Free Unreal Engine 5.7 Project: Night Sky Engine 2D and 2.5D Fighting Game Framework (WistfulHopes)

Overview

WistfulHopes shares Night Sky Engine, a free and open source fighting game framework made in Unreal Engine 5 that is designed to be powerful yet easy to learn and can be used to make 2D and 2.5D fighting games. The repository is a full project with demo maps for the main menu, character select, versus info and a test stage, the NightSkyEngine plugin and a C++ demo module.

It also uses a version of the GGPOUE4 plugin modified for the engine and the CommonLoadingScreen plugin from Epic's Lyra sample, and a collision editor was co-developed by MostExcellent. The main branch requires Unreal Engine 5.7 and targets higher-end machines, a lowend branch covers lower fidelity visuals, and the MIT-licensed project is a free download from GitHub with online documentation.