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🌟 About

Bomberrage is an open-source Unreal Engine 5 game available on Steam for Windows, macOS and Linux.

Forget hidden exits and classic rules - Bomberrage is a fast, competitive game where you beat tough AI or friends in explosive multiplayer battles!

Bomberrage

💣 About the Bomber Project
🚀 Getting Started
💾 Play the Build
💻 Unreal Project Requirements
🛠 Key Features
📋 Kanban Board
📅 Changelog
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Credits
📫 Feedback & Contribution
📜 License

🚀 Getting Started

This project contains submodules and requires --recurse-submodules when cloning:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/JanSeliv/Bomber.git

If already cloned without submodules, you'll find empty folders in Bomber\Plugins and error on project startup. To download submodules separately, run:

git submodule update --init --recursive

💾 Play the Build

Download the latest build on Steam via Download Bomberrage Demo:

Mirror link: GitHub Releases

💻 Unreal Project Requirements

Unreal Engine 5.6
Project Size: ~30GB (build ~3GB)

The project has been tested and launching the editor on the following platforms:

Windows 10 22H2
macOS Sonoma 14.4 (Apple M2 hardware)
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Android 14 (experimental with some issues)

🛠 Key Features

This project could be useful for learners, demonstrating next features:

Gameplay Ability System (GAS)
Mover 2.0
Steam multiplayer support for 4 players (via Steam Friends)
Modern networking: the Push Model and Iris replication
Procedurally generated playfield
Challenging AI
Enhanced Input
Mods and Modular Game Features
Complex cinematics (Level Sequences)
World Partition
Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) UI Pattern
Localization
Data-Driven Design (Data Assets, Data Tables, Data Registries, see below)

Despite this project is fully written in C++, it's extremely blueprint-friendly:

Data-Driven Design: No hardcoded values. All data can be tweaked via Data Assets in editor as well as accessed in blueprints [doc].
Fully Exposed: Every class, property, and function is exposed to Blueprints allowing for heavy changes the logic with no code.
Well-Commented: Every class, property and function is well-commented for easy understanding.
Utility Libraries: Core static functions are accessible globally like Cell Utils [doc]. See more in the Source\UtilityLibraries folder.

Next plugins were developed for this project, but could be useful for other developers:

📋 Kanban Board

Stay updated with the current progress and plans on the Trello board.

📅 Changelog

`2025-11-17:`

Updated to Unreal Engine 5.6.
Migrated the project to use Gameplay Ability System (GAS) for actions (bombs, damage, powerups) and Mover 2.0 for movement, significantly improving the responsiveness in multiplayer for players with high ping.
Implemented pick up toast for powerups, which is especially useful during intense gameplay to track easily the number of power-ups:

Players now have proper death anims when eliminated, animation by Kateryna Shchetinina:

Updated progression visualization to display player bombs instead of stars by Maksim Shashkov and Valeriy Rotermel

Optimized level generation with a single-pass algorithm for large level support, reducing 40x40 map creation time from >1000ms to under 1ms, allowing to build massive maps:

Moved level generation to background thread, reducing main thread time from 60ms to 13ms.

`2025-06-30:`

Updated to Unreal Engine 5.5.
Uploaded the game to the Steam for public testing: store page.
Added Steam multiplayer support, so players can invite and join each other via Steam Friends.
Added Android support (experimental, with some issues).
Improved performance with up to 300% gain → results.
Improved networking efficiency by up to 642% with Push Model and Iris replication → results.
Finished 4 skins for each character by Kateryna Shchetinina, with skins unlock mechanic by Valeriy Rotermel:

Added Play Area Surrounder mod on medium difficulty surrounding the play area with walls over time by Anton Selivanov

Added Bomb Storm mod on hard difficulty massively spawning bombs:

New Bastet bomb by Maksim Shashkov:

Progression System has been updated with new star mesh by Kateryna Shchetinina and implementation by Valeriy Rotermel:

Implemented the Loading Screen on launching the game and joining a multiplayer session:

Added the Language setting and fully localized the game in 30 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Korean, and Thai:

Implemented Honor Loss game result rewarding players who perform well despite losing by design from Yevhenii Oksenchuk.
Implemented unique starting attributes for each character (e.g., Bastet starts with 2 speed, Roger with 2 bombs, etc.)
Improved nicknames display in the Main Menu and in-game UI.

`2024-12-29:`

Updated to Unreal Engine 5.4.
Added Linux support (tested on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS)
Introduced In-Game User Interface with completely new look, utilizing the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern: