About The Game
THE HUDSON REPORT is an action adventure third person horror game demo created using the Unreal Engine 4 as part of the final thesis project for my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at the University of Puerto Rico at Bayamon.
The project took around 5 months to complete and its my first time ever using Unreal Engine. It is also my first time developing a game from scratch on my own. Furthermore, you will find here a gameplay preview of the game demo and the thesis document alongside the references used in case you are looking for articles to use as reference for any kind of gaming project.
Gameplay Video
Intro Credits
Game Story
Setting
The game takes place in the year 2019 in the fictional city called Western Oak which is located in Idaho, United Sates.
Characters
CALEB BOWMAN: Main protagonist of the story. He a member of the task force assigned to rescue Dr. Owen Hudson after communication with him was lost. When the outbreak occurs several outpost were made to divide the infected from the non-infected. Everything started to fall apart in an instant since the virus was spreading fast, luckily Bowman managed to reach one of the mayor safe houses before the chaos went uncontrollable. The government decided to put the city on lockdown and prevented anybody from leaving the area. Even if there were uninfected survivors the government decided to not take the risk of the virus spreading to other parts of the country. Several days passed and eventually most outpost started to collapse due to the sheer amount of infected people. Currently Bowman roams around the city looking for supplies and staying alive with a group of survivors hoping to find clues about the whereabouts of Dr. Owen Hudson.
OWEN HUDSON: Dr. Hudson is one of the most capable and intelligent doctor in Western Oak that once the outbreak began the on-site military forces escorted him to a safe place so he could continue developing a possible cure. The virus strain was first found by his research group but was declared to be safe. As they started to manipulate the virus it began evolving and its threat to humanity increased. Therefore, Hudson and his team began developing a cure. It is still not clear how the virus reached the population of Western Oak, but problem was that when the outbreak occurred the cure was still not completely developed so there was no way to control the epidemic. Days passed and the communication between the doctors inside Western Oak and those outside the area was cut off. Furthermore, Dr. Hudson was the one who wrote the recent report regarding the cure and the virus, which is known as the Hudson report. So far the government only has part of said report, the most recent details are still in the hand of Dr. Hudson.
Enemy
SYLOPHUS VIRUS: A very deadly virus found by Dr. Owen Hudson and his team. At first it was declared harmful to humans due to several test that were made, but after they started to manipulate it they saw how the virus was evolving. Sylophus rapidly turned from a harmful virus to a very deadly and serious one. After several illegal tests with human subjects they noticed that once a person is infected by the virus it proceeds to have violent cannibalistic impulses with a loss of intelligence and necrosis. The main way this virus can spread is if body fluids from an infected person get into the body of someone who is not infected, but the way the virus infected its first victim is still unknown.
THE INFECTED: The infected is any person that is infected by the Sylophus virus. Once infected they lose all consciousness of who they are as their body starts to deteriorate. Apart from that they tend to have violent cannibalistic impulses with a loss of intelligence and necrosis.
Game Controls
Keyboard
WASD – Move
Left Shift – Hold to sprint
E – Interact
R – Reload (Only While Aiming)
F – Turn Flashlight (On/Off) (Only While Aiming)
Mouse
Left Click – Shoot
Right Click – Draw/Aim Weapon
Mouse Movement – Look Around
Blueprints Preview
To view additional blueprint files please access the links from the Appendix section, page 45, of the thesis paper.
Credits
3D models from:
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