Unreal Engine 5: Create A Top-Down 2D Survivors Style Game

Unreal Engine 5: Create A Top-Down 2D Survivors Style Game
Published 11/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz

Learn how to create a top-down 2D vampire-survival roguelike game from scratch in unreal engine 5 !

What you’ll learn

Skill upgrade roguelike mechanics – design 10+ unique skills including active and passive types, enemy waves with different patterns, experience and magnet item

Pooling system for performance optimization – creating "pools" to store instances for large number of actors including enemies, bullets and pickable items

Shop system and auto save-loading system – increase player character stats by costing in-game resource, refund function included with saving and loading system

Real-time leaderboard – Encourage players to achieve high scores by adding free real-time leaderboard, competing other players!

Requirements

Some programming/game development experience

Description

First of all, this course is based on a my commercial game I created.And I recommend to learn this course by using UE5.3 . If you use newer version, some plugins might be not available.This course took me several hundreds of hours to develop, with detailed videos spreading over more than 70 lectures, covering wide scope of modules to create a survivors style game including:Setup paper flipbook animations for player character, 20+ mobs and 2 BOSSES movement56 waves of enemies that increase in difficulty over time with different patterns13 unique roguelike upgradable skills and player character leveling up systemObject pooling framework to handle large number of actors during 20 minutes gameplayUnique skills for BOSSES and 2 types of layer sorting methodsPermanent save-loading system to save progress and shop systemEnhanced Input movement component for controlling player Reusable damage texts instance and animation, sound management to avoid crashing issueUtilize data table to handle large number of attributes of player character, skills, enemiesRandom spawning hordes of mobs outside screen to attack player characterSmoothe transition behavior of pickable items when player character is collecting themImplement 8 active skill slots and 8 passive skill slots logics to accomodate selected skillsSpecial skill logics, its indicating gauge and visual effectsRandom buff effects according to activated level in shop systemImplement global leaderboard dashboard for all players.For more information, please check outline of this course for a glimpse into topics we will go through.Last but not least, if you are a beginner of unreal engine, I highly recommend you follow instructions in detailed video tutorial exactly before you tweak any logics, so that it is more effective for you to learn the course.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Reference project (UE5.3)

Section 2: Basic Setup

Lecture 3 Create Project and Player Flipbooks

Lecture 4 TileMap and Scaling

Lecture 5 Create Player Character

Lecture 6 Setup Enhanced Inputs

Lecture 7 Animating Player Character

Lecture 8 Create Dummy Enemy

Lecture 9 Bullet Projectile

Section 3: Pooling Framework

Lecture 10 Overview of Pooling Framework

Lecture 13 Combat Interface

Lecture 14 Add Sound Management

Lecture 15 Apply Damage to Enemies

Lecture 16 Display Damaged Number

Lecture 17 Data Table And Enemy Initialization

Lecture 18 Fading Out Effect

Lecture 19 Enemies Move To Player

Lecture 20 Pooling Mobs

Lecture 21 Spawn Mobs Outside Screen

Lecture 22 Pooling Mob Death

Lecture 23 Relative And World Rotation

Lecture 24 How To Make Game More Interesting

Lecture 25 Create Pickup Actor

Lecture 26 Pickup Transition Movement

Lecture 27 Pooling Pickups

Lecture 28 Create Magnet Effect

Lecture 29 Initialize Player Attributes And Skills

Lecture 30 Create MainUI

Lecture 31 Display Time And EXPInfo

Lecture 32 Level Up System

Lecture 33 Player Character Death And Game Over

Lecture 34 Killings Score And Coin

Lecture 35 Two Methods To Avoid Flicking

Section 4: Skill Module

Lecture 36 Fill Skill Table

Lecture 37 Create Skill Selection Slot

Lecture 38 Add Selection Panel

Lecture 39 Skill Filtering Logics

Lecture 40 Add Skill Tabs

Lecture 41 Reroll Skills

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