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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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Debug Navigator

To access the debugging tools, you need to click the sixth icon on the left-hand side panel icon bar, which usually shows a Show the Debug Navigator tool tip, and this will give you direct access to the debugging tools.

Understand that accessing this panel without running a game on the device will show you a totally empty panel. You must have a running game on the device to start seeing the tools shown here:

The first part called UE4Game has general information about the game. It is not much, but it is useful anyway. It gives you the PID value, which is the process ID of 601, and the current state of this process, which is obviously Running.

The second row of the toolset is the CPU. Accessing it will show you how many threads the device is running at the moment, the performance of each thread, and the utilization of each running process. Because you are running UE4Game, it will be the main focus here; any other running processes on the device will be listed in Other Processes...

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