Duration: 16 Weeks - Currently Week 12

Real Time Strategy - Split Screen

What is Split Beans?

Split Beans is a; two-player, RTS, split-screen project that aims to create a rapid and competitive experience and discover new emergent interactions.

Project Goals:

To have a playable (roughly 5 minute) demo available with engaging gameplay and well balanced economies.

Why am I making this?

I want to see whether the RTS genre can work with a split-screen competitive element applied and explore what unique behaviours can arise from the merging of the two genres.

What have I learned from this? So far.

• Split screen in Unreal knowledge
• Balancing basic economies 
• RTS foundational knowledge
• Basic AI movement knowledge

Emergent Gameplay from this so far:

• Players will screen peak so no need for fog of war.
• Minimap can be shared as two minimaps would be unnecessary.
• Competitive as players can actively see what the other is  doing at any time and can counter it accordingly.