The basics of this project i have coded through a course on UE5 blueprinting which was jsut the player controls, wave spawning, particles etc. My journey in this project began when i decided to add Skin Selection for ships that the player can choose. I have also reorganized what i had designed along before. I have designed the Skin Selected Menu, Main Menu, Pause Menu myself.

Being new to UE5, although i had taken a course of UE5 C++ few years before, this time i chose to start with Blueprinting. Udemy had this awesome course to make a space shooter. This course only made you do the basic movement of enemies, spawning waves, shooting, particles etc. Me, being a Unity Programmer, am not new to logic of shooting, spawning waves etc. The reason i took up the course was not because i wanted to learn programming, I wanted to get to know how to use UE5 and its tools like Blueprints, Importing stuff, UI etc.

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SKIN SELECT

Since having done skin select in both of my previous live games in Unity i had an idea of what would be the best way to approach this task. Find something in UE that can store instances of classes like ScriptableObjects in Unity. After researching i can to uses Data Assets where every element was a skin model and the attributes of the ship like health, speed something like that.

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FLOATING DEBRIS

If you see the gameplay you will notice the floating debris that is spawned. That also was done by me. I wanted more items to be spawned so that the user feels like he is really in space with all the debris around.

THOUGHTS

Now i have got to a stage where usign the blueprinting of UE5 seems like a better way to to quickly prototype games. Initially i was reluctant to get into UE, but now that i have, i would say i am ready to take on the challenge to prototyping with UE5. Not that i dont know programming, if i get to know how the editor works, or get my hand on documentation, i can get the work done. Cheers