Game Development Projects with Unreal Engine: Learn to build your first games and bring your ideas to life using UE4 and C++

Fozi, Hammad

ISBN 10: 1800209223 / ISBN 13: 9781800209220

Published by Packt Publishing, 2020

Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present. Seller Inventory # M01800209223-G

Synopsis:

Learn the tools and techniques of game design using a project-based approach with Unreal Engine 4 and C++

Key Features

• Kickstart your career or dive into a new hobby by exploring game design with UE4 and C++
• Learn the techniques needed to prototype and develop your own ideas
• Reinforce your skills with project-based learning by building a series of games from scratch

Book Description

Game development can be both a creatively fulfilling hobby and a full-time career path. It's also an exciting way to...

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About the Author:

Hammad Fozi has been passionately involved with technology since he was 12 years of age. He has received several awards in ICT and Thinking Skills during his studies. In 2016, Hammad interned at Vanilla Arcade and developed a product known as ""Camera from the Past"" which is displayed publicly at the National History Museum in Lahore and is a source of great fun for the visitors and tourists. Having graduated as a Computer Scientist in 2018, he quickly consolidated his name as an Unreal Engine developer. Currently, Hammad is an Unreal enthusiast, co-managing the Unreal Developer Community of Pakistan. He works as a lead Unreal developer for Terra Virtua and is the sole developer behind their explosively popular Fan Cave product, showcasing amazing digital merch from some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry such as Legendary Entertainment and Paramount Pictures.

Gonçalo Marques has been an active gamer since the age of 6. He worked as a freelancer for a Portuguese startup, Sensei Tech, where he developed an internal system using UE4 to produce datasets that assist with machine learning. He has since participated in several projects as a freelancer. Gonçalo also released a free and open-source plugin called UI Navigation, which has garnered an extremely positive reception with over 50K downloads. It is still receiving frequent updates and fixes. Currently, he is working at ZPX, a game studio in Lisbon that frequently collaborates with Funcom and has contributed to games, such as Conan Exiles, Mutant Year Zero, and Moons of Madness. Gonçalo has helped in the development of Moons of Madness and is currently working on a new Funcom game in the Dune universe.

David Pereira started his game development journey in 1998, where he learned to use Clickteam's The Games Factory to make his own small games. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science from FCT-UNL, where he learned how to program in C++ with OpenGL and DirectX, which allowed him to create more complex games. After working in IT consulting for a few years, he joined Miniclip Portugal where he worked on popular mobile games like 8 Ball Pool, Gravity Guy 1 and 2, Extreme Skater, iStunt2, and Hambo. Today, he's working on his own game, a soon to be announced First-Person Action RPG.

Devin Sherry is a technical designer at the game studio called People Can Fly and works on their newest IP that is built with Unreal Engine 4. Devin studied game development and game design at the University of Advancing Technology, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in game design in 2012. He contributed as a level designer/scripter on a student project made in Unreal Engine 3/UDK called The Afflicted, which was showcased at GDC Play during the Game Developers Conference in 2013. During his time tenure there, he worked in Unreal Engine 4 as a general Blueprint scripter, prototyped game mechanics, and created UI elements in UMG. He also managed C++ programmers, delegated bugs, and led team meetings.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Game Development Projects with Unreal Engine...
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication Date: 2020
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: good