The CubeShooter

A simple top down shooter. You are a cube and you are chased by evil spheres. Dodge and shoot them to survive.

For the theme "Pick-a-side" I focused on a mechanic where you can shoot from one of your cube's sides. You can rotate which side is active. This is important because each side is associated with a color, and each color kills spheres of the matching colors.

Engine and Tutorials:

So I wanted to work with Unreal Engine 5 for this project. The blueprints scripting language is very powerful in enabling a non coder to make games. I only have a little bit of experience with the engine though, so I relied heavily on a series of tutorials to help me through the many little moving parts that this game needed.

Credits for Music:

I found all my music and sound effects on Pixabay.

Background Music:

Chill Abstract(Intention) - Music by Coma-Media from Pixabay

Sound Effects:

Bottle-pop - jackyyang09 - Music from Pixabay

PlasmaBlaster - BigDino1995 - Music from Pixabay

Wrong - TheBuilder15 - Music from Pixabay

Final Thoughts:

I am very proud of myself for creating and publishing my first game. It's not very impressive, and there is a lot of features that I wanted to add that I didn't have the time for. That being said, I learned a lot about the technical bits of game design and also about the process of planning and implementing design. I am looking forward to the next one.