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Game Development Patterns with Unreal Engine 5

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Product type Book
Published in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803243252
Pages 254 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stuart Butler Stuart Butler
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Stuart Butler is an Unreal Engine Expert with over 13 years of experience in teaching Games Development in Higher Education. Stuart has published projects in a multitude of disciplines including Technical Design, Art, and Animation. Stuart is the Course Director for Games Technology at Staffordshire University, responsible for the programming team within the UK's largest Games Education Department. Stuart is also an Unreal Authorised Instructor and Educational Content Creator who works with Epic Games on developing learning materials for Unreal Engine 5. Stuart holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Games Design and a PgC in Higher and Professional Education.
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Tom Oliver Tom Oliver
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Tom Oliver is a game programmer with over 10 years of experience in working with game engines both commercially and in an educational capacity. He has used Unreal Engine for contract work both in and out of the games industry, creating systems for games to mixed reality training simulations. Tom is the Course Leader for the BSc (Hons) Computer Games Design and Programming program at Staffordshire University, responsible for maintaining the award winning structure and teaching of the course in the UK's largest Games Education Department. Tom holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Games Design and Programming and a PGc in Higher and Professional Education. Tom specialises in researching gameplay systems driven through mathematical phenomena.
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1:Learning from Unreal Engine 5
2. Chapter 1: Understanding Unreal Engine 5 and its Layers 3. Chapter 2: “Hello Patterns” 4. Chapter 3: UE5 Patterns in Action – Double Buffer, Flyweight, and Spatial Partitioning 5. Chapter 4: Premade Patterns in UE5 – Component, Update Method, and Behavior Tree 6. Part 2: Anonymous Modular Design
7. Chapter 5: Forgetting Tick 8. Chapter 6: Clean Communication – Interface and Event Observer Patterns 9. Chapter 7: A Perfectly Decoupled System 10. Part 3: Building on Top of Unreal
11. Chapter 8: Building Design Patterns – Singleton, Command, and State 12. Chapter 9: Structuring Code with Behavioral Patterns – Template, Subclass Sandbox, and Type Object 13. Chapter 10: Optimization through Patterns 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Stuart Butler is an Unreal Engine Expert with over 13 years of experience in teaching Games Development in Higher Education. Stuart has published projects in a multitude of disciplines including Technical Design, Art, and Animation. Stuart is the Course Director for Games Technology at Staffordshire University, responsible for the programming team within the UK's largest Games Education Department. Stuart is also an Unreal Authorised Instructor and Educational Content Creator who works with Epic Games on developing learning materials for Unreal Engine 5. Stuart holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Games Design and a PgC in Higher and Professional Education.
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Tom Oliver is a game programmer with over 10 years of experience in working with game engines both commercially and in an educational capacity. He has used Unreal Engine for contract work both in and out of the games industry, creating systems for games to mixed reality training simulations. Tom is the Course Leader for the BSc (Hons) Computer Games Design and Programming program at Staffordshire University, responsible for maintaining the award winning structure and teaching of the course in the UK's largest Games Education Department. Tom holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Games Design and Programming and a PGc in Higher and Professional Education. Tom specialises in researching gameplay systems driven through mathematical phenomena.
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