Unreal Engine 5 - Create A Zombie Survivor FPS Game

1. ?Introduction

In this video, you will learn about the zombie survivor game creation concepts, what you will learn through the course, and the various elements of the creation of the zombie game.

1. ?Downloading Assets from EPIC Marketplace

This video demonstrates how to download and install the launcher and then, from the launcher, be able to download the various elements required as the game development progresses from the EPIC Marketplace.

2. ?Create Night Mood

In this lesson, you will learn to set up the night mood for the background environment for the game instead of the midday mood.

3. ?Set Up the Game Area

This video will look at how to download and create an area for our shooter level.

4. ?Duplicate Objects

This lesson demonstrates how to design the area and eliminate duplicate objects or create duplicate objects as necessary.

5. ?Organizing Assets

You will learn to add assets to our project. You will learn to use the Marketplace launcher to go to the marketplace and download the industry props for the game area.

6. ?Editor Overview

Here, we will look at calling some basic movements and the editor options that we have. You will learn about turning around and moving backward and forward.

7. ?Placing Actors

In this lecture, we will look at the hierarchy of classes. We will look at all the available classes and functions as options for the actors.

8. ?Object Hierarchy

Here, we will look at adding brightness to the background, manipulating objects we picked from the Marketplace, and the object hierarchy to understand the behavior of each object.

1. ?Introduction - Movement and Animations

In this video, you will learn how to add movements to our FPS character and move forward-backward, look around, and turning motions.

2. ?Creating The Character

In this video, you will learn about creating our character. We will also look at the options available in the character blueprint.

3. ?Add Camera

After creating the character, in this video, you will learn about putting the character in the game. This video demonstrates the process of doing it.

4. ?Add Movement

In this video, you will learn to add movement to the character. We will look at adding movements to smart keys on a keyboard and other input modes.

5. ?Controller Input

Here, you will learn how to define various controller inputs such as the mouse, game joystick, and keyboard.

6. ?Animation Blueprint

In this lesson, you will learn about creating an animation blueprint. We will look at adding and animating the character to make it do special things with the controller output.

7. ?Character Jumping

This video teaches us how to make the character jump; we will look at adding this function by editing the action mappings.

8. ?Animation State Machine

In this video, we will try to add logic to the character and alter the temperaments and moods of the character while moving and animating.

1. ?Introduction - Weapon Setup

In this video, we will look at the different weapons we can create for the character in the game and add effects when using the weapons.

2. ?Attaching Weapons

After creating a wholly animated character, we will look at attaching the skeletal mesh to the character for securing weapons.

3. ?Aiming

In this video, we will look at adding some aiming intelligence. We will also look at adding a few new animations for the aims.

4. ?Aiming Animation

Here, you will learn to set the aim and make it work. We will add effects and behaviors to the aim.

5. ?Muzzle Flash

This lesson will demonstrate how to create a point in front of the gun and add a muzzle flash action every time the gun is fired.

6. ?Single Shot Shell Spawn

In this video, we will see how to convert the shells falling from the gun into a single shell instead of multiple shells.

7. ?Firing Sound

Here, you will learn to add sound effects to the aim. Each time the gun is fired, the aim is targeted and hit, so we will look at adding specific audios to the aim.

8. ?Firing Animations

In this lesson, you will learn how to add animation to the firing-how the aiming targets the zombies and what montage functions can be added to animate the firing.

9. ?Aim Firing Animations

Here, we will look at how to animate the firing, add recoil effects to the gun, add bullet shells dropping, and add firing actions based on the surroundings.

10. ?Blueprint Functions

In this video, you will learn about organizing our blueprints, and we will do that using functions.

11. ?Weapon Line Trace

This lecture shows us how to add more actions to the gun, the effects of tracing the characters, and firing objects in the game surroundings.

1. ?Introduction - Create AI Zombies

In this lesson, you will learn how to add artificial intelligence to the zombies.

2. ?Zombie Pawn

After completing the gun setup and animation, in this lesson, you will learn how to add objects to shoot at in the game.

3. ?Destroy Character

Here, you will learn to add functionality to the zombies and how to shoot and destroy the zombie characters.

4. ?Overlap Events

Here, we will create multiple zombies in the vicinity and add overlapping events and functions. We will add animation to the zombies after they are hit.

5. ?Go to Random Location

In this video, we will add locations for the zombies to move and try to provide movement locations to the zombies for random movement.

6. ?Follow the Player

After providing random movement locations to the zombie, you will learn how to attack the player. You will learn to add sequences when the character moves close to the zombies.

7. ?Zombie Animations

You will learn to add custom animations to the zombie and different movement behaviors when the character approaches the zombies.

8. ?Zombie Attack

In this video, you will learn to add the attack on the zombies. We will look at adding sounds and effects to the zombies when the character approaches them.

9. ?Game Mode HUD

We will look at adjusting the FPS character using the game mode.

10. ?Zombie Roaming Sound

After adding animation and interaction, you will learn how to add walking sounds and sounds when the zombie is roaming around.

1. ?Introduction - Ammo, Health Pickups, and Overall Combat Improvement

In this video, we will look at creating ammos, health pickups, and improve the overall combat environment.

2. ?Crosshair

Here, you will learn how to add crosshairs to the FPS character while aiming at a target.

3. ?Damage

We will examine the various options to activate the zombies and cause damage while attacking the character.

4. ?Zombie Dying

You will learn to add animations such as death to the zombies. We will add the behaviors of the zombies when the target hits them, fall to the ground, dying.

5. ?Macros

Here, we will look at collapsing the macros, fixing any errors that pop up, and rectifying them.

6. ?Character Health Bar

You will learn to create a health bar and add the kind of damage done to the character each time it is attacked successfully by a zombie.

7. ?Getting Damage

In this video, you will learn to test the zombies, assess the kind of behaviors when being hit, assess the damage effects when it strikes the character, and cause damage to the character.

8. ?Automatic Fire

We will set our weapon to be automatic in this video explanation. You will learn to set up the settings for the character's primary action.

9. ?Ammo

Here, you will learn how to run out of ammo with the ammo count and stop shooting when the ammo is exhausted.

10. ?Ammo Pickups

Since the ammo is limited, you will learn how to create some pickups where the ammo counts increase, and the character can shoot again.

11. ?Zombies Respond to Shooting

Here, you will learn how to make the zombies respond to being hit by the character. You will learn how to make the zombie get targeted by the player shooting.

12. ?Health Pickup

Since there are limited health points in the game, you will learn how to add pickups to add points to the health bar so the player can continue playing further.

1. ?Introduction - Game Mode Improvement

In this video, we will work on the game mode to define the game's rules. You will learn about the game timers, zombies remaining after being hit, etc.

2. ?Zombies Remaining

Here, you will learn how to define the number of zombies at the beginning of a level and, with each strike, the number of zombies remaining through the HUD game mode.

3. ?Game States

Different game states are defined as running out of time, being killed with no more health bar points left, or winning by killing all the zombies.

4. ?Warmup State

You will learn how to create a warmup state by defining the zombie kill for practice and adding additional specifications to the game to make it more advanced in the actual game.

5. ?In Progress State

We will look at setting up the game progress by defining a timer, zombie count, or both, and the progress state rules.

6. ?Time Format

In this video, we will go over and format the effects. We will add the format of the timer and define the timings before each level is game over when it runs out of time. Learn how to add a countdown.

7. ?Player Won

You will learn to add options and announcements when the player wins by killing all the zombies in time or any other rules defined in the game.

8. ?Player Died

Here, we will look at the behavior settings when the player lost or was killed by the zombie after either a time out or ammos finished, or the health bar has no more points to go ahead in the game.

9. ?Finishing the Game

In this video, you will learn about advancing the game levels, additional health, and ammo pickups after completing a level, increasing the game difficulty with each level, and finally, testing the game.

1. ?Additional Chapter

In this video, the game is tested with new random value settings, the color of the ammo, and additional changes made to the game's environment.