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Take your game designs from inspiration to a fully playable game that you can share with the world, without writing a single line of code.

Learn to use visual scripting to develop gameplay mechanics, UI, visual effects, artificial intelligence, and more.

Build a first person shooter from scratch with step-by-step tutorials.

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Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine is a step-by-step approach to building a fully functional game, one system at a time. Starting with a basic First Person Shooter template, each chapter will extend the prototype to create an increasingly complex and robust game experience. You will progress from creating basic shooting mechanics to gradually more complex systems that will generate user interface elements and intelligent enemy behavior. Focusing on universally applicable skills, the expertise you will develop in utilizing Blueprints can translate to other types of genres. By the time you finish the book, you will have a fully functional First Person Shooter game and the skills necessary to expand on the game to develop an entertaining, memorable experience for your players. From making customizations to player movement to creating new AI and game mechanics from scratch, you will discover everything you need to know to get started with game development using Blueprints and Unreal Engine 4.

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Whether you are an experienced game designer or artist looking to test your latest idea, or a complete novice looking to build their first video game, this is a great place to start learning how to build complex game mechanics quickly and easily without writing any text code. No programming experience required!

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Prototype and iterate new game mechanics rapidly

Customize the player s abilities and controls

Build user interface elements, including health bars and objective counters

Set up interactions between player actions and game objects in the world

Create complex enemy AI that can sense the world around it and attack the player

Design menus that will allow your players to load, pause, and quit the game

Deploy your game to multiple platforms and share it with the world

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Bernhard Apr 10, 2016

Super Einführung in die Programmierung mit Unreal Blueprints. Wesentlich besser als z.B. "Master the Art of Unreal Engine 4 - Blueprints"

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Harrisoliver May 25, 2019

I was a bit worried it might be out of date, as I'm using it with engine version 4.22.2 and it was written with 4.7, but this has only been an issue on a couple of superficial things so far. Example in chapter 1 when creating a material the book fails to state that you also need to select "used with static lighting" under material details.There's nothing that can't be sorted with a bit of googling and trial and error, and I actually am inclined to recommend the book even more as a result of this as it engages me mentally a bit more and makes for a more rewarding learning experience than simply following the steps listed.I'm very grateful for this book as after nine years out of the loop on Unreal it has been a great resource to get me back into the swing of things. Many thanks.

TB Jul 31, 2018

Ich habe mir dieses Buch als Einstieg ins Visual Scripting für Ego-Shooter zugelegt. Diesen Zweck hat es einwandfrei erfüllt, denn es deckt erfreulicherweise viele Bereiche dafür ab. Natürlich werden da keine hochkomplizierten Mechaniken behandelt, wie man sie aus einem äußerst bekannten Ego-Shooter kennt.Das Buch deckt aber alles ab, um einen lauffähigen kleinen Shooter selbst zusammenzubasteln und überhaupt einen Einstiegspunkt in die Engine zu finden. Die engine-eigene Doku ist für Anfänger beinahe unbrauchbar.

Rob Thompson Aug 26, 2015

This a great book. Unreal Blueprints is quite a topic and getting it into a book with clear examples is exactly what was needed for the Unreal Engine. There are not many books published on Unreal Engine 4 and hopefully this will be the start of many good quality books. The book covers the essentials of Blueprints and makes for an easy read. Follow all the topics and build the content as per the book and you will learn a lot.

cybereality Sep 19, 2019

Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine is a great little book. Clocking in at just 190 pages, it is a quick read but packed with practical information. Brenden Sewell does a good job of introducing game development concepts in a series of chapters which build upon the same project, culminating in a nice (if somewhat simple) demo at the end.Inside this book, the author discusses the basics of using Blueprints, customizing the character controller, creating UI elements, working with branching and conditional statements, simple enemy AI, implementing game states, as well as building and publishing your game. Certainly not an exhaustive list, but a good range of popular topics you will need to make a game with Unreal Engine.I found the chapters on AI to be especially compelling. They were clearly explained and very functional. The way the chapters all build upon one another was also a plus, and made the learning practical.Overall an enjoyable book and a good introduction to using Blueprints visual scripting in UE4. The text uses the Unreal default art assets, so the demo you create is not particularly fresh in terms of the design, but if you want to learn visual coding, this is a great place to start.

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