This year, 4 games were developed with Unreal Engine 4

This year again, several good prototypes of games made with Unreal Engine by the students of the ITECOM campus of Nice in 3D Animation section.

These games highlighting their skills as 3D artists Maya and Substance Painter.

A big congratulations to them who didn’t know about Unreal Engine and programming until 6 months ago and worked very well in teams.

Black Sun is a game inspired by ancient Egypt and movies like Indiana Jones or games like Rick Dangerous or more recently the Uncharted license.
The character evolves in several rooms connected by a HUB and in which he will have to pass different tests.

Is This Real will take you into the phobias of its heroine Gwenn: thalassophobia, coulrophobia and arachnophobia. Will she be able to overcome her fears?

In Past Shadow the player embodies a reporter, fascinated by the paranormal, who decides to investigate in an abandoned mansion.

Yukai takes you to a dreamy rural Japanese world. You must battle a Kappa, a prankster water demon that terrorizes the inhabitants. Will you be able to rescue the heroine’s little sister from the monster’s clutches?

Video game programming teaching in schools and to individuals

Besides my interest in creating 3D environments with Terragen, I’m also passionate about Unreal Engine, the famous 3D video game engine.

As such, I offer complete teachings on video game programming in schools in the South-East of France.

I teach my students how to create games with Unreal Engine from the objects they model in Maya, 3ds max or Blender.

They learn to transform simple static objects into dynamic game elements.

As these students do not have a programmer profile, but rather a 3D artist profile, I teach them the graphic programming available in Unreal (Blueprints).

Create mini video games as exercices

Among the many exercises I give them, from time to time there are mini projects to be done consisting in creating complete mini-games (with menus, character management, dynamic elements such as projectiles, sound, saving scores…) in a time frame of one to two weeks.

Here are a few examples of mini games to do, which allow, despite their apparent simplicity, to take Unreal Engine in hand.

These games running on Windows 10 64 bits are available on itchio.io or gamejolt platforms for free : https://luc-bianco.itch.io/ or https://gamejolt.com/@lucbianco

Unreal Engine students games

After a few months of training, my students are able to create elaborate games with Unreal Engine, as shown by these projects for the 2019 and 2020 classes.