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Type of game : Tower defense from top view
Tools used : Unity, Wwise and Audacity
Team : Five students from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Role : Integration and programming of Wwise / Programming of the playable character, the minimap and the UI / Game designer
Summary : As part of a research project carried out at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, we developed a game on Unity to test our participants on the relationship between haptics and sound.
Project description
As part of a research project carried out at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, we developed a game on Unity to test our participants. The goal of the project was to see if haptic effects could help users better understand audio messages. Therefore, the game plays audio messages and only the vibrations of the controllers allow you to know which player the message is intended for!
To make sure the vibrations are aligned with the audio, we generated quadraphonic audio files from the audio messages and output these sounds to Playstation 5 controllers with the help of Wwise. This makes the controllers vibrate at the same time as the messages! To do this, we detect the Playstation 5 controllers plugged into the computer, we associate them with the players and we register the controllers as audio outputs.
As for the game, the goal is to defend your base against waves of enemies arriving from the four corridors while repairing breaches that may appear in the corridors. This is a game played one against one. Since this is a research project, enemy waves and breaches are not random as some control must be maintained for data collection. Players have a melee attack to defend themselves. Also, by defeating enemies, players earn points to heal themselves or to send hunters to their opponent.
In this project, I was in charge of integrating Wwise and programming everything related to sound. In short, I programmed the singleton which manages the association of controllers to players and which plays the sounds. Also, I programmed everything related to the playable character. I took the opportunity to try the NewInputSystem which I had not used yet. Finally, I programmed the minimap and the players' UI.
Slideshow and others
Since some elements of the game come from the library of the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, I do not have the right to put the game or the code on any platform other than the university's Perforce. Therefore, the only things I can upload are screenshots. Despite everything, I still have the game and the code on my personal machine (for now). Finally, to this date, tests with users and writing the research article have yet to be completed. If you want more information, you can contact me using the page Contact!
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