Learning Unreal(R) Engine iOS Game Development
Explore the Powerful Features of UE4 and Build a Complete Unreal Game with This Accessible and Practical IOS Game Development Guide
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Erschienen am 27. Februar 2015
212 Seiten
978-1-78439-886-6 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Unreal(R) Engine 4 has always been the best measurement for industry standards. With all its tools and power, game developers and designers can reach a new level of productivity for their games with the lowest cost ever.Learning Unreal(R) Engine iOS Game Development teaches you the basics of iOS game development using Unreal(R) Engine 4. You will discover how to build an engaging Unreal iOS game, how to generate revenue, and how to optimize game performance using the tools and functionalities the Engine provides. To begin, you will start by preparing the required files for an iOS game using the developer's portal. Next, you will go through purchasing, installing, and building game elements for different game types, picked from the chart of the latest trending games. By the end of the book, you will be able to add social and monetization functionalities to your game and submit it for review to the app store.
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Inhalt
- Intro
- Learning Unreal® Engine iOS Game Development
- Table of Contents
- Learning Unreal® Engine iOS Game Development
- Credits
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
- Why subscribe?
- Free access for Packt account holders
- Preface
- What will be covered?
- Who this book is for
- What you need for this book
- Conventions
- Reader feedback
- Customer support
- Downloading the example code
- Errata
- Piracy
- Questions
- 1. Prepare to Make Unreal Games with Unreal® Engine - Installing and Setting Up
- Getting ready and setting up
- What if I don't have a Mac OS computer?
- Getting and building the engine
- Direct download
- GitHub version
- Preparing the other required tools
- XCode 5.1 or higher
- 3D and 2D applications
- The application loader
- iTunes and iTools
- Preparing a game profile on the App Store
- Generating certificates
- Generating an App ID
- Adding devices
- Generating provisioning profiles
- Summary
- 2. Methods and Tools to Create Your Games
- Blueprints inside Unreal® Engine
- Different types of blueprints
- 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
- Setting up the game provisioning profile
- Creating a new project
- Editing the project settings
- Editing the *.plist file
- Building a project
- Launching
- Packaging
- Summary
- 3. Creating a Brick Breaking Game
- The project structure
- Building the blueprints
- Gameplay mechanics
- Starting a new level
- Building the game mode
- Building the game's main material
- Building the blueprints and components
- Building the layout blueprint
- Building the ball blueprint
- Building the platform blueprint
- Building the graphs and logic
- The layout blueprint graph
- The Ball blueprint graph
- The platform blueprint graph
- Summary
- 4. Advanced Game Content Generation with a Fruit Chopper Game
- The project structure
- Importing the assets
- An overview of blueprints
- The gameplay mechanic
- The game levels
- Building the particles
- Building the material
- Building the particle system
- Building the blueprints
- Player controller
- Fruits blueprints
- Bomb blueprint
- Win/lose blueprints
- LevelLogic fruitsGame blueprint
- Summary
- 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
- The project structure
- Importing the assets
- Building the animated sprites
- The blueprints
- The gameplay mechanic
- Building the blueprints
- gameInputs
- uiText
- mainChar
- enemyRed
- crateBox
- bullet
- shootingFGameMode
- spawnPoint
- Building the logic
- uiText
- enemyRed
- spawnPoint
- bullet
- mainChar
- Using 2D colliders
- Pushing the boundaries
- Summary
- 7. Monetizing Your Game
- iAd support
- iTunes Connect
- Adding in-app purchases
- Adding leaderboards
- Adding achievements
- Summary
- 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
- Packaging the project
- Editing the game profile
- Uploading and submiting for review
- Summary
- A. Nodes Database
- Index
