Week 3 - Game Development

Week 3 - The Flashlight

After getting most of the detail I wished to get into the project I decided to finish up with the biggest struggle of the lot. Although it may simple it was not. A flashlight that could be toggled, run out of battery, flickering towards the end of its life and finally a battery pickup. The picture below correctly labelled shows you how long it took for someone who has never really touched UE4 before to create. A lot of help was needed to create this flashlight but mainly just determination, allowing for me to get the correct outcome I wished for. 

This Flashlight honestly took me up to 3 working days to get working, then 4 more to get it working the way I wished. This was following hundreds of different tutorials to get the outcome I wanted. Noticing that I wasted a week was something I wished I had settled on the third day. Not only this I had completely skipped past the doors/end game part of my game so this put me a week behind. A struggle that I was happy about, knowing I could create this even if it did put me back a little.