Learning Unreal: Creating a Simple Game

Today, I'm continuing to share another of my experiences learning the Unreal Game Engine. The focus of today is to simply create a simple game using everything I've learned so far. As always, if you want to follow along with the same tutorial that I'm using, you can find it here.

You don't escape this version of the Matrix.

This simple game is an endless runner where the player flies through the tunnel, dodging rotating walls, for as long as the can until they crash into the wall. The skills I gained after completing this tutorial include:

• Having the player move forward continuously

• Procedurally generating more tunnel as the player flies through it

• Randomizing which style of wall gets created

• Creating a restart button that appears after a game over

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With all of my previous work with linear algebra, I took me a second to realize that this was the other kind of matrix.