ATLAS Bound

You, a retired military scout named Luca, now living off different freelance and  mercenary missions, and two other comrades of the same background (Johan and Marcus) have undertaken to retrieve a rare cargo from an abandoned mining facility on an asteroid on behalf of a government party of one of the planets. The cargo is believed to be sealed boxes containing the remains of the robot ATLAS.

ATLAS was a test model for a new AI weapon that for unknown reasons malfunctioned during its first launch some 200 years ago killing nearly 100+ people, including the entire development and administrative teams. A scandal erupted, the project was shut down, criminal charges were filed (which were then quickly dropped) and ATLAS' remains were disposed of in a crate and taken to an unspecified location in a planetary system.

Conspiracy theorists spread a version that the administrators and scientists working on ATLAS were killed for a reason: allegedly, they were involved in organ trafficking and even the murder of people whose body parts were then used in ATLAS' development - the witnesses had to be removed. Rumor has it that inside the machine was a biological heart and brain, taken from the dead and sewn into one biological tissue. These rumors are marginal and not particularly shared by the public because of their extravagance.

A spokesman for the government party has good reasons to believe that they have found the exact location of ATLAS' disposed remains: a long-abandoned mine complex on the asteroid Pandaemonium. It is important to extract the remains for the sake of solving a critical scientific problem that has become an important point in the party election campaign. The mission is secret and best kept under wraps, especially since the ATLAS incident left behind some bad memories that no one no one wants to be associated with.

In case of a successful outcome your mission will be well rewarded.

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ATLAS Bound is a small prototype I made in 2 weeks in UE 5 as a part of a test assignment. It's a sci-fi cover shooter that lets you control 3 characters similar to some old games (e.g. Project Eden). It's focused on the narrative but I tried to blueprint as many game mechanics as I could. Perhaps one day I would polish the build and turn it into a full game.

Controls:

WASD – move

Tab – change character

Spacebar – jump

CTRL – crouch

F – equip/unequip weapon

LMB – shoot

E – interact

P – instant death (gives you an ability to restart the level from the beginning)

Used marketplace assets include Blockout Tools Plugin by Dmitry Karpukhin, Infinity Blade: Weapons, Animation Starter Pack and Paragon: Crunch by Epic Games

I also wrote some documentation and prepared reference/GD documents along with the build (all in English). They are in the same folder as the build of the game. 

The YouTube link leads you to the video walkthrough of the level.

Enjoy!