Overview:
A solo personal project designed to deepen familiarity with Epic’s Gameplay Ability System, UE5’s new animation tools/framework, and the procedural content generation framework. This is intended to eventually be a multiplayer roguelike, but scope is large enough I plan to only focus on multiplayer features for now.

Platform/Engine: UE5 for PC

Time: Nov 2025 - Present

Team: Solo

EXISTING FEATURES:

• PCG Tile Management:
  • Implemented a system for randomly generating tile partitions populated using PCG framework
  • Currently only server authoritative, but plan to add client prediction using fixed seeding

• Ability and Attack Tracing System
  • Developed targeting framework for async traces to interface with GAS targeting system
  • Tracing profile modelled using curves
  • Replication handled using Epic’s Gameplay Ability System.
  • Decouples animation from tracing (excluding root motion)
• GAS Combat
  • Simple combat featuring elemental damage types and common effects like slow, stun, and poison
  • Replication handled using Epic’s Gameplay Ability System
• Weapon System
  • Based on Lyra, utilizes ability sets to tie abilities to input actions specified by the item
• Motion Matching and Mover Component
  • Based on GASP update, using motion matching and mover component to driven animation
  • Not currently integrated with mouse model

NEXT:

• Matchmaking and online services
  • Tile generation will play a large role in matchmaking, as such I plan to implement a custom backend service for matchmaking
  • Otherwise other connection and social systems will use Steam Services