This indie developer is making a gun-wielding squirrel game in Unreal Engine 5 and it’s weirdly adorable

Squirrel holding large gun in Unreal Engine 5
(Image credit: @QuiteDan)

An indie developer is curre🎀ntly working on an Unreal Engine 5 game where you play as a gun-wieldin꧅g squirrel and it’s weirdly wonderful. 

Twitter user and indie developer has been sharing progress updates on their upcoming game in Unreal Engine 5. It’s too early to guess how the currently named "[pistol emoji] [chipmunk emoji]" (real ti♊tle) game will play, but we do know that the starring fluffy critte♌r knows its way around a gun - as demonstrated in the video below. 

The contrast of the adorable little squirrel and the big violent weapon is definitely hard to get your head around at first, but once you see the little guy waddling around with something double its size, you can’t help but find the whole thing just a little bit endearing. Not to mention that the squi🎃rrel’s model also looks super detailed thanks to Unreal Engine 5's impressive tech (with a little help from other software such as Blender and Houdini). 

This is one of the many uses of the newly launched software that we’ve seen so far. Gun-wielding squirrels aside, devs and artists have shared a number of other Unreal Engine 5 projects that are just as head-turning, including 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:a fan-made Portal level remake, a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake, and an incredibly detailed 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Japanese train station recreation.

Of course, it isn’t just indie developers and fan projects using this technology; a number of upcoming AAA games are also being built with Unreal Engine 5, including 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:a new Tomb Raider game, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Witcher 4, the open-world zombie MMO 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Day Before, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Kingdom Hearts 4, and many more.  

Want to know what else we’ve got to look forward to this year? Take a look at our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new games 2022 list. 

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