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Learning Unreal Engine iOS Game Development

By : Muhammad A.Moniem

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Learning Unreal Engine iOS Game Development

3.5 (4)

By: Muhammad A.Moniem

Overview of this book

If you are a game developer, designer, artist, or a beginner in the gaming industry, and want to make iOS games efficiently at a low cost, this book is ideal for you.

Preface

Preface

What will be covered?

Who this book is for

What you need for this book

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Prepare to Make Unreal Games with Unreal® Engine – Installing and Setting Up

1. Prepare to Make Unreal Games with Unreal® Engine – Installing and Setting Up

Getting ready and setting up

Getting and building the engine

Preparing the other required tools

Preparing a game profile on the App Store

Adding devices

Generating provisioning profiles

Summary

2. Methods and Tools to Create Your Games

2. Methods and Tools to Create Your Games

Blueprints inside Unreal® Engine

The need for blueprints

What is a node?

The iOS/Mobile-only nodes

Blueprints – tips and tricks

The iOS project pipeline

Building the game's provisioning profiles

Building a project

Summary

3. Creating a Brick Breaking Game

3. Creating a Brick Breaking Game

The project structure

Building the blueprints

Building the game mode

Building the game's main material

Summary

4. Advanced Game Content Generation with a Fruit Chopper Game

4. Advanced Game Content Generation with a Fruit Chopper Game

The project structure

Importing the assets

An overview of blueprints

The gameplay mechanic

Building the particles

Building the blueprints

Summary

5. Building an Exciting Endless Runner Game

5. Building an Exciting Endless Runner Game

The project structure

Importing the assets

Building the animated sprites

An overview of blueprints

The gameplay mechanics

Building the blueprints

Building the logic

Pushing the boundaries

Summary

6. Designing an Advanced Game

6. Designing an Advanced Game

The project structure

Importing the assets

Building the animated sprites

The blueprints

The gameplay mechanic

Building the blueprints

Building the logic

Using 2D colliders

Pushing the boundaries

Summary

7. Monetizing Your Game

7. Monetizing Your Game

iAd support

iTunes Connect

Adding in-app purchases

Adding leaderboards

Adding achievements

Summary

8. iOS Debugging and Optimization

8. iOS Debugging and Optimization

Blueprints Live view

Printing messages

Breakpoints

XCode tools

Debug Navigator

Capturing frames

Instruments

Performance optimization

Minimizing the game size

Summary

9. Publishing

9. Publishing

Packaging the project

Editing the game profile

Uploading and submiting for review

Summary

A. Nodes Database

A. Nodes Database

Index

Index

Chapter 2. Methods and Tools to Create Your Games

When Unreal Engine 4 was made available to the public in early 2014, it held within its new features, a new major feature called the Blueprints editor. Everyone expected that the engine would still use and support the Kismet editor from Unreal Engine 3, but we found that Epic removed it and replaced it with a brand new and more powerful editor for game/gameplay logic scripting.

In the course of this book, we'll use this new system to build up our content and games, and in this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

Blueprints inside Unreal and its usage and types
iOS platform-specific nodes
Blueprints—tips and tricks
iOS project pipeline with Unreal
Setting up project settings
Building into a device

Visually different images

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