Unreal Engine 5: Making Your First Game

Create an Endless Runner and Learn Game Development with Blueprints

What you’ll learn
How to make games in Unreal Engine 5
A robust understanding of Blueprints
The Unreal Engine interface and terminology
Creating fun and engaging game loops
Game Design tips and tricks
Fluid animation blueprinting and movement
Main Menus and HUDs
Saving your game
A fundamental understanding of Unreal Engine 5
A full Endless Runner game, start to finish
Requirements
No programming experience required!
64-bit PC or Mac capable of running Unreal Engine
Description
Ready to create games in Unreal Engine 5? No Programming Experience Required!Learn game development with Unreal Engine 5, the world’s leading free game engine. This is the engine that brought us AAA titles such as Fortnite, the Batman Arkham series, Bioshock, and hundreds more. Opening this engine may seem intimidating at a glance, but this course is here to teach you how to become comfortable with the layout and game making process by creating an Endless Runner game. We will go step by step through the game-making process to show how we can set up a character with fluid and responsive movement, well-designed gameplay, and a lot more- without even writing a single line of code!Unreal Engine BlueprintsWe will be using UE5’s built-in visual scripting system, blueprints, to create all the logic for our game. Blueprints are a visual form of C++ and are changing the way creating video games are approached across the world. It may seem like a lot at first, but with the gentle guiding of this course you will quickly understand the efficiency and power of this simple-to-understand system.In this course, you will:Make a complete gameBecome comfortable coding with blueprintsLearn the engine’s interface and terminologyUnderstand actor typesExperiment with different types of collisionsCharacters and character movementBlueprint logicMusic and audioGain the confidence to turn UE5 into a profitable futureBecome an Unreal Engine 5 hero!Why Take This Course?Even if an endless runner game isn’t your interest, this course provides the steps necessary to create a video game from start to finish. You will learn many fundamental things about the game-making process and will be able to utilize that knowledge in the projects you work on from here on out. I’m excited to see what you can create because Unreal Engine 5 is the tool you need to grasp that opportunity. So are you ready?Let’s start making a video game!

Overview

Section 1: The Basics

Lecture 1 Installing Unreal Engine 5

Lecture 2 Creating a Project

Lecture 3 Unreal Engine Interface

Lecture 4 Project Setup

Lecture 5 Inputs

Section 2: Gameplay

Lecture 6 Character Setup

Lecture 7 Spawning Tiles

Lecture 8 Adding More Tiles During Runtime

Lecture 9 Player Movement

Lecture 10 Obstacle Spawning

Lecture 11 Expanding Obstacle Spawning

Lecture 12 Distance and Score

Lecture 13 Acceleration

Lecture 14 Coins

Lecture 15 AI Chasing You

Lecture 16 AI Catching You

Lecture 17 Sliding

Section 3: Making The Game Look Good

Lecture 18 Adding Buildings

Lecture 19 Distance Fog

Lecture 20 Camera Shakes

Lecture 21 Animation Blueprint

Section 4: Polish

Lecture 22 Bug Fixes

Lecture 23 High Score

Lecture 24 Immunity Period

Lecture 25 HUD

Lecture 26 Audio

Lecture 27 Game Over

Lecture 28 Main Menu

People who are passionate to create games in Unreal Engine 5