Flappy Bird Like – Unreal Engine 5 For Beginners Easy Start

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: How to Study this course for best results

Lecture 3: Download The Latest Version Of Unreal Engine

Lecture 4: Create The Project

Chapter 2: Learning How To Create A Character And Use Unreal Blueprint Basics

Lecture 1: Set Up The Play Level

Lecture 2: Install Paper ZD Official Plugin For Unreal Engine

Lecture 3: Understanding How Unreal Engine Manages Positioning Of Objects In The World

Lecture 4: Simple Collision And Physics Interactions in Unreal Engine : How it works

Lecture 5: Creating A Character Blue Print

Lecture 6: Adding Your Player Character To The Level

Lecture 7: Connecting To The Player Character and adding a Camera

Lecture 8: Setting Up Player Controls

Lecture 9: Setting Up Input Context And using Comments To Keep Blueprints Organised

Lecture 10: Adding A Simple Jump Then A Physics Jump

Lecture 11: Changing the Jump and Left,Right movement

Lecture 12: The Sequence Node And Blueprint Debugging Explained

Lecture 13: Adding Physics Linear Velocity And TICK NODE Explained

Chapter 3: Game Development For A Bird Scroller

Lecture 1: Planning Out The Game

Lecture 2: Using The Tick To Move Forward

Lecture 3: Creating More Platforming Room

Lecture 4: Limit Camera Vertical Position

Lecture 5: Adjusting The Camera View Part 1

Lecture 6: More Camera Adjustments And Thoughts On Game Balance

Lecture 7: Adding Top Collision And Player Limits

Lecture 8: Adding A Developer Material

Lecture 9: Spawning in an Object

Lecture 10: Despawning An Object On Collision

Lecture 11: Setting Up Proper Collision For The Pillar

Lecture 12: How to Change THe Height Of Spawned in Pillar

Lecture 13: Spawning in Based OFF TIME

Lecture 14: Add Color to the Pillar Object For Visibility

Lecture 15: Make The Spawn Happen on a set timer multiple times

Lecture 16: How To Visualize Blueprint Code Working

Lecture 17: Creating Functions To Simplify Using Variables

Lecture 18: Using Random Booleans To Spawn in two Positions

Lecture 19: Adjusting The Spawning For Better Visibility

Lecture 20: Detecting Passing A Pillar Successfully

Lecture 21: Some Comments For Organisation

Lecture 22: Code Review And Organization

Lecture 23: Recording Progress of the Player

Lecture 24: Using Progress To Increase The Speed Of Spawns

Lecture 25: Adjustments to the speed of spawning

Lecture 26: Changing The Player Drop Velocity

Lecture 27: Make A Homing Projectile

Lecture 28: Homing Projectile Part 2

Lecture 29: Homing Projectile Part 3

Lecture 30: Create A Function For Spawning in Homing Projectiles

Lecture 31: Creating Logic For Progress Changing Spawns

Lecture 32: Creating Random Positions Using Code For Spawns

Lecture 33: Some Balance Recommendations And Randomised Positioning

Lecture 34: Overview Thus Far

Chapter 4: Development in Blueprint Part 2

Lecture 1: Setting Up A Simple Boss Blueprint

Lecture 2: Make The Boss Move At The Speed Of The Player

Lecture 3: Make The Boss Spawn in Homing Projectiles

Lecture 4: Using Randomness to Move The Boss between 3 Locations

Lecture 5: Move The Boss By Distance From The Player

Lecture 6: Adding Spawning To The Movement Node

Lecture 7: Spawning in The Boss After Player Progress Hits 30

Lecture 8: Spawn Bug Fixed And Code Adjustments

Lecture 9: Game Mechanics Test

Chapter 5: Visual Design And Adding in Art

Lecture 1: Changing The Position of the Sun and Setting Up For Adding In Art

Lecture 2: Managing Exposure Settings in Unreal Engine

Lecture 3: Downloading Some Environmental Art From Epic Store (FREE ASSETS)

Lecture 4: Adding 3D Environment Assets Basics

Lecture 5: Adjustments To The Position Of Background 3D Assets

Lecture 6: Exponential Height Fog Adjustments

Lecture 7: Recommendations Before Adding 2D Art To The Project

Lecture 8: Adding 2D Art Into Unreal Engine

Lecture 9: Adding A 2D Sprite To A Character

Lecture 10: Adding A 2D Sprite Animation To Your Character

Lecture 11: How To Add A simple 3D Model To Our Scene As The Pillar

Lecture 12: Changing The Materials On 3D Objects

Lecture 13: How To Add Niagara Particle Effects To An Object

Lecture 14: Adding illumination To Our Material

Lecture 15: Explaining How Niagara Particles Work And How To Use Them

Lecture 16: Advanced Material Editing For The Final Boss

Lecture 17: Advanced Material Editing Part 2

Lecture 18: Advanced Material Editing Part 3

Lecture 19: Setting Up Before Using Chaos Physics

Lecture 20: Creating Destructible Objects in Unreal Engine

Lecture 21: Replacing 3D Asset Of The Pillar And Mesh Troubleshooting

Lecture 22: Switching To Quixel Megascans For 3D Assets For Our Pillar

Lecture 23: Adding Destruction To Megascan Objects

Lecture 24: Performance Optimisations By Despawning Assets After A Time

Lecture 25: Adding Impact To The Pillar (This is a long one)

Lecture 26: Overview on the last few parts of Unreal Engine To Be Covered

Lecture 27: Adding a health bar to the player and some troubleshooting

Lecture 28: Adding Damage to the Pillar and the Homing Projectile

Lecture 29: Pause The Game Once Player Health goes below zero

Lecture 30: Adding A Deathscreen

Lecture 31: Adding Buttons To The Deathscreen

Lecture 32: Adding Audio Into Unreal Engine

Lecture 33: Adding Audio Components To All Blueprints

Lecture 34: Final Words Of Encouragement For Your Game Development Journey