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Learning Unreal® Engine iOS Game Development
About this book
About This Book
- Learn about the entire iOS pipeline, from game creation to game submission
- Develop exciting iOS games with the Unreal Engine 4.x toolset
- Step-by-step tutorials to build optimized iOS games
Who This Book Is For
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.
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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
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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
Learning Unreal® Engine iOS Game Development
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First published: February 2015
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Credits
Author
Muhammad A.Moniem
Reviewers
Alankar Pradhan
Mohit Ramani
Sahil Ramani
Sourav Tosh
Commissioning Editor
Edward Bowkett
Acquisition Editors
Rebecca Youé
Richard Gall
Content Development Editor
Arwa Manasawala
Technical Editor
Faisal Siddiqui
Copy Editors
Pranjali Chury
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