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The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes

XB1, XBOX Series X|S, Steam, PS4, PS5

Platforms:

Roles:

Mid Engineer

Release Year:

2021

For house of Ashes i assisted in helping to setup the project and implement some of the visual changes around Choices and combat.

As this project was in development in COVID19 I implemented a "Point and Click" system for navigation as Controller passthrough was temperamental. This feature allowed us in editor and packages to use the mouse to click and the characters would move to that location. Interestingly it proved useful for QA as they could find bad Nav mesh.

- Initial Setup of the project
- Updating gameplay UI
- Point and Click Movement for Characters

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