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Unreal Engine Game Development Blueprints

You're reading from   Unreal Engine Game Development Blueprints Discover all the secrets of Unreal Engine and create seven fully functional games with the help of step-by-step instructions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784397777
Length 352 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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 Valcasara Valcasara
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As usual, here are some suggestions to improve this game:

  • GameOver? Yes, like the other chapter, it is missing a piece here also. This time it is the GameOver state of the player. Implement it by checking when a player reaches a value less than 0 on their health and managing this state with a Widget or simply restarting the game.

  • Buttons? Try to create a menu similar to the one in the previous chapter that handles the start/pause events.

  • New Weapons! Even if simple, the weapon class we created is really powerful; by using this class as parent, you can create dozens of new weapons without being worried to recreate the logic of fire/equip.

  • Different walking speed while shooting! Play with the CharacterMovement component and the start shoot event of the controller.

If you follow everything correctly, you can now play and enjoy a typical top-down shooter. In this chapter, I gave you all the basic aspects of this kind of game. By tweaking the variables and changing the mesh with better ones...

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