Card game plugin for Unreal Engine 5.

Note: This document is work-in-progress and subject to change.

• Common Gameplay Features
• Blueprint API
• Networking
• Automated Tests
• Savegames
• Auto AI
• Diagnostics
• Documentation

1. Close your Unreal Editor.
2. Download the latest release.
3. Copy the CardGame folder to the Plugins folder next to your .uproject file (create if necessary).
4. Start the Unreal Editor.

1. Add data assets of class CardGameCard.
2. Add data assets of class CardGameCardPile.
3. Add data assets of class CardGameAttribute.
4. Add a data asset of class CardGameConfiguration.
5. Add a (blueprint) class with parent class CardGameMode and set Configuration.

1. Using the Card Pile Subsystem, add cards to player piles, shuffle them and/or move cards betweem them.
2. Using the Attribute Subsystem, set global and player attribute values.

• Assets: Unreal assets (Blueprintable UObjects, UDataAssets). No logic. Used by plugin users for creating their content.
• Model: Pure model classes. No logic. Need to be copied for Auto AI.
• Providers: Value providers (e.g. ids, random numbers). Have logic and state.
• Services: Core game logic classes. Stateless.
• Subsystems: Unreal blueprint access to services. Trivial delegate pattern.

• Provider subsystems are used for injecting dependencies for service subsystems. These dependencies need to be available before the game mode might have been initialized.
• RPCs for efficiency, events and secrets

• Where should the model live? In the game mode?