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Learning Unreal Engine iOS Game Development

Learning Unreal Engine iOS Game Development

By : Muhammad A.Moniem
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Learning Unreal Engine iOS Game Development

Learning Unreal Engine iOS Game Development

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By: Muhammad A.Moniem
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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.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What will be covered?
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Who this book is for
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What you need for this book
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Prepare to Make Unreal Games with Unreal® Engine – Installing and Setting Up
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1. Prepare to Make Unreal Games with Unreal® Engine – Installing and Setting Up
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Getting ready and setting up
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Getting and building the engine
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Preparing the other required tools
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Preparing a game profile on the App Store
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Adding devices
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Generating provisioning profiles
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Summary
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2. Methods and Tools to Create Your Games
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2. Methods and Tools to Create Your Games
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Blueprints inside Unreal® Engine
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The need for blueprints
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What is a node?
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The iOS/Mobile-only nodes
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Blueprints – tips and tricks
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The iOS project pipeline
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Building the game's provisioning profiles
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Building a project
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Summary
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3. Creating a Brick Breaking Game
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3. Creating a Brick Breaking Game
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The project structure
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Building the blueprints
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Building the game mode
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Building the game's main material
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Summary
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4. Advanced Game Content Generation with a Fruit Chopper Game
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4. Advanced Game Content Generation with a Fruit Chopper Game
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The project structure
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Importing the assets
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An overview of blueprints
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The gameplay mechanic
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Building the particles
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Building the blueprints
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5. Building an Exciting Endless Runner Game
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5. Building an Exciting Endless Runner Game
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The project structure
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Importing the assets
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Building the animated sprites
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An overview of blueprints
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The gameplay mechanics
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Building the blueprints
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Building the logic
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Pushing the boundaries
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6. Designing an Advanced Game
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6. Designing an Advanced Game
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The project structure
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Importing the assets
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Building the animated sprites
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The blueprints
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The gameplay mechanic
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Building the blueprints
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Building the logic
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Using 2D colliders
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Pushing the boundaries
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7. Monetizing Your Game
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7. Monetizing Your Game
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iAd support
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iTunes Connect
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Adding in-app purchases
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Adding leaderboards
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Adding achievements
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8. iOS Debugging and Optimization
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8. iOS Debugging and Optimization
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Blueprints Live view
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Printing messages
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Breakpoints
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XCode tools
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Debug Navigator
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Capturing frames
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Instruments
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Performance optimization
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Minimizing the game size
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9. Publishing
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9. Publishing
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Packaging the project
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Editing the game profile
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Uploading and submiting for review
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A. Nodes Database
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A. Nodes Database
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Index
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Index

Chapter 5. Building an Exciting Endless Runner Game

Have you owned an iOS device? Or any other smartphone? If so, it means you have played at least five endless runner games. At the moment, the runners' genre is becoming a remarkable thing that distinguishes the smartphone devices from any other gaming platform out there. So learning how to make a runner game is something very important when it comes to learning about iOS game development with Unreal Engine. As the engine is well made and highly optimized, you will see how easy it will be to make a runner using Unreal Engine 4.x for iOS.

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

  • Implement 2D sprite animations
  • Learn about the basic tap controller
  • Use the Character Controller class
  • Build endless level logic
  • Understand the importance of collectables
  • Perform advanced communications between blueprints
  • Pool the scene objects for better performance
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