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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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Building the blueprints

The game, as you might see in the project files, contains only four blueprints. As I said earlier, a blueprint can be an object in your world or even a piece of logic without any physical representation inside the game view. The four blueprints responsible for the game are explained here:

ball: This is the blueprint that is responsible for the ball rendering and movement. You can consider it as an entity in the game world, as it has its own representation, which is a 3D ball.
platform: This one also has its visual representation in the game world. This is the platform that will receive the player input.
levelLayout: This one represents the level itself and its layout, walls, blocks, and game camera.
bricksBreakingMode: Every game or level made with Unreal Engine should have a game mode blueprint type. This defines the main player, the controller used to control the gameplay, the pawn that works in the same way as the main player but has no input, the HUD for the main...

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