Beginning iOS 3D Unreal Games Development (Beginning Apress)

Beginning iOS 3D Unreal Games Development (Beginning Apress), 9781430240358 (1430240350), Apress, 2012

The release of the Unreal Development Kit is really the first time a powerful 3D commercial game engine has been available to the masses of ordinary people for free. The underlying technology has been used for numerous high-quality commercial triple-A games that you see in the retail stores in the United States and around the world. The UDK contains the Unreal Engine 3 3D graphics engine and related tools that would normally cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The only limitation is that the C/C++ source code used to create the UDK is only available to those who pay the full license fee. Thus, you can not modify the UDK engine itself.

This book provides an introduction to using this technology, including the UnrealScript language, for creating 3D iOS games. I have used the technology extensively and used it to create a full commercial physics puzzle type game for iOS similar to the iOS game Angry Birds. It is a powerful tool that is excellent for iOS development. My intention here is to give others a quickstart guide for creating their own iOS games and share game frameworks I’ve developed that readers can use as the basis for their own work.

This book is for people that want to use the Unreal Development Kit (UDK) to create 3D games for Apple’s iOS platform. This includes devices such as the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. This book also is useful for people that want to develop games on the PC platform with the UDK since much of what is covered in this book would apply to creating a game for the PC as well.

This book assumes the reader has some experience with an object-oriented programming language like C++ or at least some programming experience in general. However, several basic game frameworks are presented in this book as a means to help those who are not professional programmers build their own game using the frameworks as a starting point.

It is also assumed that the reader has some basic knowledge of how to use an iOS device since the final game created using the UDK will be played on the actual iOS device.

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