My team's submission to the 2025 Ubisoft Montreal Game Lab Competition is this destructive co-op puzzle platformer. Hit your friend with hammers, set off wild chain reactions, and leave no pottery unbroken!

These are problems I faced, my solutions, and the reasoning behind them.

Problem: We needed to combine all of our pottery mechanics and set them up for convenient use during level design.

Solution: An inheritable blueprint that contains all of our gameplay functionality. I also set up a folder with each separate model for our level designers.

Reasoning: With this system, adding new objects to the level is just drag and drop - level designers didn’t need to look into the blueprint or extra settings.

What I learned: Highly Technological solutions can be great, but they need to be tailored around the individuals that are using them for maximum results.

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Problem: We needed to change our player controller from using one button for similar hammer actions to using two.

Solution: A state machine that processed both inputs in tandem. Each input checks its value, its previous value, and the other input's current value.

Reasoning: This solution prevents inputs from overlapping with each other, making gameplay consistently clean and intuitive.

What I learned: Making player input follow through in a way that seems natural for the game work goes far to help them grok the full experience.

Problem: We needed to implement VFX and SFX in a way that was convenient for our developers and networked across each client.

Solution: Our player has a custom event that sends a row name to all clients. Then it uses a data table to play associated VFX and SFX.

Reasoning: This created a simple connection point between blueprinting and assets. A person on one side didn't have to worry at all about the other!

What I learned: Unreal has animation events that I could have used to play all of these things simultaneously. I'd like to use that next time - then I only need to network animations!

Bisque Bash was developed using Unreal Engine 5.4. It is a fully networked 2-player game, and all of our assets & blueprints were made in-house by our 8 person team. We were nominated for Best Art Direction & Production.

My significant duties included developing networked prototypes, creating and refining our 3Cs (character, camera, control), implementing character assets (VFX, SFX, and animations), and supporting other asset implementation (dynamic music, level objects, and more).

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Mason Crochetiere

Technical Designer

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