Star Warden

A small spaceship demo game I designed to get some experience in Unreal Engine 5. Lots of lessons learned through this process: 

• Dived into Unreal C++ for the first time and came out with much more confidence and knowledge in structuring my code in Unreal Engine
• Learned when and how to best utilize blueprints for efficient prototyping and fast concept iteration (see my captioned blueprint image below)
• I also learned the importance of building early and often to ensure timely submission to contests with deadlines!

This was a fun project! I'm very excited about jumping into future projects in Unreal.

This was my project for the 2023 Epic MegaJam. I finished a couple of hours after the submission deadline, so I'm putting up this page to hold the final build of the game.

Controls

WASD to move, Mouse to point nose of ship

F to toggle Free Flight mode, where you can rotate your ship with Q and E

Shift to boost

Asset Credits

Rural Australia Map

Good Sky

Code available here: https://github.com/21pdavis/star-warden