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Getting Started with UDK

By : John P. Doran
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Getting Started with UDK

By: John P. Doran

Overview of this book

<p>UDK, the free version of the popular and award-winning Unreal 3 Engine, is an amazing and powerful tool to use for projects of any kind. You can use it to create high-quality games and make your dream games a reality.</p> <p>UDK can be a little intimidating based on the level of games it has contributed to the ever growing and ever exciting world of gaming. Overcome all your apprehensions with this step-by-step guide and build a complete project within the Unreal Development Kit with unique gameplay, custom menus, and a triple A rated finish</p> <p>This book will help you create a custom tower defense game within UDK, even if you have absolutely no prior knowledge of UDK game development.</p> <p>In next to no time, you will learn how to create any kind of environment within UDK. With your basic environment created, you will make use of simple visual scripting to create a tower defense game complete with enemies attacking in waves. We then finish off the game with custom menus and a Heads Up Display. The final step is to release your game into the wild and give others the excitement of playing it.</p>
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

About the Author

John P. Doran is a technical game designer who has been creating games for over 10 years. He has worked on an assortment of games in teams from just himself to over 70 in student, mod, indie, and professional projects.

He previously worked at LucasArts on Star Wars 1313 as a game design intern. He later graduated from DigiPen Institute of Technology in Redmond, WA, with a Bachelor of Science in Game Design.

John is currently a software engineer at DigiPen's Singapore campus and is tutoring and assisting students with difficulties in computer science concepts, programming, linear algebra, game design, and advanced usage of UDK, Flash, and Unity in a development environment.

This is his third book after UDK iOS Game Development Beginner's Guide and Mastering UDK Game Development, both of which are also available from Packt Publishing.

He can be found online at http://johnpdoran.com and can be contacted at .