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First day — engineering

Shared install: Today is your first day. Work from Rephrased-Games/Rephrased-Game; old demo repos are historical only. Do the required block. Stop there unless a row below matches your current task.

Required

  1. Rephrased MCP — install, /onboard. Ask your lead for this week's assignment, then tell the agent what you're working on.
  2. VS and Unreal — UE 5.8, VS 2026.
  3. Build — Rephrased.sln, Development Editor | Win64, F5. Open PreProRuneShowcase, Play, then duplicate it into Content/Developers/<Name>/LV_<Name>_Playground for personal experiments. Failures: Saved/Logs/.

Weekly workflow

Talk normally in your coding agent. Rephrased MCP runs the rest (convention check, team review, wiki, devlog). You compile and PIE. No extra steps.

Assignment from your lead → work → you compile → you PIE → say you are done.

If you need it

Skip any row that is not this week's task.

Need Read
Unreal C++ C++ extensions · Actors, components, subsystems
Content / Blueprints Project layout · Blueprints in Rephrased · Data assets
A rune Rune authoring · Adding a rune
Design context GDD · Pillars and loop
Look / VFX Visual direction
A shipping system Only that page on Engineering home

Ask your lead if you are unsure.

Personal playground map

After PreProRuneShowcase works in Play In Editor, duplicate it into your own developer folder before experimenting. Use Content/Developers/<Name>/LV_<Name>_Playground. Your playground is for learning, reproduction steps, and local experiments. Do not edit PreProRuneShowcase directly unless your assigned task is to update the shared pre-production sandbox.

Change history

  • 2026-08-27 - Gabriel Li - Updated first-day sandbox wording to PreProRuneShowcase and added the personal playground expectation where relevant.

  • 2026-08-26 — Gabriel Li — Clarified org repo as daily source and old demo repos as historical only.

  • 2026-08-14 — Gabriel Li — Merged engineer onboarding here. One path for every engineer: setup + weekly workflow. Role tracks removed. Optional pages listed by need.
  • 2026-05-23 — Gabriel Li — Engineering-only routes on Engineering tab; open questions replaced with ask-your-lead line; shared content remains on Start here FirstDay.md.