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

Appendix A. Nodes Database

In previous chapters, you've been using lots of nodes to build up the game logic. Of course, the nodes you used with the examples in this book are not all of the nodes that Unreal Engine 4 contains, but they were the most essential ones you needed to build the game logic. Some of these nodes may be changed in the future while others may be removed. However, as of now you will have this small appendix as a reference for the most common nodes used during this book. You can come here anytime to learn about the usage of a specific node you found while looking into the project files and blueprints. The most common nodes are:

  • Event Begin Play: Anything connected to this node will start executing itself once the game starts, or once the actor is spawned into the world.
  • Event Tick: Anything connected to this node will be executed in every frame as long as the game is running.
  • InputTouch: This is an event node, which means that it fires itself when the event...

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