Unreal is Easy! Introduction to the Beginner Game Dev Tutorial Series

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Mike Dolan
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Unreal (1998)
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I wanted to make a brief introduction to this new set of tutorials- Unreal is Easy!

Unreal is Easy! is a series of tutorials to address some of the learner's curve for Unreal Engine game dev.

Often new gamedevs are discouraged from using Unreal for a number of reasons. Unreal is complex. Unreal uses C++. Unreal has a million blueprint nodes to figure out. The list goes on. I am hoping to create a number of tutorials to serve as jumping in points for beginners who want to start out in Unreal.

At the end of the day all game engines have their quirks and difficulties. Just because one engine offers the ability to copy code verbatim doesn't mean it's actually easier to produce a game. Unreal offers a very complete and polished tool set and each piece goes deep.

Blueprint is so powerful, commercial games are getting released after coding has been done mostly in the visual scripting.

So while Unreal might not be easy right off the bat, there are plenty of easy ways to use it to make good games and once you get a general understanding, the complex stuff will be waiting for you and you will be ready to tackle it.

All that is to say, for a lot of simple games, Unreal can be a great engine to get started in and I think beginners should give it a chance.



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