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Learning Unreal Engine iOS Game Development

Learning Unreal Engine iOS Game Development

By : Muhammad A.Moniem
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Learning Unreal Engine iOS Game Development

Learning Unreal Engine iOS Game Development

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By: Muhammad A.Moniem
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Overview of this book

If you are a game developer, designer, artist, or a beginner in the gaming industry, and want to make iOS games efficiently at a low cost, this book is ideal for you.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Preface
Preface
What will be covered?
Who this book is for
What you need for this book
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
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1. Prepare to Make Unreal Games with Unreal® Engine – Installing and Setting Up
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1. Prepare to Make Unreal Games with Unreal® Engine – Installing and Setting Up
Getting ready and setting up
Getting and building the engine
Preparing the other required tools
Preparing a game profile on the App Store
Adding devices
Generating provisioning profiles
Summary
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2. Methods and Tools to Create Your Games
2. Methods and Tools to Create Your Games
Blueprints inside Unreal® Engine
The need for blueprints
What is a node?
The iOS/Mobile-only nodes
Blueprints – tips and tricks
The iOS project pipeline
Building the game's provisioning profiles
Building a project
Summary
3
3. Creating a Brick Breaking Game
3. Creating a Brick Breaking Game
The project structure
Building the blueprints
Building the game mode
Building the game's main material
Summary
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4. Advanced Game Content Generation with a Fruit Chopper Game
4. Advanced Game Content Generation with a Fruit Chopper Game
The project structure
Importing the assets
An overview of blueprints
The gameplay mechanic
Building the particles
Building the blueprints
Summary
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5. Building an Exciting Endless Runner Game
5. Building an Exciting Endless Runner Game
The project structure
Importing the assets
Building the animated sprites
An overview of blueprints
The gameplay mechanics
Building the blueprints
Building the logic
Pushing the boundaries
Summary
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6. Designing an Advanced Game
6. Designing an Advanced Game
The project structure
Importing the assets
Building the animated sprites
The blueprints
The gameplay mechanic
Building the blueprints
Building the logic
Using 2D colliders
Pushing the boundaries
Summary
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7. Monetizing Your Game
7. Monetizing Your Game
iAd support
iTunes Connect
Adding in-app purchases
Adding leaderboards
Adding achievements
Summary
8
8. iOS Debugging and Optimization
8. iOS Debugging and Optimization
Blueprints Live view
Printing messages
Breakpoints
XCode tools
Debug Navigator
Capturing frames
Instruments
Performance optimization
Minimizing the game size
Summary
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9. Publishing
9. Publishing
Packaging the project
Editing the game profile
Uploading and submiting for review
Summary
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A. Nodes Database
A. Nodes Database
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Index
Index

Getting ready and setting up

Despite the relative openness of UE4, I would recommend you use a Mac OS X computer for developing iOS games using Unreal (or any other engine for that matter). It's important as it gives you direct access to XCode, which you will need to use to do the following:

  • Debugging your game using its console
  • Analyzing the game's performance using its tools (instruments)
  • Adding a third party's libraries to the XCode project
  • Adding platform-specific code to the game's XCode project

What if I don't have a Mac OS computer?

If you don't have an iMac, Mac Pro, or MacBook Air, there are still other options that you can choose:

  • Purchase a Mac mini, which is very cheap and can get the job done. With Epic's new system, you can work and make all your games in a Windows-based computer and then move them to your Mac to build and test with more efficient building tools.
  • Install a virtual machine on your Windows-based PC using applications like Virtual Box (this saved me one day when I was not able to get a Mac). In this case, you will have a dual OS on one device.

    Use Virtual Box to turn your PC into a fully functional Mac, but it should be done on your own guarantee!

  • Your last choice is to run a normal Windows OS PC; you will be able to follow along 100 percent with this book, except only one part where we will build the engine. This should also be a straightforward process on the Windows platform. However, you can save your time and just download the prebuilt version directly from Epic's website.
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