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Published inFeb 2015
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Muhammad A.Moniem
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Muhammad A.Moniem started in the industry at a very early age. He taught himself everything related to the game development process even before he joined college. After being a software engineer, he started to teach himself the art of game design and game art techniques. As a self-taught person, he was able to find his way into the industry very easily, which led him to be hired for big, medium, and small companies, titles, and teams. Throughout his career, he was able to contribute as a full-time or part-time employee or freelancer to games for a wide range of platforms, including Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, PS4, Xbox One, and OUYA. He has also worked with technologies, such as VR, AR, and Kinect. Finally, he was able to establish his own one-person game company/team as a part-time independent developer. A lot of his indie games got recognition or have been finalists at international indie game events, such as IGF, Indie Showcase, IGC, and Tokyo Game Show. He has written another Unreal Engine book before and he has also designed an amazing website, www.mamoniem.com. He has also worked on Learning Unreal Engine iOS Game Development, Packt Publishing, which is available at https://www.packtpub.com/game-development/learning-unreal-engine-ios-game-development.
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Building the blueprints


As mentioned with the previous game in Chapter 4, Advanced Game Content Generation with a Fruit Chopper Game, explaining the mechanism of the gameplay loop, it will be better for you to work from scratch or understand the current logic you got with the book. With that said, let's breakdown the gameplay logic:

  • madScientistController: Build a new blueprint of type Player Controller and set all of its Mouse Interface options to True, because as mentioned earlier in Chapter 2, Methods and Tools to Create Your Games, we will be using the mouse events to simulate touch events.

  • madScientist: Build a new Character class blueprint and you will find that it has several components by default:

    The components under the character class are as follows:

    • CharacterMovement: This is the component responsible for all of the movement and physics of the character. Feel free to explore the vast number of variables inside this component, but the default values will work best for this example...

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Muhammad A.Moniem

Muhammad A.Moniem started in the industry at a very early age. He taught himself everything related to the game development process even before he joined college. After being a software engineer, he started to teach himself the art of game design and game art techniques. As a self-taught person, he was able to find his way into the industry very easily, which led him to be hired for big, medium, and small companies, titles, and teams. Throughout his career, he was able to contribute as a full-time or part-time employee or freelancer to games for a wide range of platforms, including Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, PS4, Xbox One, and OUYA. He has also worked with technologies, such as VR, AR, and Kinect. Finally, he was able to establish his own one-person game company/team as a part-time independent developer. A lot of his indie games got recognition or have been finalists at international indie game events, such as IGF, Indie Showcase, IGC, and Tokyo Game Show. He has written another Unreal Engine book before and he has also designed an amazing website, www.mamoniem.com. He has also worked on Learning Unreal Engine iOS Game Development, Packt Publishing, which is available at https://www.packtpub.com/game-development/learning-unreal-engine-ios-game-development.
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