Unreal Engine 5 Beginner Blueprints: Make your first game!

Create your first Unreal Engine 5 project with a first-person blueprint setup and maximum quality. Enable starter content and ray tracing, then launch to play and shoot boxes.

Explore blueprint, the visual scripting system in Unreal Engine 4 and 5, by opening first person character and other blueprints, editing the event graph, and wiring nodes.

Remove the gun and crosshair, clean up the first person blueprint, and recompile to fix an unresolved compile error while centering the camera and removing unused VR and HUD elements.

Learn to add a sprint in Unreal Engine 5 using blueprints by binding sprint to left shift and increasing max walk speed from 600 to 1000, then resetting on release.

adjust gravity scale, max acceleration, jump velocity, and air control in the first person character movement to reduce floatiness and improve platforming feel.

Add player sound effects in Unreal Engine 5 beginner blueprints, including looping footstep sounds and randomized landing sounds; import sounds from freesound.org.

Create a reusable moving platform blueprint with two adjustable points, glowing green when active and red when inactive, enabling puzzles with levers and multiple platforms.

Create a pressure plate blueprint in Unreal Engine 5 that activates a moving platform on overlap, using a platform reference, an event dispatcher, and color changes from red to green.

Learn to add sounds to pressure plates and moving platforms in Unreal Engine 5 blueprints by using audio components, activation sounds, attenuation, and binaural spatialization.

Create a death screen in Unreal Engine 5 using blueprints, featuring a blur background, red flash, 'you died' text, space restart, camera shake, and spike-triggered death logic.

Learn to implement a gem collection and exit door system in Unreal Engine 5 with blueprints, including a gem UI, door indicators, and level transition after collecting all gems.

Build a bottom subtitles widget with a blur background, fade animations, and an array of lines that advance on left-click in Unreal Engine 5 blueprints.

Design five levels that gradually introduce mechanics—from simple platforming and gem collection to spikes, moving platforms, and activating panels or pressure plates—culminating in a larger, more challenging finale.

Design level 1 outlines a simple pillar-based path with five gems to collect and an exit, featuring start and end platforms, increasing challenge, and basic control subtitles.

Design level 2 by laying out platforms, spike pits, and gem rewards, with an exit door and varied heights to add challenge, plus a warning subtitle and level foundations.

Design level three in Unreal Engine 5 by adding moving platforms, gem challenges, and spikes in a spacious play area, guiding players from the start to the end door.

Design level 4 introduces activatable platforms powered by pressure plates, linked moving platforms, and a spiral gem tower, adding parkour-style jumps and increased difficulty.

Duplicate the preset level to build your first level in Unreal Engine 5 using blueprints. Place a start, five platforms, gems, and an exit, with UI and subtitles.

Create a functional second level in Unreal Engine 5 by duplicating assets, converting pillars to static meshes, adding collision, placing pillars, spikes, gems, and a door, and integrating level subtitles.

Duplicate the preset level to create level three and bring over spikes. Build moving platforms with a player start, pillars, gems, and an end door, then test and tweak timings.

In Unreal Engine 5 beginner blueprints, build level four by duplicating the template, laying out moving platforms and pressure plates, testing jumps, adding gems, spikes, and an end door.

Link levels with exit doors in unreal engine 5 blueprints by setting the next level from level one to level two, three, four, and five, then add an end screen.

Create an end screen in Unreal Engine with a camera and a widget displaying you won and credits, fade in, then press any key to return to the main menu.

Design and implement a main menu and level selection screen in Unreal Engine 5 using blueprint widgets, a background blur, and interactive play, quit, and level buttons.

Create a universal pause menu in Unreal Engine 5 using a main menu widget, enabling resume or quit to menu, with input mode control and mouse cursor visibility.

Adjust the first person character blueprint by shrinking the collision capsule radius and backing the camera, then tweak gravity scale to 2.6 to prevent edge clipping and improve platforming.

Adjust the spike blueprint by scaling the collision box to eliminate gaps as the capsule collision shrinks, ensuring the player can't slip between spikes while platforming.

Test your game with others to spot where players struggle, then adjust platforms and jump lengths to balance difficulty and accessibility.

Add blocking volumes to create reliable collision bounds that keep players inside the play area, with multi-level application across levels via copy and paste, while keeping doors accessible.

Congratulations on finishing your first game and building a strong Unreal Engine five foundation; continue learning with level design, lighting, fog, post-processing, and cinematics, and download the project files.