In the Shadows

Introduction

Lockedin proudly presents this 3D game prototype called "In the Shadows".

It was developed for our 3D Project assignment that was given to us in the second year of our course Digital Games and Multimedia.

Be aware that currently this project is at an extreme early stage of development.

Genre

The game takes place in an medieval era, in a semi open-world with a fantasy environment. It was mainly inspired by Lara Croft and Assassins Creed's franchises. It focus on the adventure aspect but with some Stealth involved.

Story

It follows the story of a young ambitious assassin that has a resolve of avenging her family honor. To succeed in her adventure she needs to use her skills to overcome whatever comes in her way. If you want to know more about the Lore of this game, please visit - Unavailable link.

Beware that the story is still in a very early stage of production and will have changes and adaptations to our needs.

Levels

There are three levels so far:

1 - Tutorial, which is the part where is day time. To advance to the next level, go inside the entrance on cave, on the left side you will see an entrace, enter inside of it in order to progress.

2-  Cave, takes place on the underground cave. To advance to the next level you need to exit the cave.

3 - Village.

After you are in the Village there will be no ending, feel free to explore and just exit the game by pressing the key "ESC".

Controls

Information regarding keys and functions has been added ingame in the game pause menu.

You can play with either your keyboard and mouse or a gamepad, however please note that Unreal Engine doesn't have native support for DS4 controllers, so you will have to use the DS4 Tool in case  you are using a DS4 Controller. 

Assets Used

We want to give a big shout out  to some amazing people who made so many free assets to students like us to have a starting point!

1- Characters and Animations by Mixamo

2- Crosshair by Kenney.nl

3-Checkpoint Statue by EpicGames (InfinityBlade Assets)

4- No info.

We will update this very shortly! We are very sorry for not referring to them right now!

Staff / Developers

João Casimiro - Programmer, Gameplay Mechanics, AI Behaviour, Lead Game Designer, Shaders,  Animations, Particles, Code Optimization.

Pedro Godinho - Level Design, Game Designer, Material Programming, Lighting, 3D Modelling, Textures, Game Optimization, Particles, Concept Artist.

Big Thanks!

We want to give a big thanks to Gustavo Reis and Filipe Gonçalves for being our tutors during this prototype and being very available to help us at any time!

Links not available

Also, special thanks to School of Technology and Management - Polytechnic of Leiria, of given us this opportunity to create amazing things!

https://www.ipleiria.pt/estg/

Bugs and Feedback

There are plenty of bugs that we as developers are aware, but still, feedback is much appreciated.

Fell free to comment any bugs, new ideas for mechanics, visual improvements or just overall feedback of the game. We will be on the lookout for any positive or negative feedback, it will help us improve the game and ourselves as developers .

Just a side note, the screenshots will be altered to include mechanics and character gameplay.