Beyonders

Game Overview

The Beyonders is a turn-based strategic game with grid-based combat. It adapts the settings from the Chinese web novel Lord of the Mysteries. In the world of fantasy and mysteries, there exist a supernatural power called "Sequences". Only a few people in this world can wield this power, and they are the Beyonders. In this game, player will control the main character and ally characters to prevent evil employments of Sequences.

The main menu consists of:

  • Background text (settings and background stories)
  • Game guide (general game play introduction)
  • Tutorial (detailed game tutorial)
  • Church level (easy level)
  • Courtyard (hard level)
  • Party management

There are 6 playable characters. Their stats and descriptions can be viewed at the party management interface. The player can select up to 4 characters in their party.

Players are suggested to read through the background and game guide first, then follow the instructions in the tutorial level. After completing tutorial, player are suggested to challenge the Church and Courtyard levels in order. The three default characters (Pyromaniac, Dawn Paladin, and Nightmare) are great choices for your first party.

Visuals

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Project Setup

The Beyonders is developed with Unreal Engine 5.3.2.

When opening the project for the first time, an alert may pop up titled 'Missing Beyonders Modules'. To continue, select 'Yes' to build the required modules.

Git LFS Setup

  • Install Git LFS (run git lfs install)
  • Enable the Git LFS 2 source control plugin in Unreal Engine
  • Make sure the username next to the LFS checkbox matches your GitLab username

Git LFS tracks large files and binary files more effectively by keeping track of their references instead of their content

It also enables file locking: file types tracked by LFS must be checked out before modified

For the list of LFS-tracked file types, check out the .gitattributes file

Platforms

The game can run smoothly on Win10 systems with RTX 3060 laptop GPU. Due to the environment assets and visual effects, the game may crash on Mac systems. Other systems and GPU are not tested.

Authors

  • Abola Juan Pablo Uichanco
  • Chen Jiarui
  • Lau Rui Han
  • Ryo Hilmawan
  • Zhang Bokun

Project status

Development stopped temporarily.