Computer Game Development Course

This one-day Computer Game Development course will teach you all the skills that you need to become a competent 3D computer games developer using Unreal Engine 5.0.

By the end of this course you will have an excellent understanding of all the key techniques to create games for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PS Vita or Nintendo Switch.

This is an intense course, which will push delegates to their creative limits. At the end of the day, you will have a good understanding of the process of creating 3D games.

You will complete a range of projects and will develop confidence into how Unreal Engine 5.0 can be used to create graphically rich interactive computer games.

This Computer Game Development course is designed for any person who wishes to use Unreal for creating interactive games, real time training simulation, stunning visualisation and virtual reality media applications.

You will create realistic scenes and applications using the complete game development tool. Starting with the fundamentals, you will build up your knowledge and experience each day.

Unreal is a complete suite for the creation of computer games. Unreal was made by game developers for game developers.

From 2D mobile game apps through to PlayStation and Xbox console blockbusters, Unreal gives you everything needed to plan, design, start and package a computer game.

Unreal Engine 5.0 is the best game development platform to build high-quality 3D and 2D games. These can be developed for mobile, desktop, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, consoles or games for the Web.

By attending this course with us, we will take you into Unreal controls and show you how to confidently build interactive, graphically stunning and high-performance 3D games. We will also show you how to download it for free and where to download assets.

Course Content - Beginners

• Introduction to the user interface

• Menus

• Customising the UI

• Navigation

• Documentation

• Creating new project

• Content browser

• Placing and manipulating actors

• Advanced manipulation techniques

• Landscape tool modes

• Creating base landscape

• Editing landscape

• Applying landscape materials

• Overview of geometry brushes

• Geometry brush tour

Course Content - Intermediate

• Content creation from applications

• Importing final assets into Unreal

• Assembling the scene

• Introduction to materials

• Material properties

• Material editor

• Material instances

• Lighting basics

• Environment lighting

• Tone Mapping and bloom effect

• Lighting components

• Defining the water body

• Advanced material - water

• Creating atmospherics

• Creating ambient wind

• Creating ambient particles: fog

• Using particles systems

• Creating ambient particles

Course Content - Advanced

• Introduction to Blueprints

• Blue print editor

• Blueprint animation

• Introduction to Matinee

• The Matinee Ui

• Using camera groups in Matinee

• Using the Director Track

• Creating a cinematic

• Playback and performance settings

• Render visualisers

• Packing for distribution

What will you learn?

From the first day of the course we will teach you about the Unreal interface and its key properties. The sessions will commence by looking into the elements of a 3D application such as materials, meshes and textures. You will then progress to make objects, move and animate them and then use animation tool, numerical physics and particles. By attending the full three days, you will be able to confidently create your own console games.