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Learning Unreal Engine iOS Game Development

By : Muhammad A.Moniem

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Learning Unreal Engine iOS Game Development

3.4 (5)

By: Muhammad A.Moniem

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.

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

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

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. 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

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

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

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

7. Monetizing Your Game

7. Monetizing Your Game

iAd support

iTunes Connect

Adding in-app purchases

Adding leaderboards

Adding achievements

Summary

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

9. Publishing

9. Publishing

Packaging the project

Editing the game profile

Uploading and submiting for review

Summary

A. Nodes Database

A. Nodes Database

Index

Index

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The iOS/Mobile-only nodes

Unreal Engine is a cross-platform engine, which means that you write one block of code and then deploy it to several platforms, but not all nodes are made as general nodes to be used with all platforms. But there are a few nodes that are platform-specific, or in other words are nodes that can be run and executed successfully only on specific platforms:

Input Touch: This is one of the functions/events that get executed automatically. Whenever the player touches his screen, this function will return the finger index and the touch coordinates. With this returned information, you can do all of the input magic that can be done for a touch screen device.
You have two choices when the player touches: either execute the rest of the code when the touch starts, or when it is released.
Event Begin Input Touch: This is an event by actor, which means it gets executed when the actor holding the node in its graph gets touched while click events are enabled.
Event End Input Touch...

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