continue reading

  
• Party Panic! Devlog: Navigating through Challenges and Revving Up for a New Mini-Game Adventure!
  June 02, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Hello Party Panic! community, Chris here! This week was quite a rollercoaster, as I once again took a shot at the snake mini-game. Despite my best efforts and various techniques, I struggled with the... Continue reading
• Magical Arsenal - our first 1v3 minigame!
  June 02, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team#devlog

  Watch out from above! Don't get hit by your opponents! Introducing our first 1v3 minigame, Magical Arsenal, where three people are placed in an arena with crumbling tiles and the fourth person shoots... Continue reading

  
• Created a line trace to hit a non collidable object by Whitaker
  June 01, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Welcome back. Today I fought a great battle. I was attempting to do ray casts, or line traces, from the front of our camera in a forward direction to see if anything was blocking the camera from viewi... Continue reading

  
• What do "UI" see?
  May 27, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team#devlog

  Hello Party Panic! enjoyers! We're here live to you today from the Forest Board, a very popular place downtown where Wizards and Liches alike come together to have a good time. Although weirdly enough... Continue reading

  
• Party Panic! Devlog: Menu Decorations, Game Board Refinements, and Bug Discoveries!
  May 26, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Hey Party Panic! fans, Chris here! This week has been filled with intricate tasks that have taken our game a step closer to perfection. 3D Menu Room Decorations A significant portion of my week was de... Continue reading

  
• 0 index strikes again by Whitaker
  May 26, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Hello again, and welcome back to another adventure of me spending hours making simple mistakes. As we all know, or should know, code loves to start counting at zero! arrays start at zero, lists start... Continue reading

  
• Mesh Colliders and manipulating them by Whitakerd
  May 20, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Hello, and welcome back to another wonderful update on Party Panic! Today I just finished up making my "Shock Top" Mini game. Everything went so smoothly except for one major hiccup! I couldn't actual... Continue reading

  
• Party Panic! Devlog: Bug Hunting, Game Improvements and More!
  May 20, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Hey Party Panic! fans, Chris here! Another week of development has passed and it has been filled with bug hunting and refining game details. Bug Fixes in Spell Battle In this week, I came across a maj... Continue reading

  
• Let's Talk: Future of the game's win condition
  May 19, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Welcome back! This week we cracked down and decided on a win condition for Party Panic!. Previously, we had the player with the highest amount of gems win the game after 5 rounds. Simple enough, but t... Continue reading

  
• Split Screen by Whitaker
  May 14, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Hello, and welcome back! Today we will be discussing how I set up 4 player split screen which certain screens displaying an AI character. First off it took me a while to just get the split screen to d... Continue reading

  
• Party Panic! Devlog: Spell Battle, Improved Menus, and Camera Tricks (Chris)
  May 12, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Hey Party Panic! fans, Chris here! This week, I've been working on introducing a new minigame and improving the player selection menus, all while tackling some tricky camera movement issues. Introduci... Continue reading

  
• Party Panic! Devlog: Month 3, New Minigame "Chicken", and AI Challenges
  May 06, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Hey Party Panic! fans, Chris here! We've started month 3 of development, and I've been hard at work on a new minigame called Chicken. This week, I focused entirely on bringing this challenging, skill-... Continue reading
• Random timing of a simple task (Whitaker)
  May 05, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Hello again! So, we all know that a good mash game has challenging AI. However, you also do not want that AI to all produce the same results every time! I was racking my brain trying to figure out the... Continue reading

  
• Board systems: Keys, Spells, and everything nice
  April 29, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team#devlog

  Mr. Marcos Man here, bringing you the latest in Party Panic! updates. This devlog we'll be talking about the board systems the players can interact with, because that was the main focus of my month an... Continue reading

  
• Sound Menus 04/28/23
  April 28, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Hello, and welcome back! Today we will be discussing sound menus and how to set them up! At first I was really nervous to do this one as I thought I was going to have to go back through all of our pla... Continue reading

  
• Party Panic! Devlog: Halfway Point, New Minigame, and Upcoming Improvements
  April 28, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

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  Hey Party Panic! fans, Chris here! We're at the end of the second month of development, with just two months to go! We've reached the halfway point, and the pressure is on to create more minigames whi... Continue reading
• Keys! You want 'em, we might have 'em.
  April 22, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team#devlog

  [I did not have images of the upcoming features set yet, so please accept these mock-ups done in paint for now] This week, after finishing the inventory, I started work on the keys, which are the "win... Continue reading

  
• Party Panic! Devlog: The Making of a Classic Snake Minigame & QuadraPaddle Success
  April 22, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Hey Party Panic! fans, Chris here! I'm back with another devlog to update you on my progress! This time, I've embarked on a new journey: creating a 4-player version of the classic snake arcade game. L... Continue reading

  
• Manipulating Arrays
  April 20, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Hello again. This time I am representing a team fix that I just could not figure out myself. We wanted to implement an array of our mini games to be randomly picked from. This system would make sure t... Continue reading

  
• Inventory: Dangerous to go alone, take this
  April 15, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Items, you want 'em, we got 'em. Use them to your advantage or debilitate your firends and make them hate you. After finishing the shop, it's time for its partner in crime, the player inventory. Befor... Continue reading

  
• Whitaker: Be careful when moving to cpp! 04/14/2023
  April 14, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  When your blueprints just feel like they are getting over crowded with simple branch statements and playing animations it only seems natural to want to move some of that functionality over to C++; How... Continue reading

  
• Party Panic! Devlog: Easter Progress, Menus, Multiplayer Foundation, and a New Minigame!
  April 14, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Hey Party Panic! fans, Chris here! We hope you had a fantastic Easter! Despite the festivities, our development journey continued with exciting updates and improvements. Let's dive into the latest pro... Continue reading
• Devlog: Board Shop System
  April 08, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team#devlog

  The night is lonely, barely any stars live to light your path during the Dark Days. You walk against the cold Winter winds, wanting for nourishment, for a place to rest your head after a long and tire... Continue reading

  
• Devlog: A Spring Break Adventure
  April 08, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Hey Party Panic! fans, Chris Here! While the team took some well-deserved time off during Spring Break, I soldiered on to make some exciting progress on our game. Let's dive into what I've been up to... Continue reading
• Gamepad Controlled Menus 04/07/2023
  April 07, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Author: Whitaker Antalek I am embarrassed to say how much research it took me to finally figure out this issue. I only wanted to use a gamepad to control the menus of our game. The goal was to make th... Continue reading
• Possessing a placed pawn
  March 24, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Whitaker Antalek 03/24/23 When it came to setting up players and AI i knew how to accomplish this with single player. Basic AI would be manually set into the world and UE knew to control those with an... Continue reading

  
• Devlog: A Week of Triumphs and Trials
  March 23, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Hey Party Panic! fans, Chris here. We've had quite an exhilarating week here, with a healthy mix of progress and, well, panic. So, we thought it's time for another devlog to share the latest updates,... Continue reading

  
• Minigames and their consequences
  March 21, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team#Marcos, #Blogpost

  Hello! Marcos blogging time. Me and minigames go way back. We've been friends for as long as I can remember. Whether Mario Party, or DK64, or what have you, we shared a lot of good memories. But now... Continue reading

  
• Whitaker: Double check all components When setting up actor locations!
  March 21, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  03/18/2023 My main issue was when I spawned the dice block using player input. The dice block would stay at 0,0,0 in the world! I tried setting up different root components and made sure everything wa... Continue reading
• Issues have arrived... The Search for a Reliable Solution to Returning Players in Unreal Engine.
  March 17, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team

  Greetings, fellow game developers! Chris here. Today, we're going to discuss an issue that's been causing me quite a bit of trouble lately. As some of you may know, returning players to their original... Continue reading
• Welcome to the adventure!
  March 09, 2023 by ctrl.alt.defeat.team#Greetings

  Greetings everyone! We are a team of three students working on our final project for school, and we are excited to announce our new game, Party Panic! We are just setting off on this journey, and we c... Continue reading