Unreal Engine Blueprints Visual Scripting Projects

This book will provide you with the essential foundation to learn how to build complex game mechanics quickly and easily without writing any code. By the end, you will have built three awesome projects and be equipped with the skills to create complex games with AI, amazing interfaces, immersive environments, and exciting multiplayer experiences.

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Design and Develop feature-rich professional 3D games using Visual Scripting System in Unreal Engine 4

Key Features

Create exhilarating and interactive 3D games with Unreal Engine 4 Blueprints
Take your game designs from inspiration to a fully playable game without writing a single line of code
Learn to use visual scripting to develop gameplay mechanics, UI, visual effects, AI, and more

Book DescriptionThe Blueprints Visual Scripting system helps you to create gameplay elements from within Unreal Engine. This book will provide you with the essential foundation to learn how to build complex game mechanics quickly and easily without writing any code.

Starting off with the basic setup of fundamental game components, you will gradually move on to build your first minimalistic 3D platformer game that will introduce creating basic movement along with a simple quest system. You will create a survival maze game and learn all about adding additional features to the game, such as audio, special effects, and AI, using Blueprints. Finally, you will learn how to build a multiplayer game that is playable over a network with other players. By the end of this book, you will have completed three awesome projects and be equipped with the knowledge and skills to create complex games with AI, amazing interfaces, immersive environments, and exciting multiplayer experiences.

What you will learn

Set up Unreal Engine and all of its foundational components
Add basic movement to game objects and create collision mechanism
Design and implement interfaces to extend player interaction
Create a dynamically filling inventory system along with a UI to interact with it
Add audio effects based on triggered events to various parts of the game environment
Use analytic information to tune their game values
Create complex enemy AI that can sense the world around it in a multiplayer game
Deploy your game to multiple platforms and share it with the world

Who this book is forIf you are new to game development or just staring out with Unreal Engine 4's Blueprint Visual Scripting system, then this book is for you. No prior game design or development experience is required. Basic knowledge of the Unreal Engine is preferred but not essential.