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Multiplayer Game Development with Unreal Engine 5

By : Marco Secchi
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Multiplayer Game Development with Unreal Engine 5

By: Marco Secchi

Overview of this book

If you’re fascinated by the immersive gaming experiences that enable multiple users to engage in collaborative or competitive gameplay, this Unreal Engine 5 game development book is for you. In this book, you’ll learn the foundational principles behind multiplayer games. Starting with a sample project, you’ll learn how to set up a networked system and make it work. Once the prototype of the project is functional, you’ll start adding game logic, including obstacles and AI opponents, to heighten the challenges and engagement, offering a captivating experience for players. Next, you’ll learn how to debug and optimize the project, before finally deploying the game build and integrating it with cloud services such as the Epic Online Services system. By the end of this book, you’ll have the confidence to develop and manage multiplayer experiences using the Unreal Engine environment, taking your newfound programming skills in your upcoming projects.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1:Introducing Multiplayer Games
5
Part 2:Networking and Multiplayer Games in Unreal Engine
10
Part 3:Improving Your Game
15
Part 4:Deploying Your Game Online

Getting started with the EOS SDK

The EOS SDK is a tool that’s independent of any particular game engine, providing developers access to several cross-platform services that can be integrated into their games. Depending on the game engine being utilized, the level of integration options available to incorporate the EOS SDK into the game will vary. Nonetheless, the method of integration is at the discretion of the development team, and they may even use a combination of integration options.

In order to start using the EOS SDK you will have to:

  • Download it from the Developer Portal
  • Integrate it into your game

In this section, I will give you a brief walkthrough on how to get the SDK and to understand the basic concepts on how to integrate it in your project.

Downloading the EOS SDK

To download the SDK, go to your Developer Portal Dashboard page and click the SDK & Release Notes button, as shown in Figure 15.14:

Figure 15.14 – The download SDK button

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