Create Your First Experience
What you'll build
A simple multiplayer HELIX world where players can spawn in, walk around, drive a basic vehicle, and see each other in real time. Every concept introduced here links to a deeper guide so you can keep going at your own pace.
Steps in this tutorial
- Install HELIX & Creator Kit — the launcher and the editor
- Create a Blank World — set up your first project
- Spawn Characters — get a player in the world
- Add a Vehicle — drop in a default car and drive
- Wire a Basic UI — show a simple HUD
- Test Multiplayer Locally — invite a second client
- Publish to Vault — make it shareable
Before you start
- Windows 10/11 with at least 32 GB RAM (HELIX is built on Unreal Engine 5 — 64 GB recommended)
- A HELIX account with Creator access
- ~15 GB free disk space for the editor + sample content
Coming up
The full tutorial (with screenshots, code samples in Blueprint / Lua / JS, and a downloadable starter project) is being written. In the meantime, the building blocks already exist scattered across the docs:
- Installing the editor → see Getting Started → Install HELIX
- Creating worlds → see Core Concepts → Levels & Maps
- Multiplayer basics → see Multiplayer → Client-Server Model