Unreal Engine 4 First Person Shooter: Lifeforce Tenka Clone

A clone of the 1997 game "Lifeforce-Tenka" created by Psygnosis.

Created by: Luke Jeffers
Project Creator

What Will I Learn?

• Creating enemy AI behaviours using Blackboards, Behaviour trees and tasks.
• Sound Implementation.
• Unreal's particle system; Cascade.
• Pickups.
• HUD for radar, ammo count and other useful information.
• Player stamina system.
• Animation implementation using locomotion and state machines.
• Core game loop containing a winning and losing condition.
• Level construction, collision and lighting.
• Cached Geometry for unusual animations like a chainsaw.
• Driving animated textures with Blueprint.
• Controlling animated textures in particles.
• Player sprint & slide mechanic.
• Good old camera shake.
• Animated texture creation: turning a physics based simulation or animation into a shader for use in-game.
• Handling game pause events.
• Blueprint class communication.
• Manipulating an armature's bone at runtime using inverse kinematics.
• A reusable mechanic where we have a locked door that requires a specific key to open it.

Requirements

• Unreal engine 4.25.3 installed and ready to go. Also ensure you have enough space on your hard drive; 8GB should be enough.

Target audience

• Beginner to intermediate Unreal engine users