# Making an Arcade Basketball Game for a Passion Project, need help with scripting in Blueprints

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**Category:** Programming & Scripting\
**Tags:** unreal-engine, editing, Scripting, Blueprint, question\
**Created:** [January 3, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/making-an-arcade-basketball-game-for-a-passion-project-need-help-with-scripting-in-blueprints/2258264 "2025-01-03T20:41:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/making-an-arcade-basketball-game-for-a-passion-project-need-help-with-scripting-in-blueprints/2258264/1 "2025-01-03T20:41:35Z")

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Hello all! I am a fresh beginner making a 2 on 2 or possibly a 3 on 3 arcade basketball game inspired by the chaotic and fast gameplay of NBA Jam/Hangtime/Showtime series with extra RPG Classes and Subclasses with Souls elements for the main story mode, instead of relying on strictly stats like 2K or other sports games have. I have somewhat of a grasp of Blueprints, but I have no prior computer science background other than watching YouTube tutorials and surfing the web for help. This is just for a passion project of mine hoping to be published on Steam, Epic, and other platforms.

Right now I am just trying to get the gameplay foundation down, like basic but fast and responsive shooting/passing/defense mechanics, scoring/win loss/Quarter/Time game mode logic and to determine two and three pointers before I start doing any extra stuff with the stats and elements, art, music and sound designs.

I am stuck on having the player change his inputs for passing/shooting/Juking, animation state machine, and behavior when a player has the Ball array in the character’s blueprint. I have part of the ‘has ball’ state machine built, along with a ball structure and enum, I just want to see the transition before I start working on it any further.

Another thing I’m stuck on is instead of having the keyboard “T” input to pick up the ball for a placeholder, I would rather implement a collision event or something of that nature to “auto pickup and equip” instead of having a button input like all the rest of the sports games have.

Thank you for all that read this, I appreciate your time and any advice or help is welcomed!!!

Here’s what I have so far: