About the Project
A Blueprint system for a space game in which a ship travels around a planet. A spline defines the route, and designers can adjust its points to change how close the ship passes to the planet.
Gameplay Systems
Procedural Planet
An Unreal Engine Blueprint system for routing a ship and asteroid hazards around a planet.
Team & Role
Developed as part of a game project that evolved as its design changed. Later iterations focused on making the underlying systems and tools easier for designers to adjust.
Gameplay Programmer: built the orbit path and asteroid spawning systems, then adapted them to support designer-authored timing and route changes.
Spline-Based Orbit
Used the Unreal spline component with circle-position mathematics to create an editable route around the planet. Designers could modify the spline points to bring the ship closer to or farther from the surface.
Asteroid Spawning & Iteration
Spawned rows of asteroids along the route, keeping their placement aligned as designers reshaped the spline. In a later iteration, asteroid timing was read from CSV data so designers could edit spawn schedules in a spreadsheet. Other systems included procedural buildings and AI movement to selected positions on the planet.