Building an FPS Game with Unity and UFPS [Video]

John P. Doran
Thursday, August 31, 2017

Build an amazing FPS game with a stunning GUI, create an installer, and package your game for release

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ISBN 139781787123113

Course Length3 hours 28 minutes

Video Description

Unity, available in free and pro versions, is one of the most popular third-party game engines available. It is a cross-platform game engine, making it easy to write your game once and then port it to PC, consoles, and even the web, making it a great choice for both indie and AAA developers.

This video course begins by building custom weapons with custom meshes and behaviors in a UFPS framework. You will then learn how to create different encounters for effective gameplay scenarios. You will also learn how to create unique moving objects the player can interact with. Finally, you will learn to create a custom GUI to help your game stand out from the rest. By the end of the course, you will have built an amazing FPS game with a stunning GUI, created an installer, and packaged your game for release.

Style and Approach

In-depth content balanced with tutorials that put the theory into practice. The focus of this course is on giving you both the understanding and the practical examples that will empower you to create an FPS game with Unity.

Moving to an FPS

The Course Overview

Adding Items to Inventory

FPS Controls/Movement

Building Custom Weapon

Obtaining Weapon Model

Weapon Mesh Setup

Creating the UnitBank

Creating the Weapon

Customizing Weapon Properties

Building Encounters

Adding a Simple Turret Enemy

Animating Our Custom Enemy

Creating a Custom Damage Handler

Navigation and Creating Enemy AI Behaviour

Spawning Enemies with Triggers

Spawning Multiple Enemies at Once

Cleaning Up Dead AI

Placing Healthpacks/Ammo

Breathing Life into Levels

Building an Explosive Barrel

Triggers for Gameplay (Doors)

Creating Elevators with Interaction

Creating a Custom GUI

Creating a Main Menu

Replacing the Default UFPS HUD

Finalizing Our Project

Building the Game in Unity

Building an Installer for Windows

Conclusion

What You Will Learn

Build custom weapons with custom meshes and behaviors with UFPS
Create a number of different encounters that your players can fight against, from a simple turret enemy to complex AI characters from RAIN AI
Create unique objects, such as exploding barrels and elevators, with interaction
Create a custom GUI to help your game stand out from the crowd
Package your game for release, create an installer, and get your game out into the World!

Authors

John P. Doran

John P. Doran is a technical game designer who has been creating games for over 10 years. He has worked on an assortment of games in teams consisting of just himself to over 70 people in student, mod, and professional projects in different roles, from game designer to lead UI programmer. He previously worked at LucasArts on Star Wars: 1313 as a game designer. He later graduated from DigiPen Institute of Technology in Redmond, WA, with a Bachelor of Science in game design.

John is currently a part of DigiPen's Research and Development branch in Singapore in addition to DigiPen Game Studios. He is also the lead instructor of the DigiPen-Ubisoft Campus Game Programming Program, instructing graduate-level students in an intensive, advanced-level game programming curriculum. In addition to that, he also tutors and assists students in various subjects and gives lectures on C#, C++, Unreal, Unity, game design, and more.

He is the author of Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook, Building an FPS Game in Unity, Unity Game Development Blueprints, Getting Started with UDK, UDK Game Development, Mastering UDK Game Development, and he cowrote UDK iOS Game Development Beginner's Guide, all available from Packt Publishing.