Project Twister
This is a driving game project featuring off-road vehicles and regular vehicles outfitted with scientific equipment, to partake in tornado-chasing adventures with rival chasers (like in the movie Twister), and attempt to complete on-the-go missions to save people's lives.
Also, while quite honestly looking to softly murder your competition in occasional battle-royale demolition derbies with your "Heavy" vehicles, while your flimsier, more equipment-laden vehicles (or cars) hang back. I like the idea of each individual twister posing issues, like the bosses-as-level approach in Shadow of the Colossus (A smaller F-1 waterspout is harder to catch, throws up different debris and has more agility and less power than, say, an F-4 tornado in a cornfield next to a tractor dealership).
Opportunity to explore environmental collisions and off-road behavior (road and object splines, etc). Particle and mesh construction of tornados and funnel clouds, exploring Unreal's Cascade system and marketplace options are also things to play around with.
More documentation to come...
"Tornado" project with Blueprints downloaded from Marketplace for UE4. Testing behavior.
Testing physics behaviors and importing asset packages to other levels.
Testing vehicles, additional weather Blueprints and basic landscape.
Testing basic farm scene, to get closer to Twister.
Assets used in while experimenting with project, several from UE4 marketplace.
Truck asset from Marketplace, including driving mechanics and dynamic car door opening/closing (as well as sfx and lights).
Top-down of environment used for Twister-inspired scene.
After putting things together with a dynamic sky that flashes lighting at random times.
Inspiration 1 - Tornado Chasing
Inspiration 2 - Giant Tornadoes
Inspiration 3 - Shadow of the Colossus
Inspiration 4 - Twister movie (1996)
Sean Casey's TIV (Tornado Intercept Vehicle). Mobile tank meant to withstand a direct hit from a tornado in order to gather data from inside the funnel.
The game Twisted Metal, a battle-royal demolition derby with projectile weapons. I can see TIV and other Heavys as part of some cutthroat chaser contractor squad.
Beautiful artwork similar to what I see in my head with this project.