Unreal Engine 5 2D Game Development Intermediate Course

Learn to implement forward and backward ship movement in Unreal Engine 5 2D games by binding W and S to an input action and using delta seconds.

Gradually increase forward and backward speed in Unreal Engine 5 2D game development using final movement speed, finterp2 interpolation, delta time, and an adjustable acceleration interface speed.

Gradually stop the ship using a 5-second timeline at 60 fps, releasing W or S to decelerate with a finterp and a near-zero tolerance that snaps speed to zero.

Demonstrates adding an engine fire and looping engine sound in Unreal Engine 5, with the fire scale and sound volume driven by ship speed using a custom engine manager.

Map ia turn left right axis 1d to a and d as -1 and 1. Apply the final rotation amount to y-axis with spring arm absolute rotation.

Smoothly start turning by using delta time and a gradually interpolated final rotation amount with finterp2, and reset the final rotation amount to zero on key release to stay responsive.

Map IA Fire to the J key, spawn BP laser base actors, and move lasers using initial up vector and world delta seconds in Unreal Engine 5 2D game development.

Leads learners through inheritance in Unreal Engine blueprints by defining a laser base and creating child lasers with unique movement speed, sprite, and collision, sharing core behavior via parent class.

Create an enemy blueprint in Unreal Engine 5 2D game development that looks at and chases the player using BPEnemyBase, findLookAtRotation, and event tick logic.

Learn to make an enemy follow the player by using can follow and is alive checks, look at rotation, and set actor location with delta seconds for consistent speed.

Explains triggering a one-time enemy explosion on collision via box overlap, with modular damage and movement variables, and a flipbook explosion that spawns, plays a sound, and destroys after animation.

Shoot a laser to damage enemies, using begin overlap checks, owner references, and apply damage with a configurable damage amount, then destroy the laser and enemy upon hit.

Explore impact explosion types by creating three explosion flipbooks, adjusting fps, and spawning explosions on enemy destruction using bp explosion base and child blueprints.

Create a configurable enemy health system that initializes health to max on spawn, reduces health on damage, and destroys the enemy when health hits zero, triggering an explosion.

Build a reusable enemy health UI with a widget blueprint progress bar, wire it to the enemy base, and update the health bar in real time as damage occurs.

Learn to grant an enemy spawn invincibility in Unreal Engine 5 2D games by disabling the box collider, delaying reactivation, and flickering the sprite.

Learn to make enemy ships shoot the player in Unreal Engine 5 by building a base enemy, a ship subclass, and a timer that spawns enemy lasers.

Create multiple enemy ships by subclassing a base ship, configure level-specific stats and shoot interval, add one or two laser sockets, and adjust collision and firing for engaging 2d gameplay.

Explore implementing an enemy shooting range in unreal engine 5 blueprints by using a canShoot boolean and distance calculations to shoot only when the player is within range.

Create a meteor base from the enemy base, convert textures to sprites, and spawn big meteors that split into two medium, then two small meteors, moving toward the player.

Rotate meteors and hide their health bars in a 2D Unreal Engine 5 game, while resizing collision boxes, randomizing movement speed, and rotating around the y-axis via pitch.

Destroy meteors off the screen by checking each frame whether the distance between the meteor and the player exceeds a threshold, then destroy the meteor automatically.

Create multiple meteor types by randomizing sprites in a meteor base, spawn randomized meteors, and use child blueprints (big, medium, small) with distinct sprites and collision boxes.

Learn how to spawn two meteors when destroying a big meteor in Unreal Engine 5 2D game development, by overriding damage events, adjusting collisions, and spawning actor classes.

Set explosion scale by introducing a single explosion scale variable and apply it to each meteor’s spawn transform scale during any damage events, producing big, medium, and small explosions.

Learn how to implement random direction movement for meteor spawns by using a random rotator on begin play for medium and small meteors, so they don't move toward the player.

Learn to add laser firing sound in Unreal Engine 5 2D games by wiring a laser shooting sound in the Laser BP and triggering it at begin play.

In the Unreal Engine 5 2D intermediate course, build a top-left player health system that decreases on damage, clamps to zero, and updates via HUD health text and UI function.

Trigger player destruction in Unreal Engine 5 2D game development by reducing health, disabling collision, spawning an explosion, fading the camera, and restarting the level.

Implement a game over workflow using a canMove boolean to stop player movement and trigger a GameOver event dispatcher to halt enemies and hide the health bar.

build a reusable pickup system in Unreal Engine 5 by creating a base bp pickup with box collision and sprites, then extend to health and level-up pickups with overlap.

Learn to implement health pickups in Unreal Engine 5 2D games by adding an amount, clamping to max health with minFloatNode, updating the UI, and destroying the pickup on collision.

Level up item logic teaches you to change the laser type as the player's level increases, using a map of laser classes and blueprints.

Learn to vary the ship body type and laser with player level. Cap progression at a max level while mapping each level to corresponding body sprites and lasers.

Create a bp spawn manager that spawns actors around the player on a circle using a random 2d direction, with a spawn distance and a wave enemy flag.

Use data tables and a wave structure to define how many big, medium, and small meteors spawn each wave, and spawn sheep enemies via a spawn manager.

Spawn meteors every 2 seconds and spawn ships by wave using a data table in Unreal Engine 5 2D game development, with a timer by event and a spawnWave function.

Learn how to implement an escalating wave system in unreal engine 5 2d game development by tracking the current wave, spawning wave enemies, and advancing when all wave enemies are destroyed.

Build a wave counter UI in Unreal Engine 5 using a WBP wave counter widget, animate text, and update it with an announce wave function tied to the spawn manager.

Publish the current wave number by using an Update Wave event to notify the wave counter widget whenever the wave changes in Unreal Engine 5.

Implement a last wave event that checks the data table length to detect the final wave, then show 'cleared all waves' and restart the level after a 3-second delay.

Add new enemies like sheep level 3 and items, set health and level up amounts, and manage spawning waves via blueprints for a dynamic Unreal Engine 5 2D game.

Duplicate the base laser blueprint to create multiple enemy laser types with different sprites, speeds, damage amounts, and sounds, then use a variable to switch lasers per ship across waves.