I’m designing a story-driven game in Unreal Engine using Blueprints. To manage story progression, I’m planning to use the Game Instance to track and control the current state of the narrative. Here’s how I envision the system: The player, using a third-person character, interacts with an NPC to s…

For clarity the Director is literally a clean blank Actor BP with a StateTree component I named “Director”. This gets placed into my level and ticks along during gameplay. To track story state, I create variables in this Director that are available for use in the state tree and tasks once I set it …

Is this an appropriate use of Game Instance?

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint

Rev0verDrive (Rev0verDrive) June 28, 2025, 5:59am 2

Game State would be where you handle the “states” of the game.

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