ChronoRealms

🧭 Overview

Chrono Realms is a vertical slice of a turn-based tactical RPG with time travel mechanics, developed in Unreal Engine 5.4 as a master's thesis project.

🔑 Key Features

• 🌌 Time travel between past, present, and future to solve puzzles and affect world states.
• ⚔️ Turn-based combat with skills, stats, level progression, and custom actions.
• 🗺️ World exploration with static camera overworld and time-shifting dungeons.
• 📜 Quest system with both main and side quests, persistent across timelines.
• 🧠 Modular NPC AI with wander, patrol, idle, and interactive behavior.
• 🧩 Level streaming for smooth transitions and memory management.
• 🎭 Unified animation system using retargeted skeletons (Unreal, Mixamo, Synty).
• 💬 Dialogue system with branching nodes, dynamic responses, and quest integration.

🛠️ Technology

• Core language: C++
• Engine: Unreal Engine 5.4
• Source control: GitHub
• Blueprints: used for UI, animation logic, AI behavior trees
• Development: Agile, 2-week sprints

🎯 Purpose

To explore the feasibility of a narrative-rich RPG where time manipulation is a core gameplay element, built with clean architecture and scalable systems in Unreal Engine.