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Learning Unreal Engine Game Development

By : Joanna Lee
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Learning Unreal Engine Game Development

By: Joanna Lee

Overview of this book

Unreal Engine 4 is a powerful game development engine that provides rich functionalities to create 2D and 3D games across multiple platforms. Many people know what a game is and they play games every day, but how many of them know how to create a game? Unreal Engine technology powers hundreds of games, and thousands of individuals have built careers and companies around skills developed using this engine. Learning Unreal Engine 4 Game Development starts with small, simple game ideas and playable projects that you can actually finish. The book first teaches you the basics of using Unreal Engine to create a simple game level. Then, you'll learn how to add details such as actors, animation, effects, and so on to the game. The complexity will increase over the chapters and the examples chosen will help you learn a wide variety of game development techniques. This book aims to equip you with the confidence and skills to design and build your own games using Unreal Engine 4. By the end of this book, you'll have learnt about the entire Unreal suite and know how to successfully create fun, simple games.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Learning Unreal Engine Game Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Why do we need cut scenes?


When a game is designed, a fair amount of the game designing time is put into designing how players interact with the objects in the game and how this interaction can be made fun. The interactive portion of the game needs to be supplemented and cut scenes can help fill the gaps.

Cut scenes can be employed in games to help designers tell a story when you are playing the game. This technique can be employed before the game begins to draw the players into the mission itself and justifies why a mission has to be accomplished for the player. This helps the player to understand the storyline, create meaning for their actions, and draw the player into the game.

Another objective of cut scenes can be to highlight key areas in the game in order to give the players a glimpse of what to expect and provide subtle hints to successfully win the game. This information would be useful, especially in difficult to beat game levels or when the player is meeting the chief monster in...