Game Development Projects with Unreal Engine: Learn to build your first games and bring your ideas to life using UE4 and C++

Reis

Hammad Fozi

Gonçalo Marques

David Pereira

Devin Sherry +1 more

$43.99

4.6 (35 Ratings)

Paperback Nov 2020 822 pages 1st Edition

Reis

Hammad Fozi

Gonçalo Marques

David Pereira

Devin Sherry +1 more

$43.99

4.6 (35 Ratings)

Paperback Nov 2020 822 pages 1st Edition

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Kickstart your career or dive into a new hobby by exploring game design with UE4 and C++
Learn the techniques needed to prototype and develop your own ideas
Reinforce your skills with project-based learning by building a series of games from scratch

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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.

Who is this book for?

This book is suitable for anyone who wants to get started using UE4 for game development. It will also be useful for anyone who has used Unreal Engine before and wants to consolidate, improve and apply their skills. To grasp the concepts explained in this book better, you must have prior knowledge of the basics of C++ and understand variables, functions, classes, polymorphism, and pointers. For full compatibility with the IDE used in this book, a Windows system is recommended.

What you will learn

Create a fully-functional third-person character and enemies
Build navigation with keyboard, mouse, gamepad, and touch controls
Program logic and game mechanics with collision and particle effects
Explore AI for games with Blackboards and Behavior Trees
Build character animations with Animation Blueprints and Montages
Test your game for mobile devices using mobile preview
Add polish to your game with visual and sound effects
Master the fundamentals of game UI design using a heads-up display

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Titus Mickley Apr 13, 2021

Full disclaimer: I was contacted by the authors of the book and gifted a review copy. No other sponsorship occurred. All they asked for was a balanced review in return.With that out of the way, I have been working in UE4 for about a year now so my memories of having to learn the engine are still relatively fresh. UE4 documentation is lacking compared to Unity in my opinion which made it more difficult to pick up without relying on scattered tutorials and shaky logic. This book however is extremely comprehensive in its teachings and content. Whether you are someone entirely new to UE4 or someone who has worked in it before, this book will prove useful at some point.With the advent of UE5 on the nearby horizon, I still see a reason to read this book if only for the sake of catching up with UE4 in preparation for any similarities still existing in UE5.

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Ingmar B Nov 22, 2021

I have reviewed the book on a surface level and skimmed over its contents to understand the topics and the style of delivery. I look forward to working through the book's chapters in more detail, following along practically. The book structure is laid out logically and clearly with each chapter leading on to more advanced content as you proceed. Each chapter can easily be read and studied independently, depending on what you already understand and what aspect of your project you need assistance with. The material is structured coherently enough to act as a quick reference guide for a specific topic you might be investigating and elaborates on the most important information with practical examples. I believe that this book will remain a fairly useful resource to me, alongside the original Unreal Engine documentation.Overall, I believe that this "Game Development Projects with Unreal Engine" book by Packt is a cohesive and well-curated collection of structured knowledge, unfolding into a clear sequence of steps and caters for various experience levels, whether you are new to the topic or already experienced in several aspects of the Unreal Engine. It offers a thorough investigation into many of the aspects related to your journey to becoming a game developer, using the Unreal Engine. The authors appear to be knowledgeable enough in the topic to confidently guide you across a fairly complicated discipline.I would recommend this book for anyone looking to supplement their learning with well-curated written information.

Bradley Yachimowski May 16, 2021

Disclaimer: I was contacted by the authors of the book and gifted a review copy.I have been programming with Unity game engine for many years. Back when I started game development Unreal Engine did not have a free option. This set me on a path with the free version of the Unity game engine, first as a hobbyist, and then as a developer. This was my first exposure to Unreal Engine 4, and I was impressed. As a newbie to Unreal Engine 4, I liked the “Game Development Projects with Unreal Engine” layout and the course progression. The book is full of visuals which adds clarification to the text and helps reduce errors when completing the projects. I found the book easy to read, and extremely rewarding. There are some areas in the book that are not covered in detail but from my beginner’s point of view, it is enough to gain a basic understanding of the components in Unreal Engine 4. No one book or course can explain all of the workings of the Unreal Engine or any other game engine. This book, in the hands of a qualified teacher, would make an excellent textbook for schools to teach games programming with Unreal Engine 4 to students. The information in this book, along with the Unreal Engine Documentation has enabled me to start developing my own projects. I love this book, and I would recommend it to anyone wanting to get started with Unreal Engine 4. To Hammad Fozi, Goncalo Marques, David Pereira, Devin Sherry, and all of the editors and reviewers: I thank you for your sacrifice and the maddening pace you had to keep in order to create this massive book and get it to us before the content became outdated. Well done.

Christopher May 30, 2021

Fantastic tool for Unreal Engine beginners! You can't go wrong with making this investment to motivate yourself learning more about UE4. With UE5 around the corner, it's a great time idea to start at the beginning and get knowledgeable about the fundamentals of Unreal Engine. I highly recommend.

Frederico Ribeiro Barnabe Aug 03, 2021

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Game Development Projects with Unreal Engine: Learn to build your first games and bring your ideas to life using UE4 and C++

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