Extended remake of Atari Asteroids 1979 arcade game using Unreal Engine
"SpaceRox" is the internal project name.
Example Videos
Version 1.2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXKK6ThleVQ
Version 1.4 (powerups): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2CBQ7l-PXI
Version 1.6.4 (nicer intro): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYPj2w0ImMY
Version 1.8.1 (minibosses): https://youtu.be/W9DrlSYwxMM
The game departs from Asteroids as development continues, e.g.:
- Powerups such as shields and double-guns
- Scavenger enemies that harvest unpicked powerups
- Minibosses that are shielded
The DaylonGraphicsLibrary plugin provides generic types and functions that can be used in other similar games, along with some widgets. It's included directly instead of using a git submodule, so that if you clone or pull this repo, you'll have it without any fuss ready to go.
Unreal Engine 5.1 or higher required.
Keyboard and gamepad input supported at present. There's also an input controller asset that supports fightstick arcade controllers (see the docs for more info), and if you have an arcade cabinet or your own arcade controller with USB output, it shouldn't be hard to support that.
A 1920 x 1080 (HD) viewport is used. Monitors of different sizes and/or display scales will scale. Textures are deliberately oversized to avoid blurring when upscaled.
Game sounds may be loud. Until a volume setting is added, it's recommended to manually lower the volume in your OS speaker/headphone settings.
All graphics are done in UMG/Slate. This project was partly done to see how performant a pure UMG game could be. It was fine, but Slate is now used for all gameplay objects to be even better.
If you prefer to just download a Windows binary to play the game, one is available at https://www.daylongraphics.com/download/spacerox/SpaceRox.zip
Version: 1.8.4
Size: 141,420,373 bytes (134 MiB)
CRC32: D1ED1D93
CRC64: 0012C8752E4DB68F
SHA256: CF9996D87A3A4D1C0E90078A181F093662DFE71F2704686EF107DBD6AA06387A
SHA1: E837A49CD23A491F48A066BFDE64BE4EC8CECA94