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Game Development Projects with Unreal Engine

By : Hammad Fozi, Gonçalo Marques, David Pereira, Devin Sherry
Book Image

Game Development Projects with Unreal Engine

By: Hammad Fozi, Gonçalo Marques, David Pereira, Devin Sherry

Overview of this book

Game development can be both a creatively fulfilling hobby and a full-time career path. It's also an exciting way to improve your C++ skills and apply them in engaging and challenging projects. Game Development Projects with Unreal Engine starts with the basic skills you'll need to get started as a game developer. The fundamentals of game design will be explained clearly and demonstrated practically with realistic exercises. You’ll then apply what you’ve learned with challenging activities. The book starts with an introduction to the Unreal Editor and key concepts such as actors, blueprints, animations, inheritance, and player input. You'll then move on to the first of three projects: building a dodgeball game. In this project, you'll explore line traces, collisions, projectiles, user interface, and sound effects, combining these concepts to showcase your new skills. You'll then move on to the second project; a side-scroller game, where you'll implement concepts including animation blending, enemy AI, spawning objects, and collectibles. The final project is an FPS game, where you will cover the key concepts behind creating a multiplayer environment. By the end of this Unreal Engine 4 game development book, you'll have the confidence and knowledge to get started on your own creative UE4 projects and bring your ideas to life.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Preface

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to create a C++ Character class, add initializer code to it, and then use Blueprints to extend it to set up assets and add additional code.

The result obeys the C++ code, as well as the Blueprint code, and can be used in any purposeful scenario.

You also learned how to set up Axis Mappings mapped to the W, A, S, and D keys to move players (which is the default movement mapping in many games). You also learned how to make the character jump within the game.

In the next chapter, you will explore Input Mapping in-depth and how to use the Mobile Previewer within Unreal Editor. This will help you create games with solid inputs mapped to game and player logic. It will also allow you to quickly test what your game will look and feel like on a mobile, all within Unreal Editor.