Learning Unreal Engine in One Month to make a Game!

Unreal Engine is an incredibly powerful game engine that I have wanted to learn for a while now, so I dedicated the month of January to learn Unreal Engine 5 and then make a game with it.

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After making 5 beginner projects with the course from game dev tv, I spent the rest of the month creating my own video game in unreal engine. The game I was going to make is a puzzle horror game where there are spooky statues that only move when they are in the dark and freeze when they are in light. The player has to solve puzzles trying to escape a room while avoiding the statues.

Due to some issues at the end I couldn't quite export the game, but I still had a lot of fun learning unreal engine in a month and would recommend that you learn UE as well if you like game dev.

Discord: Will Hess(hashtag)9883

If you have any questions feel free to reach out over social media!

[ky.mp]

as someone who has been trying to learn ue5 for a few months, your progress is amazing, keep going!
edit: for anyone looking for good learning resources, the official unreal docs are actually amazing

[OrangeAceGaming]

We desperately need our own version of Brackeys for Unreal

[bh]

Def should come back to this in the future. Such good potential

[Qwiggalo]

The first thing you should do when starting a project is build it, then do daily builds. It's WAY easier to figure out what's wrong before making weeks of progress.

[tm]

That's one spooky game you really nailed the horror aspect with that statue and how it moves... I'm legit getting goose-bump

[mio-virg]

You know I'm not sure if I'm more impressed by how quickly you picked up UE or your commentary skills haha

[DavidSchiess]

such a cool idea to have fixed poses for the enemies instead of animations!

[QuarzleTheMinecrafter]

I love this channel.
The production quality is what you would expect from million subscriber channels.

[EducationalViewer]

the simplicity and minimalism on those statue NPC AI behavior really works so well, they're scary af

[SudKalwale]

you deserve more love from youtube.. Sharing, wish you the best

[jackfrost]

Also did that course. Was a ton of fun!

[EmeraldStudioSweden]

Man, watching this I'm super glad that I stuck with blueprints instead of going on the mission of learning C++. I know C++ gives you way more value for your effort if you're good at it but for beginners blueprints are so good. I mean, heck, you can make almost any type of game by using BP's only. For an example, that situation where your character kept spinning on the ground when dead would be solved with a Ragdoll BP in a death function. But hey, nice video! :D

[Drew-Chase]

Most games can be developed without delving into C++. Blueprints offer extensive capabilities, performing tasks nearly as efficiently as C++. C++ becomes essential primarily for tackling advanced or lower-level concepts.

[Nunokoiso]

Dude! Orange box moves!
That's insane, I spent 3 hours and I'm not even close.

The basic actor is a lousy cylinder

[Lucas-flpy]

great video! really engaging and interesting even though I don't do game development at all. also this is a really cool concept for a game I hope you end up going back to it

[SamuTheFrog]

My experience learning UE was much different. I found documentation & tutorials to be a dime a dozen on just about any topic I needed to know.
Godot and Unity both I feel like I had to dig through a sea of irrelevant information that really tilted my motivation.

[NicoparaDEV]

You could use unrealCLR or angel script although you would then get cut out of cutting edge tech like Mass entity

[ascendstudiosKE]

Your game concept is pretty neat. Hope you get time to go back to it

[SeriousGamer-pikw]

I believe you forgot rule number one of game development. 1. It ALLWAYS needs twice as much time to make a game then what you have planned. I am sure if you consider this while in the game making process, you will be able to finish more of your projects.

[MrSkeleton]

1:37 me when i see anything other than python, gml, or javascript: