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Different types of variables

There are lots of different types of variables for storing and manipulating your data within your game For example:

Boolean - Stores true or false values

Integer - Stores whole numbers

Float - Stores decimal numbers

There are many more different variables and they can be used in Blueprints to create complex game logics and interactions.

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What is a game mode in unreal engine 5

The game mode in unreal engine 5 represents a specific instance of the game rules within a level. Each level can have its own game mode, which determines the rules of the game, the conditions of victory or defeat, and other fundamental aspects of the game logic. In simpler terms game mode defines how the game behaves within the specific level.

Why would you use one?

Because there are some essential rules and flows of the game for example handling game flow because it can control the overall flow of the game or setting game rules it can define the rules of the game.

How to use one?

Make sure that in the world settings for the level/map the game mode is set to none. Then in project settings set the default game mode to game mode it is the game mode that is in all projects.

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What is pixel art game

Pixel art game is a form of digital art drawn with graphical software where images are built using pixels as the only building block. It is widely associated with the low - resolution graphics from 8 bit and 16 bit era computers, arcade machines and video game consoles.

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What is casting in unreal engine 5

Casting is nodes allow you to communicate with other blueprints and use all the information inside that blueprint. They create something called a hard reference, when an asset dependent on another asset this means whenever that asset is loaded, all assets with hard references to that asset are loaded into memory.

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Army of Trolls Research

Army of Trolls is a collection of pixel art creatures hugely influenced by videogames, pop cultures, comics and music. There are heroes such as Energy Joe, bad guys like the power crazy Brutal Psychosis.

Octavi Navarro

He is a pixel artist and developer who worked on games for example Thimbleweed Park, and photographs. Also according to research he likes cats.

Derek Yu

He is an American independent video game designer, video game artist and blogger. He has designed and co - designed several award - winning games and he was pretty known for those awards and just overall. Here is one of his games called Speluncky something like that.

Johan Vinet

He is a pixel art specialist and veteran 2D animator who worked on many indie games such as Flintbook Mercenary Kings reloaded or Rivals of Aether etc...

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What is a widget

A widget are the Game Bar's equivalent of browser extensions. They add extra features and functions to the gaming bar when installed and it can show games from different categories.

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HUD display in the game Kirby

In the game Kirby the HUD is the white space at the bottom of the screen where the following information is shown: Score (shown as Sc) - total points that the player has earned during the session. Health (Shown as Kirby ) - how much health Kirby has remaining, represented as a meter containing up to six bars.

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HUD display in the game Hollow Knights

In the game Hollow Knights provides essential displays such as:

Health Bar - Displays the Knights current health in the form of masks.

Soul Meter - Shows the amount of Soul collected, which is used for casting spells and healing.

Geo Counter - Indicates the amount Geo (the in game currency) you have collected.

Charm Notches - Displays the number of Charm Notches available are used.

Inventory - When accessed it shows items, charms and abilities the Knight has collected.

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HUD display in the game Owlboy

In the game Owlboy, the HUD provides several key pieces of information to help you navigate and manage your gameplay for example:

Collection counters - They display the number of coins and other collectibles you've gathered.

Button Prompts - Contextual prompts that appear top guide you on which buttons to press for specific actions.

Player Vitals - This includes your health bar, which shows how much health you have remaining in your character.

Companion Status - Information about your status/companion such as their availability and current status.

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Win and lose screens

Win and lose screens are the visual displays that appear at the end of the game or level to indicate whether the player has lost or won it could give you stuff like rewards and consequences or even feedback about the players performance in the game. This could be an example of a win/lose screen.

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What is a sprite sheet

Its a bitmap image file that contains multiple smaller graphics arranged in a grid formation. These graphics are used for animations of characters or items in computer games and other applications and its a very useful gaming resource. This could be an example of a sprite sheet because it contains attack, death, hurt, idle and walk.

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Who is Stephen E. Wilhite

He was an American Computer Scientist who worked on CompuServe and was the engineering lead on the team that created the GIF image file format in 1987. According to the research GIF went on to become the de facto standard for 8 - bit colour images on the internet until PNG became a widely supported alternative.

Eadweard Muybridge

He was an English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion - picture projection. This is his some of his photographic work/pictures.

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Todays aim

Today I will be continuing building and designing my tile map adding more stuff to it for example cars, litter and as much buildings as possible so it looks as realistic as possible. Also this is what currently my tile map looks like but I'm still planning to add more stuff to it so my tile map doesn't look to empty and boring so it has at least something to it and hopefully after I added all the stuff that I need to my tile map it will look really good.

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Finished buildings

I just finished creating the buildings and all I have left is to add the lamps and the bench all the way at the end of the last building and just add some cars onto the road so the road does not look empty and the road at least has something on it.

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This is what I have in my unreal in order to create my buildings, cars, lamps I just have to drag it in and create whatever you have to.

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Creating a world

Right now I'm currently creating a tile map/world so it will include things large buildings different sized buildings for example small large. Also it will include road, cars lamps all of that.

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Change Camera

I have changed the camera from Perspective (3d) to Orthographic (2D) this is much better for sidescrollers and for pixel art.