Book Image

Building an RPG with Unreal 4.x

By : Steve Santello
Book Image

Building an RPG with Unreal 4.x

By: Steve Santello

Overview of this book

Now that Unreal Engine 4 has become one of the most cutting edge game engines in the world, developers are looking for the best ways of creating games of any genre in the engine. This book will lay out the foundation of creating a turn-based RPG in Unreal Engine 4.12. The book starts by walking you through creating a turn-based battle system that can hold commands for party members and enemies. You’ll get your hands dirty by creating NPCs such as shop owners, and important mechanics, that make up every RPG such as a currency system, inventory, dialogue, and character statistics. Although this book specifically focuses on the creation of a turn-based RPG, there are a variety of topics that can be utilized when creating many other types of genres. By the end of the book, you will be able to build upon core RPG framework elements to create your own game experience.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building an RPG with Unreal 4.x
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Downloading Unreal


Before getting started, make sure that you have at least 18 GB of free disk space on your computer. You will need this disk space to hold the development environments for Unreal and also your project files.

We will now need to download Unreal. To do this, go to https://www.unrealengine.com and click on the GET UNREAL button.

Before you can download Unreal, you'll need to make an Epic Games account. The GET UNREAL button will redirect you to an account creation form, so fill it out and submit it.

After you've signed in, you'll see the Download button. This will download the installer for the Epic Games Launcher (from this launcher, you can download Unreal version 4.12).