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Unreal Development Kit Game Programming with UnrealScript: Beginner's Guide

By : Rachel Cordone
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Unreal Development Kit Game Programming with UnrealScript: Beginner's Guide

By: Rachel Cordone

Overview of this book

Unreal Development Kit is the free edition of Unreal Engine—the largest game engine in existence with hundreds of shipped commercial titles. The Unreal Engine is a very powerful tool for game development but with something so complex it's hard to know where to start.This book will teach you how to use the UnrealScript language to create your own games with the Unreal Development Kit by using an example game that you can create and play for yourself. It breaks down the UnrealScript language into easy to follow chapters that will quickly bring you up to speed with UnrealScript game programming.Unreal Development Kit Game Programming with UnrealScript takes you through the UnrealScript language for the Unreal Development Kit. It starts by walking through a project setup and setting up programs to write and browse code. It then takes you through using variables, functions, and custom classes to alter the game's behavior and create our own functionality. The use and creation of Kismet is also covered. Later, using replication to create and test multiplayer games is discussed. The book closes with code optimization and error handling as well as a few of the less common but useful features of UnrealScript.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Unreal Development Kit Game Programming with UnrealScript
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Edward Davies is in the final year of his Game Art and Animation degree at the University of Glamorgan. He has a strong interest in game design, particularly the Unreal Development Kit, concept art, and 3D modeling and texturing. More of Edward's work may be seen at www.kungfoowiz.deviantart.com/gallery.

Dave Voyles is a Managing Editor and Podcast Producer for Armless Octopus. He covers Xbox LIVE Indie Game, Xbox Live Arcade, and Playstation Network news, reviews, and developer interviews. He holds a BS in Communication Studies from SUNY Oneonta, and is currently attending the New York Institute of Technology to work on his MBA in Management of Information Systems. His additional work within the gaming community includes working as the Coordinator of the Indie Games Summer Uprising, which looks to promote the most outstanding titles on the Xbox LIVE Indie Games platform. Dave is also an Unreal Script programmer for two titles that will be released on PC and iOS, at the end of 2011. Most notably, he is the founder of the New York City-based UDK meetup group, where he works with other developers to collaborate on endeavors in a physical environment, as well as provide tutorials. You can find more of his work by visiting his sites http://www.DaveVoyles.wordpress.com or http://www.ArmlessOctopus.com.