Reese Jones

Garden Guardians is the spiritual succesor to Guardians of Nogard. We wanted to keep the spririt and gameplay of the original, but take it to the next level. We wanted more puns, more in-depth combat, and a new look.

 

For a lot of the team including myself learning how to use unreal was another big goal with this game. Unreal was a lot to tackle, but once under the hood its power became evident. Every week that I have worked on this project I have learned something new. There is always stuff to be learning in Unreal.

 

From everything thing we learned its quite evident what we could have done differently to reduce stress and bugs later on in the project. Early on we were unsure of where to put functionality. Does it go in the component? The Actor? We made poor use of unreals event and timing systems, and we initially shied away from using unreals blueprint system. We also should have looked into streaming levels early on, but were just unaware of its importance. It was unclear how player controllers were supposed to be used in conjuction with actors. The list goes on, but we learned a whole lot. I would love the opportunity to work on another project taking forward all the things I learned.