Technomania
Genre: FPS, Looter Shooter
Engine: Unreal
Platform: Playstation 5 , PC
Team Size: 18
Time: 9 weeks
Introducing Technomania!
The second group project from PlaygroundSquad.
Technomania is a first person looter shooter developed in Unreal Engine for the Playstation 5, made by 18 students in 9 weeks.
- Information displayed clearly to the player using color,symbols and simple hud elements.
- HUD formed around the idea that of the player being a "Robot". With a curved screen effect that distorts Everything on the the top and bottom of the HUD.
- Effects with the help of Krister Holmgren was developed to give an Intense feel to the gameplay. Such effects such as a artifical screen tearing/ glitch effect and global chromatic abberation upon taking damage, or the CRT monitor effect for the screens.
- Compass used flat image across the screen that looped around the top and used the positions for the enemies to offset markers onto the flat compass image.
- Playstation 5 support was a inital design requirement, thus the UI for both the HUD and Main Menu was designed around the need for console support.
- Controller support for the menus used a series of "nested" lists and used indexes to indicate what element was being highlighted.
