Making Friends

Synopsis

Making Friends is an indie action role-playing game (ARPG) set in a dark fantasy world. The player takes on the role of a low-level necromancer who must rally an army of the undead to confront and overthrow the oppressive lord of a dystopian town. The game's central theme revolves around "strength in numbers," as players strategically raise and command undead minions while engaging in simple yet immersive combat.

Thanks to ChatGPT for the blurb and MidJourney for the cover image.

Controls

Use Right-mouse to move, left mouse summons the selected minion. Additional minions unlock as you level up. Mana and health are restored when leveling up.

Installation

Extract the zip file somewhere and run MakingFriends.exe. Windows only, sorry Mac and Linux peeps.

Update (2023-11-10)

Updated to the Windows build:

 - Added SFX for all minions and the foot soldiers.

 - Player respawns on death (This is still buggy and I'll do another pass on it.)

 - Added a cast cooldown to the summon, so no more spamming the spawn button.

 - Added a mana regeneration mechanic, which refinds mana of killed minions. This currently makes it even less balanced, but I've got some ideas on balance which I'll implement soon.

- Added a Player Respawn mechanic, so at least you can continue now if you die!

 - Most of the bugs below are still there, sorry!

Known Issues

The game does not terminate or restart when the boss is killed. (Alt-F4 to exit - sorry)

Floating combat text does not position correctly.

Some weird collision issues may cause minions or enemies to go flying.

You can currently run across the water.

Things I didn't get to

I wanted to pop up a basic story to give the player some context.

I didn't implement any menus, so quit using Alt-F4.

I did not get to add SFX or other "juice" for the attacks, hits, and misses.

A fifth spell, "Grasping Hands", would be cast on the ground, and would attack and slow enemies.

The game is not balanced at all.

Additional enemies I wanted to implement

  - Knight Templar

The knights have a holy aura in addition to their powerful melee attacks.

 - Cleric

Clerics can banish undead in addition to their crushing hammer blows.

More

This is my first project made with Unreal Engine.

All art and audio assets are from the marketplace, bundles, or other free sources.

All game logic is implemented using Blueprints.