Desarrollo de un videojuego role playing game con unreal engine.

Abstract

This technical report presents the development of a roll videogame or Role Playing Game also known by its acronym (RPG). Currently, this kind of videogames have become a trend, describing a character, which accomplishes several missions inside a fantastic world, getting abilities to get over the established missions. The project is developed to create a new entertainment activity, that makes it attractive to kids, teenagers and adults, using technological innovation, and innovate the software development in the creation of videogames, learning tools to create projects of big scale altogether with creative abilities.

The name of the project or videogame is called Forest Sunrise, developed with the tool Unreal Engine. Currently, one of the most powerful engines for the development and creation of videogames. It uses codification of Blueprints to allow developers, enterprises, and people dedicated to the creation of this type of projects to guarantee to save time and money. This project uses the agile development methodology called Sum, this is conceived in a very similar way to Scrum with the difference that it is specifically dedicated to the creation of video games, adding a phase exclusively for it. The application of this methodology has achieved that the project fulfills all the tasks in the software development, from the installation and studies to manipulate this tool to the pertinent tests that demonstrate that the product is ready to be used or go into production.

The document is structured as follows: the first section corresponds to the introduction, making known the context of the problem, general and specific objectives, and the scope of the project. The second section describes in more detail what the project is about, that is to say that it is a video game (RPG), a description of the Unreal Engine development tool as a video game engine, and the implementation of the Sum methodology in the project. In the third section, the results obtained in each task performed by Sprint are shown. Finally, the last section mentions the conclusions and recommendations obtained throughout the development of the project.