2.5D Platformer Game Dev Beginner Friendly Course – UE 5

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Course Overview

Lecture 1: Overview On What You Will Be Learning

Chapter 2: V 2.0 – Setup and Planning Phase

Lecture 1: Get Unreal Engine And Start The Project As A Blueprints Project

Lecture 2: Setting Up The Developer Level

Lecture 3: Installing Paper ZD and Change Unreal's Starting Level

Lecture 4: Adding A Player Character Blueprint to the world

Lecture 5: Importing Art into Unreal Engine for the player character

Lecture 6: How to manage sprites and flipbooks

Lecture 7: How to plan out your game using DCAA principles

Chapter 3: V 2.0 – Creating A Fun And Well Rounded Player Character (Under Updates)

Lecture 1: In depth explanation of how to add controller inputs.

Lecture 2: Left and Right movement with Keyboard and Controller

Lecture 3: Add constraint, fix stick drift and set player position

Lecture 4: Setting Up PaperZD for animation management

Lecture 5: Play Idle Animation through PaperZD

Lecture 6: Play The Run Animation through PaperZD

Lecture 7: Changing sprite direction based off movement direction

Lecture 8: Adding The Audio Files For The Footstep sounds and how to make your own audio

Lecture 9: Adding Spatial Running Sound When The Sprite Foot Lands

Lecture 10: Using Comments to organize blueprints nodes

Lecture 11: Control Setup and Code For Adding A Jump

Lecture 12: Adding A Jump-Start animation

Lecture 13: Jump Animation Transitions logic

Chapter 4: Original Videos VIDEOS V 1.0 – Planning Phase

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Planning Overview

Lecture 3: Planning The Main Menu

Lecture 4: Level Planning Part 1

Lecture 5: Level Planning Part 2

Lecture 6: Planning Recap

Lecture 7: Adding Jump-Start Sound

Chapter 5: Making A Working Player And Level

Lecture 1: Create New Project

Lecture 2: Create A Developer Level

Chapter 6: Player inputs

Lecture 1: Create A Player Blueprint

Lecture 2: Creating A Player Blueprint Part 2

Lecture 3: Player Inputs Part 1

Lecture 4: Player Inputs Part 2

Lecture 5: Player Inputs Part 3

Lecture 6: Camera Changes And Character Movement Polish

Lecture 7: Creating Your First Platforms

Chapter 7: Level Triggers

Lecture 1: Next Level Trigger Part 1

Lecture 2: Next Level Trigger Part 2

Chapter 8: Moving Platforms

Lecture 1: Making A Moving Platform Part 1

Lecture 2: Making A Moving Platform Part 2

Lecture 3: Making A Moving Platform 3

Lecture 4: Some Code Commenting

Chapter 9: Player Health and Health Bar

Lecture 1: Creating Player Health

Lecture 2: Creating A Simple Health Bar

Lecture 3: Adding A Health Bar To The Screen

Chapter 10: Game Over Screen

Lecture 1: Pre-Fixing Some Bugs

Lecture 2: Adding A Player Death System

Lecture 3: A Simple Game Over Screen

Lecture 4: Adding A Transparent Background To Game Over Screen

Lecture 5: Blueprint Commenting And Organizing Code Before Moving Forward

Chapter 11: Game Development Multiple Tutorials

Lecture 1: Making The User Interface Controllable

Lecture 2: Death Menu Interface Finalization

Lecture 3: Review Of The Work Done So Far And Looking Forward

Lecture 4: Simple Melee Enemy Player Detection And Movement

Lecture 5: Making The Enemy Do Area Damage To The Player

Lecture 6: Adding The Enemy To Our Developer Level

Lecture 7: Adding A Health To The Melee Enemy

Lecture 8: Adding An In Game Health Bar To The Melee Enemy

Lecture 9: Creating A Spawning Player Sword Attack

Lecture 10: De-spawning The Sword And Adding Damage

Lecture 11: Finding Mistakes In Blueprint Code And Testing For Fixes

Lecture 12: Creating A Moveable Block

Lecture 13: Level Design And Some Advice On Doing Good Game Development

Chapter 12: Ranged Enemy Design – Simple

Lecture 1: Basic Setup For Ranged Enemy

Lecture 2: Understanding Blueprint Child Classes

Lecture 3: Make The Ranged Enemy Spawn Projectiles

Lecture 4: Adding Damage To The Ranged Enemy Projectile

Lecture 5: Polishing Enemy Projectile Movement And Player Hit Detection

Lecture 6: Navigation Changes And Adding A Floor That Kills The Player

Chapter 13: Level Design And Organization

Lecture 1: Level Design And Development Organization Part 1

Lecture 2: Level Design And Organization Part 2

Lecture 3: Level Design And Organization Part 3

Lecture 4: Level Design And Organization Part 4

Chapter 14: Boss Enemy Development Build Setup

Lecture 1: Setting Up A Basic NPC

Lecture 2: Initial Setup For The Final Boss

Lecture 3: Simple Boss Health And Movement Setup

Lecture 4: Boss Attacks And Boss Phases Setup

Chapter 15: User Interface Development

Lecture 1: Pause Menu Part 1

Lecture 2: Pause Menu Part 2

Lecture 3: Main Menu Setup

Lecture 4: Positioning The Main Menu In Game

Lecture 5: Main Menu Code

Lecture 6: Activating Different Main Menu Panels

Lecture 7: Setting Up A Level Selection Menu