Southern Spear
A free-to-play tactical multiplayer FPS set on Australian-inspired outback maps, in pre-alpha; the developer says Claude Code writes the gameplay code.
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About Southern Spear
Southern Spear is a tactical multiplayer first-person shooter in Unreal Engine 5 in which two teams fight over chains of objectives on maps inspired by the Australian outback. The developer, posting as theantipop, describes it as fictional and Australian-inspired, planned as free to play and “coming to Steam”. The first public footage is a 60-second pre-alpha in-engine showcase of the Red Gum map, played with bots. The developer writes that Claude Code “does the engineering”: the C++ gameplay modules, the Python tooling, the tests and the docs, and that it drives the Unreal Editor over MCP. Models, textures and sounds come from asset packs. The post says there is no playable build and no release date yet.
How it was built
Partially verifiedThe developer writes that Claude Code does the engineering — the C++ gameplay modules, the Python tooling, the tests and the docs — and drives the Unreal Editor over MCP.
- Developer“Claude Code does the engineering. The C++ gameplay modules, the Python tooling, the tests, and the docs.” — Reddit r/aigamedev (u/theantipop)
Unreal Engine 5 project; Claude Code writes the C++ gameplay modules, Python tooling and tests and operates the editor over MCP. Art and audio come from sourced asset packs.
- Engine / framework
- Unreal Engine 5
- Languages
- C++, Python
- Team size
- Not disclosed
- Initial build time
- Not disclosed
- Development time
- Not disclosed
- Development cost
- Not disclosed
- AI-written code
- Not disclosed
“Claude Code does the engineering.”Verification notes: AI use and project state come from the developer's r/aigamedev post of 27 Oct 2026, which says “pre-alpha, no date, no playable build yet”; the official site says “Coming to Steam”. The Steam page was not live when checked. The developer's account has a long first-person history, including the OmenCore open-source tool. The post still contains a drafting note, so its wording may have been AI-drafted; the claims are the developer's own. Development time and location are not stated.
Development history
First public in-engine showcase (pre-alpha, Red Gum map, with bots).
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Sources
| Source | Type | Published | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| I'm building a free, Australian tactical FPS in Unreal Engine 5 with Claude Code driving the editor - first in-engine showcase (pre-alpha) Reddit r/aigamedev (u/theantipop) · English | Social post | Oct 27, 2026 | Nov 7, 2026 |
| SOUTHERN SPEAR | Pre-Alpha In-Engine Showcase | Red Gum YouTube (Southern Spear) · English | Social post | Oct 27, 2026 | Nov 7, 2026 |
| Southern Spear — Australian-inspired tactical multiplayer FPS (pre-alpha) Southern Spear · English | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 7, 2026 |
