James Smale

Games Programmer

Help Meowt!

A first-person cat-collectathon developed in Unreal Engine 4 using blueprints.

Help Meowt! is a first-person game about collecting stray cats that I worked on alongside four 3D artists for the GJL Game Parade.
The theme for the jam was "Leave Something Behind", which we incorporated by having the stray cats that had been left behind by their previous owners.

I had some prior experience with Unreal before this project, but working on Help Meowt! introduced me to a lot more of Unreal Engine's systems, such as its AI systems that I made use of to give the cats various AI states.
This project also gave me the chance to improve my teamworking skills by working with
artists, and the reasonably long time scale of the jam allowed me plenty of time to learn and understand the systems I was newly introduced to.

Play the game here!