Intro Being able to select a character to play as, is a vital component for some multiplayer and singleplayer games but there are a lot of ways that this can be achieved. Some of these methods are better than others, and will depend on the engine used. In this article, I will be using Unreal Engine 5, and so will be using one of the best workflows for it. Overview I will be using the Seamless Travel feature of UE5 to maintain the data when we travel from the character selection screen to the game map.

I knew that I wanted to implement a procedural algorithm for my latest project, and decided on creating a wave function collapse algorithm as it seemed like a good starting point for learning more advanced procedural algorithms. To add more challenge to this, I wasn’t using it for generating maps, or textures but instead wanted it to interact with choosing which items to spawn into the map based on a variety of factors that were not known when starting the implementation.

Multiplayer Quest System I decided to challenge myself by creating a multiplayer quest system. I wanted to create a system that would allow for a variety of quest types & quest rewards, and be able to handle multiple players. The approach I went for was a very Object-Oriented one. Everything is split up into different classes that will handle the different aspects of the quest system. Quests contain stages which hold Objectives, which hold a set of prerequisites and rewards and they can track the progress via a Progress Object.