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Inside CCG Toolkit For Unreal

Currently free as part of the February Unreal content giveaway, we take a hands-on look at CCG Toolkit.  The CCG Toolkit is a collection of blueprints and assets that provide a framework for easily creating digital card games like Magic the Gathering and Hearthstone.  CCG Toolkit is described as:The CCG Toolkit is an extensive card […]

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Epic Release Free 1000+ AAA Quality Asset Pack For UE4

Epic just released a pretty awesome pair of assets packs completely free for Unreal Engine developers.  Soul:City and Soul:Cave are both AAA quality packs containing maps, models, textures, blueprints and more for creating a futuristic city as well as a cave environment.  The only real catch is the license requires the assets be used only […]

Unreal Engine Tutorial Part 8: Playing Audio

  With the release of version 4.8 of Unreal Engine, playing audio actually became a great deal easier for 2D games with the addition of PlaySound2D.  In this section we are going to learn how to import and play audio files in Unreal Engine.  For the application controller I created a simple UI that fire […]

Unreal Engine Tutorial Part Six: Using Tilesets and Tilemaps

  Today we are going to look at creating 2D maps composed of tiles.  You can think of tiles as re-usable lego block like sprites that are assembled to create a more detailed map.  Tiles are stored in a data structure called a tileset, where collision details can be added.  These tiles and tile sets […]

Unreal Engine 2D Game Development Tutorial Series

  This tutorial series covers all aspects of creating a 2D game using Unreal Engine.  It is my intention to eventually create an identical series covering Unity, so people can directly compare the workflow of both game engines.  This series is in both text and video form.  All coding is done using Blueprints although I […]

Unreal Engine Tutorial Part Two: Your first application

  In the previous tutorial we created a new project but didn’t really go anywhere with it.  Instead we were focusing more on learning our way around the Unreal Engine interface.  By the way, with each tutorial I assume you are familiar with the subject matter of the tutorial that came before it.  This tutorial […]

C# comes to Unreal Engine

  On a daily basis I use dozens of different programming languages.  Some languages are certainly better than other languages at certain tasks, while other languages truly shine on certain platforms.  Some languages are more portable than others, others are more customizable while some can be faster.  All that said, when all other things are […]

Unreal Engine 4.2 has shipped

  The following email just landed in my inbox.   Unreal Engine 4.2 is Here!   In this update we’re shipping 269 new additions, 163 changes and 107 fixes. That’s 539 updates in 6 weeks. Here are a few ways you can do more with Unreal Engine 4 for only $19 per month. If you […]

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