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Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine

By : Brenden Sewell
Book Image

Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine

By: Brenden Sewell

Overview of this book

Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine is a step-by-step approach to building a fully functional game, one system at a time. Starting with a basic First Person Shooter template, each chapter will extend the prototype to create an increasingly complex and robust game experience. You will progress from creating basic shooting mechanics to gradually more complex systems that will generate user interface elements and intelligent enemy behavior. Focusing on universally applicable skills, the expertise you will develop in utilizing Blueprints can translate to other types of genres. By the time you finish the book, you will have a fully functional First Person Shooter game and the skills necessary to expand on the game to develop an entertaining, memorable experience for your players. From making customizations to player movement to creating new AI and game mechanics from scratch, you will discover everything you need to know to get started with game development using Blueprints and Unreal Engine 4.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we made significant strides toward making our game a complete experience that can be played and enjoyed by other people. You learned how to branch the end states of the game based on whether the player has won or lost. You also learned to implement a save system that allows the player to return to their earlier game sessions, with their progress intact. Then, we implemented a round system that modifies the gameplay goal each time the player progresses to a new round. Finally, we implemented additional menu systems that give the player information about which round they are on, and give them the opportunity to pause the gameplay and even reset their own save file.

This represents the entire game experience we will be creating in the book. In the next chapter, we will explore making and publishing builds of the game we created so that we can share the experience with others. In addition, we will look back at how far your skills have developed, and then look forward...