Goncalo Marques - Elevating Game Experiences with Unreal Engine 5: Bring your game ideas to life using the new Unreal Engine 5 and C++, 2nd Edition

Bring your game ideas to life using the new Unreal Engine 5 and C++

Gonalo Marques

Devin Sherry

David Pereira

Hammad Fozi

BIRMINGHAMMUMBAI

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I would like to dedicate this book to my parents and my girlfriend, who always supported my weird and uncertain game development journey.

Gonalo Marques

I would like to dedicate this book, and my involvement in its development, to all of my friends and family around the world. I love you all and would not be where I am today without your love, support, kindness, and inspiration. Thank you all.

Devin Sherry

I would like to thank my girlfriend, my family, and all of my friends for inspiring and supporting me on this journey.

This book is dedicated to my grandmother Teresa (E vai da spois...!).

David Pereira

I would like to dedicate this book to my mom, whose constant support and jolliness meant the world to me. Im sure wherever she is right now, shell probably be proud looking at my accomplishments.

Hammad Fozi

Gonalo Marques has been an active gamer since the age of 6. He has been using Unreal Engine since 2016 and has done freelance and consulting work using the engine. Gonalo also released a free and open source plugin called UI Navigation, which has garnered an extremely positive reception with over 100,000 downloads and is still receiving frequent updates and fixes. Thanks to the development of this plugin, he became an Epic MegaGrant recipient. He is now working at Funcom ZPX, a game studio in Lisbon that has contributed to games such as Conan Exiles, Mutant Year Zero, and Moons of Madness. Gonalo is currently working on a new Funcom game in the Dune universe.

Devin Sherry is the principal technical designer at People Can Fly in Poland, having worked on Outriders and Outriders: Worldslayer using Unreal Engine 4. Before that, he worked on Aquanox: Deep Descent as a technical designer at the Digital Arrow studio in Serbia. With a decade of experience ranging from the Unreal Developers Kit to the newly released Unreal Engine 5, Devin is passionate about creating memorable experiences for players and bringing game mechanics to life.

David Pereira started making games in 1998 when he learned how to use Clickteams The Games Factory. He graduated in computer science from FCT-UNL, where he learned about C++, OpenGL, and DirectX, which allowed him to create more complex games. After working in IT consulting for a few years, he joined Miniclip in Portugal where he worked on popular mobile games such as 8 Ball Pool, Gravity Guy 1 and Gravity Guy 2, Extreme Skater, iStunt2, Hambo, and many others. Since then, he has been the lead developer for MPC in the John Lewis Christmas VR Experience, worked on an earlier version of Mortal Shell, and did volunteer work teaching people with Aspergers how to make games with Unreal Engine 4. Today, hes working on his own game, a soon-to-be-announced first-person action RPG.

Hammad Fozi comes from a gaming background and has been extensively working on Unreal Engine since 2017. He has been part of some very successful AAA projects such as Virtua FanCave (and Metaverse), Unnamed AAA Sci-Fi DJ Experience, Heroes and Generals, and Creed: Rise to Glory VR. Hammad has worked with teams who have had experience working at Ubisoft, Warner Bros. Games, 2K Games, and more! He has successfully helped teams consisting of 1030 people to scale to 150+ in size over his very short yet impressive career. Hammad currently works as a senior C++ game developer and has extensive experience in working with VR and augmented reality, PC/PS5/Xbox/Android/iOS/macOS game development, and Web3/Metaverse/NFT systems (within Unreal Engine).

Lennard Fonteijn started BASIC programming in his early teens on an old DOS PC. He developed his skills over the years and programming was always a hobby. Being doubtful that turning his hobby into work would make him lose interest in programming, he decided to study computer science. At his first internship, he realized that programming websites and apps wasnt what he wanted to do for long, so he decided to focus on his other passion besides programming: gaming. He was always fascinated by how games worked internally. Having spent quite some time fiddling around with libraries such as OpenGL and DirectX, he knew this had to become his specialty someday. As a result, he directed his computer science studies toward gaming by following a serious games-related ActionScript 3 class and also minoring in game technology. His final internship was at a local game company and he received his bachelors degree in 2013. After graduation, Lennard became the CTO of the company where he first interned and was a computer science lecturer at a university. In his spare time, he works on his own game-related projects.

Pranav Paharia is an experienced game programmer who has built gaming solutions with Unreal Engine and Unity3D. He has worked on single-player and multiplayer games, for various platforms such as mobile, PC, and VR. He has been working in the game industry since 2013. He has reviewed another book on Unreal Engine, Beginning Unreal Engine 4 Blueprints Visual Scripting. He has worked in various industry domains such as video games, animation, AEC, military, education, and social media. Pranav was keen on playing computer games in childhood. His love for computer games inspired him to make games, and he converted his passion into a profession. You can connect with him at .