Flower’s Island – Procedural Puzzle Game Prototype

This is a very dear personal project of mine and here I’m sharing my process step by step how I brought it to life. I created this project in the lapsus of 3 days.

Flower’s Island is a small game prototype I created where you explore beautiful, procedurally generated worlds. The core idea is simple: each world hides a puzzle, and you need to find and solve it to unlock the next area.

For this level, I used asset packs to build the visuals, but designed and implemented a custom system to generate the landscape and place elements procedurally. I also created custom shaders for the water and puzzle visuals, and handled all the core gameplay logic.

For the character, I used a Mixamo model, retargeted it to the SK_Mannequin skeleton in Unreal Engine, and set up a simple state machine for basic locomotion. I also implemented a montage animation that gets triggered by a gameplay event through the character blueprint.

This project was a fun mix of design, technical problem-solving, and experimentation—something I built to explore new tools and workflows, and to push my skills further.

Focus areas in this project included:

Shaders: Custom water shader and a sine wave-based puzzle shader
Procedural Environment: PCG system for terrain generation and dynamic foliage placement
Gameplay: Puzzle logic where players match sine waves to trigger an event/reward
Character & Animation: Mixamo character integration, custom state machine, and animation montages triggered by gameplay.

Flower’s Island : Gameplay overview (Prototype)

This was my process: