Ue Game Features

If you're building a game with Unreal's Game Features plugin system or need Lyra-style modular architecture, this skill knows the state machine, component injection patterns, and async lifecycle hooks. It covers UGameFeatureAction subclassing, GameFrameworkComponentManager registration, and the difference between Registered, Loaded, and Active states. The source includes actual code templates for custom actions and async deactivation with context pausing. Most useful when you're moving past basic plugin loading and need to inject components into actors at runtime, coordinate init states across features, or build an experience composition system where gameplay modules activate and clean up dynamically.

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$ npx -y skills add quodsoler/unreal-engine-skills --skill ue-game-features --agent claude-code

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UE Game Features and Modular Gameplay

Target engine: UE 5.8. APIs below are verified against the 5.8 headers; older forms are listed under "Deprecated — do not use".

Game Features (Beta in 5.8) packages gameplay as self-contained plugins under Plugins/GameFeatures/. UGameFeaturesSubsystem (a UEngineSubsystem) drives each plugin through a state machine; a UGameFeatureData primary data asset inside the plugin holds an instanced list of UGameFeatureAction objects that run at registration, load, activation and deactivation. Modular Gameplay (Beta in 5.8) supplies UGameFrameworkComponentManager (a UGameInstanceSubsystem) that injects components into opted-in actors, plus the UGameFrameworkComponent bases and the init-state system that orders initialization across independently loaded features. Build.cs modules: GameFeatures and ModularGameplay. The GameFeatures module already depends publicly on ModularGameplay and DataRegistry, so code that only consumes actions needs GameFeatures alone.