🛡️ Hero Defense Starter Kit – Defend the Castle, Upgrade Your Heroes, and Defeat the Horde!

🎥 See It in Action! Watch the demo video below!👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHrD_MGlV2c

The Hero Defense Starter Kit is your complete solution for building a wave-based, hero-defense-style game in Unreal Engine 5. Ideal for beginners and solo developers, this kit features a modular structure, editable data tables, and polished gameplay systems out of the box.

🎮 FEATURES:

✅ Hero Selection System – Choose from multiple heroes, each with customizable base stats, range, damage, cost, and colors.

✅ Wave-Based Enemy Spawning – Built-in wave system with automatic enemy tracking and customizable speed, health, and reward values.

✅ Upgradeable Heroes – Upgrade hero stats and visuals based on level, with costs scaling using a multiplier set in your Data Tables.

✅ UI Systems – Fully functional UI for hero costs, total points, upgrade menus, start buttons, and in-game feedback.

✅ Game Over & Victory Logic – Implements both Game Over and Level Complete screens, with a 3-star reward system based on player performance.

✅ Dynamic Materials & Scaling – Supports visual changes through color/material updates and growth/shrink animations.

💡 DATA TABLE DRIVEN:

Use ST_Heroes and ST_Enemies to easily adjust stats like damage, range, upgrade cost, movement time, and more no Blueprint edits required!

📦 Perfect for:

🔹 Tower Defense Prototypes & Game Jams

🔹 Beginner Unreal Engine Developers

🔹 Indie Game Creators needing a flexible starter framework

🎮 Start building your Hero Defense game today!