Unlock the full potential of your game design skills with our comprehensive course on User Interface (UI) in Unreal Engine! Designed for aspiring game developers and UI designers, this course equips you with foundational and advanced techniques to create engaging and intuitive interfaces. No prior experience is needed, but it’s recommended to complete Courses 1-4 for a solid grounding.
User Interface in Game Design
User Interface in Game Design
This course is part of Epic Games Game Design Professional Certificate
Instructors: Christopher Main
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9 hours to complete
3 weeks at 3 hours a week
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October 2024
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Taught in English
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There are 4 modules in this course
In this module we will cover user interface design theory. There are several key design practices used in the games industry to build effective user interface. These methodologies will benefit the player's experience during gameplay and help speed up designer's experience when building user interface.
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7 videos1 assignment2 discussion prompts
In this module we will cover the base components to UMG in Unreal Engine. User interface in games are broken down in to simple components. We will review how to navigate the Unreal Engine UMG, common, input and panel widget components. At the end of this module, we will review user interface design and prototyping tools.
What's included
8 videos1 assignment1 peer review1 discussion prompt
In this module we will create modular templates to help our workflows in the future. These modular templates will be re-useable across multiple widgets we create. Creating modular templates will keep our user interface construction open to the changes during development.
What's included
20 videos1 assignment
In this module we will start creating basic user interface that we will use in our future game modes. We will learn about size map optimization and how to avoid circular references. By the end of this course we will integrate damage, healing and a multi-purpose statistic change actor. During our process of creating User Interface will start the creation of our AI to be used for enemies.
What's included
19 videos1 assignment1 peer review1 discussion prompt
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