Magister Mayhem

This project is the culmination of a year's part time work implementing a first person magic based shooter in Unreal Engine 5 using the Gameplay Ability System (GAS). It's still in an incredibly early state but I'm really happy with how the abilities have turned out and how the frameworks I've developed will be easily scalable.

The general concept of this game is that you play as a resurrected lich who uses fire based magic to defeat enemies. This early prototype is meant to showcase the use of GAS, some simple UI work, a save/load system, and basic enemy logic. My intent is to expand on the current framework to refine the spells available, add more enemies and AI decisions they can make, and implement a simple rogue-like progression system. Currently the plan is to have this game play as a first person shooter rogue-like where the player will periodically be given choices / upgrades to refine their current run. A run would end if the player dies or defeats all levels.

I'll note up front that this project is very early stages so is likely to have a LOT of bugs. If you encounter any game-breaking crashes or strange behavior please feel free to leave a comment indicating what happened and what you were doing when it happened. I intend to continue working on this project with the eventual goal of releasing a full version at some point.

Controls:

WASD - Movement Keys

Space - Jump

Shift - Dash

Q - Open spell menu

TAB - Open attribute menu

E - Use ultimate

ESC - Quit game

Known Issues:

- Loading in after hitting the checkpoint causes player to lose their dash and ultimate abilities

- Enemies do not grant XP like they should after loading back in

- Fire bolt projectiles occasionally target enemies that are pending kill

- Niagara VFX for meteor ability are not displaying as intended

- Skeleton mage animation warping not correctly facing target as intended

- Ability animations get stuck when ability activations overlap

- Spell descriptions are not fully implemented in the spell menu

- Music does not loop

- Ultimate does not apply damage - likely due to a tag mismatch on the enemies